Madison Beer fed fans earlier this month, finally unwrapping her latest album, locket, and sharing dates for a world tour. Now the "bittersweet" singer joins us again for an Audacy Check In to talk about the full project now that it's out in the world, and her excitement for a booked and busy 2026.
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"Definitely like a sigh of relief," Beer tells Bru of her emotions now that locket is out in the world. "I feel proud of it. I feel pumped that people could listen to it and I'm not just listening to it in my car alone now."
"I think with this album, especially, I learned so much about myself," Madison reveals. "My writing process, my producing process, how to navigate writing about a relationship while it was still happening, then when it ended, the moments and the ebbs and flows of all the feelings that came and went with it."
Being in the moment instead of looking back on it was a new perspective for Beer on locket, and one that led to bold new choices and a rollercoaster of emotions. "I think that I love this album so much because you can't really replicate the emotions that you're feeling in that exact situation," she shares. "For example, there's a song called 'you're still everything' on the album that has this really heavy auto-tune, which was only because we used really heavy auto tune when we were making the demo because I was having a really hard time and felt like I couldn't really sing. So I was like, 'just throw auto-tune on it.' And then we got super attached to the way the auto-tune had sounded and kind of fell in love with this like, sad robot singing the song."
"I think those things can't be replicated, and I think they happen really organically because of what's going on in your current life, or in your current frame of mind, and that's something that I think when you listen to this album, I hope people can feel and hear that these things are very real and when they were recorded was when they were happening."
"I think a lot of the music that I'd written before that was specifically heartbreak stuff, was after things had been said and done, whereas this was really, everything you hear was an emotional rollercoaster, and moments in time that were very real and active. I think that was a new experience for me but it was very healing and therapeutic in the process."
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