"Life Support" - Madison Beer

I remember back in 2012, when Madison Beer posted her first covers on Youtube. 12-year-old me was witnessing this girl on the internet getting discovered by Justin Bieber, my then ultimate guy crush, (yes still is), and as any other hardcore belieber, I got a bit jealous. The immature teenage years. Fun times.

Madison became this “beautiful face” spread all over the internet that everyone was comparing themselves to. Right from the beginning, it was obvious that her main focus, her passion, was the music, but as we all tend to do sometimes, people had already put her in a box.

For a long time it felt as if she hadn’t found her sound yet. The songs she released didn’t quite suit her vocal range. But when I say “Life Support” is one of the best debut albums I have ever heard, I’m not exaggerating the slightest. It has always been very clear to me that she had some mystery to her. That is what makes her stand out from the crowd. She just had to show it. Madison is the literal queen of using pop-culture references in her music, whether it’s from Fight Club or Rick & Morty she knows exactly how to catch the attention of her audience.

Never have the skip button been used less, because there simply isn’t a single skip on “Life Support”. With tracks mainly produced by Leroy Clampitt, One Love and herself, this album reeks of individuality, mystery and professionalism. A great range of different moods, all the way from the beginning to the end. Finally, she is letting her vocals shine through in songs that suit her vocal range, and her harmonies are absolutely out of this world. The way she writes, the stuff she sings, her take on the world, the outer space, the meaning of it all, is just so refreshing and always reminds me of how much I love to write myself. It makes me so happy that people are finally seeing her for the musical genius she truly is. Not a lot of artists can make me literally google all their song lyrics, just to sit and read on a random Wednesday afternoon in the tube. Plenty of easter eggs and plenty of references from iconic pop-culture moments. It doesn’t get better than that!