American Heart

 9 February 2026

A Hearty Album

Dear Listeners,

In modern culture, hearts are a symbol of love and what gives us strength. This is really what music in 2025 was about, creating an amazing year of music. With artists like Taylor Swift, Laufey, Sabrina Carpenter, and Conan Gray all releasing new albums. Of all of the music released, one of the best was Benson Boone’s new album; American Heart. This album includes everything from mindless pop that’ll have you dancing to the beat, to deeply emotional and poignant music that’ll bring you to tears. In addition, this album is truly one of the best pop albums of all time. In this review, I’ll break down each different song and tell you what makes it iconic and deserve a place in the albums that are the best of all time. Then, I’ll rate my favorite songs in the album from 1(horrendous) to 10(outstanding).

Overall, this album is one that you’ll listen to a lot. Personally, I listened to this album at least seven times. That’s not even counting the amount of times I’ve listened to individual songs in the album. For example, I’ve probably listened to “Mystical Magical” at least 150 times since it was released. This has gotten to the point where I bet I could sing “Mystical Magical” better than Boone himself.

First, we have the song “Mr. Electric Blue”. This song is a tribute to Boone’s father Nate Boone, whom he calls “A good hardworking American,”(Benson Boone, 2025). At first glance, this song seems like the epitome of mindless pop: a catchy tune, generic lyrics, a reminiscing vibe from Mr. Blue Sky. Until you realize, as I mentioned earlier, that this song is about his father, that's when you realize that this song isn’t really mindless pop, and is an emotional pop. If you’re wondering how having a reminiscing vibe can make something mindless pop the reason is that if you really love a song’s beat, and an artist wants to create a pop hit, they’ll make a song with the same beat which will make it an easy hit because everyone already loves the beat. In my opinion, this song is a 6 out of 10, it could be made better if it was a little bit less like mindless pop, but still an outstanding song.

Next, we have the fourth song in the album: “Mystical Magical”. This, I’ll be honest, is the very definition of mindless pop, with a generic beat, extremely generic and nonsensical lyrics like “moonbeam ice cream”. Even though this song is extremely generic I still think that it’s great, the tune and melody are simple and catchy. The beat is the definition of easy to dance to, the entire vibe of the song is an almost naïve, and infectious happiness. This happiness is extremely important in times where the world can seem dull, dark, boring, and grave. By capturing this happiness in song form it makes it so that this happiness can be shared anytime to anyone. Overall, this song is easily a 7 out of 10, with a bright bubbly happiness and a large amount of personality.

Then, there’s also the song named “Momma Song”. This song is mainly about the fear of aging and how if you’re aging your parents must be too, and the fear of their death. It begins with Boone speaking about how he wishes he was with his mother more often. During the chorus, he sings about wanting the experience of his mother telling him all about her memories best seen in the quote, “Take me down your old street, tell me your memories of when you were young, and when you fell in love,”(Benson Boone, 2025). This is a deeply emotional and moving song that’ll bring you to tears in less than ten seconds. With its delicate melody, beautiful piano music in the background, and lyrics that give an extreme sense of melancholy that can’t be replicated. Overall, this song is an 8 out of 10, even though Boone’s style isn’t really emotional music he gave it his all and created something beautiful.

Finally, we have the album’s namesake, “Young American Heart”. This piece is about Boone and his friend getting into an almost fatal car crash, the realization that life is short, and him realizing that you have to spend your short time on this floating rock with the people you love. During the chorus of the song, Boone sings, “If I’m gonna die a young American, and this was the final night we’d ever have again, I’d be just fine as long as I’m wherever you are,”(Benson Boone, 2025). In my opinion, this mixture of piano driven pop that showcases plenty of emotions is what Boone is almost known for. Even though he has showcased he can make any type of song, I think that many of his songs are like this, and I think that this type of song is perfect, a perfect blend of emotion and pop melodies. Personally, I adore this song and truly believe that it is a 10 out of 10.

In addition, to my reviews, I also love the order Boone put the songs in beginning with an awkward beginning. Finally, ending with an energetic song with lots of taste that gives you the urge to jump around.

This album is 100% for anyone, whether you’re 12 or 175, because it doesn’t really grapple with difficult themes, there isn’t strong language, and it’s a little bit more light, bubbly, joyous, and easy to swallow.

In my opinion, this album, American Heart has many themes including the melancholy of aging, the bliss of not aging and being suspended in time, and being finished with a relationship before the relationship is officially over. If you’re thinking, “Well that’s all fine and dandy but how do they connect?” Then you’re not alone, at first I was like this is a lot of themes for one album. Then, I realized as you become older and older you grow, if the relationship isn’t growing too, you outgrow it, and that’s why being suspended in time is blissful because you won’t outgrow anything, best seen in the song “Young American Heart”. After singing about wanting to spend what might be his last night with his friend Boone sings, “It’s been a long two years since you have left the country,”(Benson Boone, 2025). Thus, his friend has outgrown their friendship, so he’s lost much because of aging and he’s reflecting on how much better his youth was. Compared to many other albums, Boone has done an outstanding job of giving his album deep themes while still making the album a pop album which in the modern times, full of mindless pop and automatic hits, it’s amazing that he was able to create such an outstanding album. This album is truly vivacious and I hate to say it but hearty, it seems Boone knows exactly how to give his albums perfectly fitting names.

Sincerely,

Trey Schulz