Album Review: Life Support by Madison Beer

At 21, pop singer and TikTok star Madison Beer has spent an uncomfortable amount of her career navigating mini "scandals"--accusations that she copied Ariana Grande, that she lied about plastic surgery, that she romanticized Lolita. Beer signed to Island when she was 13, shortly after Justin Bieber tweeted one of her many YouTube covers, Etta James' "At Last"; three years later, she split from the label, saying she felt "trapped" by the "Disney queen" image thrust upon her. The internet deals in absolutes, particularly for young women: She's either fake or so raw it's empowering; she's rebelling against the patriarchy or bowing to it; she's subversive or she's derivative.

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