Madison Beer has 22.7 million followers on Instagram and 13.8 million followers on TikTok, however she’s a lot greater than a social media star.
In a brand new interview with NME, the 21-year-old movie star opened up about her time within the music trade and why she hopes her debut album, Life Assist, will assist folks see her as a real artist.
“For a very long time, I have been attempting to show my intelligence and artistry and the truth that I am somebody who ought to be taken critically,” she advised the outlet for a characteristic printed Feb. 26. “That does get a bit exhausting as a result of I should not need to be always proving that to folks.”
In the case of Beer’s music, her current singles, together with her 2020 hit “Egocentric,” could be the primary songs that come to followers’ minds. However actually, her profession began nearly a decade in the past.
In 2012, when Beer was simply getting into her teenage years, she uploaded a video of herself belting out Etta James‘ “At Final.” The duvet caught the eye of Justin Bieber, who tweeted out the video to his hundreds of thousands of followers and catapulted Beer to a brand new degree of fame. In keeping with NME, she signed along with his file label The Island Def Jam Music Group and was managed by Scooter Braun. Beer claimed they tried to show her right into a “very pop, very Disney queen” and was ultimately dropped. She now works with First Entry Leisure and Epic Data.