April 8, 2024 • 11 mins
Celebrating her FIRST #1 song "i'm only here for the beat", Madelline shares how the song was born, and how long ago she started working on it.
We also get to know Madelline better w #FinkysFavorites!
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Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
We also get to know Madelline better w #FinkysFavorites!
Find out about:
- which was her favorite city to perform in on tour w Em Beihold
- her favorite thing about the tour
- her favorite thing to do when she has extra money
- her favorite song off her upcoming EP
- her favorite thing to do when she's alone
Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
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(00:01):
Hello, Hi, I'm sorry,I'm kind of late. I'm like,
I feel sick, am I comingoff of fool poisoning? Oh? Man,
are you do you want to dothis? Or I No, I
totally can't it. I actually havelike a pan latter this too. I'm
glad you're a little late because youjust missed me putting on another layer of
chapstick and another listerine strip. I'mso addicted to chapstick and listerine strips.
(00:23):
Is my room looking really weird andlike Massy, No, it looks great,
Okay, cool, but I appreciateyou cleaning it up for us.
And just to warn you, so, we've got like thunderstorms, severe thunderstorms,
tornado watches going on right now,so if this gets shut down,
(00:45):
congratulations counting down the biggest dance songsin the country. This is America's Dance
(01:07):
thirty. Madeline. It is sogreat seeing you again, especially under these
circumstances. Welcome back to America's Dancethirty. Yes, thank you, Congratulations
on. I'm only here for thebeat, not only going number one on
America's Dance thirty and media base,but also the Billboard chart, which is
(01:30):
incredible. Thank you so much.Honestly, I was not expecting this in
the slightest. Now, is thisyour first because I know you do dance
music, indie other stuff as well, is this your first number one across
all platforms? Oh? Yeah,by far? Wow, that is so
incredible. Well, congratulations, AndI can't believe that we were just talking
(01:53):
about this song like a few monthsago. I know, it's so wild.
It's like climbed up the charts.It just keeps going and going.
Well, last time we chatted withyou, we got to know Madeline a
little better with Thinky's first Now,let's get to know Madeline a little better
with Thinky's favorites. Okay, perfect, let's do it. Last time we
(02:16):
chatted, you broke the news tous that you were going on tour opening
up for m buy Hold, whichwas incredible. You just wrapped that tour.
Do you have a favorite city thatyou performed in? Ooh, okay,
I have a few favorite ones.I would say that the one that
(02:37):
really stuck out to me at firstwas Salt Lake City. The crowd was
unexpectedly like live. I also lovedPortland, Portland, Oregon and what else
that those are my two main ones, And it was really nice going back
to Montreal too and seeing all myfriends who came to support me. Oh,
that's so incredible. I wish Iknew you were heading back to my
(02:58):
hometown. I would have had youpick me up some bagels. Oh my
god. See I forgot bagels too, and I'm so I'm so mad at
myself. And I had a cartoo, Like I could have stocked the
car full of bagels. I couldhave made a call to customs and been
like, uh, just a headsup, Madeline will be coming through Customs
with my bagels. Please let itthrough now. What was your favorite thing
(03:23):
about the tour. My favorite thingabout the tour was honestly seeing in real
life how how many different fans havebeen impacted by my music. And it's
so easy to forget when you're justlike receiving compliments or comments behind the screen
or seeing numbers, but really seeingpeople's faces and getting to like hug all
my fans and sign things, andit was just such a beautiful experience and
(03:49):
it just makes me. It justreally gives me the push to want to
keep going and going. I thinkit's just my favorite part about being an
artist. That's so awesome. I'mso happy for you that that happened.
