Fresh off the release of her surging new single, "bittersweet," Madison Beer joins us for an Audacy Check In to talk about new music, her recent performance at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and more from inside the Hard Rock Hotel New York.
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The GRAMMY-nominated singer is prepping for a new project, locket, due out on January 16, and shared with Audacy's Mike Adam some of the emotions and inspirations that went into the upcoming album's creation. "It's all me, baby," she smiles when asked about selecting singles and the rollout of her next chapter.
"I get opinions from everybody, but sometimes too many opinions overwhelm me," she adds. "These felt like in my gut what I wanted to do, and I feel like 'yes baby' was a good song to sort of re-engage people ideally, and get them excited. Also, not close out forever, but like close out the dance stuff a little bit and now introduce the real sound of this album, and what you could really expect. So 'bittersweet' really represents sonically what the album feels like.
Both the happy and sad sides of Madison Beer occupy locket, with Madison admitting, "they're both driving this ship this time around. They both are coexisting now, which is what I'm really excited about, their coexistence."
"I feel like I started to really find the true energy, a couple of months ago, probably 6 months ago," she says of getting into the groove of this new project. "I don't know exactly when it was, but sometimes things just start to flow and you're just in that flow state of like, 'yes, I'm doing this and it feels really good.'"
Just hours before sitting with us at the Hard Rock Hotel New York, Beer was a borough away ruling the runway at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Brooklyn. "I got to meet so many of the OG angels, which was so cool and amazing, and they were all so sweet to me, and I was like, 'you guys know who I am?' It was crazy," she gushes. "It's also a huge room and it's such a whirlwind, and everyone's changing, and taking off makeup. It's so fast. As soon as the show is done, everyone's jetting out of there, but it was so cool."
"I can't really believe that I did that. There's been so many iconic performers that have done it, so I just feel very honored to be a part of it."
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