Last Thursday night, July 15th, Train frontman Pat Monahan and Kris Allen met up in the desert, but it was nothing shady.  They were there to shoot a new video.  What’s the connection? Well, Kris’ new single “The Truth” was written by Pat, and since the song was recently remixed as a duet featuring both men, Pat is included in the video.  Pat managed to finish his scenes before a rainstorm — yeah, a rainstorm in the desert, go figure — forced them to shut down filming.  Kris will complete the video shoot on Monday.  On Twitter, Pat posted a photo of them together on the set, along with a note saying, “Great dude!  Great singer!  Great time!  Thanks for including me!”

Pat told us that he had originally written “The Truth” for Train’s album Save Me San Francisco, but it didn’t quite go with the rest of the songs.  He says, “When Kris and his people heard the song, they were like, ‘Man, if you don’t mind, we’d like to use this one.’ It wasn’t that it wasn’t good enough for our record, it just didn’t fit the record we were making.”  And even though Pat takes a shot at American Idol in the lyrics of Train’s new single “If It’s Love,” he says he thinks the world of Kris and his performance on the track.  He said, “Great voice, man, he sang it so great!  I was super-impressed with it!” Train is currently on tour with John Mayer.

Source: WLPJ