{"id":1233781,"date":"2025-03-11T18:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/?p=1233781"},"modified":"2025-03-11T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:02:17","slug":"benson-boone-on-beautiful-things-and-his-new-album-american-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/benson-boone-on-beautiful-things-and-his-new-album-american-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Benson Boone on \u2018Beautiful Things\u2019 and His New Album \u2018American Heart\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<span class=\"a-style-intro lrv-a-floated-left lrv-u-display-inline-block lrv-u-margin-r-050 u-margin-b-n025\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-theme-primary lrv-u-align-items-center lrv-u-flex lrv-u-height-100p lrv-u-justify-content-center lrv-u-width-100p u-font-size-150 u-font-size-104@mobile-max u-line-height-124 u-line-height-94@mobile-max\">W<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span>hen <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/benson-boone\/\" id=\"auto-tag_benson-boone\" data-tag=\"benson-boone\">Benson Boone<\/a> is about to jump out of a helicopter hovering 60 feet above Utah Lake, which is the kind of thing Benson Boone likes to do, a single thought passes through his mulleted, 22-year-old head: <em>This is gonna be sick.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn clear days, that very body of water, and the white mountains beyond it, are part of the panoramic view from the terrace of Boone\u2019s house, a sharp-angled, industrial-gray luxury fortress with towering windows atop a cliff 30 minutes south of Salt Lake City. \u201cIt\u2019s always good to try things in life,\u201d Boone says one early-January \u00adafternoon, peering out from the terrace at the distant lake and the endless azure sky, his hands shoved in the pockets of an unseasonably light canvas jacket. \u201cLike, adventure-wise. If I can just try everything once, then I\u2019ll know what I like and what I don\u2019t like. And I know that I like jumping out of a helicopter.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-border-a-2\">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-align-items-center\">\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cBeautiful Things,\u201d the song that paid for his house, the most-streamed track in the world last year, the national anthem of baby-and-puppy Instagram Reels, finds Boone singing about an almost existential terror, \u00adbegging God not to take away what he loves. But most of the time, he says, \u201c\u200aI\u2019m not much of a fearful guy. Like, I don\u2019t worry about many things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe doesn\u2019t worry about back-flipping off pianos onstage, even if insurance companies might not love it. He didn\u2019t hesitate to try out for <em>American Idol<\/em> in 2020 as a teenager who had only been singing seriously for a year, a hobby, he says, that \u201c\u200acame out of nowhere, but took ahold of me very quickly.\u201d (\u201cThey\u2019re gonna swoon over Benson Boone,\u201d predicted one of the judges, a perspicacious Katy Perry.) He wasn\u2019t scared to drop out of the competition\u2019s top 24 in 2021, vanishing from the show in the middle of the season after he decided it would hinder rather than help a real music career. \u201cMy biggest weakness, and sometimes my biggest strength,\u201d he says, \u201cis when I convince my brain of something, I have to do it. There\u2019s no backing out or stepping down.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe just had his first full week off in three years, which was all that brain of his required to recharge and reboot. Tonight, for the third night in a row, he\u2019ll head out to snowboard with his girlfriend, the effervescent influencer Maggie Thurmon, who\u2019s currently hanging out upstairs. \u201cI\u2019m ready for this year,\u201d he says, breathing deep. \u201cI\u2019m so rested, and my mind is so clear. It\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe had smaller-scale viral songs beforehand, but \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d made him a star, and it\u2019s the kind of uncontrollably huge hit that threatens to overshadow even the artist who recorded it. \u200a\u201cI mean, it\u2019s the reason I\u2019m here,\u201d Boone says. \u201cLike, it is the reason this year has been a big year.\u201d He still performs it with seemingly fresh passion, not that he has a choice, given the way it pushes to the Freddie Mercury-ish top of his considerable vocal range: \u201c\u200aIt\u2019s not really a song you can half-ass, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBut he\u2019s finishing up a new album, tentatively titled <em>American Heart,<\/em> set for spring or summer, and he\u2019s more than ready to move beyond his hit. \u201cI think I\u2019m getting to the point where I just want people to know that there\u2019s more than just that song,\u201d he says. \u201cI think I\u2019m a little past that point. But of course I still love the song. I\u2019m still proud of it. And I\u2019ll be performing it for a while, so I hope that feeling sticks around.