Warning: The next accommodates spoilers for Daisy Jones & the Six Episode 3. Proceed at your personal danger!
There’s one thing magical that occurs when Daisy Jones & the Six‘s two lead singers lastly meet and report their first duet, “Take a look at Us Now (Honeycomb),” within the Prime Video drama’s third episode.
The truth is, the second is so particular that writer Taylor Jenkins Reid — on whose novel the sequence relies — admits that what she wrote can’t compete with what’s on display between Riley Keough’s Daisy and Sam Claflin’s Billy.
“I’ll inform you, with no caveats in any way, the second for me the place I watched it and thought, ‘This second is healthier than something that I may do on the pages of a guide,’ is when Billy and Daisy report ‘Take a look at Us Now,’” Reid tells TVLine. “I by no means may’ve captured on the web page what they do in that scene. That is without doubt one of the glories of an adaptation is that you’ve actors like that, making one thing simply electrical, and there’s no approach that I may write it that will do what they had been capable of do and make it look so easy.”
The scene additionally highlights a major departure from Reid’s novel, in that the lyrics to the music (titled simply “Honeycomb” within the guide) are completely different from what’s referenced within the novel’s oral historical past. Moreover, the sequence takes liberty with the tracklist for Daisy Jones & the Six’s hit album, Aurora, which options new tunes that aren’t talked about in Reid’s story.
Though Reid wrote lyrics for her model of the Aurora album (which you could find right here), she greater than welcomed the thought of music trade vets penning the present’s soundtrack. Grammy Award winner Blake Mills wrote or co-wrote and produced 25 authentic songs for the sequence, enlisting the assistance of musicians/songwriters Marcus Mumford, Phoebe Bridgers, Jackson Browne and Taylor Goldsmith, amongst others, to co-write the catchy hits, lots of that are carried out by Keough and Claflin.
“I used to be very excited in regards to the alternative to write down lyrics [for the book], however they don’t perform as songs,” Reid shares. “They perform, if something, as a puzzle so that you can clear up. There are clues inside these lyrics. They’re a dialog between me and the reader to attempt to perceive what really occurred and whose model of issues do you imagine.”
“I simply can’t conceive of going to Jackson Browne and saying, ‘Hey, write a music, however use these lyrics that she made up,’” Reid continues. “It’s like, no, take no matter Jackson Browne desires to offer you. Let Marcus Mumford are available in and write his personal music. He’s going to do it higher than I did. I’m an writer, I’m not a songwriter. We will get right into a comparability, however I believe it’s a waste of time. They’re items, these songs.”
Co-showrunner Scott Neustadter notes that the tracks nonetheless serve the identical function as they did within the novel, even when the phrases are completely different.
“Followers can relaxation assured that even these songwriters had been advised, ‘That is the sort of music… That is what the music must do within the present,’” Neustadter says. “The songs are telling the story in most of those scenes, in order that they needed to work in the very same approach that they work within the novel. I’d say ‘Remorse Me’ and ‘Honeycomb,’ once you see the way in which they’re accomplished within the present, you’ll additionally, I believe, admire that it’s Taylor’s story, simply with the completely different music lyrics.”
For Reid, listening to the fictional band come to life 4 years after her guide was first revealed in 2019 was “unbelievable,” the writer raves, “particularly as a result of individuals have requested me, for a extremely very long time, ‘What do they sound like?’ and I’ve simply kind of shuffled my toes and never answered as a result of I didn’t know. I’m not a musician. So listening to the songs was unbelievable.”
“I’m attempting to recollect what was the primary one which I heard,” Reid continues. “I believe it may need really been ‘Aurora,’ which is one among my favorites, and I like the way in which that it capabilities throughout the story. It’s a extremely lovely music.”
Daisy Jones & the Six followers, what did you consider the brand new “Honeycomb” and the primary three episodes’ songs?
