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In ‘American Heart,’ Benson Boone’s Music Still Isn’t Half as Much Fun as His Image: Album Review
Benson Boone's 'American Heart' album has vocal prowess but comes up short in the song department, with an abundance of mawkish lyrics.
And in his delightful Coachella set, he acknowledged just how ready-made his voice is for rock operas by doing “Bohemian Rhapsody” with Brian May… a promise that Boone could bring back the days when singing like a girl and pure swagger could be complementary, not contradictory. “Mystical Magical” has already been out for a couple months, so you may have already decided how down you are with “moonbeam ice cream”; personally speaking, I’m a sucker for ridiculous language in the service of a silly love song (“get you ready for my polygon” and all that), so it kind of works. “You rode in like a rock ‘n’ roll queen / You brought every living man to their knees,” he begins, and soon enough, he’s progressed to “I’d give up my life for your loving” — it feels more like someone who’s never met a hot woman in a bar imagining what it might be like.
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