The Los Angeles event’s name is a reference to the euphoric bliss of youth, and is emerging as a prime example of a nostalgia festival done right.
The Just Like Heaven music festival has nothing to do with The Cure, the band behind the 1987 song it’s named after. Instead, the Los Angeles event’s name is a reference to a feeling — the euphoric bliss of youth, and the warmth felt for the time that many attendees were in the throes of when its headliners released the songs dominating their set lists.
Were these mid-2000s indie rock bands my Stones and Beatles? Era-defining enough to warrant their own festival, just for us? Would people who discovered the music after its time, the TikTokers who just discovered point-and-shoot digital cameras, be in attendance? I wasn’t sure if Just Like Heaven was a sort of validation of the music that shaped my youth, or just a reminder that it isn’t themusic that resonates most deeply with you, but the music you find at the most formative time of your life.
Piper Mcgeehan, 13, was one of the only young people — the audience this music was made by and for — I saw at the festival. Chaperoned by her father, she came for MGMT and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, both of which she discovered on FM rock radio in her parents’ cars. “I really like old music better than new music. I feel like lyrics from these bands are more thoughtful,” she said. To her, all of this music is new; a new album from a band with five to discover for the first time isn’t a priority to her.
Haley Hanson, 39, watches Peaches for the first time after discovering her in 2008. “This music came out so long ago, but now it matters even more. I thought I wanted to throw my ‘dick in the air’ too, but I didn’t know terms like gender-fluid. I grew up in a small town, I knew I liked her music then but now I realize I connected to it for a reason,” they said.
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