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Madison Beer joins Bru to talk about her new album, 'locket,' upcoming tour, and more!
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00:00you write a song about someone is there any like process you do to like a let them know
00:06or is it just like you'll find out say that i i definitely i actually did that one time there was
00:12um when i wrote which song was it i don't know if it was my song selfish or reckless but i did give
00:19said person somewhat of a heads up because i literally say in the song like why you always
00:23such a gemini which is his odyssey check-in what's going on it's brew madison beer a long time no see
00:32how are you two months ago i know i just saw you i've been good how are you resident i love having
00:38you in on the show thank you we got some news and we're so excited that your album is here
00:42lock it it's 2026 how does that feel just first off 2026 it doesn't feel almost february already
00:48it's insane well don't say that that's that's even worse it is it's crazy though next thing you know
00:53it's march i just remember when i was here last and we were talking about when the album was coming
00:57out it still felt far away i mean oh yeah what three months out and i was it felt it felt like
01:02it was in the distance and now it's out and it's been out for you know kind of a couple days now and
01:08it's just crazy time just flies yeah it does and how does it feel when it's officially out i mean i
01:13feel like everyone asked that but like now that it's it's here you held so much in about the album
01:17it's we can all talk about it now i know i wouldn't tell you anything last time um it feels really
01:21good definitely like a sigh of relief i would say and just excited i feel proud of it i feel
01:27pumped that people could listen to it i'm not just listening to it in my car alone now and it's fun
01:33yeah yeah i want to talk about what's the best songs to like listen to the car like what's the
01:36best daytime song for on the album oh uh i love bad enough but bad enough you could play day or night
01:45yeah um healthy habit i feel like has a daytime daytime feel what about nighttime bad enough again
01:51nighttime for the night oh for the night is kind of a sexy song kind of yeah kind of the candle lit
01:55vibes yeah do you do anything to celebrate when an album comes out like do you have any ritual or
02:00what would you do this time i was in bed by the time it came out um my last two albums i celebrated
02:06with friends and stuff but this time i just i i did this little like event for my fans the night
02:11that it came out but that was at 7 p.m so then by the time midnight rolled around i was literally
02:15just in bed and on my phone and that's where i'm happy so that's the best way to be right yeah and
02:22but then the next night i did this little listening party for them so that was fun but that's kind of
02:26how i'm celebrating these days is just with my fans and people close to me but yeah yeah i don't know
02:32when you look back on the journey of making this album do you feel like you learned something from
02:37every project or is it more of like a you're like reliving in a diary sense it's like journaling
02:42and you're just like looking back on those times or do you learn stuff probably both i mean i think
02:46that i've learned a lot i think with this album especially i learned so much about myself my
02:51writing process my producing process um how to navigate writing about a relationship while it was
02:59still happening then when it ended then you know the moments and the ebbs and flows of all the feelings
03:04that came and went with it and it was interesting i think i hadn't ever written
03:08stuff from the perspective of like while it was actually actively happening if that makes sense i
03:13think a lot of the music that i'd written before that was specifically heartbreak stuff was after
03:18things had been said and done this was really everything you hear was an emotional roller coaster
03:25and like moments in time that were very real and active and um yeah i think that was a new
03:31experience for me but it was very healing and therapeutic in the process yeah yeah how do you
03:35feel it changes the product of doing it you know in the moment or when you're looking back on it i
03:40think it's better i mean i think that i love this album so much because you can't really replicate the
03:44emotions that you're feeling in that exact situation like for example there's a song called
03:48you're still everything on the album that has this really heavy auto-tune which was only because we
03:52used really heavy auto-tune we were making the demo because i was having a really hard time and felt like i
03:56couldn't really sing so i was like just throw auto-tune on it and then we got super attached to the way the
04:00auto-tune had sounded and um kind of fell in love with this like sad robot singing the song and
04:06yeah so i think those things can't be replicated and i think they happen really organically because
04:10of what's going on in your current life or in your current frame of mind and that's something that i
04:16think when you listen to this album i hope people can feel and hear that these things are very real
