January 16, 2026 • 17 mins
Madison Beer is here on the release day of her brand new album, 'Locket'! Plus, she talks headlining Madison Square Garden as a New Yorker!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Lounge last night. Madison Beer's album Lockett came out. Also
last night, right here at iHeart World Headquarters, we had
the very first iHeart TikTok album preview with Madison Beer.
If you didn't watch it, it'll live on on TikTok.
Don't worry. And guess who didn't go home last night
(00:23):
after the event Madison.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Beer's last night.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, I did desks somewhere. I know we look. Where
do we start? Let's start with album release day. Today
is the day lock It is out. Building an album
with people you love, people you trust. It's got to
be so gratified to finally hear the final thing you
put out or did you do enough? Were you ready
(00:49):
for it to come out?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Oh? Yeah, I definitely felt ready for it to come out.
I think. I mean, I honestly had sat on a
lot of this music for months and months and months.
There's not many songs that are like recent ads, so
I was ready for sure. If anything, I was like,
it needs to come out now before I like start
the next thing, like I was already had. I already
had banked a lot of this stuff a while ago,
so I'm so excited that it's out, and I was
definitely ready.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
How many times we had an artists on the go,
God no, I kept changing it and changing it. They
finally Charlie Poof, I.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Needed to print vinyls like six months ago. So I
look at you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You see you're like, You're like me. Yeah, when I
need to get something in the grocery store, I'll go
to seven to eleven. I don't want to go. I
know what I'm gonna want. I know what I want.
I know when I get it, I'm gonna walk out
and get my car and leave.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Abs.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
You did your album done?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Next? I also, I can't. I've made this mistake in
the past where like I'll make something and I'll love it,
and then I just overanalyze it and I go so
ham on like every single tiny detail that nobody but
me would hear, and then I end up delaying it
for five years. And so it's just was like I
was like, this is good. I feel good about it.
I'm not going to like beat this into the ground.
I'm just gonna like love it for what it is
and get it out there.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's all a part of getting rid of anxiety in
our lives.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It was a great challenge for me though, because I
really like in my day to day life as well,
I feel like I'm someone who really does overanalyze things
in a way that I will just ruin everything for myself.
And so this was a great learning experience for me
where I was like, let's not ruin this. This is
a good thing. You know, it's a good thing. Get
it out there, send it to print. And then I
once it got sent to vinyls, it was just simply
too late.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You know how many people listening on the way to
work right now are going I really need to start
doing the Madison Beer thing.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, the Madison Beer message.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Okay, so you know, let me tell you what she did.
I don't know if this is too personal, but she
got everyone together as a collective to put this album together.
She rented this beautiful airbnb. They got together. We don't
know what they did other than created. There's a create
there to come out with songs, creative for the album.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Like a creative retreat. Yeah, we did. We were in
the studio for like many many months, and just I
think a change of scenery is good for everyone's brain.
And so I was like, where can we go? I
really don't like flying, so I was just like, I
want to go somewhere that's driveable. And there's this place
called Ohi that's like an hour outside of La even
oh Hi, Yeah, oh my god. I fell in love
with I would live there. That's my speed, that's more
(03:02):
my energy is that. So I fell in love with it.
And it was so beautiful and the food is great whatever,
the people were awesome, and and so we just went.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
What results came out of this incredibly expensive retreat.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Nothing literally, not one song we made there it got
on the album. But it was definitely a very important
trip because I think it really defined the sound of
the album. For me, I just don't think that we
got weish having too much fun, to be honest. That's
why writing cams can go one of two ways, where
like they're really awesome, but you kind of are not
so productive because you're just in like a great place
(03:34):
that you want to enjoy. So for me, I just
wasn't very productive, but you had to be honest, a
great time and it really did define the sound of
the album. I got this little device like this, this keyboard,
and I was able to play with it there, and
there was a lot of like great, very important moments
that needed to happen in order for the album to exist.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So I'm glad I went.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You know, it wasn't in total waste.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You don't have to be an artist producing and writing
and creating your own album. You can be in any
industry in the world. Have a retreat with your friend.
Yeah you did that, and you could write that off.
