Out singer-songwriters Steve Grand and
Eli Lieb this week released a video for their new ballad Look
Away.
In the video, the men sit back-to-back
as they sing about heartbreak.
“I'll never touch your body again.
We gave it our all but this is the end,” Lieb sings.
Lieb told Pride.com that the video was
filmed the day after he broke up with his boyfriend.
“[T]he footage is so real and raw
that I struggled if I even felt comfortable putting it out,” he
said. “I wasn't sure I wanted everyone to see the pain I was in.”
“I hope it helps remind people that
pain and love are so closely related; to not forget how powerful love
is,” Lieb
added.
Grand said that working with Lieb was a
“true pleasure.”
“Though we are in a similar line of
work, our personalities are very different, which I think we really
got to see throughout the day we shot the video,” he said. “I’m
an irreverent goofball and Eli is a more serious guy just really
focused on his craft. I think it makes for an interesting
collaboration.”
Grand and Lieb drew comparisons when
they released similarly themed videos a week apart in 2013. Grand's
self-funded All-American
Boy
tells a story of unrequited love, while Lieb's
Young
Love looks
at two young men in love.