04:21and when they were recorded was when they were happening i love that take that ai can't recreate a sad
04:27robot singing gotta do it in person i was gonna ask you that too like what's something you did
04:31maybe for the first time on locket and it's writing from you know while it's happening yeah writing
04:35while it's happening also using hard auto-tune like that i'd never done that before it's so fun though
04:40i love singing with hard auto-tune on it's so fun i think try like you'll see shot it's so fun like
04:46now i understand it you know it's literally so much fun but i'm sure on i can't decide if on tour i
04:51should do the vocal like normal or if i should maintain how it sounds on the record i think i'm probably
04:56going to end up doing the auto-tune but it's so fun yeah one time you got to go in the studio with
05:00me and i'll give you the auto-tune mic because i bought an app like that back in 2016 speaking of
05:052016 the t-pain thing i was obsessed i was like i remember i thought it was so cool and that post
05:10that was terrible um don't go back in the archive on that stuff it's terrible oh is there anything
05:15that almost didn't make the album i don't know if i asked you this last time but was it all felt
05:19pretty true to what you did the album is only 11 songs so it's not a super long project and i think
05:24the songs that i was unsure about didn't end up making it so which was intentional i i didn't want
05:31the album to have anything on it that i was unsure about i wanted to feel really positive about
05:35everything that was on there and you know the two or three songs that i ended up cutting last minute
05:39maybe they'll be on a deluxe who knows but at the time being i was like i need to send this to go
05:45get pressed onto vinyls and i just stop overthinking it and so that's what i did and i also think it was
05:49exciting because in the past i've made bigger albums that then i haven't done a deluxe for whereas
05:54this one i feel like doing a deluxe for it would be super fun so it's something that i would like
05:58to do yeah well that's what you said last time already you're like you know you're gonna do
06:01deluxe yeah i want to for sure but you don't know what that looks like yet right yeah no not yet so
06:06it's just like you know that you have enough to it's in the pipeline yeah i definitely i i mean i
06:11have songs that exist already that i could throw together a deluxe for but i definitely think
06:15i don't know i like being in the studio and i think just now that the album's out and i can see
06:21people's reactions and how they feel about the music i think i can write some new stuff that's
06:26so interesting because you never think about like there's rules to a deluxe obviously there's not
06:30but like that's the thing artists do they'll like make new songs for the deluxe maybe based off
06:34feedback or yeah wow i mean there's so many there's so many artists i know that their deluxes are
06:39things that they made 10 days before the deluxe came out yeah i always thought it was like an
06:44encore and they're like you know what you like that here's a couple more you know what maybe some
06:47people do it like that i mean there might be some old ones that end up on the project but
06:51who knows interesting we'll see i'm always interested about the behind the scenes stuff
06:56and i'm curious too about is there like i don't know if etiquette's the right word but say you write
07:00a song about someone is there any like process you do to like a let them know or is it just like
07:08you'll find out say that i i definitely i actually did that one time there was um when i wrote
07:14which song was it i don't know if it was my song selfish or reckless but i did give said person
07:20somewhat of a heads up because i literally say in the song like why you always such a gemini
07:24which is his sign and i was like uh getting specific just wanted to let you know this is
07:29gonna be coming out but yeah i mean i think it's it can be a tricky thing to handle obviously when you
07:34have like public relationships and it can be hard to navigate but i i hope people also understand at
07:40this point i think in society that like you're listening to an album which is 11 songs and an
07:46hour of a long-term relationship and i think it's like something that i don't think people should
07:51just pass judgment on after just hearing an album once i think there's obviously a lot that goes into
07:55it and i do think as someone releasing an album that talks about this it is kind of my responsibility
08:00in a way to let people know like i don't appreciate or like it when people send hate to these people
08:06like i i just think that let it be music let it be art and um yeah i just to me to me it's kind
08:12of this weird thing because obviously a lot of my fans like they could piece together certain things
08:16so i just always tell them you know hey we let's just enjoy the the album and this was a very healing
08:22experience for me and i just try to yeah just keep it like that what's impossible to get all that
08:27context and like you said 11 songs so there's no way this is an album he's not really a werewolf no this
08:32is not this exactly this is not the whole relationship in one place and i think that's
