Alec Benjamin Sings Bazzi, Justin Bieber, and "Jesus In LA" in a Game of Song Association | ELLE

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Published 2019-11-04

All it took was one tweet. Last September, Alec Benjamin asked #SongAssociation alum Alessia Cara if she'd be open to a collaboration. One feature later, Benjamin's breakout hit, "Let Me Down Slowly" reached platinum status, and catapulted him — and his guitar — to headline status. He's now performing in the same venues he used to sing outside of, and joining the likes of John Mayer, centerstage. For our latest episode of Song Association, he sings Bazzi, Bieber, and tells us the story behind his latest hit, "Jesus In LA."

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All Comments (21)

@urmom-nt9sd 4 years ago

“i could say it but I’ll feel awkward” he is so pure
@keiraazfara5941 4 years ago

he's like that soft cuddly boyfriend i would never have
@-samyayaya-6161 4 years ago

Word: Slide Me: Slide to the left. Slide to the right. C R I S C R O S S. C R I S C R O S S. Alec: Sings a perfectly normal sane song. Me: oh
@readswcoffee 4 years ago

“this is harder than I thought” me talking about basically everytHing
@user-vh8yf8qf1g 4 years ago

Alec doesn’t have the recognition he deserves.
@ryry6123 4 years ago

“You don’t get points for knowing cereal” -Alec Benjamin 2019
@jroyals_ 4 years ago

did he just say... A SONG WITH JIMINNNNN
@redacted3013 4 years ago

Alec: Doesn't know lyrics Also Alec: Over-glorified mumbling
@verysadpotato9714 4 years ago

Absolutely no one: Alec Benjamin : OHH MAN
@gabrielaaguilera3307 4 years ago

Alec : “I don’t even know a song with touch in it” Also Alec: “he was in a hurry to be TOUCHING her skin” (Water Fountain)
@yahtzeeisyatzi 3 years ago

“Touch” “And he was in a hurry to be touching her skin.” Water Fountain- Alec Benjamin
@binchickenalfredo1928 4 years ago

Alec: I don't even know a song with the word "touch." Me: cough*WATER FOUNTAIN*cough
@EleanorJosefina 4 years ago

CAN WE ALL AGREE HE IS SUCH A CUTIE PIE 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 👇🏼
@DylanAlvarez 4 years ago

I’m not ready for him and Jimin to collab. Two of my favorite artists I I can’t
@rumi6393 4 years ago

"My dream collaboration is with Jimin of BTS" Imagine his voice and jimins voice mixed together,jimin can hit notes higher than a femal soprano. And Alecs voice is a little deeper than Jimins but a soft and a little deep voice mixing together sounds amazing.If you want a demo of how jimins voice sounds with a deep voice i recommend you listen the song on their album of Map Of The Soul 7,Friends it's with another member with a deep voice name V or Taehyung so you'll get a demo of how it will sound. (Also if anyone hurts alec you have 2 seconds to run)
@ariellenahh 2 years ago

Alec when he talks: sounds normal Alec's singing voice: angelic and high-pitched bro I love his voice it's so unique
@amieyahmil5357 4 years ago

Alec has the cutest laugh and personality in the world
@gspice9 4 years ago

This feeling by the chainsmokers is the song he‘s looking for 😂 "They got their hands at my neck ... " so he technically got the point hahaha
@justalonelystreetlamp288 4 years ago

As soon as it was “touch” my brain went to “CUZ EVERY TIME WE TOUCH I GET THIS FEELING!”
@miac1199 4 years ago

he should have got the point for hand, he was trying to sing “The Feeling”-The Chainsmokers