Benson Boone Talks Taking His Shirt Off at Concerts & Why He 'Can't Be the Sex Icon of the Century'

Benson Boone is opening up about showing off his body!

The 22-year-old Grammy-nominated singer has seemingly not been shy about himself, as he has become quite known for going shirtless at concerts, or being seen wearing just a speedo.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Benson dished on his relationship with his body, his lack of focusing on his body “all the time,” and why he couldn’t be the “sex icon of the century.”

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“I definitely remember there was a time where I would take my shirt off because I didn’t know what else to do,” he told the mag. “After doing a lot of shows, you start to pick up on what people like and don’t like, what girls like and don’t like. There is an art to making anybody go crazy.… I also don’t want people to come to a show expecting me to just take my shirt off and it to be like a gun show. One, I don’t have the guns for that. Two, that’s just not what I’m about.… I don’t want to rely on my physical form to be the primary driver of my shows.”

Benson notes that some of his discomfort is from his own self-consciousness.

“It  sucks to just focus on that all the time,” the singer said of working out. “Because I’m so incredibly hard on myself, and when I start to think about my appearance too much, it just kills me because there’s always something more I could do. There’s always a hairstyle or, like, my arms could be bigger. My shoulders could be bigger. It’s never-ending. I can’t afford to think that way because I will never be happy if I do think that way.”

“Dude, it affects me so much,” Benson adds of body image struggles. “Obviously, like, I enjoy working out and I want to keep my physical shape because I need to. But I can’t be the sex icon of the ­century, just because that’s not who I am.”

If you missed it, Benson recently dropped his latest single, “Sorry I’m Here For Someone Else.”