That's your business experience. Uncle Elvis is looking out for you.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So producing we think, oh, you just go into a
room and sing them to a microphone and then a
song comes out. Oh goodness, there's a business into this too,
and so taking charge of that is a challenge. What
made you want to grab it and own it?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I just feel like I used to not be I
started for you know, anyone that doesn't know, I started
very very young. I got signed when I was twelve,
and so it's just the industry is very different now
than it was, and I think that back then it
was like a different time, and I think that I
didn't feel as confident in rooms, especially with a lot
of men, to feel like I could say, oh, I
think this line would be better if we said this,
it just didn't feel like something I could really say.
(04:49):
So I used to kind of let people take take
hold and do it themselves. And now I feel like
I'm in a position where I really am leading the
whole thing and all the ideas, and if I don't
like something, I've problem saying no, because then it's it's
my project at the end of the day, and I'm
not like hurting anyone's feelings. It's not personal. And so
I just have learned that. And then having producers also
that are so collaborative and cool and they're not egotistical,
(05:13):
and they're like, you are producing this just as much
as we are, Like it's cool to work with people
who want to share the credit. I guess.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So on that note you talking about these things and
how it's changed so much. I read that you said
about three years after you sort of popped into the industry,
when you were fourteen, So and I're seventeen.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You wait on my seventeen.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Now you're seventeen.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'm seventeen. Oh no, I didn't get your car, no, no,
when you were seventeen.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That's sort of like everything fell apart right at that
one time, all at the same time, and you're not
ready for that because you were fourteen years old, which
when you started all of it, And now you found
your power and you will not sit in the same
places and let people tell you what to do. Was
there a moment for you that you realized this is it,
I'm not taking it anymore, and how did you find
your voice?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, I think it doesn't happen overnight. I think I'm
still learning how to do that. I'm, you know, twenty
six turning twenty seven now, I'm still super young. And
I think that I'm just like navigating not only this industry,
but also just like my personal life and how I
conduct myself day to day. And I think that I've
done a lot of therapy, and I think setting boundaries
have been really huge for me and being like it's
(06:17):
okay to say no to certain things and preserve my
energy and myself. And I definitely to anyone listening, encourage
you to do the same. And having a work life
personal life balance is extremely important in any industry that
you're in. And yeah, I don't know. I think it
definitely didn't happened overnight, though, so I can't say it
was just one moment that I was like, oh, here
we go. Now I feel empowered and like I can
do this. I still have nights where I break down
(06:39):
and cry and don't think I can. So it's not
just like a completely one day. It shifts. But I
think that it's important to stay true to yourself and
look out for yourself and advocate for yourself whenever you can.
And I know sometimes it might be hard, and I
think that, especially as women were kind of told to
not really make waves and stuff, but I encourage you
to and I think that it nothing feels better than
(07:01):
looking out for yourself. And I always say it might
be cheesy, but like you should treat yourself as if
you're your own best friend. And I know the way
that I look out for my best friend and the
way that I would defend her and stand up for her.
You should do that for yourself. And it feels really good.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Here, By the way, you've been on with us for
about ten minutes. You haven't made any waves at all,
and so I'm a little disappointed. Feel free, start shaking,
Come on, come on, start some crap man, this go.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Are you're talking about balance, like with your personal life
and and you know, work life and everything and finding time.
How do you find time for that? And how do
you find like to stay out of the tabloids or
stay out of looking at like the bad stuff online,
because that, to me, that's gotta be not an easy thing.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
No, it's not, And I don't I'm not gonna sit
here and lie to you and say, oh, I don't
you know. I don't look at the comments and I
don't read it. I do. I'm like a human being
and I'm very much so online and so I definitely
think though, again like setting boundaries even with myself where
I'm like, if my best friend was sitting scrolling on
TikTok and reading hateful things about herself, I would be like,
okay and enough at one point. But it's also easier
(08:04):
said than done, and so I think having grace there
is important and being able to be like, I just
try not to beat myself up over it too much,
because I think that because I feel like I'm at
a great place in my healing journey or whatever, I
feel sometimes guilty when I will find myself falling back
into those habits. But then I'm like, I cannot blame
myself and it's pretty normal. But then I mean regarding
my personal life, it's back to kind of what I said,
(08:24):
I just I say no, and I don't have a
problem saying no. We just said no is a full sentence.