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   alignwide size-full alignwide lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-border-a-2\">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-rollingstone-2022\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/R381_KIW_BENSON_TEAL_02_0088_FNL-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"684\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-align-items-center\">\n<\/figcaption><span class=\"lrv-a-font-body-xs lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-font-style-normal lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-padding-t-037\">Outfit by Dsquared. Jewelry by David Yurman.<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tUntil that album drops, he only has two dozen or so released songs, total. So he\u2019s already been slipping in stuff from the new album into his concerts, mostly because he\u2019s dying for up\u00adtempo material to match his onstage athleticism. \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d began as two in-the-works songs jammed together, so it disguises itself as a ballad in its verses before bursting into full-on rock crescendos \u2014 the \u201cplease stay\u201d bit in the chorus even bears an odd resemblance to the \u201chey, wait\u201d chorus of Nirvana\u2019s \u201cHeart-Shaped Box.\u201d The song\u2019s ubiquity underscores 2020s pop\u2019s startling but decisive turn toward guitars and (relatively) live-sounding instrumentation, from Olivia Rodrigo to Teddy Swims, and on his new album, Boone is trying to pick up where that energy left off. \u200a\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tRelated Content<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cA lot of it,\u201d he says, \u201cis very Bruce Springsteen, Americana, like a little more of a retro vibe.\u201d He doesn\u2019t know if he has another world-conquering single this time, but that\u2019s not necessarily the point. \u201cIt \u200aall started with me believing in the song \u2018Beautiful Things.\u2019 Now, I have a whole album just about ready to go \u2014 and I\u2019ve never believed so much in a body of work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe still mostly writes at a baby-grand piano that belonged to his late great-grandmother, which sits in a sunny corner room of his house. His initial songwriting on that instrument reflected a strong Adele and Sam Smith influence, heavy on soulful ballads, including \u201cIn the Stars,\u201d a track mourning the piano\u2019s original owner. \u201cWhen I started, that\u2019s kind of what felt the most comfortable to me,\u201d he says. \u201cNow that I\u2019m finding how I like to perform, and how I want other people to see me, I have so much energy onstage that it is so hard to come with a set of slow songs. It killed me at the beginning \u2019cause I was like, \u2018I want to be doing something cool, but I\u2019m, like, sitting at this piano, singing a song about my dead grandma.\u2019 It was tough!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHis fan base leans young and female, and he\u2019s learned the art of eliciting screams. But the heartthrob thing makes him a little uncomfortable. \u201cI definitely remember there was a time where I would take my shirt off because I didn\u2019t know what else to do,\u201d he says. \u200a\u201cAfter doing a lot of shows, you start to pick up on what people like and don\u2019t like, what girls like and don\u2019t like. There is an art to making anybody go crazy.\u2026 I also don\u2019t want people to come to a show expecting me to just take my shirt off and it to be like a gun show. One, I don\u2019t have the guns for that. Two, that\u2019s just not what I\u2019m about.\u2026 I don\u2019t want to rely on my physical form to be the primary driver of my shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSome of his discomfort, he acknowledges, comes from profound self-consciousness. He\u2019s been working out hard the past few months, and his refrigerator is full of strawberry-vanilla protein shakes. \u201cIt \u200asucks to just focus on that all the time,\u201d he says, his voice softer. \u201cBecause I\u2019m so incredibly hard on myself, and when I start to think about my appearance too much, it just kills me because there\u2019s always something more I could do. There\u2019s always a hairstyle or, like, my arms could be bigger. My shoulders could be bigger. It\u2019s never-ending. I can\u2019t afford to think that way because I will never be happy if I do think that way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote larva \/\/ lrv-a-font-theme-primary lrv-u-border-b-2 lrv-u-border-t-2 lrv-u-margin-a-00 lrv-u-text-align-center u-font-size-60 u-line-height-56 u-padding-b-175 u-padding-t-175 u-padding-lr-2@tablet lrv-a-font-secondary-xxl   \">\n<p>\n\t<!-- disable-pmc_link_tags_to_related_posts-starts --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t be the sex icon of the century,\u201d Boone says. \u201cjust because that\u2019s not who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- disable-pmc_link_tags_to_related_posts-ends --><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSome people wrongly assume that these issues don\u2019t affect male celebrities, I tell him, thinking of the more serious body-image struggles Ed Sheeran shared with me not long ago, or the way D\u2019Angelo recoiled at the demands to take his own shirt off onstage. \u201cDude, it affects me so much,\u201d Boone replies. \u200a\u201cObviously, like, I enjoy working out and I want to keep my physical shape because I need to. But I can\u2019t be the sex icon of the \u00adcentury, just because that\u2019s not who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019M JUST GONNA drive around,\u201d Boone says, steering his SUV around the sleepy development surrounding his house. \u201cWe\u2019re not gonna go anywhere.