Columbia RecordsWhen you hear your favorite song, you can’t help but dance — and that’s what happens in Train’s video for their new single “Play that Song.”
In the clip, it’s a picture-perfect day as Train frontman Pat Monahan exits a building wearing earbuds. The song he’s listening to makes him so happy that he starts dancing down the street, shaking hands, skipping down stairs and stealing some guy’s hat.
As a skywriter draws a musical staff in the sky, Monahan continues on his way, picking up and dancing with more people as he goes along. At one point, he even dances on a giant keyboard, recalling the famous scene in the Tom Hanks movie Big where Hanks and Robert Loggia do the same. In the movie, the song Hanks and Loggia play is the standard “Heart and Soul,” the tune that “Play that Song” is based on.
At the end of the video, Monahan, followed by a happy, dancing crowd, stops in front of the fictional radio station “KTRN.” He goes inside and seconds later, emerges triumphant as the station starts playing “Play that Song” — and the crowd goes wild.
In a statement, Monahan says, “It was such a great time making the video for ‘Play That Song.’ The idea to be on top of the world and have the whole town react to the happiness was super-fun and corny and sweet, and I wish life was really like this video!”
Monahan and Train will show off more of their dance moves on Monday night, as they perform on the first night of the two-night finale of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.
“Play that Song” is the first single from Train’s upcoming album A Girl, A Bottle, A Boat, which is due in early 2017.
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