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Eli Lieb’s YouTube account is a treasure trove of killer covers, but he might have outdone himself with “Good For You.” The out singer/songwriter puts a masculine spin on Selena Gomez’s new single — transforming the fragility of the original into something darker and more desperate. There are a couple of tweaks to the lyrics (skintight jeans instead of a dress, for example) and a new acoustic arrangement, which work brilliantly.

The 35-year-old first appeared on our pop radar back in 2013 with uplifting pop/rock anthem “Young Love.” Eli followed that up with a pair of equally impressive singles last year (“Zeppelin” and “Lightning In A Bottle”) and is said to be working on his second album. Hopefully, there’s room for the crooner’s Selena Gomez cover because this is really special. Watch up top.

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Allstate’s pro-LGBT commercial “Safe In My Hands”, featuring an original song from singer-songwriter Eli Lieb, was the big winner at the 2015 AMP Awards for Music and Sound — the third annual celebration of music composed and licensed for commercials held Tuesday (May 5) at New York’s City Winery.

The 90-second animated spot, created by ad agency Leo Burnett, took home the trophies for Best In Show and Best Original Song, sharing the latter win with Yessian Music’s “Showtime,” for Opel Corsa. Universal Music was the ceremony’s official label sponsor, and featured performances from Photo Finish/Republic’s Marian Hill as well as Island Records’ Gin Wigmore. A full list of winners is available here.

Also featured were AMP’s 2015 Hall of Fame Award recipients Chevrolet and Pepsi, who joined the ranks of McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Nike and Budweiser for their historic and culturally impactful use of music in advertising.

Accepting for Chevrolet, Steve Haener, the brand’s senior manager of experiential marketing and brand partnerships, said, “Starting with Dinah Shore in 1952 to today with Kid Rock, music has really helped connect customers for decades. Baseball, apple pie, hot dogs and Chevrolet are the heartbeat of America, and these jingles have become classics in their own right. We don’t just use music to tell our story, music uses us. Chevrolet and its vehicles are used in over 1,000 songs, from [Don McLean’s] ‘American Pie’ to [Florida Georgia Line’s] ‘Cruise’ to [Prince’s] ‘Little Red Corvette’ — as cool as they are, people don’t write songs about iPhones yet.”

Frank Cooper, chief marketing officer — global consumer engagement, said of receiving Pepsi’s award, “This is one of those moments where you should just drop the mic and go stage left.” He then reversed an old adage by stating, “We know that a picture is worth 1,000 words, but we believe that music is worth a thousand pictures…What we want to find out next is, what does an amazing song sound like a Snapchat? If I can find out as we move forward, that’s the exciting opportunity.”

Other big music category winners included butter music + sound (Pepto Bismol’s “Boy Raised By Goats”) and duotone audio group (Budweiser’s “Celebrate As One”) for Best Original Score; Walker (David McKenzie Stubbert’s arrangement of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance for LAIKA’s “The Boxtrolls”) for Outstanding Adaptation and Best Use of Music for a Film or Game Trailer; Leo Burnett USA (Sylvan Esso’s “Hey Mami” for Samsung Galaxy Gear) for Best Use of a Licensed Song; and Found Objects (IBM’s “Think Forum” for Most Effective Use of Music in a Campaign.

Though the well-attended event was designed to celebrate the use of audio in commercials, Gayle Troberman, chief marketing officer at radio sponsor iHeartMedia, said to the oft-noisy and boisterous audience, “I don’t know you, but I used to heart sound. Let’s try for less sound tonight.”

Other sponsors included Grey, BBDO, Windfall Agency, J. Walter Thompson, SHOOT, APM Music and Extreme Reach / SourceCreative. Paul Greco, director of music and radio at J. Walter Thompson in New York, serves as AMP’s 2015 Advisory Board Chair, while Lyle Greenfield, founder of Bang Music and former AMP Board President, was on hand as host.

