Ben Platt Releases Vulnerable New Single 'Andrew' Accompanied by a Heart-Wrenching Music Video

He is the definition of "not sexy."

Why does he have 2 jackets on in the photo?

"Layers, Rose!"

He's so sensitive that he needs lots of padding, R2.

This thread should be better than “Cats”!

The filtering on the voice is distracting. Is the entire song "double tracked"?

Sorry, but I have to read that as “bulnerable” because of “Zorro the Gay Blade”

and now I need a break from Ben and I remember how great George Hamilton is as an actor

It’s sweet. I liked Evan Hansen.

Based on the picture at OP I feel like I would have a better life with him than I do with my OCD husband. I’m sure he doesn’t care about how the canned goods in the cupboard are arranged. He probably won’t beat me either.

Is that Emma Stone's brother playing the young Ben?

Sweet?

If I’m forced to say something nice about this ,well at least he had his neck beard cleaned up for the photo shoot.

Ben you’re 30. Stop doing high school.

R13 that's my reservation about the video + song. It's supposed to be bittersweet but watching it I felt pushed into a kind of pervy position - meaning I don't need to see this reenactment, set to melodramatic music. I know gay kids get crushes but please let them have their privacy without a leering adult camera.

Are they still trying to make this guy a thing?

Something that absolutely no one asked for, a Ben Platt album.

I like Ben. I saw him in Parade on Broadway last year. I think he is very talented, I like his voice, and he makes interesting choices, which takes a certain amount of courage.

For some reason I expected the young Ben to also have a beard.

Why did they cast Ellen Page in that video?

Hairy shoulders will never be "in."

I’m an old guy, but thinking Ben Platt is “cringe” just works for me.

Is he still trying for a music career? Sorry, but these Broadway performers, like Ben, Lea Michelle, Renee Rapp, Idina Menzel, Anthony Ramos and Leslie Odom, Jr., will never have successful music careers. They've all flopped spectacularly. These people need to stick to Broadway and stop embarrassing themselves.

Bless his heart.

Nepo baby

Ben looks like he is having seizures as he sings.

He wore acrylic nails and HAD to mention Evan Hansen when he was a judge on Drag Race. He’s just…oppressive.

Or passing a particularly hard stool, R25.

R17 and this song from his heart is the wrong choice—treacle without any actual courage. He’s a little past his prime for this…when I was his “video age,” I was already sneaking into porn shops or shoplifting Playgirls for real men.

Oy—what a dessicated wallflower.

Ew.

That is all.

Andrew is fug. It would be more believable if he and his friends beat up frog boy.

Andrew is Heartstopper!

And Dickwilter! The end.

Is he still with that awful elf?

Platt has been shoving his "vulnerability" in our faces for several years now. His entire first CD was full of "I'm just soooo sensitive. You have to love me" snowflake songs. He needs to grow the fuck up.

33 posts. He’s DONE.

Do you think he has pimples on his ass? I’m pretty confident.

Between a Broadway-blessed voice and emotional lyrics, Ben Platt has quickly cemented himself as one of the most inventive LGBTQ+ singer-songwriters. While his first record leaned into his showtunes repertoire and his sophomore album planted itself on the dance floor, his upcoming third LP Honeymind (due out May 31) seems to be something completely different.

In plaintive lead single “Andrew,” Platt embraces Simon & Garfunkel-esque melodies to recount a childhood crush on a boy and the complicated feelings of navigating sexuality in the middle school hallways. It’s tender, delicate, and maybe a little optimistic, whetting our appetite for what’s next to come.

Sure, Rose

Is this a love song to Andrew Garfield?

What is wrong with this country? Why are disgusting black rappers preferred over wholesome white singers with actual talent?

Cardi B, this is what I have to say to your Wet A$$ Pu$$y! 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Make white music popular again!

Go back to your cave^

There's something about the way Broadway singers sing pop tunes which is offputting.

They don't just sing a song; they SING the song like it's a vocal lesson being critiqued. Even when they try not to do it, there is still that same quality.

Have you seen his album cover?

r42 Funny how he talks about the "love of my life" but avoids actually naming Noah..

Noah is a fugly little twerp. I’d avoid naming him too.