No one's going to make me feel bad about it either,
And I think there's a lot of discourse, and especially
I see it online now where people are like, you
need to do everything all the time, or someone is
going to take your place, and I'm like, well, then
so be it. I think that I exist in my
own world and I have my own community, and if
people you know, also like to be so real with you,
(08:48):
this isn't everything to me. I have a lot more
in my life that I think I value that isn't
just my career and this persona and all these things
and the lights of the cameras. It's all really cool,
and I'm definitely excited to be here and to be
releasing an album literally today. But I think that it's
also important for me as I continue to grow, to
uh not tether all my self worth to that stuff.
(09:08):
I love.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Something you said. Sometimes you you've we all we all
fall into a little little pothole from time to time.
Of course, and it's like just in meditation, you have
to think about yourself on that bridge over a creek,
a leaf comes by, you gotta let it just flow down,
float down the creek and let it go. Today is
album release day from Madison Beer, who you're listening to
right now. By the way, Locket is the album last
night was our big iHeart TikTok album preview. It's a
(09:36):
live on TikTok as we speak. Make sure you give
that a watch. And you have to what are you
watch it on TV? Other than your own TikTok special?
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Oh goodness, I haven't really watched any of these like
new shows that are very very popular, like Heated Rivalry.
You're like, tell me live. Oh, I know, I haven't
seen it. It's like this person on earth that hasn't
seen it, but I want to. I just haven't had time.
I'm excited to start Traders, right. I love Traders.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Used to love Law and Order and one I.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Love like Criminal Minds. Yeah, I love. I will rewatch
that until I die.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So what they say about the psyche of the person
who loves people.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Who love true crime, the were psychotic, especially committing game.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You'll be committing true crime any moment.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You never know, maybe I already have.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So as far as where you live, the rooms was
born in actually used to live in Jericho, Long Island,
right here on the East Coast.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I don't still live there. I wish I did.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, No you did, I did? You don't I but
now you're your West Coast. So how do you like
to come home? I mean, especially right now when it's
you know, a thousand degrees below zero.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
No, I love it, so I do devastatingly. I can't
really go back to Lo Island like this week, just
because it's been really busy. But I love coming here
and just kind of like disappearing and I just feel
I feel so I don't know how to explain. I
just feel so back to like who I am at
my core, and it's just so peaceful to me in
especially in the island, and I just I don't know. Yeah,
I just love being at my house with my dogs,
(11:04):
with my dad.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Kind of dogs you have.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
My dad has three dogs. He has two Golden Doodles
and then a little teacup Pomeranian who was actually mine
and then he like just took him from me because
he fell so in love with him, and to be fair,
I was young and I was like, Okay, fine, you
can have him. But he's his name is Zero from
the Night Mber for Christmas. He's very cute.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah. I love my dogs, my Schnauzers. He got miniature
Snausers the best.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
His oldest Golden Doodle is like eighteen. It's crazy. Every
time I come home, like he's still kicking. He's like,
he's still kicking.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah. So we do have a little controversial something we
have to bring up. Okay, scary, I can't. I just
want to know why did you follow me on Instagram?
We were friends? Where you were friends?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
No way I did? Did I really?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
He goes down a slippery slope to hell starting right now.
You know we did together? What about ing after party?
And we were best friends. We were scary. We were
following each other on Instagram and then one day and
I said, yeah, Madison's coming into the show. Yeah, like
we follow each other on Instagram. And then I looked
at my Instagram. I'm like, she followed, Oh the hell?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Wait wait, let me hold on a second. Let me
defend myself here. How often do you post often or not? All?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Too much? Too much? Story much.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
No, see that that doesn't make sense because I only
really will unfollow someone if they're completely inactive and they
literally haven't posted in five years, So that doesn't make sense,
Like really weird. This guy literally probably was an accident
because I don't unfollow people. I follow people that I
literally met once, like on omegle in twenty eleven. Like
I don't follow people. So now I'm like what, I'm
just thinking back, I'm like, what happened there? Did you
(12:51):
send a creepy d I'm scary? No, sure, I'm like
what there has to be more to this.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Millary, We've always talked about the music.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Always you guys way back exactly. None of us follow him.
We all followed him, we all blocked him at some point,
definitely not on purpose. And I'm sorry part of the
show because I hate when people unfollow me. I take
it so personally and it's like, actually really hurts my feelings.