The full list of AMP Award winners is below:

Outstanding Adaptation

“Let’s Dance”

LAIKA  “The Boxtrolls”

David Bowie (Arr: McKenzie Stubbert)

Walker

Best Use of a Licensed Song

“Swarovski”

Samsung   Gear / Galaxy

Song:  “Hey Mami”  by Sylvan Esso

Leo Burnett USA

Best Sound Design (2 winners)

“Boxhead”

Gillette

Heard City

“Sing Network”

AT&T / 4G LTE

Human

Most Effective Use of Music in a Campaign

“IBM Think Forum”

IBM

Found Objects

Best Use of Music for a Film or Game Trailer

“Let’s Dance”

LAIKA   The Boxtrolls

David Bowie (Arr: McKenzie Stubbert)

Walker

Most Effective Use of Music in a Non-Broadcast Medium

“Samba Of The World”

Visa

COPILOT Strategic Music+Sound

Outstanding Mix (2 winners)

“Van dam Boats”

Craftsman

Color

“Drop Science”

General Electric: GE’s Drop Science

PLUSHnyc

Most Effective Sonic Branding

“Stoli Digital Campaign”

Stolichnaya

Antfood

Most Impactful Radio Commercial

“Autocorrect”

Motel 6

The Richards Group

Best In Show

“Safe In My Hands”

Allstate

Song:  “Safe In My Hands”  Artist/Composer:  Eli Lieb

Agency:  Leo Burnett USA

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Out singer-songwriter Eli Lieb is having a pretty great year.

The LGBT-positive Allstate commercial featuring his original song “Safe in My Hands” just won two 2015 AMP Awards for Music and Sound, which honor the best of music composed and licensed for commercials. Lieb’s tune won top honors in the Best Original Song category, and the commercial itself tied for the Best In Show category.

The 90-second animated spot, created by the Leo Burnett agency, tells the allegorical story of a young man ostracized for his unusually large hand. It’s not until he meets his counterpart, another young man with a large hand, that he feels love and acceptance. It’s part of Allstate’s ongoing “Out Holding Hands” campaign.

“It’s amazing,” a thrilled Lieb tells The Advocate. “It’s my first real major award.” It means even more, he says, because the campaign is so close to his heart.

The musician, who was born in Iowa and now lives in Los Angeles, got involved with “Out Holding Hands” because he believes that despite the gains the LGBT community has made in recent years, “visibility still matters.”

Now in its third year, the campaign goes interactive by inviting folks to go to Allstate’s website and upload photos of themselves extending a hand. The photo can then be shared on social media where others, through their own photos, can join hands. The goal is to create a link, Lieb says, a chain of people around the world, showing support for one another by holding hands. Lieb’s hand was the first in the chain.

“Basically, the seed of the whole campaign is that the act of holding hands with someone you love out in public should not be a scary thing. And some people don’t have that privilege,” Lieb says.

“When you think about it, everybody marches for marriage equality, which is awesome, but people don’t really think about the little, tiny things that some people can do in their everyday lives, that for others are so difficult,” says the singer.

It’s personal for Lieb, who says he and a former boyfriend were once accosted for holding hands in New York City. It was a wake-up call.

“My sexuality is so not the main part of who I am. I am so comfortable with it and all the people in my life are, and I don’t even think about it,” says Lieb. “But then you sort of get reminded sometimes, ‘Oh, yeah, I am a minority.’ In moments like that when you want to hold somebody’s hand but you have to take a look around. Even if you’re in a safe place, sometimes you just don’t want to be looked at. Even if people are looking at you in support, it’s still looking at you in a different way. Whereas nobody eyes the straight couple walking down the street holding hands.”

This past year, Lieb enjoyed another major milestone when “Safe in My Hands” was featured on an episode of ABC Family’s The Fosters. As fun as that was for him, the singer is hardly a stranger to having millions of viewers enjoy his work. Fans flock in droves to his personal YouTube channel to see videos for songs such as the anthemic “Young Love.” All told, his channel has over 22 million views.

Lieb’s not just a fan favorite. His fresh pop sound with the big hooks and smart lyrics also gets raves from critics, with one insightful writer saying Lieb’s music is like a cross between Katy Perry and Bruce Springsteen.

“That’s my favorite comparison ever!” he confesses.

How does an independent recording artist get so many fans and critics — not to mention major corporations — excited about his music?

