Madison Beer – Credit: Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic
When Madison Beer was 12 years old, she was sold a dream that turned out to be a nightmare. In his recent Cosmopolitan The coverage, the 26 -year -old man, recalled the whirlwind of having been signed with Island Records at such a young age, with industry leaders in his ear saying to him: “We all love you; You are going to be the Justin Bieber woman, give her a year. ” When the beer was unable to immediately reproduce the success of one of the biggest stars in pop history, the switch was returned. At 16, she was deposited by her label, the lawyer, and her then manager, scooter Braun.
“Everything in my life disappeared in 12 hours,” said Beer. The logic behind the Bieber comparison was at best tenuous. “The reason it was one thing was that Scooter had signed me, and obviously scooter had signed Justin,” she said. “Justin had published a blanket, and I had posted a blanket, so it was synchronized. But Justin was also a teenager when I was signed – he had not even lived his adult life yet. He lived so much.”
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Beer is still close to Bieber and his wife, Hailey. “I love her very much and Hailey. I was with them recently and we said to ourselves, “As we have known each other for so long,” she said. “I have known Hailey since I was 10 years old, and I have known Justin since I was 12 years old. We are still in the lives of others and now they are married to a baby. ”
One thing they had in common was the loss of crucial years of development in an industry that did not have their interest at heart. “My label was” good luck “. And I say to myself: “You just stolen years of my childhood that I will never come back.” Says beer. “I can’t go to university because I was educated at home. I have a secondary school diploma and nothing else because of my career. All my family has uprooted and moved to Los Angeles without links. I have no friends.
There was also a loss of innocence associated with the experience which was unique to beer as a young girl positioned as parallel to a male adolescent. “I had not succeeded. It was a real conversation, adult men talking about the way I was too sexy.
The same team that dropped her, she continued, was once “those people I really thought of loved me” and ultimately became people to whom she never talked. “I felt like I was a sign in dollars for them, and when I did not bring enough money, they didn’t care about me,” she said. “Maybe they shouldn’t have signed a 12-year-old child without thinking about the consequences of what it was going to do.”
Beer bounced as much as it could. His second studio album, Silence between the songs, Arrived in 2023 on Epic Records and earned him a Grammy Award’s appointment for the best Dance Pop recording for his single “Make You Mine”. A headliner tour of 63 dates followed in 2024. “It’s even crazier now because when I have girls from 12 years old to come to my meetings, I say to myself:” You are a baby. There is no way that I was an artist signed at your age “,” said Beer. “It’s terrifying. No, it’s disgusting. The lack of worrying about my childhood was so disturbing. I said to myself:” Wow, you really don’t give a damn. “”
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