Smith’s darkly romantic lyrics are an homage to betrayed, maligned mistresses: the women who were muses, doomed to burn and fade away once their lovers found new attractions. “She is re-creation / She ...

"She is benediction, she is addicted to thee..." Thus begin the opening strains of the theme song to Daisy Jones and the Six, a show set in and about the making of 1970s California soft rock. The ...