March 11, 2024 • 12 mins
Benson Boone joined Crystal Rosas via Zoom to talk about his latest single 'Beautiful Things'. He has been getting a lot of positive reactions from it and is getting ready to do a world tour!
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(00:00):
Benson. Now you're coming on sayingyou remember me. I remember you.
You were like basically shirtless in ourstudio. That sounds very on brand,
and we were here for how thechest are doing? You know, it's
it's going pretty well. I actuallyjust recently shaved my chest hair for the
first time. I was doing aphoto shoot and I was like, you
(00:22):
know what, now that I have, you know, a nice set of
chest air, I should probably getrid of it because I'm trying to look
nice and clean cut for this video. So yeah, you know, I'm
not gonna like brag about it oranything, but like you know, I
I had it was so long.I had just shave it so long.
(00:45):
Now you flexing the length of thechestair. But also, how did you
feel after it was gone? Likethat's a big thing for you to for
the first time to shave your chestYeah. No, yeah, it was
cold. Yeah yeah. And butI'm you know what, it'll grow back
and it's already starting to. Iwould show you, but I don't think
(01:06):
you'd be able to see it oncamera. Okay, I would encourage you
to, but I don't think myboyfriend would like that. Anyways. What
I do want to say, though, is you've been handing the gym.
Let's talk about your shirt list,mirror selfie and that six pack. Wow,
that thank you so much. ButI have not been hitting the gym.
I actually have and I started workingout yet, so I start next
(01:27):
week. So you haven't been hittingthe gym, you just have a six
packs. It sounds so cocky ifI just said yeah, but like,
but I guess so I just youknow, I haven't. I have been
very fortunate with you know, whatevermy mother and father did. But they
(01:51):
did something. And you know what, it'll it'll get better as I work
out. Let's we'll come back.We'll come back next year and I will
have been working out for you knowwhat, eight nine months. You're not
even gonna recognize me. Chest hairwill be the least of my problems.
It just it's yeah, I'll bea whole new man. Bro. This
(02:14):
started off off in a hilarious note, So take that. I know you're
talking about the music, but weneed to get the most important things out
the place for right. But no, really, you have blown up.
Congratulations because this single, Beautiful Things, we are playing it on the New
Hitlist NonStop, and yo, youreally didn't with this one. I mean,
(02:37):
you've been doing it, but thereception you've been getting, how are
you feeling? I think processing likehow the song is doing has been like
kind of weird for me, Likeit's kind of hard to fully understand like
how it's doing. I just likebeing fully transparent, Like I didn't know
(03:00):
the song could even do this well. I really didn't, and so I
was not expecting this. I thoughtit would definitely like do well in terms
of like how some of my othersongs have done, and like I thought
it would do, you know,hopefully better than most. But like,
uh, it's like it went numberone, and that's like what it has
(03:24):
been one of my biggest goals likefor I mean two and a half years.
So I just I don't even knowwhat to say. It's just it's
blowing my mind, truly. Thevideo already has ten million views on YouTube.
People are recreating it. The LittleKitty reposted who did a whole thing
for the stash included bro I wasso cute, so cute, so much
(03:47):
to love. I also saw likethis viral clip that was going crazy on
YouTube, shorts of Katie Perry predictingyour success when you hit American Idol and
sing for her that Oh my gosh, yeah, I really forget about that
sometimes. It's been a long timesince then, but yeah, we've come
(04:10):
a long ways. Like I can'tbelieve I had just I'd never even tried
to write a song at that atthat point. So it's just like so
much has changed, and especially thelast couple of months, like and this
has been a very big moment.So I'm just trying to write it the
best I can and stay on topof things and you know, be ready
(04:30):
for more more like you and JimmyKimmel performing your song. Bro. That's
huge to congrattle, is that,like thank you? It was Actually I've
done a couple like late night shows, and honestly, I hope none of
the hosts watched this, but likethat was the best one for sure,
(04:51):
because like a lot of other likeyou know, a lot of the other
ones, it's like people with headsetsand they're like, well, you you
got to be here, here here. If you're a minute late, we
can't do the show. And I'mlike, okay, okay, I'm just
a dude with no chest there.But but this one was like they were
so laid back and chill and likejust wanted me to like be in my
(05:12):
own zone. And we're like,hey, we'll take it at your own
pace, like let's try and beready by this time, but like until
then, she's like relax and itwas just so nice. It was it
was great. I had such agood time, such a good performance,
Like we felt it when you're onstage and everyone was swooning. So good
to see you in your elements andfrom last year, congrats you got you're
(05:32):
in a house now and you're recordingin your house. What's that like?
