Perth all-girl band relive glory days in iconic film sequel
The song, with it's iconic sing-a-long chorus of I don't wanna grow up/I wanna get out , was brought to global fame by the 2005 hit film Freaky Friday starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. It's now being featured in the films sequel and the band behind the tune are finding themselves back in the spotlight.
'It's taking me back into a time capsule,' former member of Lash Belinda-Lee Reid says.
Reid wrote Take Me Away when she was 18, but Lash were already a well established band. They formed in 1996 when the members were just 13 years old. They signed to Festival Mushroom Records in 2001 just as the teenagers were finishing high school, and they relocated to Sydney to record an album.
'We were actually sitting around a lot during the time of writing songs and we were stuck in a studio,' Reid says of when she wrote Take Me Away. 'We had a lot of teenage angst - we were angry little teenagers.' Perth rock band Lash as they appeared on the cover of Smash Hits magazine in May 2001. Take Me Away was their first single off their album, The Beautiful and the Damned. Credit: Unknown / Supplied Lash in 2002. Belinda-Lee Reid is second from left. Credit: Unknown / Supplied
Take Me Away peaked at number 33 on the Australian Singles Chart in 2001, and would have faded into obscurity if it hadn't been picked up two years later by the producers at Disney when they were searching for music for Freaky Friday.
Ionically, the band never capitalised on their biggest hit as the request from Disney came just as the band was on the verge of splitting up. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in 2003 film Freaky Friday which featured the Lash song, Take Me Away Credit: Unknown / Supplied
'It came at a time when our career had kinda ended,' Reid says. 'We had already dissipated as a band when they decided to use it. One of the girls wanted to start a family and that was it - the band was capooty. At first they wanted us to fly to America to re-record it and we were going to sing it, but then 9/11 happened so we didn't go. And then Kelly Osborne was supposed to sing it but then her mum, Sharon Osborne got cancer so she didn't sing it, so (US band) Pink Slip ended up recording a cover of it which became the hit.'
While the Pink Slip cover was initially better known, Reid says as the years have gone by, US fans have sought out the Lash original, which now has more than 10 million streams on Spotify. Another Lash song, Beauty Queen, is also featured in the Freaky Friday film, with Reid doing the vocals.
Now in her 40s, Reid says her teenage years as a rock star feel a million miles away. After Lash split up, the band went their separate ways. Guitarist Jessica Bennett is a producer at her own music studio in Melbourne, Love Shack Studios. Drummer Jac Pearson is a scientist living in Wales and singer and bass player Micaela Slayford is a mum of four and based in Fremantle.
Reid is now a real estate agent in Fremantle. Lash broke up when the members were 23 and Reid says making the transition from music to the working world wasn't easy.
'Getting into the workforce when I finished my music career was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do,' Reid says. 'There was nothing on my CV. They'd say 'where have you been for the past six years?' And I would say 'well, I've been doing music.' Belinda-Lee Reid in 2025. After her time as a teenage rock star, Reid entered the Real Estate industry and today works for the Carlin Team in Fremantle. Credit: Ilkka Kadala
'It was just so hard to get into a career straight after coming out of it. It was almost like that movie, Almost Famous, where you come off the circus wagon and you just go, 'Oh my gosh, what do I do now? This is just so weird'.
'I am now with Carlin Real Estate, the Tom Carlin team, I have done Real Estate since 2008 and I love it, I love working with people, I love selling houses and I love real estate.'
Reid has been invited to attend the premier of Freakier Friday in Sydney next week, where she can final reveal in the success of the song she penned when she was a teenager.
'Apparently Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are going to be there. So hopefully I get to meet them and have a little fancy photo with them,' Reid says.
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