(13:19):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I didn't mean to, and.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I feel like I told you jerk, I wasn't following you.
Now I'm following you.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I know you have forty million followers. How do you
keep up with each and every person?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I do everything. I gotta follow you back down. This
is like a good old fashioned Christmas miracle, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
With you, I also don't even follow some of my
very close friends because I just don't even think to
follow them. If that makes sense. It does, because times
I'm like, I don't I don't even think about that.
I don't follow you. I just like, sometimes it's not
really in my thoughts. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
People put way too much into following and unfollowing.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Definitely the modern age of like, I don't like you anymore. Yeah,
it feels like it sends a message.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Most hideous topics of conversation, like when anyone ever corners you,
why don't you follow me?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You're never gonna get an actual answer.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
My goodness, whatever it was. No one's going to be
like people you have. I've literally been like you unfollowed me.
I've actually like said that to two people before.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
But did they give you an actual answer?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
This is why I'm following. Everyone just like says whatever
they want, but we're just like, well, what happens?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
It must be a technical Well, okay, before we get
out of here, we got to talk about the music
because we are here to celebrate Madison's new album lock
It I'm sorry, Madison Beer. We were talking earlier how
you always should use the first and last name yes
in storytelling. So Madison Beer's new album lock It out today.
Of course. We started here at Z one hundred and
on our network with bittersweet I love Yes Babe. We
(14:39):
played Yes Baby for the first time the other day Yes,
and it was I wandered. I needed I needed fog machines,
I needed strokes, I needed all sorts of legal activities
going on.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It does that.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
It's such a great.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It does provoke legal activity.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Talk about I mean, this is a stupid question that
I'm sure even asked a million times the album lock
It The music is what? From your point of view,
this music is inter aword.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Finished sentence A sentence. I think that it feels like
a very uh how can I say this without it
not making any sense. I think that it feels like
everything I've ever made kind of in one place. It
feels like a really awesome if you had listened to
any of my previous albums or previous work, it just
feels kind of like a combination of to me, at least,
(15:25):
all the best of it and I'm just so proud
of it. And it feels like I feel very proud
of my writing, I feel proud of the production, I
feel proud of the performance on it. I'm just like
very very excited. I've never been so excited by an album.
And I listen to it all day every day. And
so you're a fan of your out, Oh my goodness.
I literally I if I meet up with a friend
who I haven't seen in a while, I'm like, get
in my car and let me play you like three songs.
(15:46):
I just I'm so excited about it, and I just
like love to see people's reactions to certain things. And
I actually had like a fan listening party in LA
where I played it or like a week early for
about thirty of them, and it just was so rewarding
and fun to watch their reaction to certain songs and
certain lyrics, and like they're they're also so tuned on
and like they know they know me so well, they
know everything I'm talking about. And I tried to thrown
(16:08):
like a couple of personal things on the album, like
you'll hear an Adventure Time sample on one song and
a severin sample on another song, and there's just like
random things in there that I think go back to
just my roots. Of Like in my album Life Support,
which is my first one, there was a lot of
very personal touches that I guess weren't so commercial, but
they were very personal to me. And I feel like
that's why I wanted to return to is. I wanted
(16:28):
this to feel like you're getting to know me in
a way.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
So Madison Beer last night here at iHeart World Headquarters,
the iHeart TikTok album preview. You got to watch that.
It's there right now. And of course Lockett is out today,
and of course down the street at Madison Square Garden.
You'll be there on what date, July thirteenth. July thirteenth,
The Hate of Summer in New York City, the tour.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yes, it's closing night of the tour. Please come. I'm
so scared no one's gonna show up. So if you're.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Listening, okay, I'm gonna ask one thing of you. I
don't ask. I don't like asking for favors, but we
need one ticket to the show. For scary more than
one ticket I can get tickets on to fill this room.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So I'm gonna gi.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's very important. You gave him one ticket.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Well, you can come alone.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You can sing yoursel everything with you and the production
people have one spotlight that spotlights him in the middle
of the garden.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
He could just be in the crowd and then when
that song comes on, he can just look up and
the spotlight on him. Yeah, who's creepy is that?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I'm Madison. Thank you for coming. I'm sorry, Madison Beer.
