When fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones & The Six watch the brand new batch of episodes this week, they’ll finally have the opportunity to see—and listen to—the song “Regret Me” come to life. An integral title (and, let’s be honest, diss track) within the band’s discography, the angsty composition features singers Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne exchanging barbs that reflect their personal relationship outside of the studio.
Grammy winner Blake Mills, the chief producer for original music on the series, co-wrote the song with Chris Weisman, and had Sam Claflin and Riley Keough perform their very own vocals as Billy and Daisy. It’s a punchy pop-rock track that uses entirely different lyrics from those Reid wrote out in the back of her novel. However the creator, who can be an executive producer on the show, welcomed changes for all the songs.
“What we didn’t do is, we didn’t want to present them the lyrics to the book because we were coping with these unbelievable songwriters,” executive producer and co-showrunner Scott Neustadter tells ELLE.com. “And Taylor was like, ‘I don’t want them to be handcuffed to put in writing songs to my work. Allow them to write the songs themselves.’ So all the songs play the identical narrative functions within the show that they do within the book, however the lyrics are different.”
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Luckily, Mills was capable of tap some famous collaborators for the project. “He had all of those friends that will just are available and out of Sound City [Studios] and he would say to them, ‘You need to write a song today?’ And Marcus Mumford and Phoebe Bridgers and Jackson Browne and all these guys contributed music and it was amazing,” Neustadter says.
When it got here to “Regret Me,” the sound modified too. “Within the book, that’s a bit more of a rock song than I believe our finished version is,” Neustadter adds. For instance, within the novel, Eddie praises the song’s gritty vibe. “It was rock ‘n’ roll!” he says. “It was rage, man. She thrashed.” Karen describes Daisy’s voice as “guttural” and adds, “It was an indignant song. And he or she was indignant singing it.” Even Billy, who disapproves of the song, finally ends up describing it as “hard and fast and raw.”
When it got here to bringing the song to the screen, and recording booths, Mills selected to maintain the title as-is. “He liked the name of the song,” says Neustadter. “After which [he] wrote a song that was principally from her perspective. But I do think it’s a bit sunnier in our show than the novel. However it was just a fantastic hook.”
That’s partly due to Daisy’s writing style, a minimum of within the series. Her sound before joining the band is “more singer-songwritery,” with influences like Joni Mitchell and Carole King, Neustadter says. “After which when she meets the band, they get a bit poppier. They get a bit rockier. And that’s Billy’s influence on her. And the identical thing with The Dunne Brothers. They’re writing these quite simple rock and roll songs, ‘Look Me In The Eye’…But then when Daisy comes along, the songs get elevated. And so we actually desired to make certain that the audience can track that. So ‘Regret Me’ might be the poppiest song that Daisy writes, nevertheless it also has an underbelly of anger towards Billy in it, and that’s just really fun.”
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Daisy Jones & The Six – Regret Me (Official Audio)
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Within the book, Daisy writes the song “lightning fast” in 10 minutes after she and Billy almost kiss during a writing session and he ultimately, albeit kindly, rejects her. She leaves, embarrassed, and composes the entire song on the beach. “Did I even have a right to be mad at him? Did he do anything improper? Who cares! Who cares? I hurt. So I wrote about it,” Reid writes as Daisy. Within the series, Daisy creates the song after she and Billy fight during their album photo shoot, and as payback for him writing “More Fun to Miss” about her. In each the novel and show, Daisy sings the song for the band, and everybody votes to place it on the album—except Billy.
“That’s obviously a really impactful song. Billy’s very reluctant to sing it since it’s about him and his issues,” Claflin tells ELLE.com. He even likens it to “Silver Springs” by Fleetwood Mac, whose turbulent history inspired Reid to put in writing Daisy Jones & The Six.
Claflin reveals that a great friend sent him a video of Fleetwood Mac performing “Silver Springs” before his Daisy Jones & The Six audition. “He was like, ‘Just channel this mate.’” After he was solid, Claflin shared the video with Keough too, because she’d never seen it. “She’s like, ‘Whoa, that is Billy and Daisy,’” he recalls. “So I believe we sort of, in a way, desired to channel that through the method.”
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Fleetwood Mac – Silver Springs (Official Live Video) [HD]
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Within the performance, Stevie Nicks, who famously wrote “Silver Springs” about her breakup with bandmate Lindsey Buckingham, sings directly at him on stage. Specifically with the lyrics, “You’ll never get away from the sound of the lady that loves you.” (Chills.)
“They’re on stage and she or he principally just turns away from the audience and just stares at him and just sings. And he’s like, ‘Oh God.’ And he’s type of reluctantly staring back at her,” Claflin describes. “And I believe that that was the energy that we desired to principally bring to that song each time they perform it. I believe there’s a reluctance that [Billy’s] having to sing it.”
Take heed to the total song yourself above, and skim the lyrics to “Regret Me” below. Mills is on guitar and bass, Kane Ritchotte on drums, Roger Manning Jr. on the organ, and Nicki Bluhm and James Petralli on background vocals.
You regret me
And I’ll regret you
Except I don’t care what you are feeling
And I totally already do
I’m the slippage within the system
With a natural gift, how I move
So go ahead and regret me
But I’m beating you to it, DudeOh, you regret me
And I’ll regret you
You couldn’t handle your liquor
And you may’t appear to handle this too
I’m the slippage within the system
And I’m perfectly able to strike
So go ahead and regret me
But I’m not easing up on this micSeven fallen angels in a glass
Meet me within the parlor together with your keys
Meet within the corner where you retain me
I’ll do anything you please
I’ll do anything you pleaseOh, you regret me
And I’ll regret you
I find it perfectly natural
Here in my automotive to be doing
Off the PCH Highway
With the everyday wonderful viewGo ahead and regret me
But I’m beating you to it dudeGo ahead and regret me
But I at all times will too regret youGo ahead and regret me
But I at all times will too regret youGo ahead and regret me
But I at all times will too regret you
For reference, listed here are Reid’s original lyrics to “Regret Me.”
If you look within the mirror
Take stock of your soul
And once you hear my voice, remember
You ruined me whole
Don’t you dare sleep easy
And leave the sleepless nights to me
Let the world weigh you down
And, baby, once you consider me
I hope it ruins rock ‘n’ roll
Regret me
Regretfully
If you have a look at her
Take stock of what you took from me
And once you see a ghost in the space
Know I’m hanging over the whole lot
Don’t you dare sleep easy
And leave the sleepless nights to me
Let the world weigh you down
And, baby, once you consider me
I hope it ruins rock ‘n’ roll
Regret me
Regretfully
Regret me
Regretfully
Don’t you dar rest easy
And leave the remaining of it to me
I need you to feel heavy
Regret me
Regret setting me free
Regret me
I won’t go easily
Regret it
Regret saying no
Regret it
Regret letting me go
At some point, you will regret it
I’ll make certain of it before I am going
Erica Gonzales is the Senior Culture Editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage on TV, movies, music, books, and more. She was previously an editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. There may be a 75 percent likelihood she’s listening to Lorde without delay.