“I really think the biggest thing is that I truly am authentically myself,” Lieb says, “I can’t do anything that I think people will want to see or want to hear if it doesn’t feel truthful to me.”

“Even if people don’t know it, people are starved for authenticity because everything is so packaged and manufactured and created by huge teams of people,” he says. “The second people come out and truly represent how they really are, and what they really feel without holding back, that’s when you tap into something great. People recognize that, 100 percent.”

He came in like a “Wrecking Ball” taking the internet by storm! “omg! Insider” correspondent Keltie Knight, caught up with Eli Lieb, the 29-year-old crooner who went viral with his cover of Miley Cyrus’s mega hit “Wrecking Ball.” Lieb’s version became so popular, even Adam Lambert took to his Twitter to share the video with his fans. So why did Lieb chose the former Disney darling’s tune? He told Keltie, “It’s just a really good song.” Check out the vid to hear a bit of Lieb’s new single, “Young Love” and tune in to “omg! Insider” on TV tonight for the latest in entertainment news.

A new animated short film, released this week to coincide with LGBT Pride Month, weaves an emotional tale of one man’s quest to find someone who will accept him.

It’s part of Allstate’s #OutHoldingHands campaign, anchored on the simple yet meaningful hand-holding gesture and propelled by openly gay singer Eli Lieb’s “Safe In My Hands.”

“I hope that the song, in combination with the film, gives people the strength to be 100 percent their true authentic self and to not be afraid of it,” Lieb told Mashable. “And I hope that it just shows that love is love. Love transcends gender, race, sexuality.”
The campaign is encouraging viewers to participate by uploading pictures of public displays of affection to Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #OutHoldingHands.

In the short film, an animated version of Eli Lieb helps the lonely gentleman find love, grabbing his hand before both characters transform into their non-animated selves.

“It’s funny — I’m very OK holding hands with someone in public, but I’m currently single,” Lieb said, adding that the other man in the video is just an actor. “So I’m waiting for that right person to grab on to my open hand.”

Lieb dove into the music scene four years ago, when he began uploading covers to his YouTube channel, which now also includes original music. His videos have attracted 21 million views. Allstate discovered Lieb after he released his “Young Love” music video.

“The two main characters and love interests happened to be men, but you saw their love play out just like the love between any couple, regardless of sexuality,” he said.

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Young Love is in the air. After Steve Grand’s hit video for “All-American Guy,” Eli Lieb’s latest video, for the song “Young Love,” portrays the feeling of a new, young romance “where you feel like you live and die for this one person.” While young love isn’t new, we have yet to see it portrayed quite like this, with two men rather than the typical hetero-representation. Iowa-based Lieb (and TM practicioner) saw huge traction with his last viral video, “Place of Paradise,” so we caught up with him to see why “Young Love” is important to him.

Out: Young love is an eternal story/message: What do you think the message of “Young Love” is for young gay men?

Eli Lieb: Love is love. I’m just celebrating love and life and to me that transcends, race, gender, sexuality, and any other distinguishing factors. Being gay isn’t a gimmick or an issue for me, it’s just me. In my music, my persona and this video, I want to represent myself authentically. And I believe everybody should express love how they know it and not be afraid of showing the whole world, including friends and family, how they feel. It was important to me to also show my friends, and represent other people in love (the girl and boy kissing, etc.), to say, “It’s just love, let’s celebrate it!”

I don’t feel any shame, and I don’t feel self-righteous, I just am who I am, and I’m not afraid of it. On the positive side, I’m happy that being who I am might help others, to see a love like mine represented. Watching this video really makes me feel how I feel when in love. Not specifically gay love, or specifically straight love, just LOVE. And I wanted to show how lucky I am to have love between friends who can accept each other 100% for who they are.

Although Steve Grand said that his recent video hit, “All-American Boy” is positive in the way the straight male still wants to be friends with his gay pal after he kisses him, some could say that it’s shame-based while your song/video is more of a celebration. What are your thoughts about that?

Firstly, I think that it’s awesome that there is something in the air, that people are feeling the freedom to express their story, whatever it is. The story he tells is much different than mine, so it’s so funny we both have a couple similar shots! I guess that fireworks and country rides in a convertible are just classic summer-time images. But I feel incredibly blessed that in my story there are no secrets. Everyone in the video and in my life, including me is happy with who they are. People have different experiences in being gay, and I think both videos give two different, very personal experiences.