Thank you for coming by today. Thank you Lockett is
the album you need now, And of course head over
to TikTok to see the iHeart TikTok album preview that
we all loved last night. Thank you
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Lounge last night. Madison Beer's album Lockett came out. Also
last night, right here at iHeart World Headquarters, we had
the very first iHeart TikTok album preview with Madison Beer.
If you didn't watch it, it'll live on on TikTok.
Don't worry. And guess who didn't go home last night
(00:23):
after the event Madison.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Beer's last night.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, I did desks somewhere. I know we look. Where
do we start? Let's start with album release day. Today
is the day lock It is out. Building an album
with people you love, people you trust. It's got to
be so gratified to finally hear the final thing you
put out or did you do enough? Were you ready
(00:49):
for it to come out?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Oh? Yeah, I definitely felt ready for it to come out.
I think. I mean, I honestly had sat on a
lot of this music for months and months and months.
There's not many songs that are like recent ads, so
I was ready for sure. If anything, I was like,
it needs to come out now before I like start
the next thing, like I was already had. I already
had banked a lot of this stuff a while ago,
so I'm so excited that it's out, and I was
definitely ready.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
How many times we had an artists on the go,
God no, I kept changing it and changing it. They
finally Charlie Poof, I.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Needed to print vinyls like six months ago. So I
look at you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You see you're like, You're like me. Yeah, when I
need to get something in the grocery store, I'll go
to seven to eleven. I don't want to go. I
know what I'm gonna want. I know what I want.
I know when I get it, I'm gonna walk out
and get my car and leave.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Abs.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
You did your album done?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Next? I also, I can't. I've made this mistake in
the past where like I'll make something and I'll love it,
and then I just overanalyze it and I go so
ham on like every single tiny detail that nobody but
me would hear, and then I end up delaying it
for five years. And so it's just was like I
was like, this is good. I feel good about it.
I'm not going to like beat this into the ground.
I'm just gonna like love it for what it is
and get it out there.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's all a part of getting rid of anxiety in
our lives.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It was a great challenge for me though, because I
really like in my day to day life as well,
I feel like I'm someone who really does overanalyze things
in a way that I will just ruin everything for myself.
And so this was a great learning experience for me
where I was like, let's not ruin this. This is
a good thing. You know, it's a good thing. Get
it out there, send it to print. And then I
once it got sent to vinyls, it was just simply
too late.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You know how many people listening on the way to
work right now are going I really need to start
doing the Madison Beer thing.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, the Madison Beer message.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Okay, so you know, let me tell you what she did.
I don't know if this is too personal, but she
got everyone together as a collective to put this album together.
She rented this beautiful airbnb. They got together. We don't
know what they did other than created. There's a create
there to come out with songs, creative for the album.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Like a creative retreat. Yeah, we did. We were in
the studio for like many many months, and just I
think a change of scenery is good for everyone's brain.
And so I was like, where can we go? I
really don't like flying, so I was just like, I
want to go somewhere that's driveable. And there's this place
called Ohi that's like an hour outside of La even
oh Hi, Yeah, oh my god. I fell in love
with I would live there. That's my speed, that's more
(03:02):
my energy is that. So I fell in love with it.
And it was so beautiful and the food is great whatever,
the people were awesome, and and so we just went.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
What results came out of this incredibly expensive retreat.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Nothing literally, not one song we made there it got
on the album. But it was definitely a very important
trip because I think it really defined the sound of
the album. For me, I just don't think that we
got weish having too much fun, to be honest. That's
why writing cams can go one of two ways, where
like they're really awesome, but you kind of are not
so productive because you're just in like a great place
(03:34):
that you want to enjoy. So for me, I just
wasn't very productive, but you had to be honest, a
great time and it really did define the sound of
the album. I got this little device like this, this keyboard,
and I was able to play with it there, and
there was a lot of like great, very important moments
that needed to happen in order for the album to exist.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So I'm glad I went.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You know, it wasn't in total waste.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You don't have to be an artist producing and writing
and creating your own album. You can be in any
industry in the world. Have a retreat with your friend.
Yeah you did that, and you could write that off.
