Check out the Official Music Video forΒ βThe Boy Who Cried Loveβ by Anastasia ElliotΒ
Right now, there are many artists in limbo β trapped in major label deals, unable to express themselves in the manner that theyβd like to. You donβt know their names, and thatβs because their record companies havenβt made them priorities. They have world-class talent, but no platform. So they wait, impatiently, for the times to catch up with them. Anastasia Elliot used to be an artist like that. She possesses a voice strong enough β and songs powerful enough β to reach millions, but sheβs also got the soul of a true independent. To her credit, Elliot has always been determined to do things her way, and the music sheβs made has always reflected that fearlessness.
Luckily for us, sheβs wriggled free from the industry, and sheβs become the daring indie artist she was always destined to be. And she hasnβt come to us empty-handed: instead, sheβs brought along some remarkable music, all of it forged during her battle for artistic self-determination. Sheβs been through the struggle, and sheβs better for it. βThe Boy Who Cried Loveβ is practically unadorned β itβs nothing but piano, Elliotβs remarkable singing, and her naked emotion. This is a scathing, uncompromising breakup song, delivered with absolute conviction. Itβs easy to see why a major label wouldnβt have wanted to hear this. Itβs just as easy to see why you need to.
Sheβs found an accomplished video director to help her realize her vision. Ryan Hamblin is perhaps best known for the work heβs done for contemporary country artists β heβs shot clips for Hunter Hayes, Jerrod Niemann, Chris Young, and other Music City mainstays β but in those spots, heβs shown himself to be a master of light, shadow, and mood. Like Elliot, heβs an experimentalist at heart, working in an industry that doesnβt always reward those who take chances. Liberated from restrictions and expectations, heβs able to let his imagination run wild for βThe Boy Who Cried Loveβ, and he makes the most of that freedom.
In the surreal video, Hamblin seats Elliot at a bone-white piano that looks as if it was pulled apart: its exposed strings hang like cobwebs in front of her. Candles drip blood red wax down the sides of her instrument. Elliot, too, is imagined as a tangled network of threads in human form, and long strips of fabric from her black dress stream around her. They wrap around the body of a blindfolded man β with lethal consequences.
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