Just in time for the holidays, Train just premiered the music video as part of CMT's Big New Music Weekend for "Bruises," the third single taken off the Grammy Award-winning pop rock band's excellent and versatile fifth studio album, "California 37." Following the success of "Drive By" and released "50 Ways to Say Goodbye," the new promotional track features country singer Ashley Monroe, who is a member of Pistol Annies along with Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley, and puts enough twang in "Bruises" to make it perfect for country radio.
"Bruises" is a country oriented duet with a sweet melody that anyone who has been hurt before can relate to, so basically, that means everyone will feel its power. The song is about two friends catching up about 10 years after graduating from high school. Both of them are divorced, and they've been battered and bruised a few times over the years. But despite the pain, they recognize that their scars make them more interesting people.
The pop rock trio isn't typically considered a cross-over country act, though the frontman Patrick Monahan has worked with Martina McBride in the past. Now that they've teamed up with Pistol Annies' Monroe with call-and-response collaboration, they are making some concrete roads through the country genre. It's the little bumps along the road that make life interesting, or at least that's what Train tries to tell us on their song, "Bruises." Monahan once said: "It could be a really big career song for Train."
The storytelling for the Alan Ferguson-directed video is enrapturing and framed as a long-distance friendship. Though they're thousands of miles apart, the lead characters manage to make it work through their music, and heightening the song's sense of faded love, with Monroe plays a mother of two and enjoying a simpler life at home, while Monahan's strolling around Red Rocks Amphitheater and playing to huge crowds. He wears his heart on his sleeve as he attempts to reconnect with a lost love. The two even end up performing the same song, but on different stages
"Bruises" is a country oriented duet with a sweet melody that anyone who has been hurt before can relate to, so basically, that means everyone will feel its power. The song is about two friends catching up about 10 years after graduating from high school. Both of them are divorced, and they've been battered and bruised a few times over the years. But despite the pain, they recognize that their scars make them more interesting people.
The pop rock trio isn't typically considered a cross-over country act, though the frontman Patrick Monahan has worked with Martina McBride in the past. Now that they've teamed up with Pistol Annies' Monroe with call-and-response collaboration, they are making some concrete roads through the country genre. It's the little bumps along the road that make life interesting, or at least that's what Train tries to tell us on their song, "Bruises." Monahan once said: "It could be a really big career song for Train."
The storytelling for the Alan Ferguson-directed video is enrapturing and framed as a long-distance friendship. Though they're thousands of miles apart, the lead characters manage to make it work through their music, and heightening the song's sense of faded love, with Monroe plays a mother of two and enjoying a simpler life at home, while Monahan's strolling around Red Rocks Amphitheater and playing to huge crowds. He wears his heart on his sleeve as he attempts to reconnect with a lost love. The two even end up performing the same song, but on different stages
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