Now, one of your latest songsis make More Money, and we're actually
recording this chat when Powerball is overa billion dollars? What is your favorite
(04:13):
thing to do when you have someextra money? Oh, that's so funny
because that song is like a parodyof, you know, of being addicted
to the grind. But my whatis my favorite thing? I probably say
my favorite thing to spend money onwould be clothes, vintage clothing. I
don't buy new clothes. I buyvintage always. Everything I'm wearing is always
(04:36):
thrifted. So I will either govintage shopping. I'll do that on eBay
or on depop or I will buymyself a little treat. Now totally off
subject, but on the same subject. If you won the billion dollars,
what would be the first thing youwould do with that Jackpop money? Oh?
Gosh, I know that you endup with like half of that half
(04:59):
of it? Right? Yeah?I have to which five hundred million?
I think we could live with that. Yeah, yeah, I definitely have
to donate some. I'd have tohook my family up. Oof. That
is a tough I would I don'tknow, it's like, I literally don't
even know what i'd do with thatmuch money. Truly, I'd want to
use it for a good purpose,to be honest, it would it would
(05:21):
make me feel horrible if I didn'tlike do something meaningful with it. No,
you, and then I would wantto do, like make all my
artistic dreams come true, maybe makea finance a film of my own,
you know, start ooh, Iwould start a business too. I would
create some sort of products and likebe able to invest in it myself.
And wouldn't it be nice to beable to do all this stuff that you
(05:44):
already do, but technically as ahobby, since you'd already have all that
money? You know What's so crazy? As I find I wonder how motivating
it would be to hustle as hard. You know, well, I think
you would still do the hustle,you just wouldn't take any of the craft
that comes along with it. That'sreally true. I'm still so passionate about
it. But I think I don'tknow. It's a tough it's a tough
(06:06):
call. I think money can bevery motivating at times to work in the
degree in which I feel anxious towork. You know. I always say
that if I won a like apowerball, jackpot or something, half of
it goes automatically into savings, soyou can live off the interest. Then
you give to charity, pay offall the debt, buy that you know,
(06:27):
buy the houses for your friends andfamily, but then still work.
Just not take the crap that everybodygives you while you're at work. I
would absolutely still need to work.Yeah, because you go crazy. Exactly.
We're the same person, right,You need something to keep you busy
and to challenge you. Exactly.I totally forgot buying a house because now
(06:49):
that's like something that now that's somethingonly like really wealthy people could do.
So luckily I got in before thisinsane bubble. But any that's for another
day. Oh my god, yay, yeah, thank you. Now you've
(07:14):
got your EP coming out soon.Do you have a favorite song off of
it? What would be my favoritesong off of it? My favorite song
off of my new EP coming uphas to be a song called real Me.
I really love that song, andit's just about unrealistic beauty standards.
Yeah. I think it's a reallyimportant topic to talk about right now because
(07:36):
I think just just because of socialmedia and TikTok. It's like we're just
constantly exposed to all of these likequote unquote perfected faces, everything's fine tuned,
and it starts to make us feelreally self conscious. And people are
talking about getting all these procedures thatthey definitely didn't know about years ago,
and people are getting new like bodieddysmorphia. Yeah, I honestly couldn't imagine
(08:01):
growing up now with social media.Like growing up when we did, you
didn't have to worry about seeing allof this every single day. Now you
have to. Exactly you can't escapeit, and it's just I mean,
you can escape it, but youhave to go to extreme measures to escape
it. Yeah. Like see ifI just want to turn off my phone,
I mean I'm gonna I receive businesscalls on my phone. I conduct
(08:24):
business on my phone, So itjust makes it challenging. You know.
I hear Ed Sheeran just like doesn'thave phone at all. Isn't that amazing?
And doesn't do email or nothing.People just fine, people send doves
out for him. No, like, you know what, we'll deal with
it. We'll deal with it whenwe can. Now, finally, in
(08:46):
honor of I'm only here for theBeat? Going number one, What is
your favorite thing to do when you'reall alone? I I think my favorite
thing to do when I'm all aloneis to read. Got any good books?
