The Look Book Goes to the Governors Ball (2024)

Between sets by the Killers, Sabrina Carpenter, and Sexyy Red, we mingled with festivalgoers and performers.

By Kelsie Schrader, managing editor at the Strategist. She also conducts interviews for “The Look Book.”

Photo: Frankie Alduino

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Photo: Frankie Alduino

D4VD
Musician, Cypress, Texas

How did you get into music?
My goal since I was a kid was to be a professional video-game player. But my YouTube videos
would get taken down because the music was copyrighted. My mom was like, “How about you just make your own songs for the videos?” And I was like, “You know what? I could probably do that.”

I saw you do a few backflips onstage. How’d you learn to do those?
My dad has been teaching me martial arts since I was 12. I was also in gymnastics and did parkour. Flipping has always been a part of my life, in a way.

Have you ever not landed one?
On tour last year, I was trying to look at a sign in the crowd and fell on my back. Everybody was laughing at me. It was like being in school and getting pantsed. I played it off, but that floor was hard.

How was the crowd today?
There were a couple of grandmas that were like, “My grandson showed me you, and you were so great.” I was like, “Yo. Okay. Generational.”

Tony Tedesco

Data analyst, Stamford, Connecticut

Michelle Miller

Studio manager, Bay Ridge

Victoria Hill

Legal-marketing writer, Central Harlem

Any memorable conversations with fellow concertgoers?

The girl in front of me in the bathroom line told me her boyfriend cheated on her in a porta-potty. She found out because she got gonorrhea. The porta-potty was just a fun detail. The last thing she said was “He had the worst fashion.” Then she disappeared into the stall and I never saw her again.

Tajalei Willard

Clinical-research coordinator, Oakland, California

What brought you to Governors Ball?

My cousin Asher was chosen by his music school to perform back in November, but he didn’t tell anyone but his mom. So I was on Instagram when Gov Ball released its lineup, and I saw my cousin’s stage name, Kidd Revel, on the f*cking playbill, and I was like, “Asher, are you joking me right now?”

Tiff Baira

Content creator, Hudson Yards

Ricki Lee Stautz

Social worker, Flatbush

Autumn Levasseur

Barista, Bangor, Maine

Daniel Kamran

Bartender, Stuyvesant Town

What kind of concert pass did you buy?

I have the Freeloaders pass for friends and family of staff. There’s this little section that’s all you can drink. It’s a secret paradise. I’ll tell my friends I’m going to Freeloaders, and they’re like, “That’s not on the map.” I’m like, “Yeah, it can’t be.” You just have to know it exists. It’s one of those places.

Jessica McHugh

Marketing specialist, West Point

Chinue Foreman

Graduate student, Central Harlem

Audra Johnson

Model and marketer, Upper West Side

Jacob Lopez

Student electrician, Waterbury, Connecticut

What has beenthe best part of Gov Ball, aside from the music?

One of the stands has a claw machine that my friend and I legit went back to seven times to try to win something. We ﬁnally won a little bear, and we are so happy about that.

Colin Madden

Ramp agent, Greenbush, Maine

Ashley Ramirez

Retail manager, New London, Connecticut

Nicolle McHugh

Paralegal, Ringwood, New Jersey

Xensaurei

Chef, Far Rockaway

Get any compliments on your outfit?

Oh my God, a ton. Everybody, everywhere. I was like, Should I just be famous? Most of my wardrobe is pretty black, also very urban, also very alternative.

Samantha LaPare

Entertainment publicist, East Village

Amanda Phillipps

Revenue-cycle specialist, Hewlett

Photographs by Frankie Alduino

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