Iknew Benson Boone before he was selling out Rocket Arena.

Prior to the days of “Beautiful Things,” Boone’s TikTok-famous hit that has amassed nearly 2.5 billion streams on Spotify since its January 2024 release, I caught the singer taking up softball during the summer of 2023.

I was attending a charity event at the Columbus Clippers stadium — you know, as a Cleveland girl does on a Sunday evening in July. The main attraction was a little Columbus duo called Twenty One Pilots , whose members, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, had both local and national personalities divided into teams for a competitive game of ball. Boone, a sort of nobody, was a silent stunner on Team Tyler. Emphasis on the stunner.

Yes, I thought he was cute, because before I’m a journalist, I’m just a girl. It wasn’t

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