Benson Boone knows that not everyone is going to have beautiful things to say about him, but he’d at least like his haters to have constructive criticism to offer.
In a recent TikTok, the singer-songwriter vented about people who leave hate comments without backing them up. “If you hate me or my music at least have a good reason for it,” he wrote in text layered over a video of him sitting in a dark room, looking down at the camera.
“I just read a comment that said ‘idek why I hate Benson Boone but it feels right,’” he continued. “Like WHAT!!? how am I supposed to improve after reading that? At least say something valid like ‘he low key just flips everywhere can he [do] anything else?’ or even ‘I just don’t like his songs even though I’m basing my opinion off the only one that I’ve heard over and over’ (super valid)”
To Boone’s point, he’s objectively best known — if not for his tendency to perform backflips on stage, like at the 2025 Grammys — for his Billboard Hot 100 No. 2 hit “Beautiful Things.” At the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards in March, the Washington-born star won song of the year for the smash.
One fan in the comments posited that the song’s popularity might have given Boone a case of overexposure. “i feel like sometimes when a radio overplays a song a LOT like beautiful things for example it can ruin the song and therefore the artist by proxy, without it having to do anything w you directly,” they wrote, to which the musician replied, “Honestly this is so true!!”
The post comes as the young star is preparing to release his next studio album, American Heart, in June. In a March cover story interview with Rolling Stone, Boone opened up about starting this next chapter following the success of “Beautiful Things,” sharing, “I think this year has taught me a lot of things, especially that it is incredibly easy to get carried away with my ego.”
“After ‘Beautiful Things,’ I was like, ‘Dude, I can do anything.’ And I can’t,’” he continued. “It’s good to talk about, ‘Hey, you know, I’m not the king of the world. I’m not somebody that everybody in the world knows. I’m still an up-and-coming artist.’ ”
See Boone’s TikTok below.
