The music video for Benson Boone's 'Beautiful Things' reached one billion views on YouTube, marking the singer's first song to reach the milestone.
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The song is many things: comforting, manipulative, cathartic, a little threatening. Most importantly, it is a vessel, which empties out at the... This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter.