There’s an explanation for why so many 20-year-olds are suddenly singing Fleetwood Mac’s Landslide on TikTok with their guitar. Or why they record themselves in his room in the style of singer Stevie Nicks in the seventies. Or which has led to montages of girls sharing their stash of covers and magazines with this band from a time when their parents were probably in diapers. All of these videos contain a key label to understand the origin of this new obsession among the under-30s: Everybody Loves Daisy Jones, the 10-episode miniseries that airs weekly on Prime Video.
Based on the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid and translated into Spanish by Lucía Barahona at Blackie Books, the series is told as a juicy documentary set in the 1990s. Through the on-camera statements (and lies) of its members, it attempts to unravel the mystery of why a fictional mythical band from the Seventies, Daisy Jones and the Six, was the same one who touched the sky of fame with a single album practically perfect, after an epic concert in Chicago, they decided to part ways.
Everybody Loves Daisy Jones has been available on Prime Video since March 3rd. Lacey Terrell/Prime Video (Lacey Terrell/Prime Video)
Starring Riley Keough (The Girlfriend Experience, Mad Max: Fury Road) and Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games), the show not only offers a chance to see Elvis’ granddaughter (Kenough) sing (quite well) on screen; it also shines for an artistic production that captures the hedonistic (and polytoxic) yearning of the seventies. But if anything caused it, aside from showing some intense and chaotic lovemaking, it’s an interesting double rebound effect. On the one hand, the expansion to other networks that are far from the mother platform, such as. B.Spotify. The songs from Aurora, the band’s album created specifically for the series, produced and written by Blake Mills with the help of Phobe Bridgers, and performed by Keough and Claflin, have racked up more than 20 million views in just three weeks of airing. On the other hand, and as young people have become addicted to the adaptation, there is interest in reclaiming the story and sound of Fleetwood Mac from networks like TikTok, particularly citing the Prime Video series. What is this revival about?
the love connection
It all started when the author saw a video of Stevie Nicks singing Landslide live. The stares and intensity that the singer and her former partner Lindsey Buckingham (guitarist and vocalist of Fleetwood Mac) shared were the spark that ignited the plot of a novel that would become a New York Times bestseller and fascinate. both to Reese Witherspoon’s book club and to be encouraged to produce it. “I kept coming back to this video of Stevie and Lindsey,” Jenkins told Hello Sunshine, the show’s producer platform, of the reason for the storyline. “He seemed to meet two people in love. And yet we’ll never really know what happened between them. I wanted to write a story about how the lines between real life and acting can blur, about how singing about old wounds can keep them fresh.”
Hence the obvious parallels between the fictional band and the recording of their album (Aurora) with the time bomb Rumors, Fleetwood Mac’s first undeniable classic LP. Daisy Jones (Kiley Reough) would be a thinly disguised version of Stevie Nicks. Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin) does the same with Lindsey Buckingham, Karen Sirko (Suki Waterhouse) would be keyboardist Christine McVie and bassist Graham Dunne (Will Harrison) would be John McVie. That’s why TikTok is full of video montages comparing the band’s live and staged performances. It all leads to Rumors, an album that was recorded almost half a century ago in that Record Plant studio in Sausalito, without a single day of sober from any of its creators.
For Everybody Loves Daisy Jones to incite a rage at ’70s fashion and its members’ ethereal and excessive outfits was something entirely predictable. If Mad Men has influenced Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang or Michael Kors over the past decade to bring the ’50s and ’60s back into fashion in our wardrobes, and the style echoes of last season’s Game of Thrones reached Gucci, you should 2023 will not surprise anyone The series signs a cooperation agreement with a fast fashion company even before it is broadcast. It happened when Stranger Things took out some shirts for Lefties or Primark, and it happened with Everybody Loves Daisy Jones. Prime Video has teamed up with company Free People to launch a capsule collection that attempts to recreate the emerging wardrobe of scandalous mini-shorts, fur coats and ethereal dresses worn by its protagonist. All emulate Daisy Jones. Or which is the same: everyone copies Stevie Nicks.
The Kate Bush Effect
We knew the show influenced the way we dressed. What we hadn’t recognized so obviously was his musical recipe. In a matter of months, television fiction has done the most to connect the new generations to the sounds of the past in the frantic cycles of cultural consumption.
We could refer to this strange phenomenon as the Kate Bush Effect, which happened in the final season of Stranger Things. The British singer’s Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), a 1985 song included on her album Hounds of Love, was chosen as a talisman to save Max (Sadie Sink) from death. A recurring song with crucial narrative imagery that became an undisputed hit last summer. Spotify confirmed that listeners skyrocketed by more than 9,000% on May 27 when the episodes were released. It was also the only song that could slow the rise of new albums by Bad Bunny or Harry Styles. An unprecedented viral phenomenon that even prompted Kate Bush to make a grateful statement with her revival: “Running Up That Hill has taken on a second life thanks to the young fans who love the series. And I love it too!” she wrote. It wasn’t for less. Music Business Worldwide magazine calculated that this unexpected high from listening to Spotify and iTunes brought him around two million euros in royalties into his bank account.
Who didn’t suffer the same financial fate as Kate Bush was Linda Rondstaldt. The artist also lived a glorious week after one of her songs, Long Long Time, was featured on The Last of Us. His 1969 theme also acquired special symbolic value because it was recorded on piano and heard on cassette at the end of the third episode of the hit HBO production. This song, about unrequited love and the fear of loneliness that paved the way for the love story between the episode’s two protagonists – Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) – got you listening the single soared 5,000% just an hour later that the episode was posted on HBO. Unlike Bush, Rondstaldt did not have royalties on the track, which accrued to composer Gary White. Another must have been delighted to see the children of those who probably weren’t born when he wrote that heartfelt song are now dedicating love letters to him on TikTok.
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