Benson Boone is back at Genius to discuss his latest hit “Beautiful Things,” which has been streamed over 140 million times on Spotify to date. The single is produced by Evan Blair and is Boone’s first global number one hit. The folk-rock tune is a ballad that discusses being in love but constantly being terrified of losing it at the same time. On today’s episode Verified, find out who American Idol alum draws inspiration from and what he wants fans to feel when they listen to his music.
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00:00 The theme of the song is just begging someone to stay.
00:03 It's needing something so badly that you're just terrified to lose it.
00:07 I really love to feel things in a song.
00:16 Like Billy Joel and Adele and Sam Smith and Stevie Wonder and like these
00:20 musicians and artists that like hit you right in the gut.
00:23 That's what I want to do with my music.
00:24 I think I'm now finding my mix, making the lyrics and the melodies feel heartfelt,
00:29 but also trying to give it a little bit of tempo and a little bit of life because that's who I am.
00:35 Beautiful Things was a very good interpretation of who I am.
00:40 [singing]
01:05 I've got pretty awesome parents and I'm very blessed for that.
01:07 When they met this person, they couldn't stop talking about, you know,
01:10 how much they loved the person I was when I was around them.
01:14 When the people in your life that you love welcome with open arms a person
01:20 that you're in love with, it's the best feeling.
01:23 [singing]
01:51 That is a scary thought sometimes that like if someone just doesn't love the person you are,
01:56 like there's not much you can do about that.
01:58 And so a lot is just out of my control and I have to be okay with that.
02:02 Being rejected by this person would really actually really suck.
02:06 That would be the worst feeling and that's in this song like what I'm terrified of.
02:10 Being one of one of the rejects, man.
02:13 [singing]
02:43 The switch up in the song from the verse to the chorus is also like a switch up in my mindset
03:04 where like the verse is explaining you have such a good thing and you've been given like
03:09 this incredible thing in life, this relationship that's beautiful and that you love.
03:13 But then like right when you switch to the chorus, it's like, "Hot damn, I could lose this all."
03:19 [singing]
03:48 It's like I've just said all these good things,
03:50 but I lay here bed and I'm terrified to lose it all.
03:53 It's like it's very true.
03:55 I enjoy my life every day and then I'm about to fall asleep and I'm like, "I might lose it."
03:59 I don't say that casually.
04:01 It's more like, "I might lose it."
04:02 I'll always like be in bed at like midnight, 12, 31 and then I just think.
04:10 I mean it can be basic stuff like I think of like scenarios of like if someone walked in,
04:13 like how cool it would be if I beat them up.
04:15 You know, things like that that you know dudes think about.
04:18 or like the Roman Empire.