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Watch: Benson Boone Chases His Next Beautiful Thing (or Maybe an Old One) with New Single
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Benson Boone is following up his Grammy appearance with a new song about the beautiful thing he left behind by leaving someone, but now wishes he hadn't.
The song is accompanied by a video that consists of footage of Boone being made up and posing for photoshoots. At one point he gets his toned torso tended to by a makeup artist as he holds his shirt open.
The same sequence of images repeats several times as the song narrates an O. Henry-type situation in which a narrator describes meeting a new lover at a restaurant after a tense phone call, only for his ex to wander by "with an order of fries," kicking off an emotional spiral that first sees him apologizing for "being here for someone else" but then, when the new girlfriend arrives, twists into the same lyric being used as a breakup line.
The narrator runs out of the establishment in pursuit of the ex, for whom he still carries a flame: "I can't lose you again, not again, not again, not again!"
iHeartRadio shared the new video, noting that "Benson is coming off of a whirlwind year as his hit single 'Beautiful Things' went 5x Platinum and garnered nearly 3.5 billion streams since its release."
What's more, that single "helped earn him a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist," iHeartRadio added.
Speaking of awards, "Boone is nominated for six iHeartRadio Music Awards this year for Song of the Year, Pop Song of the Year, Best Lyrics, and Best Music Video for 'Beautiful Things,' as well as Best New Pop Artist and Favorite Tour Tradition (for his impressive signature backflips)," iHeartRadio noted.
Check out the new single below.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.