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Benson Boone Can Be Your Anything
His approach to songwriting won’t change pop music, but it is a recipe for sticking around.
It opens as a confessional pop-folk song in the vein of Noah Kahan or Zach Bryan, before morphing into a rough-edged anthem inspired by his mentor, Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons, with flashes of Harry Styles ’s neo-classic rock. Taylor Swift, a fellow maximalist, has even recognized his success, tapping Boone to open her London show on June 23 (after he already performed with Lana Del Rey during her Hangout Festival set). After Boone declined a spot in the top 24, he released his own vaguely emotional piano ballad, “Ghost Town.” That song showed his possible multi-quadrant appeal, traveling from TikTok to adult-contemporary radio and just barely cracking the Hot 100.
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