Joe Keery Wrote a Song About Fellow 'Stranger Things' Star

For the past several weeks, Stranger Things star Joe Keery has been making waves in his other career as a musician with his song "End of Beginning," which has even overtaken Taylor Swift on the Spotify charts.

However, while that song might be getting all of the attention, Keery also has another song that he wrote about his relationship with another Stranger Things star.

Joe Keery's Music Career

Keery, who plays Steve Harrington in the hit Netflix show Stranger Things, also has a career as a musical artist.

From 2015 to 2018, Keery was a drummer, guitarist, and vocalist for Chicago-based garage and psych-rock band Post Animal. He left the band in 2018 when the band started to get more attention from Stranger Things fans.

“It’s important to disassociate Steve from Stranger Things to the band because I think it will eventually hurt the band,” Keery saidin an interview with Bustle. “I think it’s important that they’re hitting the pavement for a while and making a name for themselves and it’s not necessarily associated with Stranger Things.”

After leaving Post Animal, Keery began his solo career under the stage name Djo, releasing three studio albums: Twenty Twenty, Decide, and The Crux.

'Charlie's Garden'

While Keery's song "End of Beginning" might be getting attention right now, Keery has another hit song that is actually about his friendship with another Stranger Things star: Charlie Heaton, who plays Jonathan Byers in the show.

"I guess part of trying to be as honest as I could was realizing that I could use these songs to sing about the people that I love in my life, and to memorialize these times that I'm experiencing," Keery told Entertainment Weekly after his album, The Crux, was released. "And so it just kind of came about.”

The song, titled "Charlie's Garden," was inspired by a time when he and Heaton were neighbors while filming Stranger Things. At the time, Keery actually shared a backyard with Heaton and his partner, fellow Stranger Things star Natalia Dyer.

"Charlie and Natalia lived together, and I lived with a friend, and our backyards touched," Keery told the outlet. "Charlie is always in his yard doing all these chores. Over the summer, we'd have off days, and I would be hanging out, playing guitar, and I'd look back in the yard and he'd be digging, he'd be burying wire."

Keery said he ended up writing the song at Heaton and Dyer's home while they were out walking the dog. Now, it's one of his favorites on the album.

"It's one of my favorites now, just because the influences are very clear," Keery said. "It's the Beatles, but [Paul] McCartney specifically, and ELO [Electric Light Orchestra]. It's an homage to my great friend and my time in Atlanta. So I get a real kick out of listening to that song.”

Not the Only 'Stranger Things' Reference

While Keery used to avoid any reference to Stranger Things in his songs and performances, looking to distance his music from the Steve Harrington character, he actually made another reference to his time filming the show on his latest album.

In his song "Delete Ya," Keery mentions dealing with heartbreak by hanging out with Charlie and taking their younger costars for a ride.

"Team up with Charlie, take these kids for a ride," Keery sings in the song.

Keery isn't the only Stranger Things star who has musical talent, as he points out.

"[Heaton is] a musical guy — a great songwriter and a great drummer," Keery says. "Maya [Hawke] is fantastic. Finn [Wolfhard] has that new song that just came out ["Choose the Latter"], and his new album is amazing. He's talented, interested in recording. And Gaten [Matarazzo] and Caleb [McLaughlin]…"