Mystical Magical

Album

American Heart

Label

Warner Music

Genre

Pop rock

Composer(s)

Benson Boone;Jack LaFrantz;Evan Blair;Steve Kipner;Terry Shaddick

Entered Chart

May 10, 2025

Peak Date

Jul 12, 2025

Released

April 24, 2025

There are love songs, and then there are love songs that sound like they were written while floating gently down a stream of glitter and marshmallows. Benson Boone's "Mystical Magical" lands squarely in the latter category. A jangly pop-infused number, the track captures that strange, dizzy feeling of being completely smitten with someone. Boone describes this heady attraction as "so mystical, magical," which is not a phrase you hear in real life very often unless someone is describing a unicorn sighting. Though he is confronted with "mixed signals" from the object of his affection, Boone is confident she'll come around to him eventually. Boone isn't drawing directly from a specific relationship here. Like many artists, he may be pulling from real-life moments, half-memories, or simply that universal ache of wanting someone who might not quite want you back... yet. It's artfully vague in the way many good pop songs are. Boone gave "Mystical Magical" its live debut at Coachella on April 11, 2025. His performance was noted for one particularly curious lyric: "moonbeam ice cream." Boone became so enamored with the phrase that he began referring to the track as "the moonbeam ice cream song" in the lead-up to its release a two weeks later. No one knows what "moonbeam ice cream" means, including Boone himself. "I don't know what it is," he confessed on TikTok, "but it felt right." And that, in a nutshell, is pop music. A phrase doesn't have to mean anything as long as it captures a vibe. The playful, almost nonsensical lyricism underscores the song's dreamy, escapist quality, describing the surreal feeling of chasing a love that feels both magical and out of reach. Boone co-wrote "Mystical Magical" with Jack LaFrantz and producer Evan Blair, the same trio behind his breakout hit "Beautiful Things." The chorus borrows the melody from Olivia Newton-John's 1981 juggernaut "Physical." As a result, the original writers of that track, Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick, also earned songwriting credits. Dua Lipa's 2020 hit of the same name also paid homage to Newton-John's original, proving once and for all that a good pop hook never really dies, it just changes outfits. Benson Boone sang this song on the May 3, 2025, episode of Saturday Night Live. He performed it against a backdrop of glowing pink and blue lights.

[Verse 1]
There's nothing colder than your shoulder
When you're dragging me along like you do, like you do
And then you switch up with no warnin'
And you kiss me like you want it, how rude, how rude

[Refrain]
But I kinda like it anyways
I don't mind if this is gonna take a million days
I know you'll come around to me eventually
If you sit back, relax, and join my company, my company

[Pre-Chorus]
Once you know what my love's gonna feel like
Nothing else will feel right, you can feel like
Moonbeam ice cream, taking off your blue jeans
Dancing at the movies, 'cause it feels so

[Chorus]
Mystical, magical
Oh, baby, 'cause once you know, once you know
My love is so mystical, magical
Oh, baby, 'cause once you know, once you know

[Verse 2]
My little hard-to-get baby
I wanna give you the world
Not saying you gotta chase me
But I wouldn't mind it
If you gave me just a little bit
Of something we can work it with
But all you do is push me out (Ha)

[Refrain]
But I like it anyways
'Cause I think I'm getting closer to you every day
I know you'll come around to me eventually
Just sit back, relax, and join my company
Oh, baby, trust me

[Pre-Chorus]
Once you know what my love's gonna feel like
Nothing else will feel right, you can feel like
Moonbeam ice cream, taking off your blue jeans
Dancing at the movies, 'cause it feels so

[Chorus]
Mystical, magical
Oh, baby, 'cause once you know, once you know
My love is so mystical, magical
Oh, baby, 'cause once you know, once you know

[Outro]
Ooh, ooh (Once you know what my love's gonna feel like)
Ooh, ooh (Moonbeam ice cream, nothing else will feel right)
Mystical, magical
Oh, baby, it's mystical, magical