Singer Madison Beer has learned a few things since she became famous at the age of 13, mainly “how to defend myself” in a room full of men.
The 21-year-old who released her first studio album Life Support on Friday said NME that, although she has learned to choose her battles, “I am at a point now where I am almost 10 years in this game and I have a voice that I think deserves to be heard. But for a long time, I felt very silenced by older men in the industry who, in fact, did not know what they were talking about and guided me in all the wrong directions. ”
In 2012, Beer was an aspiring singer posting her performances on YouTube, when Justin Bieber clicked on his cover of “At Last” by Etta James. “Wow. 13 years old! She sings. Great job,” tweeted Bieber, who became famous on YouTube at the same age, after he was discovered by talent manager Scooter Braun.
Her new album features songs like “Effortlessly”, which she told the Daily Mail it is “one of the most vulnerable pieces”, adding: “The struggles I went through that led me to therapy and medication and what they forced me to face. My journey through mental health is not something I have talked about in my music before. “
Beer, who has 36.5 million followers on Instagram and TikTok, says that fame exists online, it has been difficult. “The worst for this is TikTok, which in my opinion has generated a whole new wave of aggressors,” she said NME. “Sometimes I see a video of myself on the ‘For you’ page and I want to get through it as soon as possible. Because I know that if I look at it, the comments are going to be horrible and hateful to me and below the waist. These things are really difficult to see. “
Last June, the hashtag #MadisonBeerIsOverParty appeared when Beer was accused of staging a photo during a protest by the Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles, to which she spoke. tweeting screenshots of messages between her and a photographer that Beer accused of “spreading unclear information”. So, Beer apologized for saying during a question and answer session from a fan that she romanticized the book Lolita, written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1955, about a middle-aged man sexually obsessed with a 12-year-old girl.
She said NME from the hashtag, “At this point, it’s so triggering, traumatizing and scary – there really are no words for it.”
Beer took bold steps with his debut album, revealing People she was “really scared” to share so much. “When I was going through this, I felt very alone and I felt a sense of shame because I feel that there is a big stigma around mental health,” she said. “After I received a diagnosis and really realized that I was genuinely diagnosed and had an anxiety disorder, I didn’t feel very well.”
“And then I started to realize that there is nothing wrong with that and I shouldn’t feel that way,” she added. “I wanted to make sure I was like, ‘Hey, I’m going through this and this is what’s going on.'”
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