The story of a 70s rock band that sounds anything but 70s passes through the 00s “indie filter”
There are almost all the magic powders used to make the series Daisy Jones and the six a knockout – and they all confirm the 70s, even if they are receding further and further away, as the unsurpassed era of rock and roll. Colours, flared trousers, thick hair, verbalized sex and free love, but weak, out of place and improbable music. the series of Amazon Prime videoswhich has had repercussions since its premiere, on the 3rd, and is expected to raise decibels until March 24, with new episodes always out on Thursdays, also affects the film used to transport people to the adventurous and idyllic 70s, but it is it fails miserably where it could not fail.
Without a great script to superimpose the simple but already successful format from the beginning – a band and a singer who cross each other on the road in search of stardom – music is not, or should not be, an accessory. More than the central appearances of Sam Claflin (the dazzled and somewhat hesitant Billy Dunne) and Riley Keough (nephew of Elvis Presley, the non-negotiable Daisy Jones), the music of the band Daisy Jones & The Six, the real protagonist, is the one that suffers above all to sound anything but 70s. Daisy Jones & The Six actually released, on streaming platforms, the album they release in the series, Aurora. Will they go on tour? Success on screens must define.
The actors have given interviews saying they learned to play instruments and sing, something they do relatively well, but songwriters like I am sorry, Let me down easily or the Stroaknian Kill yourself to trynot to enter a romantic country, like Watch us now, sung in pairs and with open thirds by Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne – a resource that no self-respecting 70s rocker should use – seems not to have heard Fleetwood Mac (officially, according to the production, an inspiration), Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Doors, Cream, Led Zeppelin or even the Rolling Stones. And it’s nice to say, it’s the characters themselves who mention these bands.
The origin of aesthetic identity disorder can be strategic. Amazon knows that those who go to see her series are much younger people who attend Lollapalooza than their parents, nostalgic for the old seventies. Therefore, it might be more prudent to pass the raw, analog virtuosic sound of the 70s, something that might sound merely nostalgic, through the closest filter, 2000s indie rock. Amazon executives, it is well aligned with this idea. His name is Blake Mills, he’s 36 and has worked with revisionist indie bands like Band of Horses and Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas. And he played guitar with Lucinda Williams, Kid Rock and The Chicks (he looks at the country pop where he came from). Luckily it’s a movie. Had they really existed in the 1970s, Daisy Jones & The Six would have been destroyed.
Source: Terra
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