Some people can relate to Steve Grand’s video, because they are still closeted as is the lead character in the video, but for me, I wanna show the freedom of being who I am. I didn’t set out to make a righteous statement with this video. I always live my life completely authentically without any fear of what others might think. I find true happiness comes with that kind of honest acceptance of oneself.

It just so happens that one of my many characteristics is that I am gay. When it came time to shoot a video to this love song, I of course had to stay true to who I am in order to tell that story: I didn’t flinch for a second. I hope that this video will help other people live their lives to the fullest: never out of fear and always toward love.”

Since your recent video became a viral hit on YouTube have you been surprised by any of the reactions?

I am thrilled with the response. Every new view is a welcomed surprise, and they just keep coming! I have over 10 million views on my YouTube channel now, which is quite the jump since “Place of Paradise” came out! It’s been amazing to create this from the ground-up. I don’t have a label or a big fancy team; it’s all just me with the help of a couple friends, Geoff Boothby (director of “Young Love” and “Place of Paradise”) being one of them. I feel extremely grateful and blessed that based off of who I am, authentically without holding back artistically, that I’ve been met with this kind of support and I truly believe that if everyone functioned from a place free of fear, we could all make our dreams come true.

Any surprises that you have in store for us?

Well, they wouldn’t be surprises if I told you! But I am definitely working on a lot of new projects right now, and you guys will be the first to know!

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Iowa-based crooner Eli Lieb first got my attention -– and that of over 2 million other people! — via homespun YouTube videos of himself belting out covers of popular hits by the likes of Adele, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. But what’s more fascinating than his rapid rise to fame, which culminated in the recent release of his eponymous debut disc, is how he started just a little over a year ago. After filming a recent Hot Stuff video with the “Place Of Paradise” singer, I chatted with him about his lifelong practice of transcendental meditation and how he went back home to move his career forward.

US: So how long have you actually been recording?

EL: I started recording it last summer, so a little bit over a year ago. “Place of Paradise” was actually the first song I had written for the album. I had an earlier demo of it, so that was my first stab into it and then I basically took the whole year to allow the process of the album to unfold.

US: What inspired the songs?

EL: Everything reflects something that is going in my life at the present time. Some of them can be pretty emotionally intense… “Place of Paradise,” specifically, that one is a good song that sort of is representative of how I feel about life in general. It’s a song about trying to find that place of paradise inside of yourself… The song is sort of about breaking down all of your walls and letting go of what you think will make you happy and to start looking inside of yourself.

US: You said you were able to do all of that through meditation and the way you grew up?

EL: I started meditating basically when I was born. My parents were meditating before I was born and I was just born into it… I’ve always been raised with the awareness of something more of diving within yourself what they call it and that’s sort of what meditation is. It’s going deep within and sort of contacting places that you might not usually contact and I find that being brought up in that kind of environment in that kind of a way really allowed me to just freely create the music that I am creating without any fear.

US: So when exactly did that happen?

EL: That happened probably- more intensely like right when I started recording the album…about a year ago. I’ve gone through a lot of stuff in my life that have been challenging, but I can look back at them all and be very grateful for each moment that I was going through because it completely allowed me to be who I am today. They’re all these life lessons that we all go through and I think if you can look at them as a tool of growth, I think that’s a very fortunate thing to be able to look at and I think that I had just gone through enough and I had done so much self discovery that something had clicked in me where I realized who I was, what I wanted in my life and this happiness just clicked and formed and hadn’t gone away and it’s been the most liberating thing in my life. Ever since that happened everything has been going so much smoother and easier and I just feel like there’s so much nature support being thrown your way. It’s about living authentically to be who you are and who you are supposed to be.

US: What led to the transformation?

