Virginia Madsen would make a return back to Music Videos in 2015 for The Lone Bellows (brilliant) Fake Roses.
I actually found out about this one by complete accident. I’m a big fan of The National with who Aaron Dressner plays, I was down a wikihole one day and clicking around the bands other projects. I knew Aaron was involved in producing a fair bit so I was checking some of those bands out. One of the albums he would produce is Then Came the Morning from which Fake Roses comes. Imagine my surprise once I started listening to the album on YouTube and this video started playing.
The Lone Bellow are a band from New York, they’re an Indie Folk type of band and have been active since 2011, the song Fakes Roses was recorded at Dreamland Studios. It’s a song dedicated to the lead singers (Zach WIlliams) Mother-In-Law, Edna after she helped deal with the trauma of lost her daughter and his wife, Stacy.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly he had this to say about Edna and the song;
“Edna was so strong in the hospital. I would just watch her because if she had ever gotten scared, then I would have really gotten scared. When the doctor told me, ‘Your wife isn’t going to move from the neck down again, you need to ready yourself for this lifestyle,” Edna told me it was way too early for him to make that conclusion. She just always kept it together. I found out later that she would go cry in the ladies room and then put her make up before coming back to the room.”
He goes onto explain how Virginia became involved with the project;
“Now we only know a couple people in the movie/TV world, and one of them is this lady Sophia Bush. A few years ago I played a show at her house and Virginia Madsen was there. So when I was thinking for this video, I was like, ‘Sophia knows Virginia, I’m going to see how this goes.’ So I called her and told her that we basically didn’t have a budget but would she mind giving us three days and doing this. Immediately, she said yes.”
And, I think it shows. I mean, obviously Virginia has no speaking part in the video but the emotion she conveys throughout the whole thing can’t be in any doubt.
Availability:
The Tube man, the Tube.
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