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Madison Beer on Her Viral Memes, Digital Footprint & New “Locket” Era | Who What Wear
Jun 10, 2026
Madison Beer talks viral memes and her digital footprint, steps into her Locket era, shares her all-time favorite Lana Del Rey songs, and revisits standout fashion moments from the Grammys to the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in our latest episode of Truth or Wear.
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What's a trend that you think absolutely needs to die
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Enough is enough. Six, seven, please. Hi, who, what, where? I'm Madison Beer, and we are going to play a game
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of truth or where? I'm scared. I'm excited. I think it's gonna be truth
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Hello? Okay, no gatekeeping. What's the one LA spot that has never let you down
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I have to go with my gut here. The first thing I thought of was my favorite restaurant
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which is Found Oyster. It's never once let me down, and I love it so much
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So, Found Oyster, tried and true. I'm not gonna guess again, I feel like I'm gonna be wrong
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Be serious. When you look at your catalog, be honest, are you a pop ballad girl at heart
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or a dance banger girly? Mm. I think my brain maybe is dance banger
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but I think my heart is pop ballad. The type of music I make is all dependent
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on what I'm going through in my life, honestly. And I think that, yeah, when I'm making the fun dance songs
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I think I'm just in that mindset. A lot of the time I'm thinking about tour and I'm thinking about my show
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because performing Make You Mine was such a fun highlight of last year, so I think I'm thinking about tour a lot
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If it's truth, again, it's rigged. Where? Oh, cute. Okay, this was Billboard Women & Music
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I love a corset. I will always love a corset. You cannot stop me
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And I don't know, I thought it was a really fun, flirty little thing. Also, totally a coincidence that I matched the color
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of the carpet and the whole event. Did not do that intentionally. Yeah, I absolutely love this outfit
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Oh, okay. This is a blast from the past. I want to say this is 2018 Cannes Film Festival, I think
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Not one of the photographers is looking at me, mind you. They're like, who, Miss Girl
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But this was a really fun dress to wear. You can see in this stance, I'm very much so feeling it
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And there's a really beautiful staircase here, and I remember walking up it and feeling very gorgeous
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And the dress was just absolutely beautiful. I think I posted probably 10 Instagram photos
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at the time wearing it. So I liked it then and I like it now
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Hello. This is life support tour. This was my, I don't even know what to call this look
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This was probably like my sexy look on that tour This was what I started the show in And I have a lot I can say about this It came much differently than you seeing it now Like the ruffles were much bigger
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Literally the night before I left on the tour, me and my stylist, Chris Faye, she was, we were on the ground in my old house
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literally hands sewing the ruffles down. We were sewing these little pearls
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and embellishments to the outfits moments before we had to leave for tour
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So how it lasted the whole tour was insane. I also only think I had one of these outfits
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Maybe I had two, like one duplicate, but I did probably over 60 shows in this fit
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I can't believe it lasted. Also those gloves, I remember that material
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was not glove material and my nails would poke through the seams of the gloves all the time
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We had to sew them back up, but it feels so long ago, but it was such a pivotal moment in my life and my career
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I feel like it was the first time I was ever really like creating a show, a big show
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and I just, yeah, I look really fondly back at this time
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And I loved wearing bows in my hair. So much so that I got a tattoo of a bow, which is representative of the life support era
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So, miss her, love her. Giving it a good spin. Okay. Truth, do you ever feel like you're a little slept on
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Yes and no, I guess. I mean, I think that I always will strive
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for more people to hear my music. I love reaching more of an audience
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I love every time I've gone on tour, more people attend the shows, I think that's so cool
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But I also love my community and I love the level of fan base that I have
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I'm very proud of where I am and I'm very thankful to be able to put out music that I'm proud of
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and tour with people who we share a mutual love and respect
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but I also wouldn't really change a thing. I just wanna keep doing what I do the way I do it
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and you wanna come along for the ride? You're more than welcome
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Let's give us a dare. Give the kids a dare. No, I went right past it, okay
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You and Lana Del Rey have a remarkable bond. What do you think her three best songs are
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What a crazy question. Ooh, this is difficult for me. Norman Rockwell, Gods and Monsters