EL: There’s always been this fundamental underlying level of happiness in my life, but I allowed other things to overwhelm me much more. A very big thing that happened in my life when I was 25 was my father died and that was an event that definitely brought me down before it brought me up. I can also say going through difficult relationships. Sometimes when you’re in a relationship where you are forced to be not as present in it, you all the sudden see the stuff about your life and who you are and the stuff that you are missing that’s not there at the moment because you push it out the door for a relationship and then going through that, it just brought to light all the things in my life and who I am that I’m so appreciative of and ever since that. Something just clicked in me. I think when you go really far in, I don’t want to say far down because I wasn’t in this super downward slope, you don’t really know what light is until you know what dark is. You need that opposition sometimes…I’ve seen enough dark to really understand what light was. Sometimes things just click. You’ll see somebody dating somebody you know that they’re wrong for each other and nothing you can say-your friend will talk them out of it until one day, they just click and they understand like this is not supposed to happen, this is not working and then they give it up. It’s kind of a similar thing where all of the sudden it just snaps.

US: So you are from the small town of Fairfield, Iowa. Then you moved to NYC for a decade – and then moved back. Why?

EL: I was in New York for ten years and I had a great time. I’m here visiting right now and I’m loving every second of it, but because I was raised in this meditating community, I have always really been attracted to a spiritual life, a healthy existence, just a really calm, nurturing environment where everybody that you’re around is sort of there for the same reason. After a while, I started to just feel really run down and not living the life that I ultimately want to live, which is focused on health and happiness, so I would want to be around the city and then I would find a yoga studio as a spiritual bookstore and I would walk in there and I just all of the sudden felt like I could breathe. It just felt like my life energy was given back to me from being in that environment. It felt like home and for the longest time, I wouldn’t allow myself, even a tiny idea of moving back home because I had basically told myself that if I do this then I won’t have a career, I won’t ever get married; I’ll just be living in Iowa doing nothing and I limited myself.

US: There was probably also a feeling of failure if you didn’t make it in the city?

EL: Yeah, totally. So the older you get, the more your life unfolds and comes together, hopefully, and something awoke in my brain that told myself, Eli, you know where you want to be to be happy, you know where happiness is, so you have to go for that and then just trust that everything else in your life will be the way that it is supposed to be. So, all of the sudden, it was a no brainer that I was going to move back to Iowa because every time I went back there, I was so happy, over-the-moon happy and when I moved back, I had never felt that elated in my entire life. I was so happy and I still am and it allows me to just live and just be in the moment because when you’re happy, you don’t think about the fears of things that you are supposed to do, you don’t allow that really to get in your mind and just cause a muck so from that place, I just allowed every process to happen and I started writing more and I made my album and now I found that real sense of home inside of myself and happiness inside of myself that now that I’m back here, I feel very different then when I did before. Now I feel like wherever I am now, I’m home because I’ve found that place in me, so now I can stay in New York for as long as I want or need to and I don’t feel that same overwhelming sense of I’m not living in the environment I want to live in, I’m not living the lifestyle I want to live in. It’s kind of because I always feel at home now wherever I go, as cheesy as that sounds.

US: What is next for you?

EL: Definitely more performances. There’s a couple of things that I’m working on here right now and I was supposed to go home a while ago, but literally everyday things keep unfolding… I definitely want to go on tour very soon and we’re reaching out to a bunch of different booking agents, all that stuff. I personally would like go to to LA next, just because I can be amongst my fans, that’s one of the big draws right now. I know that it’ll be constant unfoldment and a lot of it is us putting out our intentions of what we want and then seeing what we get back. It’s really humbling to me to know that a year ago I started making this album in Iowa, I didn’t know what I was going to do with it. I didn’t even know I was making a complete album, and from a year from that time, you premiered my video on Usmagazine.com. That was a moment for sure.

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It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since Eli Lieb earned a permanent spot on our playlists with his 2013 power-pop single, “Young Love.”

The openly gay singer-songwriter, 34, has kept a high profile since then, connecting with his fans on YouTube, Twitter and other social media outlets. His cover of the Miley Cyrus smash “Wrecking Ball” nearly broke the Internet after winning raves from “Pretty Little Liars” star Lucy Hale and Adam Lambert.

