Vivide May Update (Watch Out For ROBS!!!)

Vivide is a mid-sized two story club located in West Midtown in a mostly industrial section of the city. This particular building has undergone a lot of name changes since its glory days of being Body Tap; I wrote a brief naming history about this club in my previous review. Parking is free during the day with an OK-sized, but tight, parking lot. Cover charge is $10. Deon, the black security guard that mans the entrances on most days, will sometimes waive the cover if you’re one of the very first customers for the day.

There are two levels to this club but all of the action is downstairs on the lower level. You will enter at the top level and have to walk a long, steep descent of stairs to the bottom. There is a “horseshoe” shaped bar with approximately 8 to 10 high chairs. The rest of the seating are open booths of couches and small cocktail tables which I don’t generally like. You’re forced to share a couch with another customer and/or dancers once the club becomes very busy. There are two small stages with a pole on each; they are still named “Park Place” and “Boardwalk”. Additionally, there are three large TV’s on the side where the bar is at and on the back wall but the back wall TV’s are now kept off which helps reduce the brightness. Since my last review, the club has added a couple more VIP rooms on the upper level on the dancer’s dressing room side in addition to the 4 VIP rooms on the lower level. Two of them are across the dancer’s dressing room and the other two are on the other side near the restrooms. VIP prices are $60 for the room and $150-$200 for the dancer. There is a restroom guy stocked with your typical items and he is generally chill and quiet. The urinal in the men’s room seems to be out of order a lot and on my last two visits there was a black plastic bag placed over it.

The music is mostly rap and party R&B tracks. The songs are played fully. Brian is the main DJ and rarely talks on the mic. On Saturdays, there is a different DJ and although he does play some of the same rap music (which is often shortened) he plays A LOT of Latin music. So much so that at times it starts to feel more like a club in TJ than in Atlanta. Almost all of the Latinas that are not currently dancing with a customer will sometimes huddle together and dance enthusiastically to the Latin tracks that are being played instead of working the room. Nevertheless, it’s a decent change of pace from the same ol’ trap and drill artists that I so often hear in these clubs.