\u201d We\u2019ve jumped into the car to play some of his new album, which he wrote with one of his \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d collaborators, Jack LaFrantz, over the course of 17 days. He starts with \u201cYoung American Heart,\u201d a surging, Killers-\u00adish song about a near-fatal car accident he got into with his lifelong best friend as a teenager: \u201c\u200aIf I\u2019m gonna die a young American\/And this was the final night we\u2019d ever have again\/I\u2019d be just fine as long as I\u2019m wherever you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-border-a-2\">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-align-items-center\">\n<\/figcaption><span class=\"lrv-a-font-body-xs lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-font-style-normal lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-padding-t-037\">Pants by Dsquared. Boots by Christian Louboutin. Vintage chainlink top. Jewelry by David Yurman.<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tTo get closer to performance mode in the studio, Boone prefers as few encumbrances as possible, so he tends to whip his shirt off, LaFrantz confirms later. \u201cNothing, even clothing, messing up the vocals,\u201d says LaFrantz, who\u2019s become a close friend of Boone\u2019s \u2014 he even had a mustache before him, and thinks he may have inspired the look. \u201cI will not confirm or deny whether pants are also on or not.\u201d In any case, Boone and LaFrantz did their best to pretend the pressure of following up \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d didn\u2019t exist. \u201cThe studio is kind of a sacred spot,\u201d LaFrantz says. \u201cWe always kind of want to keep it feeling like that and not change it because of success or anything else. We tried not to overthink it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBoone plays \u201cMr. Electric Blue,\u201d an ELO-like song about hero-worshipping his dad, a square-jawed dude who works in computers and still can do backflips of his own in his early fifties. \u201cHe\u2019s a man\u2019s man,\u201d he sings. \u201cA good hardworking American\/But he ain\u2019t the guy you want to fight.\u201d The next one, \u201cThe Man in Me,\u201d not to be confused with the Dylan song, is synthier and dancier, and seems to be about a relationship less happy than the one he\u2019s currently in: \u201cYou took the man in me\/You took his sanity.\u201d There\u2019s a ballad about missing his mom, too, \u201cThe Mama Song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe one he thinks will end up being biggest is called \u201cMystical Magical,\u201d a quirky, Seventies-\u00advibed pop song with a hooky R&amp;B bass line, where he pushes his voice so high in the chorus that he compares it to Tiny Tim\u2019s \u201cTiptoe Through the Tulips,\u201d a reference I wasn\u2019t expecting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAnother favorite is \u201cI Wanna Be the One You Call,\u201d an energetic pop song with a surging chorus. It\u2019s a mutated \u00adversion of an earlier, nearly abandoned track Boone didn\u2019t care for at all, with the final \u00adversion developing in a session with frequent Frank Ocean collaborator Malay. \u200a\u201cIt was so quickly just one of my favorite songs I\u2019ve ever made,\u201d Boone says. \u201cI was so shocked. And it came out of nowhere, because the song before was truly, like, so bad. \u200aI think it was the first one we made for the album. So that kind of kicked it off. I got really motivated to make more songs after that, that were of that level to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBoone was a pop fan well before he was a singer. Growing up in rural Monroe, Wash\u00adington, he was an athletic outdoor kid who didn\u2019t even have a cellphone until his late teens. He and his four sisters would clean the kitchen every night to a Pandora playlist based off of \u201cHooked on a Feeling,\u201d which tended to yield hits by Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Queen \u2014 \u201ca very incredible era of music,\u201d says Boone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   alignwide size-full alignwide lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-border-a-2\">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-align-items-center\">\n<\/figcaption><span class=\"lrv-a-font-body-xs lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-font-style-normal lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-padding-t-037\">Top and scarf by YSL. Pants by Ferrari. Necklace by Bulgari.<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAnd he had his own musical obsessions. \u201cI always loved Justin Bieber and One Direction,\u201d he says. \u201cI mean, I was too embarrassed to admit it to my friends.\u201d Did he come to them through his sisters? He shakes his head, a little sheepishly. \u201cHonestly, I was probably a bigger fan of them than any of my sisters.\u201d He and his friend Eric, the one from the \u201cYoung American Heart\u201d car accident, would watch their videos \u201cfor hours.\u201d \u200a\u201cEspecially One Direction,\u201d says Boone. \u201cWe thought being in a boy band was like the coolest thing ever. And this is before I even knew I could sing. I just thought they were so cool. Thinking of hundreds of girls chasing us was probably like the coolest thing ever. But again, you know, we would never tell anybody.