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From Kate Bush to Stevie Nicks: the musical 'revival' of the series for twenty-somethings to get hooked on their parents' songs

2023-03-26T10:53:57.747Z


After the explosion of listeners with 'Running Up That Hill' for 'Stranger Things' and those of Linda Ronstadt for 'The Last of Us', the series 'Everybody Loves Daisy Jones' triggers the furor for Fleetwood Mac


There's an explanation for why there are suddenly so many 20-somethings singing Fleetwood Mac's

Landslide

with their guitar on TikTok.

Or why they record themselves in his room recreating the style of the singer Stevie Nicks in the seventies.

Or what has led to montages of girls sharing their stash of covers and magazines featuring that band from a time when their parents were probably in diapers.

All these videos include a key label to understand the origin of this new obsession among those under 30:

Everybody Loves Daisy Jones

, the 10-episode miniseries that has been dosed 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 narrated as a juicy documentary set in the 1990s.

Through the statements (and lies) of its members on camera, an attempt is made to clear up the mystery of why a fictitious mythical band from the seventies, Daisy Jones and the Six, the same one that touched the sky of fame with a single album practically perfect, they decided to part ways after an epic concert in Chicago.

'Everybody Loves Daisy Jones' has been available on Prime Video since March 3. 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 the chance to see Elvis's (Keough) granddaughter sing (pretty well) in screen;

it also shines for an artistic production that captures the hedonistic (and polytoxic) yearning of the seventies.

But if something has caused, beyond showing some intense and chaotic love plots, it is an interesting double rebound effect.

On the one hand, expanding to other networks far from its mother platform, such as Spotify.

The songs of

Aurora,

the album by the band that has been created specifically for the series, produced and written by Blake Mills with the help of Phobe Bridgers and performed by Keough and Claflin, has accumulated more than 20 million views in just three weeks of broadcast.

On the other, and as young people have become hooked on the adaptation, the interest in recovering from networks like TikTok the story and sound of Fleetwood Mac, specifically citing the Prime Video series.

What is this

revival about?

the love connection

It all started when the writer saw a video in which Stevie Nicks sings Landslide

live

.

The looks and the intensity that the singer and her former partner, Lindsey Buckingham (guitarist and singer of Fleetwood Mac) dedicate to each other, was the spark that ignited the plot of a novel that would become a New York Times bestseller and would

fascinate

. both to the Reese Witherspoon book club and to be encouraged to produce it.

"I kept going back to that Stevie and Lindsey video over and over again," Jenkins told

Hello Sunshine , the

show

's producer's platform , in an interview.

about the reason for his plot.

“She seemed to be seeing two people in love.

And yet we will never really know what happened between them.

I wanted to write a story about that, about how the lines between real life and acting can get blurred, about how singing about old wounds can keep them fresh,” she added.

Hence the obvious parallels between the fictional band and the recording of their album (

Aurora

) with the time bomb that was

Rumours

, Fleetwood Mac's first indisputable 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) is John McVie.

That's why TikTok is full of video montages comparing live and posed performances by the band.

It all leads to

Rumours

, an album that was recorded without any of its makers sobering up a day at that Record Plant studio in Sausalito nearly half a century ago.

That

Everybody Loves Daisy Jones

has sparked a rage for seventies fashion and the ethereal and excessive outfits of its members was something totally predictable.

If

Mad Men

influenced Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang or Michael Kors to bring the fifties and sixties back into fashion in our wardrobes last decade and the style echoes of the last season of Game of Thrones reached Gucci, no

one

in 2023 should surprise you that a series already signs, before airing, a collaboration agreement with a fast fashion firm.

It happened with

Stranger Things

taking out some shirts for Lefties or Primark and it has happened with

Everybody Loves Daisy Jones

.

Prime Video has teamed up with the firm Free People to launch a capsule collection that tries to replicate the aspirational wardrobe of scandalous

mini-shorts

, fur coats and ethereal dresses that its protagonist wears.

All emulating Daisy Jones.

Or what is the same: all copying Stevie Nicks.

The Kate Bush Effect

We knew that the series influenced our way of dressing.

What we had not detected in such an obvious way was his musical prescription capacity.

In a matter of months, it has been television fiction that has done the most to connect the new generations with the sounds of the past in the frantic cycles of cultural consumption.

We could label this curious phenomenon as

the Kate Bush effect

,

which is what happened with the final season of

Stranger Things

.

The song

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

by the British singer, a 1985 song included on her album

From Her Hounds of Love

, was chosen as a talisman to save Max (Sadie Sink) from death.

A recurring song with crucial narrative symbolism that became an undisputed hit last summer.

Spotify confirmed that listeners skyrocketed by more than 9,000% as of May 27, when the episodes were released.

It was also the only song that could slow the rise of new Bad Bunny or Harry Styles albums.

An unprecedented viral phenomenon that caused even Kate Bush to release a grateful statement with her

revival

From her: “

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 was not be for lowerly.

Music Business Worldwide

publication

He calculated that this unexpected furor in listening to Spotify and iTunes brought him some two million euros in

royalties

to his bank account.

Who did not suffer the same monetary fate as Kate Bush was Linda Rondstaldt.

The artist also lived a glorious week after one of her songs,

Long Long Time

,

played in

The Last of Us.

Her 1969 theme song also acquired especially symbolic value, being covered on the piano and heard on a cassette tape at the end of the third episode of the hit HBO production.

That song that talked about unrequited love and the fear of loneliness, the one that paved the way for the love story between the two protagonists of the episode —Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett)—, caused the listening of the single increased by 5,000% just an hour after the episode was posted on HBO.

Unlike Bush, Rondstaldt had no

royalties

for the song, which go to the composer, Gary White.

Another who must have been delighted to see how the children of those who probably had not been born when he wrote that heartfelt song now dedicate love letters to him on TikTok.

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Source: elparis

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