Riley Keough and Marcus Mumford Are Emmy Contenders With Three Original Song Submissions From ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comClayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Don’t let me down Emmys, and nominate the songs of “Daisy Jones.” Variety has learned exclusively about Amazon Prime Video’s plans for which songs will be submitted for Primetime Emmy Awards consideration in the outstanding music and lyrics category from the acclaimed musical drama miniseries “Daisy Jones & the Six.” While there are 11 songs that are part of the tracklist of the fictional album “Aurora,” which was released by Amazon, three tracks will be submitted for the Television Academy — the hypnotic “Let Me Down Easy,” the powerfully passionate “Look at Us Now (Honeycomb),” and the dynamic and thematic showstopper “The River.” Read: Variety Awards Circuit’s Emmys Hub The original music and lyrics category is one of the few Creative Arts races where all series, regardless of genre submissions, compete against one another.
Some of the most notable winners have included “Agatha All Along” from Marvel’s “WandaVision,” “Dick in a Box” from the NBC variety sketch show “Saturday Night Live” and most recently, the titular number from the Apple musical series, “Schmigadoon!” “Look at Us Now (Honeycomb),” written by Blake Mills, Jason Boesel, Stephony Smith, Jonathan Rice and Marcus Mumford, has a great history within the series.
It was cut from the fictional band’s debut record “SevenEightNine” before showing up on their “Aurora” album. Billy (played by Sam Claflin) wrote the song as a promise to be a better husband to his wife and band photographer Camila (Camila Morrone).
There are a couple of moments and versions of the song, but in the episode titled “Track 8: Looks Like We Made It,” the band’s intoxicated lead singer Daisy (Riley Keough) injures herself on stage and eventually
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