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With “Locket”, Madison Beer attempts the most difficult gamble for those born in the spotlight of digital perfection: becoming real.
It's an operation that aims to extract the heart from a pop simulacrum and insert it into a smooth R&B body. If in the past her proposal seemed like an Instagram algorithm translated into frequencies, here Beer tries to force the walls of her own image.
The voice is no longer just an accessory of production, but an instrument that has learned to understand the weight of its own maturity. Yet, the impact is that of a fine crystal: beautiful to look at, cold to the touch. Madison moves between dance inflections and a commendable stylistic cohesion, trying to inhabit a pop pantheon where, however, the best seats are already occupied by those who have been able to transform trauma into a fetish.
Locket's intrinsic limit lies in what we could define as “lyrical impalpability”. We are faced with sequences of emotional realization that clash with a production that is at times too “smooth”, almost mass-produced, incapable of getting its hands dirty with mistakes or the unedited. Beer constantly plays on the contrast between a blinding superficial brilliance and an internal bewilderment which, however declared, struggles to pierce the screen of an all too dazzling pop package.
There is a more elaborate psychological intimacy than in previous chapters, it's true, but the urgency of his confessions is often tamed by a melodic structure that never renounces commercial seduction.
It's a record suspended in a golden limbo to start. A record honest enough to be credible, too refined to be unforgettable.
SCORE: 6.50
TO LISTEN NOW
For the Night – bad enough – bittersweet
TO BE SKIPPED IMMEDIATELY
One listen is enough, two is boring.
TRACKLIST
locket theme
yes baby
angel wings
for the night
bad enough
healthy habit
you're still everything
bittersweet
complexity
make you mine
nothing at all
