{"id":414042,"date":"2026-01-16T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/414042\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:31:08","slug":"madison-beer-review-locket-some-real-depth-beneath-the-pop-sheen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/414042\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Beer review, Locket: Some real depth beneath the pop sheen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You can hear why American lingerie giant Victoria\u2019s Secret chose Madison Beer<\/a> to perform at their 2025 fashion show. Songs from her third studio album, Locket, throb with dark, sultry sensuality as her siren vocals conjure images of \u201csilky sheets\u201d, luring lovers to \u201ctake advantage of my weakness\u2026 put an end to my bad day\u201d. It\u2019s a record on which softly seductive keyboard notes offer a satiny bed for the complex yearning, vulnerable or empowered moods of the woman at the heart of this music. Mixing the accessibly sleek, fluting pop of Ariana Grande with the brooding vintage swoosh of Lana Del Ray, it\u2019s a sound that gave an edge of danger to the brand\u2019s mall-friendly pastel pink and paste jewel collection. <\/p>\n

Discovered by Justin Bieber in 2012, signed the following year aged just 12 and traumatised when nude photographs were leaked online while she was still a teenager<\/a>, the New York-born pop star has experienced some of the most damaging fall-out of modern fame. In her 2023 memoir, The Half of It, she revealed that she had been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and struggled with depression and suicidal ideation. Locket, written after the breakup of an \u201cintense\u201d relationship, sees Beer confidently addressing her struggle for emotional stability. Over the fluttering pulse of mid-tempo single \u201cBittersweet\u201d, her low, liquid voice pours itself into the corners of grief for watching love go \u201cdown the drain\u201d while also relishing the release from a romance that might have seen her \u201cforever on my knees\u201d. <\/p>\n

Elsewhere we find her trying to move on with a bold sexuality. The German term \u201cnotgeil\u201d (desperate lust) feels the best way to sum up the urgent propositioning of the pounding \u201cYes, Baby\u201d (which strikes me as too repetitive on the first listen, but proves a grower) and \u201cMake You Mine\u201d. The latter builds momentum from a pillow-thumping 4\/4 pulse and chunky chords while Beer croons to the object of her desire that she has a \u201cshrine\u201d to them inside her mind: \u201cGot you on my walls\u2026 Baby, don’t be scared.\u201d Gulp. Against the bossa-tinged strum of \u201cFor the Night\u201d, she makes a melancholy booty call after a day of depression: \u201cYou should probably cancel your plans\/ You should come as fast as you can\u2026 maybe you can put me back together?\u201d <\/p>\n

This atmosphere, complete with jazzy piano and soft-brushed drums, bleeds into the French-style post-coital \u201ctristesse\u201d of ballad \u201cNothing at All\u201d, on which she admits \u201call my dreams have lost all their appeal\u2026 I\u2019m afraid of getting better.\u201d There’s an elegant, Beatles-indebted twist to the minor chord twists of the melody, balanced by shimmery skitters of percussion and the vocodered distortion of Beer\u2019s voice. Interviewed by Del Ray in 2023, the younger artist said she has \u201calways loved songs where you don\u2019t know where they\u2019re headed. I like to approach songwriting with these weird chord progressions.\u201d It’s that sense of unpredictability that keeps you hooked and raises Beer’s game. <\/p>\n

At times Locket\u2019s sheen can flow rather frictionlessly over your ears, pretty but perhaps a little mass-produced. Yet it\u2019s an album that reveals deeper, more enduring layers and real emotional skin beneath all the shiny fabric and pouty poses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-414042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}