{"id":140009,"date":"2025-11-14T20:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/140009\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:20:14","slug":"madison-beer-interview-on-her-new-pop-album-locket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/140009\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Beer Interview on Her New Pop Album ‘Locket’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMadison Beer<\/a> knew her third album would be called Locket long before she even really dug into making it. After wrapping her most recent tour last fall, she was ready to dive into a new project, and this time around, the title felt important to her. She wanted it to feel authentic to who she is as an artist, perhaps an item or a word that felt tangible.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was in my Notes app for weeks on end just writing words I related to,\u201d she says over the phone in early October. \u201cI just kept on gravitating towards [Locket] every single time I would read the list.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe word became a north star for Beer and her collaborators before they even got back into the studio. They would listen to songs or exchange ideas and say things like \u201cThis is so Locket\u201d or \u201cLocket-core.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs she describes it, both the album and the accessory it\u2019s named after feel like a vessel for her memories. Locket holds all the experiences she\u2019s had that make the project what it is now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEach song contains things that are in my locket that I carry around with me,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNostalgia runs deep in Beer\u2019s new music. She wanted to return to the pop<\/a> sound of her early releases and looked toward early favorites including Ariana Grande, SZA, and Gwen Stefani for inspiration. But Locket\u2019s pop return comes with a growing confidence in her talent, thanks to successful experimentations with her sound and lyricism on recent releases like 2023\u2019s more introspective Silence Between Songs.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[Silence] really was a definitive moment for me because I was nervous about releasing an album that was extremely personal and very lyrically driven with more acoustic, slower stuff,\u201d she says. \u201cIt really wasn\u2019t a pop album at all. I was scared because I was like, \u2018Is this not what people want from me?\u2019 And then I was like, \u2018This is what I want, and this feels really good to me. So why don\u2019t I just do it?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFans were more than accepting of her new direction. At the shows, they sang back every word, even for deeper album cuts like \u201cNothing Matters But You.\u201d Before going on tour, however, she wanted to make a big dance-pop moment to keep the energy high at the shows. So she took another detour, crafting the delicious EDM-pop moment \u201cMake You Mine\u201d<\/a> as a one-off single. It was so well-received that it was nominated for Best Dance Pop Recording<\/a> at the 2025 Grammy Awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIt truly was made just for the tour,\u201d she says. \u201cI didn\u2019t have any expectations for that song other than for my fans who are already attending my tour.\u201d After the song\u2019s success, she crafted two more big dance-pop moments in the vein of \u201cMake You Mine,\u201d including \u201c15 Minutes\u201d and Locket lead single \u201cYes Baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u2018Yes Baby\u2019 is kind of the finale of that,\u201d Beer says. \u201cNot the finale in the sense of me never going to make another dance song again, but I close that [chapter] for now. I\u2019m returning a little more to my roots.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe songs from Locket don\u2019t lose the energy of her dance-pop period, even if they don\u2019t go as maximalist as those tracks. Beer returned to the studio with some of her frequent collaborators, including Tim \u201cOne Love\u201d Sommers, who worked on her debut EP As She Pleases when Beer was 18 and just getting started.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been working with these people for so long, so it\u2019s been really cool for us all to really grow together,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne area of personal growth she really wanted to showcase on Locket is her voice. After her most recent tour, she noticed the comments people made about how much better her vocal performance was live in comparison to the studio recordings, especially of her older songs. She wanted to write bridges that were more vocally impressive, and to push herself further in the booth.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s one song that is very vocally challenging,\u201d she says, remaining coy about the track list ahead of Locket\u2019s Jan. 16 release date. \u201cWhen I recorded this one song and I still had Twitter, I tweeted \u2018Oh my God, I literally don\u2019t know if I\u2019m gonna be able to speak for a week.\u2019 That was a feeling that I really enjoyed with this album. I really liked my desire to push myself and see what I was capable of. So I hope people like the vocals on this project because we spent a lot of time doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBeer noticed on tour that the songs where she pushed herself vocally were her favorites to perform, too. She brings up the Silence Between Songs track \u201cNothing Matters But You\u201d again as an example of a moment during the live show she would look forward to the most.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[Singing] is my gift and the thing I cherish the most. I should be feeling that way about every song,\u201d she adds, while admitting she definitely does not feel that way about her entire set list. \u201cI won\u2019t name names. I don\u2019t want to be mean to any other songs, but there\u2019s a couple songs that I would perform and honestly be so bored and feel like I literally can\u2019t do anything, like I\u2019m just essentially sleeping.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe took that realization and brought it to the studio with her. But making more vocally-driven songs wasn\u2019t the only lesson she\u2019s gotten from touring. For Beer, being on the road tends to be great for her own self-confidence and mental health. The reality of the shows where thousands of fans pay for tickets and sing back her songs to her made her want to get offline fully.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI get a good amount of hate on the internet and I think that that all becomes irrelevant when you\u2019re looking out at a sold-out crowd,\u201d she says. \u201cThat has been a very, very helpful tool for me in my life. How could I let a tweet destroy my day when I\u2019m performing for 5,000 people who bought tickets and know the music?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tWith the noise blocked out, Beer made Locket with a feeling of total freedom. It reminded her of when she made her debut album, Life Support, a concept album she wrote during a depressive episode. She noticed the songs came together more quickly, with most of the track list they settled on being written in the first three months of working on it. She spent months after that trying to top what she had already made, realizing that her first instinct was still her best.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I listen to my gut, it usually turns out better and it\u2019s something that I\u2019m more proud of,\u201d she says. \u201cIn this industry, the proof is in the pudding. You need to earn your stripes to be able to say \u2018No, I know what I\u2019m talking about.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madison Beer knew her third album would be called Locket long before she even really dug into making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,26217,278,641],"class_list":{"0":"post-140009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-madison-beer","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-pop"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}