I currently forget the author because I'vejust received it, but I'm planning
on starting early day. It's calledLessons in Chemistry. What's so crazy about
(09:07):
you mentioning that book? I'm notsure if you're familiar with Annabelle England,
but Annabelle England put out a songcalled the Lesson in Chemistry and it was
based because she had seen that book. Oh no way, Yeah, So
I'm sure it's going to be agreat book. Oh I'm really excited.
I started reading, or I startedlistening to the audiobook with my dad and
it really caught my interest. Well, last time we chatted, we got
(09:31):
to know how I'm Only Here forthe Beat was born? And anybody can
search America's Dance thirty and listen tothe past podcast. But if anybody doesn't
want to go back to the oldpodcast, and let's fact check you.
How was I'm Only Here for theBeat born? Share with us again?
Okay, how it was born?Was that one person that I write with
(09:56):
came to me with an idea I'monly here for the vibe, and I
was like, hmm, that doesn'tquite sit right with me. I don't
love that, and we just workshoppedit and then based off of that idea,
I was like, ooh, thisis really cool. And then my
two co writers, Jeff Harris andBenjamin Rustang, we wrote it together and
(10:16):
we just built off of it andmade a little banger. Yeah, it's
such a banger. And how longago did you guys start working on it?
About a year ago? Wow,it's so crazy too. It's just
I would have never expected this tohappen. I'm so excited. It's been
so surreal seeing all of my friendsand random people I know or haven't talked
(10:37):
to since high school sending me picturesof my song on the radio and maybe
some of them are hearing this now, like shout out, I'm sure all
of them are hearing this. Now, what are you talking about? Some
all of them? Everyone better hearthis right now. But yeah, so
it's been really really surreal to havethat happen. And even when I I
(11:00):
was on tour, I would justlike turn on the radio and I would
hear my song. Random I amso happy for you that I went number
one. I'm so happy for thetour that happened for you and the upcoming
EP Congratulations on everything, Madeline,thank you, Thank you so much.
Brian, It's always such a pleasureto talk to you. It's always great
(11:22):
chatting with you too. Thank youso much for your time with us on
America's Dance thirty. Of course,my pleasure in enjoying my song I'm Only
here for the Beat. America's DanceErnie counting down the biggest dance songs in
the country. America's Dance thirty
Hello, Hi, I'm sorry,I'm kind of late. I'm like,
I feel sick, am I comingoff of fool poisoning? Oh? Man,
are you do you want to dothis? Or I No, I
totally can't it. I actually havelike a pan latter this too. I'm
glad you're a little late because youjust missed me putting on another layer of
chapstick and another listerine strip. I'mso addicted to chapstick and listerine strips.
(00:23):
Is my room looking really weird andlike Massy, No, it looks great,
Okay, cool, but I appreciateyou cleaning it up for us.
And just to warn you, so, we've got like thunderstorms, severe thunderstorms,
tornado watches going on right now,so if this gets shut down,
(00:45):
congratulations counting down the biggest dance songsin the country. This is America's Dance
(01:07):
thirty. Madeline. It is sogreat seeing you again, especially under these
circumstances. Welcome back to America's Dancethirty. Yes, thank you, Congratulations
on. I'm only here for thebeat, not only going number one on
America's Dance thirty and media base,but also the Billboard chart, which is
(01:30):
incredible. Thank you so much.Honestly, I was not expecting this in
the slightest. Now, is thisyour first because I know you do dance
music, indie other stuff as well, is this your first number one across
all platforms? Oh? Yeah,by far? Wow, that is so
incredible. Well, congratulations, AndI can't believe that we were just talking
(01:53):
about this song like a few monthsago. I know, it's so wild.
It's like climbed up the charts.It just keeps going and going.
Well, last time we chatted withyou, we got to know Madeline a
little better with Thinky's first Now,let's get to know Madeline a little better
with Thinky's favorites. Okay, perfect, let's do it. Last time we
(02:16):
chatted, you broke the news tous that you were going on tour opening
up for m buy Hold, whichwas incredible. You just wrapped that tour.