That's your business experience. Uncle Elvis is looking out for you.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So producing we think, oh, you just go into a
room and sing them to a microphone and then a
song comes out. Oh goodness, there's a business into this too,
and so taking charge of that is a challenge. What
made you want to grab it and own it?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I just feel like I used to not be I
started for you know, anyone that doesn't know, I started
very very young. I got signed when I was twelve,
and so it's just the industry is very different now
than it was, and I think that back then it
was like a different time, and I think that I
didn't feel as confident in rooms, especially with a lot
of men, to feel like I could say, oh, I
think this line would be better if we said this,
it just didn't feel like something I could really say.
(04:49):
So I used to kind of let people take take
hold and do it themselves. And now I feel like
I'm in a position where I really am leading the
whole thing and all the ideas, and if I don't
like something, I've problem saying no, because then it's it's
my project at the end of the day, and I'm
not like hurting anyone's feelings. It's not personal. And so
I just have learned that. And then having producers also
that are so collaborative and cool and they're not egotistical,
(05:13):
and they're like, you are producing this just as much
as we are, Like it's cool to work with people
who want to share the credit. I guess.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So on that note you talking about these things and
how it's changed so much. I read that you said
about three years after you sort of popped into the industry,
when you were fourteen, So and I're seventeen.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You wait on my seventeen.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Now you're seventeen.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'm seventeen. Oh no, I didn't get your car, no, no,
when you were seventeen.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That's sort of like everything fell apart right at that
one time, all at the same time, and you're not
ready for that because you were fourteen years old, which
when you started all of it, And now you found
your power and you will not sit in the same
places and let people tell you what to do. Was
there a moment for you that you realized this is it,
I'm not taking it anymore, and how did you find
your voice?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, I think it doesn't happen overnight. I think I'm
still learning how to do that. I'm, you know, twenty
six turning twenty seven now, I'm still super young. And
I think that I'm just like navigating not only this industry,
but also just like my personal life and how I
conduct myself day to day. And I think that I've
done a lot of therapy, and I think setting boundaries
have been really huge for me and being like it's
(06:17):
okay to say no to certain things and preserve my
energy and myself. And I definitely to anyone listening, encourage
you to do the same. And having a work life
personal life balance is extremely important in any industry that
you're in. And yeah, I don't know. I think it
definitely didn't happened overnight, though, so I can't say it
was just one moment that I was like, oh, here
we go. Now I feel empowered and like I can
do this. I still have nights where I break down
(06:39):
and cry and don't think I can. So it's not
just like a completely one day. It shifts. But I
think that it's important to stay true to yourself and
look out for yourself and advocate for yourself whenever you can.
And I know sometimes it might be hard, and I
think that, especially as women were kind of told to
not really make waves and stuff, but I encourage you
to and I think that it nothing feels better than
(07:01):
looking out for yourself. And I always say it might
be cheesy, but like you should treat yourself as if
you're your own best friend. And I know the way
that I look out for my best friend and the
way that I would defend her and stand up for her.
You should do that for yourself. And it feels really good.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Here, By the way, you've been on with us for
about ten minutes. You haven't made any waves at all,
and so I'm a little disappointed. Feel free, start shaking,
Come on, come on, start some crap man, this go.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Are you're talking about balance, like with your personal life
and and you know, work life and everything and finding time.
How do you find time for that? And how do
you find like to stay out of the tabloids or
stay out of looking at like the bad stuff online,
because that, to me, that's gotta be not an easy thing.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
No, it's not, And I don't I'm not gonna sit
here and lie to you and say, oh, I don't
you know. I don't look at the comments and I
don't read it. I do. I'm like a human being
and I'm very much so online and so I definitely
think though, again like setting boundaries even with myself where
I'm like, if my best friend was sitting scrolling on
TikTok and reading hateful things about herself, I would be like,
okay and enough at one point. But it's also easier
(08:04):
said than done, and so I think having grace there
is important and being able to be like, I just
try not to beat myself up over it too much,
because I think that because I feel like I'm at
a great place in my healing journey or whatever, I
feel sometimes guilty when I will find myself falling back
into those habits. But then I'm like, I cannot blame
myself and it's pretty normal. But then I mean regarding
my personal life, it's back to kind of what I said,
(08:24):
I just I say no, and I don't have a
problem saying no. We just said no is a full sentence.
