Daisy Jones & The Six, a fictional group who fall in love on screen

It appeared as a series starring Elvis Presley’s grandson, Riley Keough. And it’s consolidated as a story about a fictitious band with a great album. Just when rock sees other genres taking away its dominant position in popular music, the ghost group leaves and becomes a reference. This happened thanks to ten chapters Everyone loves Daisy Jones an American series that can be watched on Amazon Prime and which has become one of the phenomena of the season.

Inspired by the novel of the same name which Taylor Jenkins Reid Released in 2019, the series follows the creation, rise and fall of a rock band during the 1970s. A whole cocktail of silky melodies, ego-stroking, chemical excesses, sexual tensions and enormous success. In the mirror is Fleetwood Mac and, specifically, stevie nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, the band members who starred in the tumultuous impossible love story. It is now featured in a series starring Riley Keough (Daisy Jones) and Sam Claflin (Billy Dunne).

Not only do they interpret the characters, but their voices are the originals of the songs that can be heard. All of them are unreleased, but they look for the kind of sound and melodic development of Fleetwood Mac. Eleven make the album Daisy Jones & The Six which, giving realism to the idea of ​​a rock combination, came out on the market as an album for use. First with singles sorry for me and Look at us now (Honeycomb), Edited on February 15. Later, with the self-titled LP Daisy Jones & The Six.

Interestingly, despite being a stylistic exercise limited to its retrospective function, the album attracted the attention of many music lovers due to the quality of its songbook. Topics like Aurora or the mentioned Look At Us Now (Honeycomb) and sorry for me They are shared on social networks as a paradox of time, and not seen as a dystopia of rock. Yes, 2021. Måneskin and his pastiche glam rock won a stage as unrocky as Eurovision, now a group that doesn’t exist as such has appeared to give it a nostalgic boost. The album occupies a special place in the showcase of novelties of those looking for electric guitars at a time when young people express themselves with the help of microphones and computers.

There is a producer behind it Blake Mills together with the artists Phoebe Bridgers, Marcus Mumford, Jackson Browne and Taylor Goldsmith. Supported by a wide group of session musicians, they were in charge of shaping this repertoire. But apart from the introduction of votes from Riley Keough and Sam Claflin in the songs, the other actors in the show had to learn to play instruments to film the scenes and make them real. The music supervisor of this, Frankie Pine, explained it on the web insiders: «We had so many bands in the camp for so many months that they actually played songs. It wasn’t like they were just imitating or anything. All the instruments were on, everything was played out loud.”

Therefore, with the second part, it is possible for the band to step off the screen at any moment and put on a real concert. In an interview in Deadline, screenwriter Scott Neustadter gave fans hope: “If we can find a moment where everyone is together, I think they’d love to do that. It will be hard to find the right one, but I hope so because it would be great.”