If you are a fan of Daisy Jones and the Sixthen you probably have the Prime Video drama soundtrack stuck in your head.
The show’s impressive music roster includes 25 original songs, written or co-written by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills with the help of musicians/songwriters such as Marcus Mumford, Phoebe Bridgers, Jackson Browne and Taylor Goldsmith, among others. The catchy tunes, performed by the show’s cast, range from Daisy Jones & the Six hits like “Look at Us Now (Honeycomb)” to disco gems from Daisy’s BFF Simone to early rock numbers from the Dunne Brothers.
THE Dawn Daisy Jones & the Six’s album, in particular, “sounds like a 70s band that sounds a bit like other things, but is actually completely unique,” enthuses Suki Waterhouse, who plays keyboardist. Karen.
TVLine asked the show’s stars and executive producers to do the impossible: pick their favorite original song from the show’s many legitimate earworms. Their picks include band staples like “Let Me Down Easy” and “Regret Me,” but also less featured tracks from Dawnas well as a few non-Daisy Jones & the Six selections.
Additionally, the band’s lead singers, Riley Keough and Sam Claflin, reveal which songs they found the hardest to sing, so much so that Claflin vows never to perform one again.
Review the cast and EP’s favorite songs below and listen to them by pressing PLAY on the videos. Then hit the comments to share your #1 pick! (For more on the big moments from the finale, check out our post mortem here.)
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“Turn the Knob”
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Although the Dunne Brothers song predates Daisy’s time with the Six, it’s still a favorite of her Riley Keough portrayal. “I love this song, and it’s so cute,” the actress says. “[They] was playing it, and I was watching, and it was so sweet.
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“Look at Us Now (Honeycomb)”
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Billy’s first duet with Daisy is notable for performer Sam Claflin, who calls it “a real feel-good song.”
“It really is such a trip too,” the actor continues. “There are times when it goes really fast, then it slows down, then it completely slows down, then it starts going fast again. It just hits all the right notes.
Keough also singles out the resounding success that changes the trajectory of Daisy and Billy’s careers. “I often forget ‘Honeycomb’ because it’s so obvious,” the actress says, adding that she and Claflin didn’t sing it too often during filming. “I think this song is probably my favorite song.”
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“Let Me Down Easy”
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It’s no surprise that the first track Daisy and Billy actually wrote together was a popular choice among the show’s executive producers.
“I love this song. It’s so catchy,” says EP Lauren Neustadter. connection for Daisy and for Billy, and then obviously for Karen, Graham and the rest of the band.”
EP/director James Ponsoldt is also a big fan of “Let Me Down Easy”, describing it as “a total earworm”.
As for author Taylor Jenkins Reid, whose book is based on the series, “I have times when one song is my favorite, and then I’m like, nope, another song is my favorite,” Reid admits. “My daughter has a very, very strong feeling, at six and a half, that ‘Regret Me’ is the best song on the album, and so sometimes we debate that, because lately my favorite is ‘Let Me Down Easy’… I’m gonna sing it in the shower. That’s how good I think it is.
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“River”
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“I love ‘The River,’ which is the one that came last on the album and stuck in my head the whole time,” co-showrunner Will Graham shares. “I remember when [executive music supervisor] Blake [Mills] came up with these lyrics… One of them was, ‘I’m an echo in your shadow’, and that was [one of] those moments when a character explodes into the song for you, and you suddenly hear Daisy’s voice coming through those other voices. It was just incredibly exciting.
Waterhouse (“It just has such a roaring chorus,” raves the actress), Nabiyah Be (aka Simone) and Camila Morrone (aka Billy’s wife, Camila), who are also joining “The River” bandwagon , which describes the Claflin and Keough Belt as “very much of that time. »
And since the song came to life later in the music production process, it was also like a breath of fresh air for Keough. “I think we all loved ‘The River’ because it was a song that we had at the end. We’re like, ‘Oh, a new song we’re playing,’ and it’s not the same as we’ve been playing for three years or whatever,” Keough shares with a laugh.
But it wasn’t all fun for the actress, who picked him as her toughest choice. “The End of ‘River’ [is], like, really psychotic,” says Keough. “It’s, like, endless, and there’s a lot of screaming or screaming.”
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“Kill You to Try”
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Sebastian Chacon and Josh Whitehouse, who play drummer Warren and bassist Eddie respectively, are both fans of “Kill You to Try”, which debuts in Episode 6.
“I love playing this song,” enthuses Chacon. “It’s, like, seven minutes, and it’s got a bunch of different chapters, and it’s a very athletic drum part, where I reach all around, and it’s just a crazy thing. At the end , I’m still sweating, and for that reason, I’m glad we didn’t play it so much on the show, because then I would have been knocked out. But I love that song.”
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“Regret Me”
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Tom Wright, who plays music producer Teddy, offers this specific explanation of why the Daisy-penned song is her favorite: “Because the title says, ‘It’s a life I’ve lived.'”
“Regret Me” also receives shoutouts from Waterhouse and Morrone. “All the songs are amazing,” adds Waterhouse.
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“Your Love Is Not Enough”
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Nabiyah Be “really loved singing” the disco tune performed by her character Simone in Episode 7, the actress says.
“We did a lot of work to make sure she sounded like the singers of the day, and not like me and my eclectic background,” adds Be. “I tried to do all my live voice, but I don’t think all of that came in. But I was really trying to connect as much as possible to the extras we had that day, and whoever was there. .”
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“Please”
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Favorite isn’t the word Claflin would use to describe the emotionally tormented song written by Billy, which is only heard briefly on the show but is included in the Dawn album.
“I’ll never sing it again,” the actor says, calling it “the hardest” for him to perform because “it’s so high.”
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