Benson Boone Talks 'Beautiful Things', 'Barbie' and Being a 'Girl Brother'

we are so so excited we have been looking forward to you coming in venson Boon is in the studio what's up everybody John does a new music Friday segment on our show and he really introduced our audience to you back with sugar sweet dude bless your heart man I do I really like that song I remember you came in here and you did a a private performance in our little Lounge down there and I just remember hearing your story and I was like this is the craziest story that like it was like a battle of the bands that you just happened to decide you're able to sing in like you didn't grow up singing right no yeah I kind of grew up more of like a sports outdoors kind of vibe and I thought that's like where my life would go um yeah and then like senior year of high school um a battle of the bands like long story short I was going to play the piano for someone for a band and then their singer quit so I just gave it a shot and like that's kind of when I figured out I could like like sing that is the most wild story to me like I have been singing in my car my whole life I can't even come close to that like what do you mean dude how are you just blessed with that uh dude I I don't I don't I don't know did you ever sing in public before like did people tell you you had a good voice you could carry a tune no like and I would sing in the shower and I know like my my sisters could hear me and my parents could hear me and like it must have like really never sounded good like really not cuz like more of the time it would be like hey quiet down instead of like hey your voice is good so I never like like singing isn't something I ever thought I could really do and especially like anything I thought I would pursue or like like really try to to do make a career crazy cuz when beautiful things came out like I brought that up on the music Friday too and I just remember like even saying out loud I was like this is the craziest song I'm Gonna Hear all year like this is such a wild song I was so hyped on it but my only gripe is this is an impossible song to sing along to dude I sound terrible singing this everyone does it's um before this song came out I was in the car I have like like like six core best friends like like six guys that are just like my rider dies yeah and we were all in the car and we were on like a little road trip um down to San Diego and I played beautiful things um cuz like sometimes I'll show them you know some s that haven't come out yet and they they had listened to it a couple times so they like they knew the chorus dude I'll tell you oh yeah not all of us can say not all of us it's like crazy you were on American Idol cuz this is one of those songs that if someone was on American Idol and they're like I'm going to sing Beautiful Things Benson Boon okay hold on you know it's like when someone says you're gonna sing aele or dreamon or something like this is one of those songs like good luck Kelly Clarkson if she's going to cover this one you know but um but but like that's the thing like if someone there are so many good singers like if someone did like like nail it like they would really nail it and crush it so I I would be very like I would be really excited to hear like that on a show I would be very curious how that would go yeah me too John mentioned American Idol for people that don't know your story so you auditioned back in 2021 around there is around there yeah and then you decided to leave the competition yeah it was like it was during covid and like like the peak of Co and they I think like I've never watched American Idol before like before that so like I didn't know much about it but like they reached out to like people to be on the show I think that time and that was like right when I had started making singing videos and so they were like hey do you want to try American Idol and I was like sure I will give it a shot and like after being there and like like everybody was great don't have anything bad to say just like wasn't my vibe um and I didn't even still like I didn't know if I wanted to do music I just thought it was like a fun thing I had kind of just discovered and so I was like playing around with it um so I also didn't want to like if I ended up going far on the show I didn't want to be there and be like well I don't want to do music so why am I here like I just didn't feel like I deserve to be there really so I stepped away to kind of figure out if I want to actually do it and that's when I started writing like my own music and um the first song I wrote was ghost town and so we like I just yeah ended up teasing that on social media and like that's kind of where everything started and now with Tik Tok and beautiful things it's just it's huge it is a massive song is there a point that you can think of when you thought like okay this is the time this is that moment where this song is going viral like can you pinpoint it time honestly it happened so slowly that like there wasn't one time where I was like oh yeah she's gonna take off it was like the song debuted at number 16 and I and that's the highest I've ever been like that was like I was so so so so excited like could not believe my eyes I was in the top 20 like literally almost cried I I called my mom I was like Mom we're in the top 20 this is the craziest thing I was like so stoked and then like the next couple days it kind of went down and down and down to like 25 26 27 28 and I thought 16 was the best we'd get and so like even that I was like that's the most viral moment I've ever had and then the next week it just went like to number one and like genuinely I still don't think I fully yeah can like process that like truly zero% of me was expecting that like it actually blew my mind it's still taken over my feed what is the coolest thing that you can think of that's happened since that song has had its moment because I feel like I mean you've been blowing up since before then but this is just an entirely new caliber right you have like a number one hit song what's the coolest thing that's happened because of beautiful things um Lana Del re posted on her story yesterday her singing beautiful things and I nearly wet myself yeah that was for sure like a pinnacle moment in my life oh yeah I love Lana Del re her music's fantabulous her voice is incredible I think I meant to say fabulous and fantastic no enjoyed it fantabulous yeah I feel like that could take off that could take off yeah so she did the song Justice though this is one of the covers that like did well and you were like dang that's awesome yeah it was just like yeah little things like that to me are like the I think the coolest thing um and I will say I went um I've never been to an NBA game before until last week and I went uh to a Lakers game and someone got me uh courtside tickets oh wow and genuinely I have just I have never smiled for so long in my life I was like I was sitting there like MGK was across from me with trippy red and I was like I actually just could not believe it I was like on top of the world I was trying not to cheer for both teams cuz I was just so excited just to be there like genuinely the coolest moment of my whole life were you in the Jumbotron I was dude I have I have a video um on the Jumbotron like on my phone because I asked them if they could send it to me oh I didn't even know what to do I was just like smiling at the camera like the whole time do I was so shocked yeah anyway that was like the coolest thing dang I can't even imagine that is so sick back to your family uh you have sisters you have four sisters four yeah so I'm I'm all girls in my family I have two younger sisters so you the only only brother mhm is there what are the best things and what is the worst thing about growing up surrounded by sisters that's a great question um I would say the best thing is like um I don't know something like something like definitely changes you like being surrounded by you know girls 24/7 like not in like some crazy way we're like I understand woman now no like I really don't I never will and I don't expect to but like they like I feel like I'm definitely more emotional and like aware of other people's emotions and my emotions and it helps my songwriting and what I do cuz I like want to be vulnerable with my music and so they just kind of have helped me me a lot with like who I am and like like what I pay attention to um that's great but also you know it was like really helpful for dates and and you know that was always great but um the worst thing maybe there's not a bad thing honestly okay some people would say this is the worst thing I think this is actually another plus to me I like At first like never they they always like my sisters loved the Barbie movies loved like really loved those movies and like I would be like no like I'm a dude like I'm not going to watch these when like actually lowkey I was super into those movies they're really good the story are plot the storyline bro the animation it's crazy I think there's a trend on Tik Tok I think there it was called like girl brothers and it was the difference between dating someone that has sisters like a guy that has sisters compared to a guy who doesn't and I think to point like I remember I related to a lot of that because I don't admit this a lot but like I played with Barbies with my sister growing up you know like I like this is sick those are some of the best times of my life yeah like although the limbs didn't move that much like you could only move them from the shoulders and the thighs like right I still played with them yeah poly Pockets too okay yeah I was we were all into that um but probably probably like the one downside which actually for another reason like ended up being an upside is like I just like didn't have anyone to wrestle you know oh like but I had this best friend grown up his name is Eric we met like our parents are best friends like I was introduced to Eric before I could even speak like we were like six months old and so he has five sisters so we both are just like no brothers so him and I like that's who I wrestled like him and I would just hit each other with sticks and like go climb trees and dig holes in the dirt like get that Brotherly Love yeah so like yes I like I you know didn't have that with with my sisters but like also it it made my relationship with Eric like like something that you know I'll be best friends with him until I die that's probably the reason you have a a firm handshake I noticed that when you came in and right before you came in someone was like oh Benson's on his way like he'll be in the studio in just a minute he's got a firm Shake though like way be ready he's got a sick firm shake and I was like dude I love this that's hilarious I did not wow they they said that that was the only thing that they said about you that's like my first impression of you is he's got a firm shake you know something about that Benson guy yeah he's got a firm Shake here dude and beware he'll squeeze your hand out yeah I can have a bone to pick with you too because the mustache I like so I saw your videos on American Idol right and I saw you from the last two years and you didn't always have it you were kind of like me we had a baby face and then all of a sudden out of nowhere you have this firm like iconic stash dude what's the secret dude it's so crazy you say that cuz like okay my my day to-day I have like you know like a manag you're on a day today my day to-day his name is Ryan okay unbelievable mustache really like truly is that who's with you today yeah for sure you look at him and you're like I feel like your whole crew good stash yeah but like I I like never thought I could grow facial hair and like the fact that you even said that dude genuinely I'm like trying not to blush right now that means that means the world I respect it you look like you could definitely like girl mean stash I don't I I promise it kind of looks like U I feel like I'm just like an Italian Luigi it just it comes in but it doesn't come in full you that's not always the worst thing yeah there's no secret though there's no real secret time yeah all right yeah it took a long time for it not to look like like I'm in middle school you know 100% yeah that's where it mind's at yeah well uh before we let you go I'm sure John is going to feature this next Friday we got new music coming out next Friday oh yeah slow it down wait is that what we're talking about yeah okay you said on you said on your tokage you've only been writing for a few years but slow it down you said is is one of the craziest songs you've ever written yeah so why is this one different what's so crazy about it um genuinely like a lot of the times when I'm in the studio like I always um like when I was starting I was always like what's the craziest chorus I can sing like like where's the biggest moment this can go and I kind of like got away from that but like with this one it's kind of the opposite where like the verse the first verse is the first thing that I wrote to this like I wrote it on my on my piano and just like literally when I wrote the verse I was like dude I don't know what chorus or what ending to this song is going to happen but like this verse is so good that it needs to have something good so this one actually took a while to sound how it how it does and like when when you guys hear it like it took a long time to get there but like it all started with the first verse it's like literally my favorite verse I've ever written lyrics Melodies like the way I i s sung sang song it good enough for me yeah um yeah so like I that just usually doesn't happen and it's like such a personal song to me and like I'm for sure like a big overthinker and and like hopeless romantic and so like slow it down to me is like chill yeah you know but like talking to myself and so I I really do love the meaning of the song and how it sounds and the production and I'm just very proud of of like what what it's become um so truly just just like one of my favorite songs yeah based on the hooks on Tik Tok dude I'm stoked to hear it yeah we we're excited thank you thank you so much for coming in today thank you guys Force to meet you lovely to talk to you both

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Length: 15min 13sec (913 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 14 2024