{"id":148960,"date":"2025-11-23T02:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/148960\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:02:14","slug":"did-me-dirty-justin-herberts-beau-madison-beer-shares-how-bittersweet-became-a-turning-point-in-her-life-nfl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/148960\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDid me dirty\u201d: Justin Herbert’s beau Madison Beer shares how \u2018Bittersweet\u2019 became a turning point in her life | NFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u201cDidMadison Beer unveils her upcoming album ‘Locket’ and its lead single ‘Bittersweet,’ a deeply personal track born from emotional necessity. She reveals how fan feedback inspired a return to vocal ad-libs and experimental sounds, collaborating with Tim Sommers. The song navigates heartbreak with a choice for growth, a sentiment echoed in its music video. Madison Beer is stepping into a new chapter, one she admits is equal parts vulnerable, nostalgic, and creatively freeing. As she gears up for the release of her third studio album Locket on January 16, the two-time Grammy nominee is giving fans a deeper look at the emotional world that inspired her latest single, \u201cBittersweet.\u201d The track, which follows her comeback single \u201cYes Baby,\u201d marks a return not just to music, but to a version of herself she\u2019s been slowly rediscovering. Beer says the song emerged during a moment she \u201cfelt compelled to document,\u201d and the outpouring of fan support has played a major role in this new creative direction.<\/p>\n

Madison Beer opens up about creating \u2018bittersweet\u2019 and how fan feedback shaped her most personal era yet<\/p>\n

For Beer, \u201cBittersweet\u201d wasn\u2019t simply a song idea, it was an emotional necessity. \u201cI was going through something very emotional and real and I was like, \u2018I need to write about this. It feels insane not to,\u2019\u201d she said, explaining that the track became a turning point in both her personal life and the larger story she tells on Locket. Though rooted in heartbreak, she frames the song as a choice toward growth rather than resentment. \u201cI can be bitter over things, but I\u2019m choosing to be bittersweet,\u201d she joked.Fans have also shaped the sound more directly than ever before. \u201cI am very close with my fans and their opinions definitely mean a lot to me,\u201d she said. Touring revealed the moments that resonated most, including her early-career ad-libs that fans often begged her to bring back. \u201cMy fans are always like, \u2018Girl, you do so much fun stuff on stage, do it in your songs,\u2019\u201d she said, crediting their encouragement for sparking her renewed love for vocal ad-libs.Her long-time creative partner Tim Sommers (One Love), someone she says she \u201chas a language\u201d with, helped push those experimental textures even further. Together they leaned into distorted synths and early-2000s tones, elements she affectionately compares to Super Mario Galaxy.The song\u2019s shift toward confrontation in the bridge, \u201cThere has to be a moment where you\u2019re like, \u2018No, you did me dirty\u2019\u201d, balances the final note of acceptance, \u201cAt the end of the day, you\u2019ll know I tried my best with you.\u201dAnd with the \u201cBittersweet\u201d music video surpassing millions of views, Beer\u2019s chemistry with co-star Sean Kaufman has only fueled fan excitement. Though she jokingly called herself \u201ca fraud\u201d for not having seen The Summer I Turned Pretty before casting him, their instant friendship made the collaboration seamless and yes, she\u2019s \u201cteam Steven, of course.\u201dAlso Read:\u201cIt was hard\u201d: Josh Allen reflects on the pressure he felt before taking a major next step with Hailee Steinfeld<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madison Beer unveils her upcoming album ‘Locket’ and its lead single ‘Bittersweet,’ a deeply personal track born from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[98538,99571,156,99574,26966,30964,99570,30963,157,99569,111,139,69,99573,99572],"class_list":{"0":"post-148960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bittersweet","9":"tag-emotional-songwriting","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fan-interaction-in-music","12":"tag-grammy","13":"tag-justin-herbert","14":"tag-locket-album-release","15":"tag-madison-beer","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-music-career-comeback","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-sommers","22":"tag-two-time-grammy-nominee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}