Daisy Jones & The Six

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

I remember one time I was assigned an essay on how Columbus discovered America and so I wrote a paper about how Columbus did not discover America. Because he didn’t. But then I got an F. I said to my teacher, “But I’m right.” And she said, “But you didn’t follow the assignment.”

There’s this peace that comes with knowing you have a person in the world who would do anything for you, that you would do anything for.

Simone: “Tiny Love” was the Breeze’s biggest hit. And Wyatt pretended he wrote the whole thing.

:|

That’s how it was back then. I was just supposed to be the inspiration for some man’s great idea. Well, fuck that. That’s why I started writing my own stuff.

I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.

pur queen

And then I realize it’s my dad.

oh damn

Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.

I said it again. “If I had a record contract, would you marry me?” She said, “You got a record contract?” That’s when I knew, right then. That Camila was my soul mate. She cared more about the record contract than anything else. I said, “You didn’t answer my question.”

stare

I took some of those Halstons though.

me

Camila: I said, “All right.” And then I proceeded to not clean a single thing.

yeah queen

“Warren, get me your lights now before I tell everyone what an asshole you are.”

lmao

I was so mad I missed their faces. But I was also trippin’ balls.

this is so messy

You’re always you. It’s just, sometimes, who you are…who you are is a shitty person.

Billy: Drinking, drugging, sleeping around, it’s all the same thing.

i thought i liked you

He’d pass out in the bus with a girl under his arm, invite girls with us from one city to another.

ugh i love camila.. How could you

“Who the fuck do you think you are, cheating on me? You think there’s a woman alive who is better than what you have?”

PURR QUEEN

But you don’t say no to a woman like Camila, especially when she’s pregnant. So I said okay.

You have until November 30 and then you’re going to be a good man for the rest of your life. You got it?

camila...

But yeah, Billy was off the rails. Going at it double time after Camila caught him. The coke and girls and the booze and all that.

Oh my god??

I thought, I need to try heroin at least once. That made perfect sense to me: that it would be easier to get clean if I tried heroin.

HUH

I put my hand on the door handle and I thought, you know, I can just run.

dude

So I ran away. I’m not proud of it, but that’s the truth, I went to rehab to avoid meeting my own daughter.

better than ignoring her completely

“Write a part for a woman in it. Write what Camila would say back to you.”

And then Billy goes, “Who is Daisy Jones?”

here we go

She came on the stage barefoot and I just thought, What is this girl doing?

yasss

I’m not here to make Billy like me. I’m here to do my job, and

yay

Billy: I cringed as I heard her sing it.

die

Billy was like a splinter. That’s exactly what he was like.

Camila was about two months pregnant with the twins by that point.

TWINS????

“Wish me luck!” Everyone else was too busy doing their own thing to even pay attention but not Camila. She wished her luck and she was so sincere about it.

AWWW

All these people, coming together, looking and sounding like a living being. This booming, bellowing, living thing.

queen

Billy: I could feel my microphone vibrating as they screamed and stomped their feet and I thought, Holy shit, we’re rock stars.

ugh sounds so fun

And he walked back to his room. But when I shut the door, I…I don’t know.

???

Graham: I stepped right into her room, I shut the door behind me, and I grabbed that woman and kissed her good.

okayy

Hank Allen (former manager, Daisy Jones): All I care to say is that Daisy Jones and I had a strictly professional relationship from 1974 to 1977, which was mutually terminated due to differences of opinion regarding the trajectory of her career. I continue to wish her the best.

Kys

Warren: I swear to you, Karen had this “I just got laid” vibe to her all night. And I was convinced Bones was lighting her special.

LMAOOOO

Eddie: I was so over Billy’s nice-guy routine. He was an asshole. A complete and utter selfish prick. Sorry to say it but that’s how I saw it. To be honest, I still see it that way now.

valid

And I see Karen coming out of the bathroom looking like somebody’s balled her. All flushed and her hair messed up. So I turn around and who’s mysteriously gone from his seat? Bones.

LMFAO

Once again, No. One. Fucking. Asked. Me.

aw eddie

And then there they were. My twin girls. Susana and Maria. Squooshed little faces, heads full of hair. But I could instantly tell them apart.

More girls??

I guess I’m saying…if you redeem yourself, then believe in your own redemption.

And Camila—keep in mind she’s just had a C-section—I will never forget it, she goes, “Oh, shut the hell up, Billy. I married a musician. You’ll be a musician. If I wanted to drive a station wagon and have a meatloaf ready at six o’clock, I would have married my father.”

queeeen never sits down

“You’ll be Daisy Jones & The Six.”

Let me tell you this. Don’t ever doubt Daisy Jones.

She liked having a man who wrote songs about her and carried her to bed.

Me too

Warren: Being proud that you predicted Eddie would leave the band is like saying, “I predicted the sun would come out today,” the day before a nuclear disaster. Yeah, man. Great guess. But you didn’t exactly notice the world was ending?

HE LEFT!?!

She pulled the headphones off and threw them down and ran out of the booth and—I kid you not—ran directly into Billy’s arms.

Uh oh

Camila: The whole way home, [Julia was] saying, “Can Daisy Jones be my best friend?”

awh

And then Eddie said, “I bet you’d make a great aunt.”

ah so he didn't leave

Karen: That was a great song to record. I was really proud of it. Just Daisy singing and me on the keys. That’s it. Just two bitches playing rock ’n’ roll.

pur queen