you will NEVER understand the pain of listening to your favourite band’s only album and then realising they aren’t real
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You said you loved me but Billy Dunne listened to Daisy Jones’ isolated vocals the first time they ever met
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Daisy Jones and The Six Review
★★★★☆ - 4 stars
"I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody."
Daisy Jones was a girl from a rich, but unloving family, and a feminist symbol of her era, though she had a dark relationship with substance abuse. The Six was a rock band that consisted of The Dunne brothers, the Loving brothers, and 'Karen Karen'. Separate, they were great artists, but together - together they were a sensation of their time, leaving the world in awe of their heartfelt music. Or they were a sensation... until they fell apart...
The thing I loved most about this book was undoubtedly the writing style; it's really unique, reminiscent of an interview for a music documentary. Through this layout, you can completely feel the personality of every character, and see a difference in perspective (i.e., how they each remember events differently) in a way that is true to real life.
Though Daisy is the title character (and supposedly the great, feminist character of the novel) I didn't like her at all, finding her selfish, whiny, and a predominantly horrible person. I felt the same about Billy throughout the entire book. Camila and Karen are definitely the best characters and are (in my opinion) the real feminist icons of this book - they don't take any of the nonsense thrown at them by the men in the book or by the music industry in general. I also loved Warren a lot - I found him to be a comedic relief between the heavy topics discussed.
Though this book does deal with a lot of triggering topics (i.e., drugs and alcohol abuse, toxic relationships, and difficult family dynamics). Taylor Jenkins Reid handles them really well. She manages to loosely base the characters on the members of Fleetwood Mac whilst simultaneously retaining sensitivity around the issues discussed.
At its simplest, Daisy Jones and The Six is three things: sex, drugs, and rock and roll. However, this book is so much more than that. It's about relationships: the relationships people have with each other; the relationships people have with themselves; but most of all, the relationship we as human beings have with music. Overall, Daisy Jones and The Six is an amazing, addictive, and enthralling piece of writing; it's one that I believe every music-lover should read.
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headcanon that retired rocker billy dunne still writes songs under a pseudonym and active singer daisy jones always selects one or two to include on her albums that are otherwise written by her alone
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“It hurts to care about someone more than they care about themselves. I can tell that story from both sides.”
-Billy Dunne
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