Blake Shelton + Ashley Monroe Release 'Lonely Tonight' Video

The song casts the pair as former lovers who can't resist getting together one final time -- or is it? As the lyrics say, "I could be there in five / One more one last time / We don't have to be lonely tonight."

The city of Los Angeles is the real star of the video, setting a scene of yearning by juxtaposing scenes of the city at night against shots of Shelton and Monroe singing their parts separately as she takes a limo to his hotel.

The longing between the characters is palpable -- but it's also purely fictional. Monroe is close friends in real life with both Shelton and his wife, Miranda Lambert, her Pistol Annies bandmate.

"He's like a brother," Monroe tells Rolling Stone. "He's one of my best friends. We just sing and look at each other and are like, 'Ah, I know you!'"

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