Big moves. It's been pretty nice. I just like having my own space
has definitely been a game changer forme, Like having my own piano that
I can just come down to anytimethat I like, and honestly, like
(05:54):
that's helped, right, I meanthat helped. That's why Beautiful Things existed,
Like I wrote it on this piano, and like all the songs that
you're going to hear in the nextcouple months, like most of them started
out just on this piano. Andso it's it's been really nice for me
to just like feel the freedom ofbeing able to write anytime. It doesn't
(06:16):
have to just be in a sessionand back to the house was like the
hardest part about living on your ownin your own space for you, Like,
what do you hate doing? I'lltell you what I hate it.
Rained here a bunch in La Andlet me tell you I'm from I'm from
I'm from Seattle. So like rain, no problem. Like here though,
(06:38):
bro, people don't know how todrive in the rain. This city is
not built for the rain. Itjust everything falls apart when it rains.
And my house was one of thosethings. The ceiling was starting to had
like one of those huge water buttlike water pockets like that you could I
mean, if I could just popit in, water would come pouring out.
(07:00):
I did pop it, and waterdid come pouring out. And it
was just like such a circus inhere. Man trying to figure out like
all of the water leaking from everywhere. And so that's life though. So
the my buddy Ryan helps me.Yeah, he is a real one.
(07:25):
So we just yeah, dude,my couch, My couch got ruined because
of that water hole. Yeah yeah, it was in your living room.
I know it really sucked, butyou know what good learning experience. Now
it won't happen again, we're havinga guy come and like seal up the
(07:47):
place that it flooded from. Sowe're all good now, okay, good,
And we can always get a newcouch, even though those are the
most expensive things to buy. Youknow, I got a really good deal
on that couch, so I like, I'm not super worried about it.
Oh okay, we're saying with thatone. They also want to say congrats,
So bro, for real on tour, You're going world wind on your
(08:13):
own tour, and it's you awhole bunch of cities, a whole bunch
of different countries. I mean,you're you must be really geeked for this
because so many people want to seeyou. I'm I'm really excited for this
tour. It will be like it'sit's quite a bit bigger than my last
one. And I've only done onetour before, so it's like, you
know, I don't have like crazyexperience, but like, I am stoked
(08:37):
for this tour and I think itwill be really special. And a lot
of these rooms I keep hearing frompeople like these are just like great rooms
to play. The agents killed itand I'm just excited to be back out
on the road again, truly withmy friends. So many people want to
see you on tour perform beautiful things. How do you feel when people are
(08:58):
loving the new music you pull out? You know, it's kind of just
I just kind of feel like gladthat they even like it, because like,
if they didn't like it, I'vegot couldn't be mad at them,
you know, like if they justhated beautiful Things, it's not their fault
(09:20):
they hate. It's just their opinion. So like, I'm just glad,
you know, people aren't hating it. I'm sure there are people that hate
it, but like most I guesspeople from what I've seen, haven't,
So I'm just I'm just grateful.We feel the passion all the work that
you're doing. Congratulations again. Iknow that you're really consumed with music.
(09:41):
When you're winding down, though,have you been watching stuff on Netflix?