\u201d He recalls watching Bieber\u2019s <em>Never Say Never <\/em>documentary with Eric at home, only to \u00adrapidly switch it off when one of his sisters came home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBut in his own life as a pop star, he tends to bristle at comparisons. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be the same as Harry Styles,\u201d he says, \u201cand the same as Freddie Mercury, and the same as Justin Bieber, and the same as One Direction, like, because it\u2019s not me. I\u2019m Benson Boone! I\u2019m completely different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn addition to the whole biggest-song-in-the-world thing, Boone achieved another major distinction last year, becoming one of the only male opening acts on Taylor Swift\u2019s Eras Tour, at a June show at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium. \u201cI didn\u2019t even know much about her,\u201d Boone says. \u201cHer team reached out, and I literally, like, shit my pants. I could not believe it. It was insane, so I started listening to more of her music. I didn\u2019t want to go to that show and not know anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe came away transformed. \u200a\u201cShe is an unbelievable performer and has an unbe\u00adlievable world built around her that is unmatched,\u201d Boone says. \u201cIt is incredible to see how vastly gigantic her show is, just<br \/>countless moving parts behind the scenes that nobody knows about. She is one of a kind. Such a genuine person. I got the privilege to talk to her, for a while, and she\u2019s so kind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAnd she shouted me out onstage, which you do not need to do. It really changed my perspective on so many things that I want to carry into my own career. Just the way I treat people and my crew, watching the way that she treats people. There\u2019s a lot of people who don\u2019t like Taylor Swift. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, But if you have something against her and you don\u2019t know her, I don\u2019t think that is fair.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAT ITS HIDDEN core, \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d is a prayer from a young man in the process of losing the faith of his fathers. Boone grew up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-\u00adday Saints, and his family was devout. \u201cMy faith drives everything that I do and my perspective of what life is about,\u201d his mom told a local newspaper in a 2017 story about his family\u2019s extensive volunteer work. \u201cTo me there is nothing more important than strengthening my family and serving other people. That\u2019s what brings joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-border-a-2\">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-align-items-center\">\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBut currently, Boone says, pacing around his kitchen, \u201c\u200aI don\u2019t want to be a part of one religion. I have my own opinions. Some are from this religion, some are from this religion, some are from no religion.\u201d The break came quietly and early. \u200a\u201cGrowing up, a lot of people at church would talk about these experiences that they\u2019ve had and these personal revelations and feelings and voices. I never felt it as physically present as they did, and so I was always confused and frustrated. I was always scared to bring that up to people because I just didn\u2019t want to accept that, like, I wasn\u2019t feeling what everyone else was feeling.\u201d He eventually admitted it to a friend, who replied, \u201cThank goodness. I feel the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBefore dropping out to pursue music, Boone spent a semester at Brigham Young University, but it was during Covid, so he had no experience of its various on-campus rules \u2014 the dress code, the prohibitions on sex, beards, and cursing. He\u2019s grateful that his feelings about faith haven\u2019t affected his relationship with his parents. \u201c\u200aMy parents definitely have their own views, but when it comes to religion and God, they want me to figure it out on my own,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd whatever I come to, and whatever I feel is right, that\u2019s what they want for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe compares his religious uncertainty to politics, another subject he\u2019s not super eager to get into in detail. \u201c\u200aPeople think if you have one or two views that are on the left or right side, that you have to be the left or on the right. And I don\u2019t think that\u2019s how it is.\u201d He does want to make it clear that calling his album <em>American Heart<\/em> isn\u2019t meant to drag him into any culture wars. \u201cIt\u2019s not political at all,\u201d he says. \u200a\u201cIt\u2019s more of a personal thing. It\u2019s just me. <em>American Heart<\/em> is my heart, and it\u2019s not my heart because it\u2019s American. It\u2019s my heart because I\u2019m Benson Boone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMormon or not, he still doesn\u2019t drink or do drugs. He has at least tried coffee, also for\u00adbidden in the religion. \u201c\u200aThere was a period of time where I really wanted to like coffee,\u201d he says, \u201cand [would] go out to this place in L.A. with Maggie, and I would try sips of her coffee every day and, it literally tastes like burnt wood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe\u2019s convinced he needs to stay away from other substances, for his own good. \u201c\u200aI just think for me personally, like, dude, I would die,\u201d he says. \u201c\u2019Cause I have such an addictive personality. I feel like if I started, I would do it so much that my health would just decline and I wouldn\u2019t enjoy touring as much.