Madison Beer has 22.7 million fans on Instagram and 13.8 million followers on TikTok, but she is much more than a social media star.
In a new interview with NME, the 21-year-old celebrity talked about her time in the music industry and why she looks forward to her debut album, Life Support, will help people to see her as a true artist.
“For a long time, I have been trying to prove my intelligence and talent and the fact that I am someone who should be taken seriously,” she told the TV channel published on February 26. exhausting because I shouldn’t be constantly proving it to people. “
When it comes to Beer’s music, his most recent singles, including his 2020 hit “Selfish”, may be the first songs that come to fans’ minds. But in fact, his career started almost a decade ago.
In 2012, when Beer was entering her teens, she sent a video of herself singing Etta James‘ “Finally.” The cover drew the attention of Justin bieber, who tweeted the video to his millions of followers and catapulted Beer to a new level of fame. According NME, she signed with his label, The Island Def Jam Music Group and was managed by Braun Scooter. Beer claimed that they tried to turn her into a “very pop Disney queen” and ended up being dropped. She now works with First Access Entertainment and Epic Records.
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At one point in the interview, Beer remembered fighting for his voice to be heard in business. “When I was younger, I felt silenced in almost every room I entered,” she said, without listing any names or organizations. “Everyone was like, ‘Oh, honey, we know better than you – you don’t know what you’re talking about.’ And that was not a good thing. “
However, she said NME she learned to “stand her ground” by speaking with record executives. “But I also learned how to choose my battles,” she added later. “You can’t always get up and say, ‘I need to be heard now.’ Because there are certain times when they probably know more than I do. I’m at a point now where I’m almost 10 years in the 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 didn’t really know what they were talking about and guided me in all the wrong directions. “
In addition to talking about music, Beer talked about his online presence. Although the singer has sometimes received criticism for her actions on social media – noting that she saw #MadisonBeerIsOverParty as a trend on Twitter “probably five or six times over the past few years” – she also said there were times when she felt ” intimidated “connected.
“If anyone ever said, ‘Hey, I’m really disappointed in you and hurt about it’, it makes me sad,” she said, “because that was never my intention.”
In addition, she talked about her mental health. According NME, Beer was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in 2019. And although she suggested that it is important for her to have these important conversations with her fans, she also acknowledged her need to set boundaries, noting, “I just want to talk about things when I know I’m ready to. “
At the end of the interview, Beer suggested that she just hopes people can get to know her a little better. “I would like people to think of me as an artist who remains true to herself,” she said. “And as a mental health advocate, because that is a really honorable thing that I would really be flattered to take on. I would also like people to realize that I am someone who has gone through a stormy phase by the industry. It has been a very journey long for me, and not an easy journey, but I passed on the other side stronger. I am definitely a fighter. “