Locket

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Madison Beer decided on the title of her third album before she even wrote the song. “I wanted it to feel very personal to me and tangible,” the singer-songwriter tells Apple Music’s Travis Mill. “So I wrote down a list of things that felt like they were a part of my life naturally. I really wanted something that was vintage-sounding, something that felt delicate and girly. ‘Locket’ was one of the words that was there from the start.” After heading to the dance floor on previous singles “15 MINUTES,” “make you mine,” and “yes baby” (the latter two of which appear on the album), Beer leans into more acoustic textures and introspective, vocal-highlighting ballads on <i>locket</i>, where she’s a hopeless romantic drifting through a world of whimsy and melancholy. Written in the wake of a breakup, the album cycles through a wide range of emotions and self-doubt, showing that growth isn’t always linear. Where the opening track “locket theme” shows grace and resilience after lo, she addresses an ex on the pastel-hued “angel wings” with more bite: “When I talk about you, I say, ‘Rest in peace.’” The whiplash continues on “for the night,” a guitar-led longing for the bad habit she can’t quite shake. “bad enough,” which weighs the fear of being alone against being unhappy in a relationship, invites scream-singing catharsis with its belting choru, while “you’re still everything” sits with the quiet devastation of being erased from someone’s life. Even when Beer gets confrontational on the UK-garage-tinged “complexity”—“How can I expect you to love me when you don’t even love yourself?”—she falls into a similar trap of resignation on “nothing at all.” .

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