Daisy Jones & the Six, the most hyped faux group of all time, just topped the charts on iTunes and became the first fictional group to hit No. 1.
Daisy Jones & the Six is the fictional band at the heart of the highly anticipated Amazon Prime Video series of the same name. The series is an adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s New York Times best-selling novel, which broke #BookTok and caught the attention of series co-creator Reese Witherspoon.
The series uses an oral history format to create a rockumentary-esque account of the demise of a popular rock group à la Fleetwood Mac, complete with terrifying love triangles, sex, drugs and, of course, rock and roll.
Daisy Jones & the Six made its glittering Amazon debut on Thursday and released the album created for the series, titled Aurora, the same day.
“At last we have Aurora. A stunning, nostalgic, timeless album that captures the drama, pathos and yearning of the band’s ups and downs,” Reid said in a statement. “A snapshot, exciting and dangerous. That glorious moment that you know you can’t hold out any longer. …Daisy Jones and The Six are real. And they are better than my wildest dreams.”
Shortly after both the series and album were cancelled, Chart Data tweeted the news of the fake band’s rise to the very real charts, saying “@daisyjonesand6’s ‘AURORA’ hit No. 1 on iTunes in the US.”
Prior to Daisy Jones & the Six, Riley Keough stars as the captivating Daisy Jones and Sam Claflin as rock star Billy Dunne. Neither actor had sung professionally before, and Keough recently revealed that she may have been telling the truth when she auditioned for the part.
People reported that the actress – who is the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and granddaughter of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll himself, Elvis – admitted during a recent screening of the series: “I auditioned like everyone else, she lied and told them I could sing.”
Scott Neustadter, the show’s co-creator and co-showrunner, told The Times’ Screen Gab this week that the group went through an 18-month boot camp before filming began.
“Our feeling was that no matter how good the sets looked or how well the scene was written, if we couldn’t convince them that Daisy Jones & the Six were a real band, we were left with nothing,” Neustadter told the Times. “That meant putting the actors through a strict ‘orchestral camp’ that permeates [music supervisor] frankie [Pine] and under the supervision of [music consultant] tonie [Berg]where they practiced their instruments for hours every day, Blake learns [Mills’] brand new songs, working on their stage presence or otherwise shooting like real band members.
“It should take a few weeks,” he continued. “But due to COVID, we couldn’t start our production on time and the three-week group camp turned into 18 months. When we started in the fall of 2021, the actors weren’t just a compelling representation of a rock band, they were a rock band.”
Source: LA Times
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