San Francisco-based melodic pop rock outfit Train is back to the music spotlight with the Western-themed music video for their brand-new track, "Angel In Blue Jeans," the lead single off Train's upcoming seventh studio album "Bulletproof Picasso," out September 16. "This entire album took a lot of blood, sweat and tears but we hope it will be looked at as our best to date," the band says in a statement. "'Angel' was the first song written for this one and we’re excited that it will lead the way to your ears and, hopefully, hearts."
"Angel In Blue Jeans" starts off as a mournful ballad that sounds like it could be the soundtrack of a Western film, but then picks up and turns into a mid-tempo rock song with a steady beat and a catchy "whoa oh oh oh" hook. Slow, but steady, the new track keeps frontman Pat Monahan's usual charm of nonsensical lyrics and themes up, with lyrics about "getting shot down by an angel in blue jeans." After being in the game as long as Monahan has, you figure he'd have run out of heartbreak to sing about, but as long as his misfortunes keep leading to great songs, we're not complaining.
Something bad is going down out in the West and Sheriff Train is in the middle of it all. Filmed in early-July and it was directed by Brendan Walter and Mel Soria, the western-themed gun-toting video, which features the Mexican-American actor Danny Trejo and Hannah Simone from "New Girls." As they braved the SoCal desert heat this summer, Trejo is Simone's knight in shining armor while Simone playing the song's titular angel in blue jeans, and Monahan as a nefarious, Tarantino-esque crooked sheriff who has done Trejo wrong by holding him at gunpoint in the desert and stealing his girlfriend Simone.
Here, Monahan plays a Trejo eventually hunts the band and his kidnapped better half down in an old dive bar, and that's when the fireworks begin. "This song to me and the video, they sound and look like a Quentin Tarantino vibe," Monahan told ET. "I'm a bad guy. I think my face is really good at being a bad guy and it's great 'cause Danny, who usually is a bad guy, ends up being the hero, which is super cool." And as expected in any western-themed video, guns are drawn and violence abounds. But at the heart of the video is the love story of the song, which certainly lends itself to the western video with a haunting melody, a plucking guitar, and, of course, Monahan's distinct voice.
"Angel In Blue Jeans" starts off as a mournful ballad that sounds like it could be the soundtrack of a Western film, but then picks up and turns into a mid-tempo rock song with a steady beat and a catchy "whoa oh oh oh" hook. Slow, but steady, the new track keeps frontman Pat Monahan's usual charm of nonsensical lyrics and themes up, with lyrics about "getting shot down by an angel in blue jeans." After being in the game as long as Monahan has, you figure he'd have run out of heartbreak to sing about, but as long as his misfortunes keep leading to great songs, we're not complaining.
Something bad is going down out in the West and Sheriff Train is in the middle of it all. Filmed in early-July and it was directed by Brendan Walter and Mel Soria, the western-themed gun-toting video, which features the Mexican-American actor Danny Trejo and Hannah Simone from "New Girls." As they braved the SoCal desert heat this summer, Trejo is Simone's knight in shining armor while Simone playing the song's titular angel in blue jeans, and Monahan as a nefarious, Tarantino-esque crooked sheriff who has done Trejo wrong by holding him at gunpoint in the desert and stealing his girlfriend Simone.
Here, Monahan plays a Trejo eventually hunts the band and his kidnapped better half down in an old dive bar, and that's when the fireworks begin. "This song to me and the video, they sound and look like a Quentin Tarantino vibe," Monahan told ET. "I'm a bad guy. I think my face is really good at being a bad guy and it's great 'cause Danny, who usually is a bad guy, ends up being the hero, which is super cool." And as expected in any western-themed video, guns are drawn and violence abounds. But at the heart of the video is the love story of the song, which certainly lends itself to the western video with a haunting melody, a plucking guitar, and, of course, Monahan's distinct voice.
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