Headline : Fake Bands, Real Songs: The 50 Best Tunes by Made-Up Musicians

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Today’s launch of Daisy Jones & The Six, Amazon’s 10-episode adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel about the rise and fall of a fictional Seventies rock band has us wondering where The Six lands in the long and sometimes distinguished history of fake bands and singers in film and television. It’s a strange but often hugely appealing musical subgenre, and this is our attempt to figure out which are the true best songs of the fake best songs.

We set out the following eligibility rules: 1) Original songs only, with apologies to the Blues Brothers, the Commitments, and other great fictional cover artists; 2) No biopics or other films where musicians essentially play themselves (e.g., Prince in Purple Rain or Eminem in 8 Mile); and 3) It has to be some kind of genuine fictional music act, rather than someone just performing an original song in the context of a movie, show, or stage musical. We also had a long debate about what to do with the Monkees, before it was decided that at a certain point, they Pinocchio’ed their way into being a real band, and thus didn’t qualify. (Otherwise, “Daydream Believer” would have been very highly ranked.) 

On record, the Brady Bunch made the Partridge Family sound like the Beatles. But they had their moments of goopy pop glory, like the fizzy “It’s a Sunshine Day” and “Time to Change.” In the episode “Dough-Re-Mi,” older brother Greg, channeling the eco and rock movements of the time, writes a save-the-planet anthem, “We Can Make the World a Whole Lot Brighter.” Just as the family band is about to cut it, though, middle brother Peter’s voice starts to crackle as adolescence kicks in. Instead of kicking Peter out of the band, Greg, apparently on a creative roll, comes up with “Time to Change,” which uses Peter’s vocal hiccup as its hook (along with lyrics like “Every boy’s a man inside”). Alas, that version is only heard on the series; the recorded rendition dispenses with that wacky hook altogether. Too bad — it’s the closest the Bradys got to maybe not the Beatles but Joe Cocker. —D.B.

Modeled off Britney Spears’ “Work Bitch” and “a bunch of Paris Hilton stuff,” Alexis Rose’s “A Little Bit Alexis” was written by Annie Murphy (who plays the broke heiress on the Canadian hit Schitt’s Creek) along with her real-life musician husband, Menno Versteeg, and his old bandmate Nick Boyd. That Alexis had a brief, “critically reviewed” reality show called A Little Bit Alexis was a detail show creator Dan Levy came up with when he was sketching out the character, according to an exhaustive oral history of the song in Elle,; the fact that its title track made it into the show’s fifth season was pure chance. But while the ridiculous earworm might have started as a joke, it quickly took on a life of its own, inspiring countless TikToks, gay club ragers, and even an authorized video. “We set out to make a song you want to do spin class to,” Versteeg told Elle. Love that journey for them. —E.G.P.

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