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and Radio, maybe would be my top three. I don know though that not fair That answer would change every single day Love you Lana I have a Spotify playlist called Lana Mama because she my queen Okay
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Yes! Victoria's Secret fashion show. This was recently. I'll start with the performance look
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Victoria's Secret made this outfit custom for me, which is insane and so cool
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Those are also custom Louboutin boots that are painted baby pink on the bottom
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We took the red out and painted them pink to match the outfit, which is crazy
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And yeah, the whole thing was just really, really cool. Shout out to everyone who worked on this design
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We were changing things quite literally until the hour before I went on stage and especially the wings, the team that worked on the wings
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were just so amazing and wanting to be collaborative with me so bad because I was really, really nervous
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about wearing them because I don't think I have the best balance or like hand-eye coordination
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I was just like, these wings are gonna topple me over and they made me ones that felt a little bit more
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like livable, I guess, and huge honor, very thankful and just one of the coolest experiences of my life
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I had dreamed of doing that forever. So thank you Victoria's Secret for having me. And then the carpet, this was such a beautiful dress
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that I loved. I saw it on the rack in my fitting and I was like, that would be so hot
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And I feel like where else can you wear a basically naked dress, but a Victoria's Secret Fashion Show carpet
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Oh, we got so close. We got so close. Your Heartbreak songs feel really personal
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Are they rooted in specific moments or do you write from a more universal place? No, they're rooted in trauma and betrayal
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No, I'm just kidding. No, they are all real though. Like I think that it's hard for me
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I guess there's been a couple songs that have been inspired by movies or something
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but those aren't as frequent. Most things are rooted in a pretty real experience
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that I have. I try to be vague as best as I can, but then sometimes I'm like
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oh, I did say Why You Were Such a Gemini, which is pretty specific. I definitely write from a real place
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It's gonna be there. It's gonna be there. I'm not gonna be there. No
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Is there a meme of you that you wish the internet would retire already? How much time do you have
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You know, I've made peace with my cringe online presence. I think I've come around the block with it
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I'm like, you know what? This is who I am. I have a digital footprint
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They a part of my story and yeah Oh wow see Now we heating up Pull up your camera roll and search
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I don't have my phone on me, so no, I'll do the next one
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And I'm not showing you my camera roll. Also no, okay. That's suspicious
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Moving on. I saw one name and I said, nope. I'm having fun
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I'm like, can we keep going? Oh, this is our last wear card. The Grammys
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This was such a special moment to me. I absolutely loved this dress so much
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It was a custom dress. I felt so princess-like in it. It was just such a dream
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And that was the first time I walked the carpet as a Grammy nominee, which was very, very cool
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And what's nice about the awards I've been nominated in is they have been announced in the pre-show
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so I don't have to walk the carpet with any anxiety on whether I lose or win. I knew that I lost both times before I walked
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So that eliminated a lot of worry for me. But yeah, I just loved this day. This was a very, very special day and time in my life
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I, it was crazy walking around being like, I'm a nominee, what
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So, very cool. Was there a track from Lock It that really tested you
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or took the longest to crack? Okay, honestly, Lock It theme took me a good amount of time
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because I knew that I wanted to talk directly to my fans and people listening
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And I just didn't know exactly how to word what I wanted to say. I knew I wanted to talk about how I kind of
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I feel like I've taken a little bit more of a step back from being as interactive with people online
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as I used to be, but I also wanted to tell them that doesn't mean that I love you less, it just means that I needed to take some time away
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and for myself, I guess. But yeah, what I wanted to put in the opening of the album was a decision for sure
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and that took me a long time to write. And then the track that took me the longest to crack
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was the decision of whether to put hard, intense, very audible auto-tune on your still everything or not
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and we obviously went with doing it. And I just think it's a really cool way
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to sort of modernize a ballad. And I kind of picture like a robot singing that song
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So I love the auto-tune on it