No one's going to make me feel bad about it either,
And I think there's a lot of discourse, and especially
I see it online now where people are like, you
need to do everything all the time, or someone is
going to take your place, and I'm like, well, then
so be it. I think that I exist in my
own world and I have my own community, and if
people you know, also like to be so real with you,
(08:48):
this isn't everything to me. I have a lot more
in my life that I think I value that isn't
just my career and this persona and all these things
and the lights of the cameras. It's all really cool,
and I'm definitely excited to be here and to be
releasing an album literally today. But I think that it's
also important for me as I continue to grow, to
uh not tether all my self worth to that stuff.
(09:08):
I love.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Something you said. Sometimes you you've we all we all
fall into a little little pothole from time to time.
Of course, and it's like just in meditation, you have
to think about yourself on that bridge over a creek,
a leaf comes by, you gotta let it just flow down,
float down the creek and let it go. Today is
album release day from Madison Beer, who you're listening to
right now. By the way, Locket is the album last
night was our big iHeart TikTok album preview. It's a
(09:36):
live on TikTok as we speak. Make sure you give
that a watch. And you have to what are you
watch it on TV? Other than your own TikTok special?
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Oh goodness, I haven't really watched any of these like
new shows that are very very popular, like Heated Rivalry.
You're like, tell me live. Oh, I know, I haven't
seen it. It's like this person on earth that hasn't
seen it, but I want to. I just haven't had time.
I'm excited to start Traders, right. I love Traders.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Used to love Law and Order and one I.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Love like Criminal Minds. Yeah, I love. I will rewatch
that until I die.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So what they say about the psyche of the person
who loves people.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Who love true crime, the were psychotic, especially committing game.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You'll be committing true crime any moment.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You never know, maybe I already have.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So as far as where you live, the rooms was
born in actually used to live in Jericho, Long Island,
right here on the East Coast.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I don't still live there. I wish I did.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, No you did, I did? You don't I but
now you're your West Coast. So how do you like
to come home? I mean, especially right now when it's
you know, a thousand degrees below zero.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
No, I love it, so I do devastatingly. I can't
really go back to Lo Island like this week, just
because it's been really busy. But I love coming here
and just kind of like disappearing and I just feel
I feel so I don't know how to explain. I
just feel so back to like who I am at
my core, and it's just so peaceful to me in
especially in the island, and I just I don't know. Yeah,
I just love being at my house with my dogs,
(11:04):
with my dad.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Kind of dogs you have.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
My dad has three dogs. He has two Golden Doodles
and then a little teacup Pomeranian who was actually mine
and then he like just took him from me because
he fell so in love with him, and to be fair,
I was young and I was like, Okay, fine, you
can have him. But he's his name is Zero from
the Night Mber for Christmas. He's very cute.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah. I love my dogs, my Schnauzers. He got miniature
Snausers the best.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
His oldest Golden Doodle is like eighteen. It's crazy. Every
time I come home, like he's still kicking. He's like,
he's still kicking.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah. So we do have a little controversial something we
have to bring up. Okay, scary, I can't. I just
want to know why did you follow me on Instagram?
We were friends? Where you were friends?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
No way I did? Did I really?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
He goes down a slippery slope to hell starting right now.
You know we did together? What about ing after party?
And we were best friends. We were scary. We were
following each other on Instagram and then one day and
I said, yeah, Madison's coming into the show. Yeah, like
we follow each other on Instagram. And then I looked
at my Instagram. I'm like, she followed, Oh the hell?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Wait wait, let me hold on a second. Let me
defend myself here. How often do you post often or not? All?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Too much? Too much? Story much.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
No, see that that doesn't make sense because I only
really will unfollow someone if they're completely inactive and they
literally haven't posted in five years, So that doesn't make sense,
Like really weird. This guy literally probably was an accident
because I don't unfollow people. I follow people that I
literally met once, like on omegle in twenty eleven. Like
I don't follow people. So now I'm like what, I'm
just thinking back, I'm like, what happened there? Did you
(12:51):
send a creepy d I'm scary? No, sure, I'm like
what there has to be more to this.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Millary, We've always talked about the music.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Always you guys way back exactly. None of us follow him.
We all followed him, we all blocked him at some point,
definitely not on purpose. And I'm sorry part of the
show because I hate when people unfollow me. I take
it so personally and it's like, actually really hurts my feelings.
(13:19):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I didn't mean to, and.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I feel like I told you jerk, I wasn't following you.
