Hello, welcome back to another episode of Broken Record. My name is Ellie. I'm your host. And today we're going to be talking about Daisy Jones and the six.
So Daisy Jones and the six is a book by Taylor Jenkins Reid that came out in 2019 and it's set up interview style. So like it's not like your traditional book. It's more like a manuscript of like what what was being said at that interview is. And it's really interesting.
It's that so it's about this band that became so popular, so famous. They had like a major following in the 70s and then they had a falling out and then they just were like never heard from again. No one ever spoke about it until 40 years later when they all agreed to do these interviews that becomes the book. So it's really interesting.
I actually haven't read the book, but I have been watching the TV series, Amazon Prime picked up this book and have created a series with it. And the first season is in the process of coming out. The first six episodes are out, I believe, and they're really good. I love this show.
Like I was kind of scared to watch it because Daisy Jones and the six is a fake band. It like isn't real, but they're like taking these words and these songs that were written in the book and then making them come to life and like making these characters come to life. So I was kind of scared of like if I was going to like it or not, but I love it. It's so good.
So Daisy Jones is played by Riley Keough, who if you do not know is Elvis's grand daughter. So that is exciting. And then the six, which is the band. So this is okay.
So the book and the whole story goes that there was a band called the Dun Brothers and that was like when the boys were in like high school or like transitioning into college age, they had that band. And then they changed their name to the six and then they gained a member, Karen Cerco, and then they got really popular and then they kind of fell out. And then Daisy Jones comes in and she like saves them. Or not like saves them like they're in trouble, but like she like gets them popular again.
So the six consists of Billy Dunn, Karen Cerco, Graham Dunn, Warren Rhodes, and Eddie Roundtree. And so those people are played by Billy Dunn is played by Sam Claflin, Karen Cerco is played by Suki Waterhouse, Graham Dunn is played by Will Harrison, Warren Rhodes is played by Sebastian Chacon, and then Eddie Roundtree is played by Josh Whitehouse. And so those five create the six and then Daisy Jones gets added and they become Daisy Jones in the six and it's really cool. I've said on the show multiple times that like I really, really, really would love to be in the room like when these songs are created and like see this process happen.
And this show kind of feels like that because we see these experiences that these artists are going through and we see them in the recording sessions and we see them create these songs. And it's really cool. So, and then they also have released their music, which I think is really smart and really cool. So in the show, they're in the process of making an album called Aurora, which is the first album of Daisy Jones in the six.
The Dunn Brothers slash the six had released stuff before, but Daisy Jones in the six, their first official album is Aurora. And so they have that and they have 11 songs on that track or not track. They have 11 songs on that album Aurora let me down easy, kill you to try two against three. Look at us now, honeycomb, regret me.
You were gone. More fun to miss, please the river, no words. And so they have that album out, which is incredible. I've been listening to it a lot.
And then they also, something that I think is really cool is that for each episode that airs on Amazon Prime, they have like an album or an EP for it. So like you get to listen to the songs that like didn't necessarily make it onto the album, but like we're still on the show or like you saw them write a little bit of it or you saw them perform it. It's still online free to listen to, which I think is so smart because a lot of the times movies and TV shows like this, they only release the main album, the main piece of work, but they don't release the like little snippets of the songs that we hear, but they did, they like made, they took the snippets and made them like whole songs and they released them, which I'm so thankful for because I don't think, at least, at least in my knowledge, I don't think I've ever seen that happen before, like we see maybe just like where this song isn't necessarily highlighted to be like, this is the main advertisement of the show, but like it's still released and we can still listen to it, which I really appreciate because there's been so many times where I hear like artists singing songs in movies or TV shows and then I go to find it online and it's just not there because it's not like the main piece of work that the story's about. And so I'm really glad that they did that.
But yeah, so there's six episodes out now. They're really good. It's really interesting to watch because only, so there's six people, six band members, I guess, Daisy Jones, Billy Don, Karen Cierco, Graham Don, Warren Rhodes, and Eddie, Eddie Roundtree, and only one of them, one of the actors that plays those characters had actually had a singing career previously. Karen Cierco, who's played by Suki Waterhouse, she's actually an artist and she's been going on tour, she's released music, so she kind of has experience in that, but then everyone else, I'm pretty sure, never, never picked up a guitar, never played the drums, never sang.
And so it's really impressive to me how they can form this band and sound so incredible together. It's crazy. Some of my favorite songs off of Aurora are Let Me Don Easy, Look at Us Now, We're Grett Me. I also, I don't know, they're just, it's so cool.
This is the perfect TV show for me because it's about music and forming music and the music industry in the 70s and it's so cool. This show is outstanding. Yeah, it's really cool. And I think it's so interesting because I was watching an interview with, I forgot who it was.
It might have been Riley Keo, or it was Camila Morone, who plays Camila Alvarez, who is Billy Dunne's wife and they have a kid together. And so Camila Morone was on Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel. One of the late night shows and she was talking about how when they auditioned and when they were getting the role to the show, they had to sign something that said they were okay with going on tour because if theoretically if the show blows up and they have a demand to go on tour, these actors would go on tour and perform these songs. And I think that's so cool.
That would be so fun. I think that would be outstanding because that's just so cool. But yeah, that made me really happy because I feel like that would be fun. These are all mainly actors and maybe they really liked performing.
I just wanted to get a little taste of it and they can, but it's crazy. It's so cool. I love this show. It's really interesting.
I also love the fashion in the show. So the series switches between interviews and present time and going back in time to the 70s when they were actually creating the music and like whatever. So it's kind of like back and forth. But the fashion of when they're in the 70s is so good.
It's oh my gosh, it makes me feel so sad that I didn't grow up in the 70s because they all look so good and their outfits are just so fun. And I really wish that people will still dress like that, but they don't. So yeah, I love this show so much and I recommend watching it. If you can, Daisy Jones and the six on Amazon Prime.
It is so good. I love watching it. It's just so good. Their music is so outstanding.
It's kind of like Fleetwood Mac vibes and like it's just so good. And I love it so much and I want to listen to it forever and I can't wait to see the rest of the season. I think there's 10 episodes that are going to be in this season and there's six out now. So we have four more to go.
I'm really excited. I love this show. It's so good and it's so interesting. I really recommend it.
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