Madison Beer felt ‘silenced by men’ early in her music career

Singer Madison Beer has learned many things since she rose to fame at the age of 13, including “how to hold out” in a room full of men.

The 21-year-old, who released her debut studio album Life support friday said NME that even though she’s learned to choose her battles, “I’m now at a point where I’m almost 10 years old in this game, and I have a voice that I think is worth hearing.” But for a very long time, I felt very silenced by older men in the industry who didn’t know what they were talking about and who led me in all the wrong directions.

In 2012, Beer was an aspiring singer posting her performances on YouTube, when Justin Bieber clicked on her cover of “At Last” by Etta James. “Wow. 13 years old! She can sing. Great job,” Bieber tweeted, who rose to fame on YouTube at the same age, after being discovered by talent manager Scooter Braun.

Her new album contains songs like “Effortlessly”, which she told the Daily mail 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. . “

Beer, who has a total of 36.5 million followers on Instagram and TikTok, says fame as it exists online has been difficult. “The worst part about this is TikTok, which in my opinion sparked this whole new wave of bullies,” she said. NME. “Sometimes I see a video of myself on my ‘For You’ page and I want to scroll through it as fast as possible. Because I know if I watch it the comments are going to be horrible and hateful for me and below the belt. This stuff is really hard for me to watch.

Last June, the hashtag #MadisonBeerIsOverParty surfaced when Beer was accused of staging a photo at a Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles, which she addressed via tweet screenshots messages between her and a photographer Beer accused of “spreading unclear information.” Beer then apologized for saying in a question-and-answer session with fans that she romanticized the book. Lolita, written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1955, about a middle-aged man sexually fixed on a 12-year-old girl.

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She said NME of the hashtag, “At this point, it’s so triggering and traumatic and scary – there aren’t really any words for it.”

Beer took bold steps with his debut album, recounting People she was “really scared” to share so much. “When I was going through this, I felt really lonely and I felt that feeling of shame because I feel like there is a huge stigma around mental health,” she said. “Once I was diagnosed and realized that I had really been diagnosed and had an anxiety disorder, I didn’t feel so good.

“And then I started to realize that there was nothing wrong with it and that I shouldn’t be feeling this,” she added. “I wanted to make sure I was like, ‘Hey, I’m going through this and this is what’s happening.'”

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