At this point, Benson Boone seems to have it all. He has a hit song, a hit album, a musical method that’s working, and a nice actress/social media sensation girlfriend who happily works with her Dad. Now, all he needs to do is get some rest…
One night, soon after he moved to Los Angeles, Benson Boone couldn’t sleep. Lying awake, he had no idea what to do. It was too late to go out, and watching late night TV or doom-scrolling wasn’t the best option either. In this fateful bout with insomnia, he decided to make music.
He had just moved his late grandmother’s piano into his home, so he went downstairs and started playing, and it wasn’t long before he had conjured the melody for his smash song “Beautiful Things.” After that twilight turn on the keys, he took the melody to a recording session, and that session took Boone to a #1 single that currently has over 1.5 billion streams at the time of this writing. It was nominated for an MTV VMA, and it catalyzed into Boone’s opening slot for Taylor Swift on a portion of her global Eras Tour. Needless to say, his restless night paid off, and now solitary late nights are a staple of the 22-year-old pop star’s writing process...
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