08:37an important thing to uh note because bullying is obviously something that i'm very against and i
08:42just it's but it can be hard releasing an album that you know people are gonna uh nitpick or whatnot
08:47so yeah just had to say it absolutely yeah going to bad enough which um is so much fun and i got
08:53questions about the music video yeah for that song to be a single like what's the decision there when
08:58did you know like this is the one that we're gonna put out yeah bad enough was a tricky one
09:01because i really from the time i made it i wanted it to be like the single and i wanted to lead with
09:07it and i wanted it to be the driver but then we made bittersweet and i was like does this make more
09:12sense and then the singles process i have to say is like my least favorite process of really but
09:17you're so good at it and i feel like you have a blast i feel like i'm horrible at it if it was up to
09:21me this album would have just dropped and there would have been no singles and i just because it really
09:24is a body of work in my opinion that like you should listen to it from top to bottom and so it's hard
09:28for me to then be like well what are the best three songs because to me they're all awesome and
09:32i love them all so it's it's difficult that's something that i struggle with a bit and maybe
09:36my next album i will just drop it as an album but yeah so um i decided ultimately to wait for bad
09:44enough to be the single that came with the album just because to me it kind of feels like the the
09:49vibe of the whole project whereas like yes baby and bittersweet feel like these little moments on the
09:54project but bad enough to me feels like everything in one song kind of if that makes sense so i i love
09:59that song it's it's probably been my favorite though since it came out or since we made it i
10:03just love it good representation of the project as a whole you think i think so yeah vocally sonically
10:08lyrically i think it just you understand what the album's really absolutely represented by it is so
10:14good top to bottom too i hope everyone gives the chance to listen to it because i was on a plane and
10:17that's my favorite time to listen to music you know it's just all the way through same and
10:20yeah it's so i don't know there's so it's just a ride so i hope people get the you know experience
10:25in their own way speaking of music videos and them not being your favorite thing what is like
10:29a part of the process that fans realize like takes the longest or it's the hardest thing to do
10:33sometimes i feel like it's interesting it's even something i'm still learning like the more i'm
10:38directing and the more i'm in the color sessions and editing things with people and the more i get my
10:43hands into all of it things really do take a long time and i might shoot a video on one day but then
10:48because i shoot on film we have to send the film to get developed and then that takes
10:51three days five days and then once the film is developed then it has to be colored and then
10:55once it's colored we can edit the footage and then once the footage is edited like there are so many
10:58stages that go into it and i think that um it's just yeah sometimes it takes probably on average i
11:04would say we like to allow three weeks to turn a music video around that's quicker than i was no maybe
11:09not really i feel like that's a lot i mean for some of them two minute three minute video it's i mean
11:13there are also to be fair there's some music videos that are so elaborate and amazing that probably take way
11:17longer than that but i would say like i am not comfortable unless i have at least three weeks
11:21to turn it around right well that's for you forget too it's like usually is are most of them like one
11:25day shoots too you only have so much time unfortunately mine are usually one day shoots
11:28if it was up to me they would be two day shoots but it just gets super expensive to do it over two
11:32days but it's it's yeah usually i would say my shoots are on average like 14 to 16 hour days
11:37yeah gosh but it's fun yeah and it's always very busy like my music videos are get there get ready
11:43and then just it's boom boom boom literally and then suddenly i'm wrapped and i'm like oh we did
11:48it right do you um do you ever feel different about a song after you do a music video like there's like
11:53new memories attached to it yeah for sure there's so i mean i think of my song reckless and i always
11:58just picture this like fiasco that went down with this water tank we had like a whole thing happen
12:03with this water tank that exploded and we ended up having to shoot the water scene in my pool at my
12:08house and that is the memory that i'll always associate that oh my gosh yeah did you do damage
12:13to the house or something no it was in a parking lot at the music video set there was like this
12:16giant water tank that had been getting full all day and then right when i was about to shoot it i
12:23was sitting in my green room and like my manager hadn't came and gotten me to go shoot it and i was
12:26like what's going on we're running late you know and they were like hey so the water tank actually
12:31completely busted open and exploded and uh we don't have any water and i'm super specific like once i