Do you have a favorite city thatyou performed in? Ooh, okay,
I have a few favorite ones.I would say that the one that
(02:37):
really stuck out to me at firstwas Salt Lake City. The crowd was
unexpectedly like live. I also lovedPortland, Portland, Oregon and what else
that those are my two main ones, And it was really nice going back
to Montreal too and seeing all myfriends who came to support me. Oh,
that's so incredible. I wish Iknew you were heading back to my
(02:58):
hometown. I would have had youpick me up some bagels. Oh my
god. See I forgot bagels too, and I'm so I'm so mad at
myself. And I had a cartoo, Like I could have stocked the
car full of bagels. I couldhave made a call to customs and been
like, uh, just a headsup, Madeline will be coming through Customs
with my bagels. Please let itthrough now. What was your favorite thing
(03:23):
about the tour. My favorite thingabout the tour was honestly seeing in real
life how how many different fans havebeen impacted by my music. And it's
so easy to forget when you're justlike receiving compliments or comments behind the screen
or seeing numbers, but really seeingpeople's faces and getting to like hug all
my fans and sign things, andit was just such a beautiful experience and
(03:49):
it just makes me. It justreally gives me the push to want to
keep going and going. I thinkit's just my favorite part about being an
artist. That's so awesome. I'mso happy for you that that happened.
Now, one of your latest songsis make More Money, and we're actually
recording this chat when Powerball is overa billion dollars? What is your favorite
(04:13):
thing to do when you have someextra money? Oh, that's so funny
because that song is like a parodyof, you know, of being addicted
to the grind. But my whatis my favorite thing? I probably say
my favorite thing to spend money onwould be clothes, vintage clothing. I
don't buy new clothes. I buyvintage always. Everything I'm wearing is always
(04:36):
thrifted. So I will either govintage shopping. I'll do that on eBay
or on depop or I will buymyself a little treat. Now totally off
subject, but on the same subject. If you won the billion dollars,
what would be the first thing youwould do with that Jackpop money? Oh?
Gosh, I know that you endup with like half of that half
(04:59):
of it? Right? Yeah?I have to which five hundred million?
I think we could live with that. Yeah, yeah, I definitely have
to donate some. I'd have tohook my family up. Oof. That
is a tough I would I don'tknow, it's like, I literally don't
even know what i'd do with thatmuch money. Truly, I'd want to
use it for a good purpose,to be honest, it would it would
(05:21):
make me feel horrible if I didn'tlike do something meaningful with it. No,
you, and then I would wantto do, like make all my
artistic dreams come true, maybe makea finance a film of my own,
you know, start ooh, Iwould start a business too. I would
create some sort of products and likebe able to invest in it myself.
And wouldn't it be nice to beable to do all this stuff that you
(05:44):
already do, but technically as ahobby, since you'd already have all that
money? You know What's so crazy? As I find I wonder how motivating
it would be to hustle as hard. You know, well, I think
you would still do the hustle,you just wouldn't take any of the craft
that comes along with it. That'sreally true. I'm still so passionate about
it. But I think I don'tknow. It's a tough it's a tough
(06:06):
call. I think money can bevery motivating at times to work in the
degree in which I feel anxious towork. You know. I always say
that if I won a like apowerball, jackpot or something, half of
it goes automatically into savings, soyou can live off the interest. Then
you give to charity, pay offall the debt, buy that you know,
(06:27):
buy the houses for your friends andfamily, but then still work.
Just not take the crap that everybodygives you while you're at work. I
would absolutely still need to work.Yeah, because you go crazy. Exactly.
We're the same person, right,You need something to keep you busy
and to challenge you. Exactly.I totally forgot buying a house because now
(06:49):
that's like something that now that's somethingonly like really wealthy people could do.
