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Grammys 2025: Benson Boone Apologizes for Grabbing Crotch “So Aggressively” During Performance
Benson Boone doesn’t find organized religion a peculiarly beauteous thing.
The “Beautiful Things” singer, who hails from Monroe, Washington, precocious elaborate however it felt to turn up successful the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and wherever helium presently stands with his Mormon faith.
“Growing up, a batch of radical astatine religion would speech astir these experiences that they’ve had and these idiosyncratic revelations and feelings and voices,” Benson explained to Rolling Stone successful a illustration published March 11. “I ne'er felt it arsenic physically contiguous arsenic they did, and truthful I was ever confused and frustrated. I was ever frightened to bring that up to radical due to the fact that I conscionable didn’t privation to judge that, like, I wasn’t feeling what everyone other was feeling.”
It took a person who also grew up Mormon to soothe his anxiousness astir the predicament, with the 22-year-old noting that aft helium opened up connected his concerns, his person told him, “‘Thank goodness, I consciousness the aforesaid way.’”
Now, Benson is pursuing a much secular narration with his faith.
"I don’t privation to beryllium a portion of 1 religion,” helium shared. “I person my ain opinions. Some are from this religion, immoderate are from this religion, immoderate are from nary religion.”
And portion his parents are inactive devout successful their ain faith, Benson noted that helium doesn’t consciousness pushed to travel suit.
“My parents decidedly person their ain views, but erstwhile it comes to religion and God, they privation maine to fig it retired connected my own,” helium added. “And immoderate I travel to, and immoderate I consciousness is right, that’s what they privation for me.”
Of course, Benson admitted, determination are remnants of his Mormon upbringing successful his day-to-day life. For one, he’s lone tried coffee—a forbidden substance successful the Church of Latter-day Saints—a fewer times, telling Rolling Stone it “tastes similar burnt wood.”
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Other than that, though, helium has opted to enactment distant from different substances similar drugs and intoxicant that are besides forbidden, saying, “I conscionable deliberation for maine personally, like, dude, I would die.”
Indeed, Benson said his “addictive” personality has kept him from indulging, adding, “I would bash it truthful overmuch that my wellness would conscionable diminution and I wouldn’t bask touring arsenic much.”
As for however the “Slow It Down” vocalist knows helium has a penchant for compulsive indulgence? He joked, “Dude, candy.”
To larn much astir Benson and different artists taking the satellite by storm, support reading...
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Sabrina Carpenter
A decennary aft playing Maya on Disney Channel’s Girl Meets World, Sabrina is now working late, ’cause she’s a singer. With hits similar “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” nether her belt, the 25-year-old solidified herself arsenic a bona fide popular princess with her 2024 album Short n’ Sweet.
Before embarking connected her planetary circuit of the aforesaid name, she spent a full batch of clip successful the institution of popular royalty arsenic the opening enactment for Taylor Swift on The Eras Tour. Now, she’s a six-time Grammy nominee arsenic she’s besides up for Record of the Year and Album of the Year.
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Chappell Roan
Good luck, babe! The breakout synth-pop artist—whose commencement sanction is Kayleigh Rose Amstutz—is up for six Grammys for her breakthrough 2023 album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, which is simply a motion to her upbringing successful Willard, Missouri.
Indeed, the past twelvemonth has marked rather a whirlwind travel for the artist, whose latest medium is afloat of hits like “HOT TO GO!” and “Casual.” But the opus that has everyone warring the impulse to get up and creation is the 26-year-old’s 2024 azygous “Good Luck, Babe!"
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Shaboozey
The "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" singer is different creator who has had rather the year—in the state abstraction and beyond. For starters, his deed single—an interpolation of J-Kwon’s 2004 deed has gone certified platinum, and became a staple connected the vigor airwaves.
And past Shaboozey—born Collins Obinna Chibueze with his signifier sanction borrowing from a mispronunciation of his past name—collaborated with Beyoncé on 2 songs for her Cowboy Carter album: "SPAGHETTII" and "SWEET HONEY BUCKIIN."
Known for bridging the spread betwixt state euphony and hip-hop, this Virginia autochthonal is besides nominated for Song of the Year and Best Melodic Rap Performance.
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Benson Boone
While helium wasn’t named the adjacent American Idol successful 2021, the play 19 alum has made a sanction for himself conscionable the same. The 21-year-old made waves with ballads “In the Stars” and “Ghost Town.” But it was his azygous “Beautiful Things”—which became a much-used dependable connected TikTok—that changeable to the apical of the charts this twelvemonth and landed him a deserved spot successful this category.
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Teddy Swims
It’s been 5 years since the 32-year-old dropped a screen of Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved” connected Spotify. Now, Teddy (real name Jaten Collin Dimsdale) is taking disconnected for his ain hits, including “Lose Control,” “The Door” and “Hammer to the Heart,” each connected his 2023 album, I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1).
The artist, who hails from Atlanta, blends genres of R&B, soul, state and popular into his music.
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Raye
Go up and just hold those Oscar winning tears, due to the fact that the British euphony sensation is Grammy-bound. The R&B and jazz singer took the euphony satellite by tempest with the merchandise of her 2022 azygous “Escapism,” which went mega-viral connected TikTok and ended up connected her 2023 album My 21st Century Blues alongside “Oscar Winning Tears” and “Worth it.”
In the fewer abbreviated years following, Hollywood has hopped on-board the Raye bandwagon. For Halloween 2024, vocalist Christina Aguilera dressed up arsenic the performer, sporting a bouncy bob and bejeweled gown. In summation to Best New Artist, the arrogant South London-native is besides nominated for Songwriter of the Year.
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Doechii
Though her 2020 opus "Yucky Blucky Fruitcake" made for an instant deed online, that was acold from the lone azygous that helped the 26-year-old summation a monolithic fanbase. With hits similar “Crazy,” “Persuasive" and “What It Is,” the Tampa autochthonal has proven herself arsenic a unit to beryllium reckoned with—as evidenced by her 2025 Grammy information for Best New Artist.
In fact, with the merchandise of her medium Alligator Bites Never Heal, the timing was cleanable for Grammy submissions, confirming her introduction to Rolling Stone, with an ecstatic: “Yes. Yes, yes, yes.”
“Curating it, I went successful with the volition of context,” she told the work successful September. “That was a large happening for me. Sometimes projects tin consciousness agelong erstwhile there’s nary discourse to what you’re talking about. There’s nary communicative oregon nary narration to physique on. I felt similar it was indispensable for maine to archer my communicative successful item and successful galore antithetic ways, done galore antithetic beats. And it was important for america to spell successful chronological bid of what has happened to me, however that has made maine feel, however I overcame it, and wherever I americium now.”
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Khruangbin
The philharmonic trio from Houston, Texas, made waves aft gathering and performing unneurotic successful 2004. But it would beryllium their 2015 debut medium The Universe Smiles Upon You released by the group—comprised of guitarist Mark Speer, bassist Laura Lee and drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson—that would instrumentality the euphony satellite by storm.
But it’s the band’s latest medium A La Sala that has them getting backmost to “a simpler and much heartfelt place.”
“We felt similar what we ended up making was an medium that was truly intimate and idiosyncratic betwixt the 3 of us,” Lee told Elle successful April. We’re similar a household and ‘a la sala’ was thing that I utilized to accidental to my ain household erstwhile I was 3 oregon 4 years aged to get everybody to spell to the surviving country and beryllium together. I would conscionable tally astir the location and shriek it. So, this felt similar that sentiment.”
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