Lieb, who currently resides in Los Angeles, has been clocking in studio time with writer-producer John Feldmann (5 Seconds of Summer, Panic! At the Disco). This month, Lieb released the video for his new single, “Zeppelin,” a month after “Safe In My Hands,” which he co-wrote, was used as the soundtrack for Allstate Insurance’s LGBT Pride Month campaign of the same name. But that’s not all: Lieb says a full-length sophomore album is in the works, while he’s got a second video prepped “sooner rather than later.”

Lieb took time out from his busy schedule to speak to The Huffington Post about “Zeppelin,” a possible Adam Lambert collaboration and being an openly gay artist.

The Huffington Post: Congratulations on your new video, “Zeppelin.” Can we look forward to a new album soon?
Eli Lieb: Yes. Right now I’m recording with John Feldmann. I feel super fortunate to have hooked up with him because he’s really awesome. We’ve done a handful of songs already, and we’re just moving forward. I’m really excited with the songs that we’ve done.

I write pop songs; that’s really where my strength is. “Zeppelin” is a straight-down-the-middle, pop-rock song, and some of them get a little more indie sounding. It’s a good mixture of pop and that. I act really quickly, so I would like it to be ready sooner rather than later.

How would you say your sexuality affects your work as an artist and a musician?
It doesn’t impact my work as an artist at all. The only moment when it does is when it comes time to film a video, I’m like, “Oh! I have to have a guy in this, because it’s a love song and that’s accurate to my life.”

But when I actually write music … the creative process has nothing to do with my sexuality other than the fact that I can get entangled with people in the same way that anybody can get entangled with a person. When I think of myself, my sexuality isn’t the defining part of who I am as a musician. I haven’t written about the struggles of being gay because I’ve personally never felt that.

You’ve been frequently compared to Steve Grand (“All-American Boy”), who is similarly open about his sexuality and has used social media to promote his music. How do you feel about that comparison?
I don’t have any problem with it, [but] the only reason there’s any comparison is the sexuality thing. I think you can find a lot of artists who are indie and are working with fan engagement on social media and going about their careers that way. It’s an interesting thing, in this day and age, that our sexuality is the most talked-about thing. In terms of the music we make, I think that we fall into very different categories, but I definitely understand the comparison.

Given that you’re known as well in some circles for your cover tunes as you are for your original music, how important is it for you to establish your own identity as an artist?
It’s really important. I’ve been writing and performing for a very, very long time. It wasn’t until far into my journey that I started covering songs.

You penned a new song for Allstate Insurance’s gay-inclusive “Safe In My Hands” campaign for LGBT Pride Month. What was your take on the final commercial? 
It was a really amazing collaboration, and I feel very fortunate to have been a part of it. Never in my life did I think that I would become a cartoon! I didn’t ever expect to be a part of social change and be a voice of many, so being involved in something like this that will get a lot of attention and will help people is really incredible to me.

There have been rumors you’re collaborating with Adam Lambert. Any truth to that?
Yeah! I don’t know what I can really say, but we’ve definitely had some studio time together. Adam is, honestly, one of the most genuine people I’ve met in my whole time being in L.A. He’s just a rare person. He is so talented, but as a person, he’s very kind, generous, humble and down-to-earth.

Finally, what’s in store for Eli Lieb for the remainder of 2014?
I definitely have another music video coming out … sooner rather than later. It’s another song I’ve done with John Feldmann, and this one I’m extremely excited about. The video and content are going to be very different than anything I’ve done before.

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With gay marriage a hot button issue and (heterosexual) acts singing about equality on songs like “Same Love”, the winds of change would seem to be upon us. But where are the out pop stars? With the exception of Adam Lambert and perhaps Ricky Martin, your chances of hearing an actual gay man on the radio are slim to none. Eli Lieb is hoping to change all that. The Iowa-native has a huge online following thanks to his superb YouTube covers and is now making big waves with his own music.

“Young Love” is an instantly catchy, uplifting pop/rock anthem that sounds like a cross between Katy Perry and Bruce Springsteen. The fact that it avoids cliches and sexual politics is part of its wide appeal. Eli focuses on love instead, which makes the song more universal and less condescending than the aforementioned Ryan Lewis & Macklemore hit. The nostalgic video is similarly subtle with the singer only exchanging glances with his man until things get a bit wild at a pool party towards the end. Watch above.