Daisy Jones & The Six Sparknotes

Daisy Jones & The Six (Reid, 2019) is a novel about a fictional rock band in the 1970s called “Daisy Jones & The Six. The book follows the main characters: Daisy Jones, Billy Dunne, Graham Dunne, Warren Rhodes, Eddie Loving, Karen Sirko, and Pete Loving, as well as some other characters that are influential to the story but not in the group “Daisy Jones & The Six: Simone Jackson, Camilla M. Dunne, Rod Reyes, and Teddy Price.

At the start of the book, Daisy Jones is a little girl in California, and she wants to make music. Her parents are not so supportive of her, and they are not in her life that much. Her parents are celebrities, and with time, Daisy starts to enter Hollywood life. She starts to connect with other singers, producers, and

The song is about Daisy telling Billy how she feels about him. Daisy and Billy’s relationship is the most complicated one in the book. When she first joined the band to help out with a song, he was the only one who did not want her. Their relationship goes downhill from there. Billy is married to Camilla, but he cannot help with his feelings towards Daisy. He “falls in love” with Daisy, but does not act upon his feelings and conceals his love through hatred. Daisy writes “Regret Me” after she almost shares a kiss with Billy. The next day, Billy goes to Disneyland with his wife and children. This is what happens in the book. In the TV show, Daisy writes this song after she shares a kiss with Billy, and the next day he brings Camilla to their album cover photoshoot. After the photoshoot, Daisy gets very angry at Billy, and then she writes this song. I believe that this change in the plot reduced Daisy’s status to “the other woman”, whereas in the book she was not in that position, and she respected Camilla more than

I think the omission of this lyric causes a decrease in the fierce message Daisy delivers to Billy. It is exactly what Billy feels at that moment. Because of this, he hates playing this song at shows and portrays his hatred towards it throughout the book and the TV series.

Secondly, the other powerful lyric that was deleted is “When you think of me, I hope it ruins Rock ‘n’ Roll for you”. This lyric is another example of the author using the lyrics as a narrative tool. Deleting this lyric also deleted what Daisy wanted to convey. Even in the book, the other characters describe the song as Daisy’s rage, and Karen describes Daisy’s voice as “guttural”.

Reid got inspiration from a lot of bands in the 1970s when writing the book, but the most influential band to this book was Fleetwood Mac. In an interview, she states that the song “Regret Me” is based on Fleetwood Mac’s song called “Silver Springs” (Bromwich, 2019). “But that concept of a woman’s right to be angry is absolutely based on Stevie Nicks singing Silver Springs at Lindsey Buckingham during their reunion” says Reid in the interview (Bromwich,