What Hughes tried to do with his movies was show the outsiders and give validity to their high school experience. There are only a limited number of Homecoming Queens and Valedictorians, while most of us were more likely to consider ourselves just a face among the crowd. Hughes made it interesting to hear those stories as well. His use of alternative music reflected not only his interest in crate digging at record stores but also a major shift in rock music away from the icons of the '70s to comparatively effete songs by bands who got airplay on MTV. We're not having that sort of revolutionary cultural moment in music right now — indie rock is, effectively dead. Seeing bands who are otherwise unlikely to hit Spotify's Viral chart get placement in a show that so many have an emotional connection to is something John Hughes would have loved, because it's what he did. For the parents in 13 Reasons Why, Hughes created the soundtrack to their lives