show is obviously terrible but I will watch to the end
the lyrics, which I believe come directly from the book, are so bad
Sam Claflin's jaw is a character unto itself
― Number None, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 21:52 (one year ago) link
are the lyrics from the book? I thought this guy Blake Mills wrote all of them in conjunction with other songwriters (Jackson Browne, Mumford, etc); maybe they just did the music.
Portrayals of fictional bands are always very difficult to do convincingly. I finally finished David Mitchell's Utopia Avenue (which sucked) and it was really stark there that what a novelist thinks is good writing does not in fact necessarily translate to good lyrics.
I really like this show, because it is dumb. I particularly like Granddaughter Elvis's acting. She is annoying as fuck but clearly meant to be.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
yep, you're right. Which actually makes them worse
https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a43276494/daisy-jones-and-the-six-regret-me-lyrics-meaning/
“What we didn’t do is, we didn’t want to give them the lyrics to the book because we were dealing with these unbelievable songwriters,” executive producer and co-showrunner Scott Neustadter told ELLE.com. “And Taylor was like, ‘I don’t want them to be handcuffed to my work. Let them write the songs themselves.’ So all of the songs play the same narrative functions in the show that they do in the book, but the lyrics are different.”
― Number None, Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
only seen the first two episodes, found it weird how the band went overnight from 60s covers to full blown sub-bryan adams heartlands rock bullshit. found it very hard to see what the big shot producer saw in them at all, they're fucking terrible
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
will still probably hate-watch the rest though
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
i think it’s quite dumb & cheesy but i enjoy it and i do think Daisy’s character makes it a better watch
plus the songs are quite good/
I agree with all of this. I had low expectations going in (someone on Twitter mentioned Timothy Olyphant so obviously I had to watch a little, at least) but I quite like it. Never read the book, but I've obviously seen a lot of documentaries about Fleetwood Mac, the Laurel Canyon sound, etc etc.
― trishyb, Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
i have completely missed Olyphant in this. was he in like the second episode? I fell asleep during that one.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 16 March 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link
He's the tour manager who tells them he thinks they have potential, then is not delighted to see them when they arrive in LA.
― trishyb, Thursday, 16 March 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
yeah missed all of that
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 16 March 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
yay VG I was hoping you were going to start a thread, this show is very dumb and I'm going to watch it all
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 March 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
hooray <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 March 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
i like that the 20 years later segments are squarely in the mid-90's, but the only people who look 20 years older are the two other dudes in the band (drummer and Graham). And they just stuck the english model keyboardist in a leather jacket and leather tie, like it's 1984.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 16 March 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
Matt Sweeney and Cass McCombs helped write songs for this
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 March 2023 23:29 (one year ago) link
Cass just on one
also hatewatching, very slowly, probably as their songs are terrible and i often stop watching for a bit or skip over those bits, wondering what on earth teddy price hears in them. i'll concede the Ooh La La singalong was good though.
― stirmonster, Monday, 20 March 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link
i'll rephrase the songs being terrible. they are distinctly not to my taste.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 00:22 (one year ago) link
I’m three episodes in and tbh it’s better than I was expecting. But given how much most music biopics (fiction or not) give me hives, my bar was exceptionally low. So far I think the songs are just fine but none of them seem to be from the time they are living in. I’m getting real 90s vibes from a lot of the music.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
yeah they feel like people in the 90s trying to write a Fleetwood Mac song for Sheryl Crow, the closest they get is when they try to ape a FM style rhythm section, that if you're to gonna let me down let me down easy one
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
i rarely got a sense of what the songs actually sounded like, TBH. the mix in the show foregrounds the vocals so much that it's hard to hear the actual music. i can't be arsed to go listen to the soundtrack. I do think Elvis has a pretty good voice.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
Irish Prince plot line was so dumb, still laughing at that guy ("you'll regret this!!"). Only bit I really enjoyed was the NYC disco thing as that was the only part where I didn't actually hate any of the people involved (record label excepted)
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
that felt like a bit of another, probably more interesting, show was flown in
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link
ugh just got to Irish Prince wtf he looks like a facetuned Joe Jonas this show, honestly. The amount of ludicrous character choices that resolve in a single episode is hilarious
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 05:24 (one year ago) link
We just finished this last night. Yes, dumb and cheesy and really just a soap opera, but we were entertained enough to watch all the way. The last episode had so much DRAMA packed in, sort of hilarious.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 22 April 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
this was pitched and marketed and promised pretty much exactly what it delivered which is much to its credit, the vibe absolutely carried it the cast are clearly having a ball at all the right times and keough is just a superstar
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Saturday, 22 April 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link
The last episode did really work
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 22 April 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link