Now I'm following you.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I know you have forty million followers. How do you
keep up with each and every person?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I do everything. I gotta follow you back down. This
is like a good old fashioned Christmas miracle, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
With you, I also don't even follow some of my
very close friends because I just don't even think to
follow them. If that makes sense. It does, because times
I'm like, I don't I don't even think about that.
I don't follow you. I just like, sometimes it's not
really in my thoughts. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
People put way too much into following and unfollowing.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Definitely the modern age of like, I don't like you anymore. Yeah,
it feels like it sends a message.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Most hideous topics of conversation, like when anyone ever corners you,
why don't you follow me?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You're never gonna get an actual answer.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
My goodness, whatever it was. No one's going to be
like people you have. I've literally been like you unfollowed me.
I've actually like said that to two people before.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
But did they give you an actual answer?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
This is why I'm following. Everyone just like says whatever
they want, but we're just like, well, what happens?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
It must be a technical Well, okay, before we get
out of here, we got to talk about the music
because we are here to celebrate Madison's new album lock
It I'm sorry, Madison Beer. We were talking earlier how
you always should use the first and last name yes
in storytelling. So Madison Beer's new album lock It out today.
Of course. We started here at Z one hundred and
on our network with bittersweet I love Yes Babe. We
(14:39):
played Yes Baby for the first time the other day Yes,
and it was I wandered. I needed I needed fog machines,
I needed strokes, I needed all sorts of legal activities
going on.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It does that.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
It's such a great.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It does provoke legal activity.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Talk about I mean, this is a stupid question that
I'm sure even asked a million times the album lock
It The music is what? From your point of view,
this music is inter aword.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Finished sentence A sentence. I think that it feels like
a very uh how can I say this without it
not making any sense. I think that it feels like
everything I've ever made kind of in one place. It
feels like a really awesome if you had listened to
any of my previous albums or previous work, it just
feels kind of like a combination of to me, at least,
(15:25):
all the best of it and I'm just so proud
of it. And it feels like I feel very proud
of my writing, I feel proud of the production, I
feel proud of the performance on it. I'm just like
very very excited. I've never been so excited by an album.
And I listen to it all day every day. And
so you're a fan of your out, Oh my goodness.
I literally I if I meet up with a friend
who I haven't seen in a while, I'm like, get
in my car and let me play you like three songs.
(15:46):
I just I'm so excited about it, and I just
like love to see people's reactions to certain things. And
I actually had like a fan listening party in LA
where I played it or like a week early for
about thirty of them, and it just was so rewarding
and fun to watch their reaction to certain songs and
certain lyrics, and like they're they're also so tuned on
and like they know they know me so well, they
know everything I'm talking about. And I tried to thrown
(16:08):
like a couple of personal things on the album, like
you'll hear an Adventure Time sample on one song and
a severin sample on another song, and there's just like
random things in there that I think go back to
just my roots. Of Like in my album Life Support,
which is my first one, there was a lot of
very personal touches that I guess weren't so commercial, but
they were very personal to me. And I feel like
that's why I wanted to return to is. I wanted
(16:28):
this to feel like you're getting to know me in
a way.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
So Madison Beer last night here at iHeart World Headquarters,
the iHeart TikTok album preview. You got to watch that.
It's there right now. And of course Lockett is out today,
and of course down the street at Madison Square Garden.
You'll be there on what date, July thirteenth. July thirteenth,
The Hate of Summer in New York City, the tour.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yes, it's closing night of the tour. Please come. I'm
so scared no one's gonna show up. So if you're.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Listening, okay, I'm gonna ask one thing of you. I
don't ask. I don't like asking for favors, but we
need one ticket to the show. For scary more than
one ticket I can get tickets on to fill this room.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So I'm gonna gi.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's very important. You gave him one ticket.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Well, you can come alone.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You can sing yoursel everything with you and the production
people have one spotlight that spotlights him in the middle
of the garden.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
He could just be in the crowd and then when
that song comes on, he can just look up and
the spotlight on him. Yeah, who's creepy is that?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I'm Madison. Thank you for coming. I'm sorry, Madison Beer.
Thank you for coming by today. Thank you Lockett is
the album you need now, And of course head over
to TikTok to see the iHeart TikTok album preview that
we all loved last night. Thank you
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