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Benson Boone Reveals the Powerful Songwriting Lesson Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds Taught Him · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest Beautiful Things. Singer Benson
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  Speaker 1: Boone has had one of the more unique paths to
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  Speaker 1: music start him in quite some time. He didn't even
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  Speaker 1: know he could sing until he got dared into his
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  Speaker 1: high school's talent show his senior year and won it,
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  Speaker 1: and a year later, in twenty twenty one, he found
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  Speaker 1: himself an American Idol's Top twenty four before dropping out
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  Speaker 1: because he wasn't sure about his path in music, but
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  Speaker 1: he built a TikTok following powered by his talent, which
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  Speaker 1: caught the attention of Imagine Dragon's frontman Dan Reynolds, who
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  Speaker 1: flew him to Vegas to learn to write, and that
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  Speaker 1: trip changed Benson's life, he was telling Variety after those
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  Speaker 1: three days observing, the first song I wrote on my
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  Speaker 1: own was ghost Town, which would go on to become
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  Speaker 1: Benson's first charting song. He adds, figuring out how to
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  Speaker 1: write music is definitely a very personal thing. Everybody does
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  Speaker 1: it differently, and it's taken me a long time to
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  Speaker 1: figure out the way I like to write the most.
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  Speaker 1: I was very grateful that Dan let me watch and
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  Speaker 1: see what he does and let me have this space
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  Speaker 1: to do my own thing, on my own Benson Boone's
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful Things that's out now, that's direct from Hollywood