Gallant, Skylar Grey, And Jamie N Commons Remade 'Runaway Train' With A Video Spotlighting Missing Children

Twenty-five years prior, the Minneapolis metal band Soul Asylum released a socially conscious video for its 1993 hit "Runaway Train" that doubled as activism. In showing images of real missing children, the clip, which procured typical rotation on MTV, facilitated in the location 21 of these. Just imagine what would happen if a similar concept was executed in the time of social media. Well, you don't have to.


The nonprofit National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has recruited alt-R&B crooner Gallant, electronic-tinged vocalist Skylar Grey, and ragged-throat British singer Jamie N Commons to update the song for 2019. It's called "Runaway Train 25" and yes it comes with a new visual that spotlights some of the more than 400,000 kids who are announced missing every year.


As 61 percent of recovered children are noticed in the state in which they're announced missing, the new "Runaway Train" video will — additionally to being amplified by means of the social media — show missing kids based on the viewer's location. This statistics is updated directly from the NCMEC.


"It's up us help to bring house #MissingKids," Grey wrote on Twitter to accompany the video's premiere. Pirner, the original songwriter, also told Billboard he's interested to be able to see how the video update might have such an impact thanks to modern technology.


"If it does have an impact at all, I'm pretty thankful that they thought of associated with this song for their rebooting of the concept," he said. "It's all with very real intentions and very trustworthy wanting to help."


Watch the new version, titled "Runaway Train 25," above. Learn more about the project and visualize how you could will support at RunawayTrain25.Com.