At the PNE Amphitheatre on Sunday, September 6

Your #SquadGoals were obvious for the Mad Decent Block Party. The sun was shining, and it was the final long weekend of the summer. Here was your last chance to get together with friends and don a flower crown and fun-fur boots as you double-fist Palm Bays and dance your exposed ass off to some of the biggest acts in EDM at an outdoor party. Shit was about to get lit, and if you could avoid an embarrassing trip to the first-aid tent, all the better.

The annual touring event was headlined by Diplo’s world-music dance act Major Lazer. The man born Wesley Pentz couldn’t be hotter right now. He’s had his hand in two of the biggest hits of the year: “Where Are Ü Now”, which features Justin Bieber and was coproduced with Skrillex under the Jack Ü moniker, and “Lean On” with Major Lazer. How big a hit is “Lean On”, you ask? Try half a billion views on YouTube coupled with it being the most streamed song globally on Spotify this summer.

Adding to his omnipresence, Diplo also runs the Mad Decent label, produces for basically every pop star, and tours perpetually—this was his third appearance in the Vancouver area in 2015. But most importantly, he let me get a pic with him at the Pemberton Music Festival earlier this summer. The photo yielded an unprecedented 41 likes on Instagram and 78 on Facebook. (Is it gauche to use that as my profile shot on Tinder?)

When I entered the festivities around 6 p.m., Toronto’s Grandtheft was behind an energy-drink-sponsored DJ podium and drowning out centrifugal-force-induced screams from Playland with his remix of “Summer” by Calvin Harris.

Try as you might, and trust me I tried, it was impossible to ignore the fact that the Mad Decent Block Party was awash with barely to just-legals in their underwear. Sure, many were decked out in fun party garb. (Shout-out to the guy in the fuzzy dragon costume.) But others made fashion statements that aimed to make you feel uncomfortable. (Did I seriously spot a young woman wearing very little, save for a Patrick Kane jersey wrapped around her shoulders?) Regardless of whether you were a walking American Apparel ad, a fuzzy dragon, or a Patrick Kane apologist, you most certainly enjoyed it when Grandtheft ended his set with his trap anthem “Keep It 100”.

Up next was Belgian “drum ’n’ bass producer Netsky, who was joined on-stage by Script MC. The latter’s contributions were indecipherable but seemed to be of a “Vancouver, make some noise” variety. Didn’t matter, though. DnB remixes of deadmau5 and the Chemical Brothers, along with Netsky’s “Rio”, even inspired a dad in his 50s to gleefully dance like no one was watching. People were watching, however, and they stealthily posted videos of him on Snapchat.

As the sun went down it began to get chilly, causing many partygoers to question their choice of attire. L.A.’s Dillon Francis had the remedy. Shortly into his set he played “Lean On”, which promptly got thousands rubbing their sweaty bodies together on the dance floor.

“Sorry, Diplo, I had to play it,” he rationalized. Then Diplo and his Major Lazer production partner Jillionaire stormed the stage to razz a grinning Francis. Naturally, the whole exchange was promptly posted on Instagram.

For the main event, a much bigger DJ podium without energy-drink logos got trotted out. After a countdown on the LED screen, Major Lazer opened with “Come On To Me”, backed by confetti cannons, strobe lights, and four dancers. As bedlam ensued, people waved cardboard cutouts of the superstar producer’s head and placards that read “Dip Low 4 Diplo”. (On the verso: “Finally 19”.)

The finally 19-year-olds did indeed dip low. But some were doing cartwheels, and if you weren’t paying attention you could’ve taken a windmill kick to the head.

“One question: do we have any motherfucking freaks out there tonight?” the international tastemaker asked, shortly before hopping into a giant inflatable hamster ball and rolling around on his dancing, naked motherfucking freaks.

Following that, he encouraged us to take all our shirts off, swing them around, and huck ’em in the air, as Jack Ü’s bombastic “Febreze” blared out of the speakers. The faithful abided, but where they conjured up the clothing to shed and then throw will forever remain a mystery.

Diplo took turns acting as hypeman and DJ, and we got to hear all the Major Lazer hits like “Bubble Butt”, “Get Free”, and “Powerful” along with quick cuts of countless other tracks he’s given his Midas touch to. And yes, you’d better belieb that Jack Ü made it into the mix.

It was 9:55 p.m. now and the music had stopped. But surely there was time for one more? There was, and of course it was “Lean On”, for the second time that evening. Diplo, sporting a kurta, mimicked the Bollywood dance moves from the song’s video, as a sing-along ensued, bringing an end to this raucous party before every homeowner near the PNE filed a noise complaint.

And with that, the final EDM blowout of the summer was over. Hopefully you realized your #MDBP2015 #SquadGoals. But don’t fret too much if you didn’t, either because you were out of town or in that first-aid tent.

Diplo promised us he’d be back next year, and ads on the LED screens as you stumbled out reminded us there’s a back-to-school rave this weekend.