An Oral History of Pink Slip’s ‘Freakier Friday’ Reunion: Where Are Lindsay Lohan & The Rest of the ‘Girls in the Garage’ Now?

One of the most beloved bands of the early 2000s wasn’t even a real band.

When the Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis-starring Freaky Friday remake premiered in 2003, moviegoers were introduced to the teen garage band Pink Slip, led by Lohan’s Anna and her two besties Maddie (Christina Vidal) and Peg (Haley Hudson). Their song “Take Me Away” — originally released by Australian alt-punk band Lash in 2001 — was introduced in the film during a garage rehearsal, before Pink Slip takes the House of Blues stage for their big Wango Tango audition and Lohan and Curtis’ body-swap switch-back.

Now, Pink Slip and “Take Me Away” are back in Freakier Friday, Disney’s 23-years-in-the-making sequel that hits theaters on Friday. This time around, Lohan’s Anna is still pals with Maddie and Peg, but she’s left Pink Slip behind to focus on her life as a mom to Harper (Julia Butters) and music manager to gen Z pop superstar Ella (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan). But the band finds its way back together in the film, starting with Anna’s karaoke-fueled bachelorette party and concluding, once again, on a big Los Angeles stage, this time upgrading to The Wiltern for the musical grande finale.

Ahead of the sequel’s release, Billboard caught up with the three women behind Pink Slip — Lohan, Vidal and Hudson — as well as film producer Kristin Burr (credited with reuniting all five of the original Pink Slip bandmates for Freakier Friday) and music producer Suzy Shinn (who channeled her previous work with pop/rock heavyweights like Weezer, Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy and Katy Perry into a revamped recording of “Take Me Away” and three different versions of brand-new song “Baby,” a centerpiece of the movie’s new mother-daughter storyline between Lohan and Butters).

Below, find Billboard‘s oral history of the epic Pink Slip reunion for Freakier Friday.

–Additional reporting by Lyndsey Havens