12:38have a shot list and once i have a vision for a music video it needs to happen like that so there
12:43wasn't really an option to just ditch this water scene for me like the whole video it felt like
12:47that was what it was leading up to so we're for an hour we're all going back and forth of like
12:51do we go to this pool stage okay well then that's going to take two hours to get there and we're
12:55going to have to pay everyone triple overtime and all this like oh my gosh everyone's got to stay
12:59till four o'clock in the morning it was just every option was so bad and something that i didn't want to
13:04put the crew through myself through everybody it was just a nightmare but i couldn't not have
13:08the shots i was like maybe this is a stupid idea but can we go to my house i have a pool and like
13:14you know because we were looking for a body of water at 10 p.m to shoot in la and it's like not
13:19that common and then you have to get permits and you have to have someone it's a whole thing
13:22and we already had the people there like the camera operating crew that were able to be underwater
13:26i was like we can throw a tarp in my pool and just do it and they were like
13:30you know what that is not a bad idea and we ended up going to my house my pool was freezing cold like
13:36probably 40 degrees my pool was so cold because it was winter and like it wasn't heated or anything
13:41and cold plunge i had no literally and i had a jacuzzi that was i was able to heat pretty quickly and so
13:47i was literally doing like one take jumping in the pool freezing cold doing it and then just jumping
13:51in the jacuzzi but i also had all my clothes on including my shoes so it was just a crazy night and
13:56everyone was at my house till like 3 a.m and shout out to the crew for being such troopers but it was
14:01amazing that's that is though yeah shout out hypothermia flash hot and cold yeah that was um
14:06that is what i associate reckless with now though is i can't not think about that so when you watch
14:11the music video that is in my pool that is that is in my pool oh my gosh that's oh that's amazing
14:17um i can't wait to hear about more of uh the music video stories eventually with what goes wrong
14:21like yeah the guy actually had rabies and bad enough and believe it or not yeah he did that's why i was
14:25running away from him looking back we're talking about 2016 i mean just thinking back to younger
14:29you as an artist like what do you think you'd be the most proud of um if if she got to hear and see
14:34locket oh god i i hope she would like it i think that um i hope she'd be proud of it i think she'd be
14:42very excited to hear that i'm playing at madison square garden because that's been my dream since i
14:46could remember so yeah she would be like how how'd you do that and yeah i don't know i hope i hope
14:52she would enjoy it having the the hometown show too that's so exciting to that's where you're gonna
14:58rap right yeah that's oh my gosh what song you're most excited to play oh uh i don't know i'm excited
15:05to play all of them i think yes baby's gonna be really fun just because it's such a fun energetic
15:09song for the night i feel like will be fun because i'll get to feel sexy on stage and whatever but
15:15i'm excited for all of it yeah i can't wait to see it come to life it's gonna be so fun
15:20um what about the future like moving forward um what does it look like for you i'm just always
15:25curious like if you you look back at what happened for the early parts of your career and then moving
15:29forward like what do you see that um evolving into i know it's kind of a open-ended question but
15:36i don't know i mean i think i just am hoping to continue on this road of like
15:41prioritizing my mental health and my well-being while also you know pursuing a career i think that's
15:47something that i haven't always been able to balance or prioritize and i think that you know
15:51as i continue to grow that's becoming more and more important to me and the only way i'm going
15:56to be able to sustain anything and so uh probably that i would say is my biggest goal is just to be
16:02able to continue making music that i love performing for the people that i love and also still maintaining
16:08my well-being and uh yeah it's all you need that's the most important thing yeah i love that what
16:15about playing more poker i had somebody come in here hey and they're like you know madison's a great
16:18poker player i'm like really talking about really is that true i'm honored that word's going around i
16:23had no clue hey man let's play so i brought a deck of cards no i'm just kidding what's your best poker
16:28face like say you got i mean what's the game what do you play most uh yeah texas hold them yeah or plo
16:33so what's a good hand and if you got like a good aces or something right that'd be insane well you
16:38have two cards in texas hold them so we'll see so two aces yes pocket aces is the best hand you
16:43could have what's the poker face like like say you just pulled those up and you see them got a
16:47no reaction but you're smiling i smile all the time okay dang she's good damn right thank you so
16:55much for you stopping by i appreciate you keeping us in the loop and congrats on all the success thank you
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