Watch: Russell Elliot’s ‘Around’ Is R&B With a Queer Edge
This video, directed by Zoe Rain, is the first off Russell Elliott’s upcoming EP.BY OUT.COM EDITORS OCTOBER 27 2015 10:00 AM EDT
Pictured: Russell Elliott (left) and Alonso Guzman
Russell Elliot is only 23 years old, but the D.C.-raised, Brooklyn-based R&B singer’s voice has a depth and maturity that belies his youth. “My mission is to tell it like it is,” Elliot says, “to create authentic, powerful music out of my lived experience and worldview.” That certainly seems to be the case in the song and video for “Around,” which explores pansexuality and a relationship that happened behind closed doors. Choreographed by the Kuperman Brothers, the video directed by Zoe Rain also features dancer Alonso Guzman — and is certainly fun and sexy and gorgeous.
