Yup. In my youth plenty of parties went from forty people to just half a dozen of us listening to something... Unconventional like Discopathology or BANG! An open letter.

Some of it's definitely actually good. "Discipline" is good for example. Some of it is important ("All largely propaganda" makes a good point) and lots of it is just annoying and will make people leave. Some of the same friends actually hosted a few live music events at the turn of the century and "Did people leave in disgust?" was a measured criterion of success.