\u201d But how does he even know he has an addictive personality? \u201cDude, candy,\u201d he says, as if it should have been obvious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe and his manager and best friend, Jeff Burns, a cocksure thirtysomething who\u2019s also grown a mustache, did used to pound Wild Berry Blast energy drinks while brainstorming the social media strategies that helped launch Boone\u2019s career. \u201cWe would crack those, and that\u2019s what we would call our \u2018scheme time,\u2019\u2009\u201d Boone says. \u201cWe\u2019d \u200adrink those and think that it would get our brains ready to take over the world.\u201d Properly fueled, he would post dozens of TikToks for weeks straight as he sought to make early singles like \u201cGhost Town\u201d break through.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-border-a-2\">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-align-items-center\">\n<\/figcaption><span class=\"lrv-a-font-body-xs lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-font-style-normal lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-padding-t-037\">Shirt by Roberto Cavalli. Vest by Issey Miyake. Pants by Fendi. Shoes by Jimmy Choo. Sunglasses by Dsquared. Jewelry by David Yurman.<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBut if Boone has one real potential vice, he thinks it\u2019s pride. \u201cI think this year has taught me a lot of things, especially that it is incredibly easy to get carried away with my ego,\u201d he says. \u201cAfter \u2018Beautiful Things,\u2019 I was like, \u2018Dude, I can do anything.\u2019 And I can\u2019t.\u201d He has biweekly \u201cego checks\u201d with Burns. \u200a\u201cIt\u2019s good to talk about, \u2018Hey, you know, I\u2019m not the king of the world. I\u2019m not somebody that everybody in the world knows. I\u2019m still an up-and-coming artist.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIt was his mother, though, who really brought that home. \u200a\u201cI said something really snappy to my mom,\u201d he says, wincing at the memory. \u201cI hung up the phone. I was like, \u2018What am I doing? I just snapped at my mother, the sweetest angel of a woman.\u2019 And I felt so bad and I called her like 20 minutes later and I was like, \u2018I\u2019m so sorry. I don\u2019t know what has gotten into me.\u2019\u2009\u201d She suggested that Boone spend some time writing down a list of things he\u2019s grateful for, and lessons learned over the past year. \u201cYou\u2019re going through a lot right now as a 21-year-old kid,\u201d his mom said, \u201cand it\u2019s not normal. Not everybody goes through this. Just take it in for a second.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSo he sat down in an apartment in L.A. and made his list of all the new beautiful things in his life. \u201cIf this is a bigger year than last year, I want to be ready to keep the fabric of who I am,\u201d he says. \u201cJust hold on to everything that I have. If this is a bigger year it will be so easy to get carried away. Again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe\u2019s still thinking about the future a few weeks later, when he\u2019s back in Los Angeles for Grammy week. Fresh from a rehearsal for Clive Davis\u2019 Grammy party, where he will, once again, sing \u201cBeautiful Things,\u201d he\u2019s in the back of a chauffeured SUV headed to his West Hollywood hotel. \u201cRegardless of how my career goes, when I grow up, I don\u2019t think I can ever just chill and not do anything,\u201d he says, gazing out the window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWait a second. When he \u2026 grows up?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe\u2019s exhausted tonight, after spending the intervening weeks touring Japan, South Korea, and Australia. The Grammy performance in two days, the highest-profile appearance of his career so far, is looming large. But for a moment, he manages a smile. \u201cI\u2019m still very much a kid,\u201d Boone says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"production-credits \/\/  lrv-u-border-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2 lrv-u-padding-t-075 u-line-height-1.067\">\n<p class=\"production-credits-title-text \/\/  production-credits-title-text \/\/ lrv-u-display-inline lrv-u-font-family-basic u-font-size-15 lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-font-weight-800 u-letter-spacing-0 u-line-height-16\"> Production Credits<\/p>\n<p class=\"production-credits-markup \/\/ production-credits-markup \/\/ lrv-u-display-inline lrv-u-font-family-body lrv-u-font-size-13 lrv-u-line-height-16 u-letter-spacing-0\"> Styling by <strong>MONTY JACKSON<\/strong> at <strong>A-FRAME AGENCY<\/strong>. Grooming by <strong>MELISSA DEZARTE<\/strong> at <strong>A-FRAME AGENCY<\/strong> using <strong>DYSON<\/strong>. Tailoring by <strong>TATYANA STARAVEROVA<\/strong>. Produced by <strong>PATRICIA BILOTTI<\/strong> at <strong>PBNY PRODUCTIONS<\/strong>. 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