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If you’re a fan of Daisy Jones & the Six, then you likely have the Prime Video drama’s soundtrack stuck in your head.
The show’s impressive roster of music 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 Dunne Brothers rock numbers.
The Aurora album by Daisy Jones & the Six, in particular, “sounds like a band from the ‘70s that sounds kind of like other things, but actually is completely unique,” Suki Waterhouse, who plays keyboardist Karen, enthuses.
TVLine asked the show’s stars and executive producers to do the impossible: pick their favorite original song from the series’ deep bench of legit earworms. Their choices include band staples like “Let Me Down Easy” and “Regret Me,” but also lesser featured tracks from Aurora, as well as a couple of non-Daisy Jones & the Six selections.
Plus, the group’s leader singers, Riley Keough and Sam Claflin, reveal which songs they found the most challenging to sing, so much so that Claflin vows to never perform one of them again.
Review the cast and EPs’ favorite tunes below and listen to them by pressing PLAY on the videos. Then hit comments to share your No. 1 pick! (For scoop on the finale’s big moments, check out our post mortem here.)
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“Flip the Switch”
Image Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video Although the Dunne Brothers song predates Daisy’s time with the Six, it’s still a fave of her portrayer Riley Keough. “I love that song, and it’s just so cute,” the actress says. “[They] would play it, and I’d watch, and it was so sweet.”
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“Look at Us Now (Honeycomb)”
Image Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video Billy’s first duet with Daisy stands out for his portrayer Sam Claflin, who calls it “a real feel-good song.”
“It really goes on such a journey, as well,” the actor continues. “There are moments where it gets really fast, and then it gets slow, and then it slows down completely, and then it goes back to going fast. It just sort of hits all the right notes.”
Keough also singles out the breakout hit that changes the trajectory of Daisy and Billy’s careers. “I often forget ‘Honeycomb’ because it’s, like, so obvious,” the actress says, adding that she and Claflin didn’t sing it too many times during filming. “I think that that song is probably my favorite song.”
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“Let Me Down Easy”
Image Credit: Prime Video screenshot It’s no surprise that the first track that Daisy and Billy truly wrote together is a popular pick among the show’s executive producers.
“I love that song. It is so catchy,” EP Lauren Neustadter says. “And I really love the way that we sort of discover the song over the course of Episode 5, and how we see all of the points of 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, on whose book the show is based, “I have moments where one song’s my favorite, and then I’m like, no, another song is my favorite,” Reid admits. “My daughter feels very, very strongly, at six-and-a-half years old, that ‘Regret Me’ is the best song on the album, and so sometimes we debate about it, because, lately, my favorite is ‘Let Me Down Easy’… I will sing it in the shower. That is how good I think it is.”
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“The River”
Image Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video “I love ‘The River,’ which is the one that came onto the album last and has just stuck in my head the entire time,” co-showrunner Will Graham shares. “I remember when [executive music supervisor] Blake [Mills] came in with those lyrics… One of them was, ‘I’m an echo in your shadow,’ and it was [one of] those moments where a character blows up in the song for you, and you suddenly hear Daisy’s voice coming through these other voices. It was just incredibly exciting.”
Also joining “The River” bandwagon are Waterhouse (“It’s just got such a roaring chorus,” the actress raves), Nabiyah Be (aka Simone) and Camila Morrone (aka Billy’s wife Camila), who describes Claflin and Keough’s belting as “very of that era.”
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 got at the end. We’re like, ‘Oh, a new song we get to play,’ and it’s not the same ones we’ve been playing for three years or whatever,” Keough shares with a laugh.
But it wasn’t all fun for the actress, who selected it as her most challenging pick. “The end of ‘River’ [is], like, really psychotic,” Keough explains. “It’s, like, never-ending, and it’s a lot of screaming or yelling.”
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“Kill You to Try”
Image Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video Sebastian Chacon and Josh Whitehouse, who portray drummer Warren and bassist Eddie, respectively, are both fans of “Kill You to Try,” which makes its debut in Episode 6.
“I love to play that song,” Chacon enthuses. “It’s, like, seven minutes, and there’s a bunch of different chapters to it, and it’s a very athletic drum part, where I’m reaching all around, and it’s just a crazy thing. By the end of it, I’m always sweating, and for that reason, I’m glad that we didn’t play it that that much in the show, because then I would’ve been knocked out. But I love that song.”
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“Regret Me”
Image Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video Tom Wright, who plays music producer Teddy, offers up this spot-on explanation for why the Daisy-penned tune is his favorite: “Because the title says, ‘This is a life that I’ve lived.’”
“Regret Me” also gets shout-outs from Waterhouse and Morrone. “All the songs are amazing,” Waterhouse adds.
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“Ya Love Ain’t Enough”
Image Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video Nabiyah Be “really liked to sing” 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 time, and not like me and my eclectic background,” Be adds. “I tried to do all my vocals live, but I don’t think all of that went in. But I was really trying to connect as much as I could to whichever extras we had that day, and whoever was there.”
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“Please”
Image Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video Favorite is not the word that Claflin would use to describe the emotionally tormented song written by Billy, which is only heard briefly in the show but is included on the Aurora album.
“I’m never going to sing it ever again,” says the actor, singling it out as “the most difficult” for him to perform because “it is so high.”