It’s been 12 years since the modern-classic teen drama The O.C. signed off, but one of its creators is revisiting the series in a way he never expected.

Josh Schwartz, one half of the creative team behind The O.C. with Stephanie Savage, is currently working on Hulu’s Looking for Alaska, an adaptation of the John Green novel. And since the YA book is set in 2005, a.k.a. right in the middle of when The O.C. was on the air, Schwartz is back in the same era he lived in for all four seasons of The O.C. And just like on The O.C., music plays a major part in setting the tone for every single character and scene in Looking for Alaska.