Benson Boone is everywhere. Backflipping off of pianos, performing at the Grammys, cosplaying as Freddie Mercury at Coachella. Watching his meteoric rise to fame has been wild for the whole world, but the asterisk of his once-Mormonism is what fascinates me most.

As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I feel like I get Benson. His prophet-ish name, the way he speaks, his recent Instagram photos with friends who look like For the Strength of Youth counselors – it all feels familiar to me. It might, in fact, be giving me an overinflated sense of connection to him.

I could have sworn I saw Benson last week at Harmons by the fancy coffee. This is possibly just millennial blindness in which any Generation Z white guy with a ’stache looks exactly like Benson to my ey

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