Pas intéressé

Who is his audience?

“YOU MUST LOVE ME!”

He looks unclean and acne ridden.

Ben says the album was inspired by a hike he took with his fianceé, Noah Galvin.

"One day I ate some mushroom chocolate and went on a hike with the love of my life," Platt shared on Instagram. "As we walked and took in our surroundings, he could see how happy I was and asked me to describe the feeling. I looked up at the ceiling of treetops, hundreds of rays of golden light were pouring through all the tiny gaps in the leaves like a shimmering pattern.

I thought about how to describe to him that I was just so happy to be in love with him. That my love for him somehow softens things and slows it all down. Like all the jagged thoughts and fears and anxieties always jutting out in my brain are slowly smoothed out, until my whole mind is thickly coated and dripping with pervading warmth and sweetness.

'I'd call it Honeymind', I said instinctively. 'You give me Honeymind.'"

Sounds like he had some hippy shrooms.

[quote]Releases Vulnerable New Single..

What does this even mean? A "vulnerable" new single? OP sounds like a shill for whoever this person is

Each copy comes with a complimentary sample of Nair.

I like this video, I like this song. It speaks to the experience all of us have had with unrequited crushes on straight guys. Luckily this one does not end with bullying or violence. The artist is handsome and reminds me of Art Garfunkel with the sensitivity he portrays.

“he could see how happy I was and asked me to describe the feeling”

If someone asked me this, my happiness would immediately turn to irritation 😂

Good for them though.

The music video is like an episode of Degrassi Junior High. He sings well though.

R41 They have been classically trained and it is very hard for someone like that to sing pop. Mariah managed to find her way to it but you can also see in her first vision of love performances from 1990 that she didn't sound like a pop singer at that point yet either. Ben needs pop vocal lessons.

R52 that was a fun parody post. Got more!

"We're having Barfaroni.

"It's made from macaroni!"

Ya know, I was full on ready to hate it, but I got charmed.

We all went through that when we were kids.

It does, though, remind me (sonically and thematically) quite a bit of this one from a few years ago....

Yes. They may get a plagiarism suit. At least we didn't suffer with Ben seen in the shower.

Total mangina.

Hey New Yorkers, Ben announced a three- week residency at the Palace. Get your tickets before they're all gone.

Is this the new format for The View?

His wedding will be a dance party.

What’s this on Twitter about Ben Platt having an unhinged burner account?

I put him in the Billy Eichner category - annoying gays thrust upon us

r64 If you're going to post like that, at least give a link

He sucked in " Dear Evan Hanson". WTF were they thinking getting a 30 something to play an 18yr old. Well, I guess HW does it all the time but he sucked.

[quote]Is this the new format for The View?

They have been doing some interviews in front of the desk for a more informal atmosphere.

Platt's appearance on The View Mon March 18 was nauseating. Every other sentence was "My queer life this and my queer life that." And "My queerness" and "my partner and my queerness together."

STFU. No one cares about your queerness. You're gay. Plain and simple, gay.

I think it’s funny the way he pretends that DEH movie didn’t just SUCK HARD but was mercilessly ridiculed. Yet he still carries on like he’s some beloved mainstream talent.

You know his father probably pays for these albums to be produced. I doubt there’s any A&R involved at all.

Ben at The Palace

R61, The Palace Theatre has 1,743 seats.

Frog boy gets another Ben job.

“Elton’s Song” is much much better.

The song, "Andrew," that Platt sang on The View on Monday was utterly dreadful.

This has already been done. "I Wanna Kiss You at Recess" by Chase Dreams.

Normally I like hairy young(ER) guys, but he just leaves me cold. And I’ve only seen him sing on the Tony awards and ads for that super annoying musical.

Well, in between Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, and all of the hip -hoppers, he managed to get a very good reaction at the Grammys.

The Palace Theatre has 1,743 seats.

Daddy will paper !, 740.

I thought Ben Platt was ok, if both overly intense and under-emotional, in The Politician, and I skipped Evan Hanson.

But he was fantastic singing Nights On Broadway for the Kennedy Center Honors. I never knew he performed so well.

The backup singers do the heavy lifting. And what's with those Joan Crawford shoulders?