As Homecoming comes closer, it’s important to know what the Coachella theme is really about.
Hocochella has been selected as the 2025 Homecoming theme; a play on words of Coachella and Homecoming has become a hot topic for students to talk with others about. From what students are wearing to their ideas of the event, many thoughts and opinions have been going around.
“I like [the theme],” junior Ethan Caine said. “I think that it will be popular because [Coachella] is a popular music festival, and it is the vibe with a lot of teenagers. So I think that people like it.”
As Caine explained, Coachella is a trendy and popular festival for young people. Located in Indio, California, Coachella is a two day long music celebration where all kinds of genres are played and where famous, as well as emerging artists, perform. This fun theme has been a popular topic for students, but questions about what to wear arise.
“ I think [the theme] is pretty creative,” sophomore Patricia Jen Velbis said. “But I don’t know how people would execute it, because the themes are really varied. [There is] pop, then there’s other themes like country. But for other [genres,] I don’t think people can really do them. ”
Velbis explains that the main problem students are thinking about is what to wear. Students are wondering how they will find clothing for difficult types of music genres. Students also seem to have different views on the theme, but some common questions include what the dance will look like. More specifically, the vibe and decorations.
“I feel like people will wear more decorative outfits,” Caine said. “Their suit or dress will have like palm trees or other, weird [and] abstract stuff with it because it’s Coachella and it’s a (trendy) outdoor event. So people are going to go all out [and also] maybe wear neon stuff.”
Senior Emma Downing is the organizer for the Homecoming Dance this year. Downing has expressed some of her own opinions about how the dance will be executed from an organizing point of view.
“I think [the theme] is cute, it’s definitely unique,” Downing said. “I haven’t seen it done before at any other school, which is exciting, but from an organizing standpoint, it’s definitely been a little bit of a challenge with limited money and resources. And I think there can be a lot of creativity with it [through] what people choose to wear, and designs for class themes.”
Downing also talks about the things she is planning on doing with the committee to fit the theme of the dance while staying within the budget and realistic standards.
“So I’m kind of going more with a sunset-desert kind of feel because that’s where Coachella is set,” Downing said. “I would love to get some cardboard and make some sort of cardboard Ferris wheel-looking thing. That’s definitely going to take, you know, a committee of people to do it. But I think that’d be just a fun thing, since they have that at the actual festival too.”
Downing concludes by expressing her hopes for the dance to leave a lasting effect on Woodside students.
“I kind of just want [the dance] to be something that people talk about for, you know, days, weeks, even years after,” Downing said. “Just saying how much fun it was and [how the dance] had a fun environment.”
