TV series: the 10 most beautiful music-themed ones

THEThe musical genre has always been very strong on TV and cuts across both dramas and comedies. In recent years, there are dozens of TV series that have addressed the topic. Talking about both real artists and musical idols created ad hoc by the screenwriters. Let’s find out which are the most beautiful.

The 10 most beautiful TV series about singers and bands

1. The Idol (Sky and Now)

Created by Sam Levinsonthe same as Euphoriathe series that scandalized at the last Cannes film festival follows the adventures of Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp). Young pop star who, following a nervous breakdown due to the death of her mother, begins a relationship with Tedros (The Weeknd), a shady and infamous man Los Angels club owner and leader of a secret cult.

But, deeper, The Idol it’s a series that investigates the unruliness of toxic relationships and the controversial emotions that hide beneath the unbridled search for success and power. All seasoned with an explicit and admittedly over the top staging.

2. Daisy Jones & The Six (Prime Video)

From the novel by Taylor Jenkins, published in 2020 by Sperling & Kupfer, this story tells of the Daisy Jones & The Six, fictional rock band which was all the rage in the Seventies in the United States. Their concerts fill stadiums all over the world and their songs light up the nights of an entire generation but in July 1979, after a memorable concert, the group broke up without giving any explanations. Until former musicians, managers, journalists and family members, forty years later, they are finally ready to tell their truth A parable about a memorable season of music that was partially inspired by the history of Fleetwood Mac. The cast includes Riley Kough, Camila Morrone and Suki Waterhouse.

3. George & Tammy (Paramount+)

John Hillcoat’s series tells of George Jones (Michael Shannon) and Tammy Wynette (Jessica Chastain), two American country stars who between the years The Sixties and Seventies began a tumultuous relationship and a fruitful artistic partnership. George he is a popular singer, married but about to divorce, Tammy (stage name of Virginia Wynette Pugh) instead is a young artist with good potential, married to the singer Don (Pat Healy). When the two meet it will be an artistic and sentimental explosion: they fall in love and begin to collaborate, pigeonholing successes as We’re Gonna Hold Hon, Golden Ring And Near You. The lights, however, very soon mix with the shadowsThe success with alcoholism and domestic violence, fame to substance abuse.

4. Vinyl (Sky)

Produced by Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese, the series is set in the wild and hallucinatory world of the Seventies, through the dawn of punk, disco and hip-hop music in a New York dazed by sex and drugs. Everything is filtered from the perspective of Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale) – owner of the American Century label – desperate to save his business and his soul without destroying everything and everyone along the way. Including his beautiful wife Devon (Olivia Wilde). Former model and actress determined to regain the wealthy lifestyle of the past for herself and her family after Richie’s problems take over.

5. Empire (Disney+)

Broadcast until 2020, the series is set in the world of Philadelphia hip-hop and tells the story of Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard). CEO of Empire Entertainment and former thug, the man has seen his empire live unchallenged for years. But everything changes when he discovers that he has an illness that will make him paralytic and he is forced to decide which of his children to give the scepter to. His favorite is Hakeem, the youngest, a talented musician and spoiled playboy while the middle son, Jamal, has a sensitive soul but prefers to stay away from the spotlight and his being gay infuriates his father. Andre, on the other hand, the eldest, educated and business-minded, however lacks charisma. To make matters worse, Lucious’ choice becomes even more complicated when his ex-wife, Cookie (Taraji P. Henson), comes back into his life after being in prison for a long time.

6. Luis Miguel: the series (Netflix)

Authorized by the same Luis Miguel, the series tells the lights and shadows of the Mexican pop star’s life. In fact, before being known as Luis Miguel, Micky – as he was called in the family – was a peaceful child next to his beloved mother Marcela (Anna Favella) and his younger brother Alex (Juanpa Zurita). Naturally talented singer, he begins to rise to fame at the age of 11, when his father, Luis Rey (Óscar Jaenada), sets himself the task of turning his son into the superstar he himself failed to become. As Micky grows up and becomes an idol of the time with the name of Luis Miguel (Diego Boneta), problems related to fame begin until mysterious disappearance of the mother. A case that was also covered by the broadcast Who has seen?.

7. Selena: the series (Netflix)

Focused on the short life of Latin singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, the series traces the career of the pop star, played by Christian Serratos. Since her debut on the scene in 1980 with Selena y Los Dinos, a group which also included her brothers AB and Suzette Quintanilla. Passing through the recordings of his first successes in an industry populated by men, until arriving at the consecration with Enter Mi Mundo And Forbidden Love, and the tormented love story with guitarist Chris Pérez (Jesse Posey). A life spent for music, with the constant support of her family, who she was broken by the envy of her self-styled friend Yolanda Saldìvar on March 31, 1995, with a gunshot to the back.

8. Girls5eva – The revenge of the pop stars (Sky)

Produced by comedy icon Tina Fay, the series centers on four women who were part of a well-known musical group called Girls 5Eva. A girl band briefly popular around the year 2000 before fading into thin air. Now dissatisfied with their various lives, the women come together in an attempt to find musical success again. In fact, a young rapper comes across their music by chance and the boy samples their songs to make hits. In the cast, the Grammy winner Sara Bareillesthe Broadway star Renee Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell (Saturday Night Live) And Busy Philipps (Cougar Town). A third season is coming.

9. Pistol (Disney+)

Based on guitarist Steve Jones’ 2018 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol And directed and produced by Danny Boyle, the TV series chronicles the meteoric rise of the most famous punk band on the planet. Made up of four boys from the suburbs of London who, thanks to the intuition of Vivienne Westwood, changed the characteristics of rock music forever at the end of the seventies. Until the tragic death of the cursed bassist Sid Vicious due to an overdose, a few months after he stabbed his girlfriend to death Nancy Spungen.

10. Queens – Queens of hip hop (Disney+)

TV series created by Zahir McGhee (Scandal), tells the story of a group of women who had achieved success with a hip-hop group called Nasty Bitches in the late 1990s. But as often happens, fame is hard to maintain and between arguments, rivalries and jealousies the group splits and the girls lose sight of each other.

Years later, now in their forties, they meet again by chance when their hit Nasty Girl back in vogue, with a rapper who would like to bring them back on stage. Fame comes knocking on the door of the Nasty Bitches again, will it be the right time to achieve the much desired success? In the cast, the rapper Eve, Brandy Norwood, Naturi Naughton and Nadine Velazquez.

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