So luckily I got in before thisinsane bubble. But any that's for another
day. Oh my god, yay, yeah, thank you. Now you've
(07:14):
got your EP coming out soon.Do you have a favorite song off of
it? What would be my favoritesong off of it? My favorite song
off of my new EP coming uphas to be a song called real Me.
I really love that song, andit's just about unrealistic beauty standards.
Yeah. I think it's a reallyimportant topic to talk about right now because
(07:36):
I think just just because of socialmedia and TikTok. It's like we're just
constantly exposed to all of these likequote unquote perfected faces, everything's fine tuned,
and it starts to make us feelreally self conscious. And people are
talking about getting all these procedures thatthey definitely didn't know about years ago,
and people are getting new like bodieddysmorphia. Yeah, I honestly couldn't imagine
(08:01):
growing up now with social media.Like growing up when we did, you
didn't have to worry about seeing allof this every single day. Now you
have to. Exactly you can't escapeit, and it's just I mean,
you can escape it, but youhave to go to extreme measures to escape
it. Yeah. Like see ifI just want to turn off my phone,
I mean I'm gonna I receive businesscalls on my phone. I conduct
(08:24):
business on my phone, So itjust makes it challenging. You know.
I hear Ed Sheeran just like doesn'thave phone at all. Isn't that amazing?
And doesn't do email or nothing.People just fine, people send doves
out for him. No, like, you know what, we'll deal with
it. We'll deal with it whenwe can. Now, finally, in
(08:46):
honor of I'm only here for theBeat? Going number one, What is
your favorite thing to do when you'reall alone? I I think my favorite
thing to do when I'm all aloneis to read. Got any good books?
I currently forget the author because I'vejust received it, but I'm planning
on starting early day. It's calledLessons in Chemistry. What's so crazy about
(09:07):
you mentioning that book? I'm notsure if you're familiar with Annabelle England,
but Annabelle England put out a songcalled the Lesson in Chemistry and it was
based because she had seen that book. Oh no way, Yeah, So
I'm sure it's going to be agreat book. Oh I'm really excited.
I started reading, or I startedlistening to the audiobook with my dad and
it really caught my interest. Well, last time we chatted, we got
(09:31):
to know how I'm Only Here forthe Beat was born? And anybody can
search America's Dance thirty and listen tothe past podcast. But if anybody doesn't
want to go back to the oldpodcast, and let's fact check you.
How was I'm Only Here for theBeat born? Share with us again?
Okay, how it was born?Was that one person that I write with
(09:56):
came to me with an idea I'monly here for the vibe, and I
was like, hmm, that doesn'tquite sit right with me. I don't
love that, and we just workshoppedit and then based off of that idea,
I was like, ooh, thisis really cool. And then my
two co writers, Jeff Harris andBenjamin Rustang, we wrote it together and
(10:16):
we just built off of it andmade a little banger. Yeah, it's
such a banger. And how longago did you guys start working on it?
About a year ago? Wow,it's so crazy too. It's just
I would have never expected this tohappen. I'm so excited. It's been
so surreal seeing all of my friendsand random people I know or haven't talked
(10:37):
to since high school sending me picturesof my song on the radio and maybe
some of them are hearing this now, like shout out, I'm sure all
of them are hearing this. Now, what are you talking about? Some
all of them? Everyone better hearthis right now. But yeah, so
it's been really really surreal to havethat happen. And even when I I
(11:00):
was on tour, I would justlike turn on the radio and I would
hear my song. Random I amso happy for you that I went number
one. I'm so happy for thetour that happened for you and the upcoming
EP Congratulations on everything, Madeline,thank you, Thank you so much.
Brian, It's always such a pleasureto talk to you. It's always great
(11:22):
chatting with you too. Thank youso much for your time with us on
America's Dance thirty. Of course,my pleasure in enjoying my song I'm Only
here for the Beat. America's DanceErnie counting down the biggest dance songs in
the country. America's Dance thirty
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