Band Aid, a mad, musical film

BY: Claire Connors

We all know the power of a good relationship-gone-bad song. Gwen Stefani nailed it with her post-breakup song, “Used to Love You,” about husband Gavin Rossdale‘s cheatin’ ways. Adele‘s “Rolling in Deep” helped mend a lot of broken hearts. And Taylor Swift…actually, are there any songs by the perpetually single composer that aren’t about a busted up romance?

Now we have writer, director, and actress Zoe Lister-Jones and her new film, Band Aid, about a quarreling couple whose therapist recommends they save their marriage by doing something creative together. Soon their fights become quirky, irresistible pop songs and she and her husband (Adam Pally of TV’s  Making History), start a band called The Dirty Dishes (one of their top ten topics to argue about). With the addition of their odd neighbor, played by real-life drummer and odd-man Fred Armisen, a band is born.

One of the band’s catchiest tunes, “Love and Lies,” has been made into this charming rosé-hued video, created to promote the film, which opened last week in select theaters and is on VOD by IFC now. To hear more clever, feminist  lyrics co-written by the multi-talented Lister-Jones, check out the soundtrack on Spotify. We can’t wait to see—and hear—what this triple—make that quadruple—threat does next.