Larisha Paul
Taylor Jenkins Reidit is fictional band Daisy Jones & the Six aren’t so fictional anymore, and neither is their debut album Dawn. Pulled from the pages of his novel of the same name, the album that took them on a life-changing world tour comes to life with its real-world debut single, “Regret Me,” with more to follow when the record hits the shelves. sides of Prime Video Series the 3 of March.
“We finally have Aurora. A stunning, nostalgic and timeless album that captures the drama, pathos and longing for the band’s zenith and nadir all in one,” Reid shared in a statement. “A snapshot of time, intoxicating and dangerous. This delicious moment which, you know, cannot last… Daisy Jones and the Six are real. And they are better than my wildest dreams.
In the novel, Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) writes “Regret Me” as a kiss to her teammate Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin). Building on the idea that women could be powerful enough to destroy not just an entire Yoko Ono-style band, but an entire gender, she wrote, “And, baby, when you think of me/I hope it ruins rock ‘n’ roll/ Sorry. Billy refused to record it, but the rest of the band sided with Daisy. Moving from the pages to the recording booth, “Regret Me” takes on new form as a fiery duet between the band’s two lead singers.
Producer Blake Mills, who led the creation of Dawn as a writer and producer, reimagined the song through the prism of its fictional 1970s origins with the lyrics twisted into an emotional battleground. “So go ahead and regret me, but I’m getting ahead of you,” Billy challenges, backed by Daisy’s voice. When the big guitars kick in, their performances clash: “You miss me and I’ll miss you/You couldn’t stand your liquor and you can’t see the truth/I’m a slippage in the system and I’m perfectly ready to hit / So go ahead and regret me, but I’m not releasing this mic.
Mills recruited musicians Phoebe Bridgers, Madison Cunningham, Marcus Mumford, Jackson Browne and many more to co-write the songs Reid dreamed up. Daisy Jones and the Six’magnum opus Aurora. “I am not a musician. I hear something in my head, but it’s not something anyone could turn into a song. So the idea that people are going to create this album is incredibly exciting to me,” Reid said. rolling stone when the show first got the green light in 2019.
“I was meeting with one of the guys from Amazon, and we were talking about the music, and he was saying he was very intimidated by the task of having to create the song ‘Aurora’,” she added. “He said to me, ‘You made this the greatest album of the 1970s!’ And now he has to find a way to do it. I’m just glad it’s not my problem.
In 2020, Mills said rolling stone that there was a sense of excitement in being able to play with a story that isn’t as concrete as what one might find in an actual musical documentary, such as the musical counterpart of Daisy Jones & the Six, Fleetwood Mac. “There’s an opportunity to subvert and create a guitar personality that might have been around in the ’70s, and wasn’t,” Mills said. “People loved the guitar at that time. So I’m trying to find an appreciation for the instrument and bend it a bit to my will. Revisionist history.
With that, Daisy Jones & the Six are about to be immortalized on screen, in the book, and in the ears of listeners everywhere. “In the early 1970s, a group of kids with stars in their eyes and talent to spare formed a band called Daisy Jones and The Six,” co-creator and executive producer Scott Neustadter said in a statement. “They would go on to become one of music’s greatest success stories despite – or perhaps because of – their own interpersonal demons.”
He added: “It was about a love story: the love of a particular sound, the love of family, the love of your life and the love you can’t have but also maybe you can’t live without…Aurora represents the pinnacle of a short recording career.It also serves as proof – both for the fictional band and for the real band who imagined this together – that devoting your heart and soul to something you believe in can have a profound effect on the rest of your life.
Dawn List of tracks:
Dawn
let me down easily
kill you to try
two against three
Look at us now (honeycomb)
regret me
You were gone
More fun to miss
Please
River
No words