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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: The Invaluable Lesson That Writing ‘Beautiful Things’ Taught Benson Boone · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Fans of Benson Boone are probably aware that his breakout hit,
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful Things actually started out as two separate song ideas
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  Speaker 2: before one of his producers, Lafront's Larson, suggested they combine them.
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  Speaker 2: But Larson admits a variety he wasn't necessarily confident that
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  Speaker 2: would work, and he learned a valuable lesson because of it, saying,
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  Speaker 2: this was one of the times where I just blurted
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  Speaker 2: out of thought before second guessing, and I've learned to
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  Speaker 2: try and do that more often. I really think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of magic comes from just saying your ideas before
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  Speaker 2: you talk yourself out of them or think too hard
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  Speaker 2: about them. It's not to say the idea to meld
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  Speaker 2: the two melodies was necessarily easy. Benson Boone, Larsen, and
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  Speaker 2: the rest of their team actually wrote twenty versions of
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  Speaker 2: it before they landed on the version of Beautiful Things
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  Speaker 2: that we know as.
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  Speaker 3: A big hit. His brand new album, American Heart is
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  Speaker 3: out now.
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  Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.