YouTube? Streaming? Playing video games? What do you like to do when
I'm winding down? Usually usually,like, I really like to be in
the mountains, but there's not alot of great mountains here to be in
where there's no other people. SoI did start watching a show. I
(10:05):
started watching Errow. Have you everwatched Arrow? Such a good show.
It's like I think it's a CWshow. It's a superhero show. Yeah,
you know what that sounds really childlikeof me. Okay, I just
shaved my chest for the first time, and so nothing I do is like
actually childlike. Okay, it's anadult superhero movie show, and I'm watching
(10:31):
it because you know, just youknow, I'm just enjoying myself. Yeah,
just to get away from the realworld. It's okay to watch superheroestop.
It's all good. All the thingswe like. I I you know,
I fixed my house by myself.You know, I have a mustache.
Now. I'm just you know,really just embracing my manhood. Don't
(10:58):
wait to come for that to comethrough with the album Anopural. Also,
lastly, Valentine's Day is coming up? Any plants or Valentine's Day? Oh
that's a great question. I gota couple of plans, but in case
it's certain someone is watching this,I can't share them. Okay, okay,
(11:18):
okay, So we have someone inmind. And some things are you
like a big on the gifts orbig on the experience and the time.
It's kind of both because like mykind of gifts like I'm not like trying
to just like spend you know,ten grant and just have this big thing
and no, like I would ratherlike make something special or like make something
(11:41):
that takes time to make or thathas thought behind it. So it's kind
of a combination of both. Ithink that's fair. I love that for
you, and I love that forwhoever is going to send some times day
with you again, Benston Boom,congratulations on Beautiful Things and everything you have
(12:01):
coming up and tour. We haveso many people on the new hitlists that
are listening to Beautiful Things right now. What do you have to say to
that person? You know what?I honestly just hope you guys relate to
this song like I do love themelodies and how I sung the song,
but like I hope the lyrics justmean something to you guys. So thank
(12:24):
you for listening. I appreciate youall, and I will hopefully see you
on tour. Bensent, this isperfect. Thank you so much for a
spending a few minutes just to hangout. I can't wait for you to
come back to New York. Wecan do some Person again. Okay,
I would love that. I wouldlove that
Benson. Now you're coming on sayingyou remember me. I remember you.
You were like basically shirtless in ourstudio. That sounds very on brand,
and we were here for how thechest are doing? You know, it's
it's going pretty well. I actuallyjust recently shaved my chest hair for the
first time. I was doing aphoto shoot and I was like, you
(00:22):
know what, now that I have, you know, a nice set of
chest air, I should probably getrid of it because I'm trying to look
nice and clean cut for this video. So yeah, you know, I'm
not gonna like brag about it oranything, but like you know, I
I had it was so long.I had just shave it so long.
(00:45):
Now you flexing the length of thechestair. But also, how did you
feel after it was gone? Likethat's a big thing for you to for
the first time to shave your chestYeah. No, yeah, it was
cold. Yeah yeah. And butI'm you know what, it'll grow back
and it's already starting to. Iwould show you, but I don't think
(01:06):
you'd be able to see it oncamera. Okay, I would encourage you
to, but I don't think myboyfriend would like that. Anyways. What
I do want to say, though, is you've been handing the gym.
Let's talk about your shirt list,mirror selfie and that six pack. Wow,
that thank you so much. ButI have not been hitting the gym.
I actually have and I started workingout yet, so I start next
(01:27):
week. So you haven't been hittingthe gym, you just have a six
packs. It sounds so cocky ifI just said yeah, but like,
but I guess so I just youknow, I haven't. I have been
very fortunate with you know, whatevermy mother and father did. But they
(01:51):
did something. And you know what, it'll it'll get better as I work
out. Let's we'll come back.We'll come back next year and I will
have been working out for you knowwhat, eight nine months. You're not
even gonna recognize me. Chest hairwill be the least of my problems.
It just it's yeah, I'll bea whole new man. Bro. This
(02:14):
started off off in a hilarious note, So take that. I know you're
talking about the music, but weneed to get the most important things out
the place for right. But no, really, you have blown up.
