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<em>Daisy Jones </em>and the Trap of the Love Triangle

How could a show about a chart-topping band care so little about the making of their music?
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Gossip can provide sensational grist for an entertainer’s appeal, for better or worse. But for singer-songwriters whose artistry is often diaristic, scandal is especially intriguing. They can’t release or play their music without the audience wondering how personal it is: Are these songs about them? Is what’s happening onstage actually a performance? How did they write these lyrics? What could they possibly get out of being the subjects of such attention?

Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s , understands that musicians face inherent tension between their?— strips away the mystique surrounding such dynamics.

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