Music Boone presents powerful sponsons and vocals in the Future of Musiccan was the main attraction of the showcase promoted by Rolling Stone in SXSW and showed that it has energy and charism

Article published on March 12, 2025 at Rolling Stone. To read the original in English, click here.

“I’m ready for this year,” he said Benson Boone the Rolling Stone in a January interview for the annual edition of the project Future of Music. “I’m so rested and my mind is so clear. It’s unbelievable.” Booneof course, it is coming out of an important year, with its unstoppable “Beautiful Things” being the most reproduced song in the world in 2024. Now, he works in a new album, American Heart. And made a stop last Tuesday, 11, when it was the main attraction at ShowCase Future of Music on the stage of South by Southwest.

Prior to the somersaults and high vocals, however, there were a night of various sounds in Austin. The night started with DuplexityBeverly Hills’ brothers duo Savannah and Luke Judy. With the support of five musicians, they launched themselves in a mixture of full throat lanes that hung for the alternative and the metal of the nineties – and filled the room with a very epic energy.

“We are transsexual women, p*rra,” he said Jasmine.4.t as you get on stage. Manchester singer and songwriter, England, is the first to sign in the UK with the seal Saddest Factory of Phoebe Bridgersand its LP produced by Boygenius, You are the Morningpresents frank and beautiful songs about the life of a trans woman. Jasmine.4.tfrom shorts and rainbow hair, flanked by a bassist, drummer and singer, reserved time to say what he thinks on stage.

Before singing the title track of the album, she gave a sincere speech with minutes. He talked about taking over as trans and the community he found in Manchester. Also spoke in the name of FILTON 18protesters detained in England due to an invasion at an Israeli weapon factory near Bristol. She talked about the support Austin offers to the trans community, how to go through immigration as a trans woman in Texas can be scary and how she is not allowed to use certain bathrooms in North Carolina – “something no other musician needs to think.”

So: “This is a song called ‘You are the Morning’and I hope you all here can be part of the new morning that is coming and the bright future for trans people. “The music led by the violin really seemed something like a lovely morning. “Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation” It was another highlight – a gently agitated number and with great choirs that you should have in your life (and in your playlists).

The night then went from Manchester to Brooklyn. The next was Laila!a rapper-producer singer who won co-signatures of Tyler, The Creatorbetween others. Still in adolescence, Laila! (which is the daughter of Yaasin Beyalso known as MOS DEF) Leaded the Tiktok Top 50 Parade from Billboard with “Like that!”a self -produced hit, and followed with “Not My Problem”an addictive R&B jam currently with 50 million streams on Spotify. Next to a DJ, Laila! jumped down the stage, played a sampler, sat on a keyboard and took us through the great Gap Year!its fully self -produced album that captures the ups and downs of adolescence.

Hannah Bahng Then he entered the scene and plunged into melancholy and moving songs, full of sadness and honest reflection. Born and created in Sydney, Bahng She is the daughter of South Korean immigrants and initially considered a career at K-pop (her brother Chrisstage name Bang chanis the leader of Stray Kids), but ended up going in another direction. The composer and producer Ellis Miah summarized this direction of Bahng “A new generation of singers and composers who are not afraid of being unique and sometimes even a little peculiar.”

The singer was greeted with shouts and applause while jumping over the songs of her EP The Abysmal -Including the title track, which features the smart verse “F*Ck Me Dead / Yes, I Swear / This is the Beginning of Familiar Ends” (“Me F*From to Death / Yes, I swear / This is the beginning of family purposes”, in translation into Portuguese). Dressed in burgundy leather pants and a white tank top that said “mother”, Bahng presented the crowd with an unprecedented song (“Sweet Satin Boy”) and a cover of Bon Jovi (A sincere interpretation of “Livin ‘on a Prayer”). Behind the scenes, after the set, she talked about how happy she was to be at the showcase and gave adorable stuffed keychains she drew herself.

At this point, the event was crowded, with over 2,700 excited fans with expectation. DJ Honey – Known as DJ de Obamathanks to the shows at the 2012 National Democratic Convention and in the possession of 2013 – maintained the energy rolling all night and launched a particularly f*remix of Charli XCX after Bahng left the stage.

Benson Boone It appeared with a typically stunning costume: a bright jumpsuit with a vest and a matching strip. He started his new deep single, “Sorry I’m here for Someone Else”giving the crowd with the first jump of the night – out of the piano – halfway.

The artist is a classic showman: athletic, charismatic, owner of a remarkable and high capacity voice. In “Drunk in My Mind” – A 2024 song he introduced by asking the crowd, “Have you hated someone before?” He jumped on the piano again; No somersault this time, but showed a stratospheric falsethete.

Part of the charisma of Boone On stage includes working with the public; At one point, he ended up in a long and unexpectedly intense conversation with a single mother who had some not so positive feelings about her ex. The singer presented “Slow It Down” Like “one of my favorite songs I’ve ever created”, and rocked – leading to another piano jump.

THE Rolling Stone, Boone talked about your next album, American Heart. “Much of him,” he says, “has the energy of Bruce SpringsteenAmerican, like a little more than a retro vibe. ” He played a handful of new songs from the album, including “Young American Heart”about an almost fatal car accident that he suffered with a friend as a teenager, and “The Mama Song”a lovely ballad about your mother.

Boone He also noted that “Beautiful Things” “It’s not really a song you can do in half, you know?” In the showcase of Future of MusicHe certainly did not do it in half, climbing the piano for the chorus of “Please, Stay” (“Please,”) while the audience sang with him, then made his last leap of the night – in the middle of the chorus. After “Beautiful Things”, Boone He thanked the public and entered the crowd to tighten his hands. He returned to the stage, gave us a somersault and left with a safe and safe jump – a rising star in the middle of his climb.

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