Congratulations because this single, Beautiful Things, we are playing it on the New
Hitlist NonStop, and yo, youreally didn't with this one. I mean,
(02:37):
you've been doing it, but thereception you've been getting, how are
you feeling? I think processing likehow the song is doing has been like
kind of weird for me, Likeit's kind of hard to fully understand like
how it's doing. I just likebeing fully transparent, Like I didn't know
(03:00):
the song could even do this well. I really didn't, and so I
was not expecting this. I thoughtit would definitely like do well in terms
of like how some of my othersongs have done, and like I thought
it would do, you know,hopefully better than most. But like,
uh, it's like it went numberone, and that's like what it has
(03:24):
been one of my biggest goals likefor I mean two and a half years.
So I just I don't even knowwhat to say. It's just it's
blowing my mind, truly. Thevideo already has ten million views on YouTube.
People are recreating it. The LittleKitty reposted who did a whole thing
for the stash included bro I wasso cute, so cute, so much
(03:47):
to love. I also saw likethis viral clip that was going crazy on
YouTube, shorts of Katie Perry predictingyour success when you hit American Idol and
sing for her that Oh my gosh, yeah, I really forget about that
sometimes. It's been a long timesince then, but yeah, we've come
(04:10):
a long ways. Like I can'tbelieve I had just I'd never even tried
to write a song at that atthat point. So it's just like so
much has changed, and especially thelast couple of months, like and this
has been a very big moment.So I'm just trying to write it the
best I can and stay on topof things and you know, be ready
(04:30):
for more more like you and JimmyKimmel performing your song. Bro. That's
huge to congrattle, is that,like thank you? It was Actually I've
done a couple like late night shows, and honestly, I hope none of
the hosts watched this, but likethat was the best one for sure,
(04:51):
because like a lot of other likeyou know, a lot of the other
ones, it's like people with headsetsand they're like, well, you you
got to be here, here here. If you're a minute late, we
can't do the show. And I'mlike, okay, okay, I'm just
a dude with no chest there.But but this one was like they were
so laid back and chill and likejust wanted me to like be in my
(05:12):
own zone. And we're like,hey, we'll take it at your own
pace, like let's try and beready by this time, but like until
then, she's like relax and itwas just so nice. It was it
was great. I had such agood time, such a good performance,
Like we felt it when you're onstage and everyone was swooning. So good
to see you in your elements andfrom last year, congrats you got you're
(05:32):
in a house now and you're recordingin your house. What's that like?
Big moves. It's been pretty nice. I just like having my own space
has definitely been a game changer forme, Like having my own piano that
I can just come down to anytimethat I like, and honestly, like
(05:54):
that's helped, right, I meanthat helped. That's why Beautiful Things existed,
Like I wrote it on this piano, and like all the songs that
you're going to hear in the nextcouple months, like most of them started
out just on this piano. Andso it's it's been really nice for me
to just like feel the freedom ofbeing able to write anytime. It doesn't
(06:16):
have to just be in a sessionand back to the house was like the
hardest part about living on your ownin your own space for you, Like,
what do you hate doing? I'lltell you what I hate it.
Rained here a bunch in La Andlet me tell you I'm from I'm from
I'm from Seattle. So like rain, no problem. Like here though,
(06:38):
bro, people don't know how todrive in the rain. This city is
not built for the rain. Itjust everything falls apart when it rains.
And my house was one of thosethings. The ceiling was starting to had
like one of those huge water buttlike water pockets like that you could I
mean, if I could just popit in, water would come pouring out.
(07:00):
I did pop it, and waterdid come pouring out. And it
was just like such a circus inhere. Man trying to figure out like
all of the water leaking from everywhere. And so that's life though. So
the my buddy Ryan helps me.Yeah, he is a real one.
(07:25):
So we just yeah, dude,my couch, My couch got ruined because
of that water hole. Yeah yeah, it was in your living room.
I know it really sucked, butyou know what good learning experience. Now
it won't happen again, we're havinga guy come and like seal up the
(07:47):
place that it flooded from. Sowe're all good now, okay, good,
And we can always get a newcouch, even though those are the
most expensive things to buy. Youknow, I got a really good deal
on that couch, so I like, I'm not super worried about it.
Oh okay, we're saying with thatone. They also want to say congrats,
So bro, for real on tour, You're going world wind on your
(08:13):
own tour, and it's you awhole bunch of cities, a whole bunch
of different countries. I mean,you're you must be really geeked for this
because so many people want to seeyou. I'm I'm really excited for this
tour. It will be like it'sit's quite a bit bigger than my last
one. And I've only done onetour before, so it's like, you
know, I don't have like crazyexperience, but like, I am stoked
(08:37):
for this tour and I think itwill be really special. And a lot
of these rooms I keep hearing frompeople like these are just like great rooms
to play. The agents killed itand I'm just excited to be back out
on the road again, truly withmy friends. So many people want to
see you on tour perform beautiful things. How do you feel when people are
(08:58):
loving the new music you pull out? You know, it's kind of just
I just kind of feel like gladthat they even like it, because like,
if they didn't like it, I'vegot couldn't be mad at them,
you know, like if they justhated beautiful Things, it's not their fault
(09:20):
they hate. It's just their opinion. So like, I'm just glad,
you know, people aren't hating it. I'm sure there are people that hate
it, but like most I guesspeople from what I've seen, haven't,
So I'm just I'm just grateful.We feel the passion all the work that
you're doing. Congratulations again. Iknow that you're really consumed with music.
(09:41):
When you're winding down, though,have you been watching stuff on Netflix?
YouTube? Streaming? Playing video games? What do you like to do when
I'm winding down? Usually usually,like, I really like to be in
the mountains, but there's not alot of great mountains here to be in
where there's no other people. SoI did start watching a show. I
(10:05):
started watching Errow. Have you everwatched Arrow? Such a good show.
It's like I think it's a CWshow. It's a superhero show. Yeah,
you know what that sounds really childlikeof me. Okay, I just
shaved my chest for the first time, and so nothing I do is like
actually childlike. Okay, it's anadult superhero movie show, and I'm watching
(10:31):
it because you know, just youknow, I'm just enjoying myself. Yeah,
just to get away from the realworld. It's okay to watch superheroestop.
It's all good. All the thingswe like. I I you know,
I fixed my house by myself.You know, I have a mustache.
Now. I'm just you know,really just embracing my manhood. Don't
(10:58):
wait to come for that to comethrough with the album Anopural. Also,
lastly, Valentine's Day is coming up? Any plants or Valentine's Day? Oh
that's a great question. I gota couple of plans, but in case
it's certain someone is watching this,I can't share them. Okay, okay,
(11:18):
okay, So we have someone inmind. And some things are you
like a big on the gifts orbig on the experience and the time.
It's kind of both because like mykind of gifts like I'm not like trying
to just like spend you know,ten grant and just have this big thing
and no, like I would ratherlike make something special or like make something
(11:41):
that takes time to make or thathas thought behind it. So it's kind
of a combination of both. Ithink that's fair. I love that for
you, and I love that forwhoever is going to send some times day
with you again, Benston Boom,congratulations on Beautiful Things and everything you have
(12:01):
coming up and tour. We haveso many people on the new hitlists that
are listening to Beautiful Things right now. What do you have to say to
that person? You know what?I honestly just hope you guys relate to
this song like I do love themelodies and how I sung the song,
but like I hope the lyrics justmean something to you guys. So thank
(12:24):
you for listening. I appreciate youall, and I will hopefully see you
on tour. Bensent, this isperfect. Thank you so much for a
spending a few minutes just to hangout. I can't wait for you to
come back to New York. Wecan do some Person again. Okay,
I would love that. I wouldlove that
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