Being a Lovergirl Through Madison Beer’s Locket Deluxe
With the deluxe edition of Locket, and a cinematic video for Lovergirl, Madison Beer explores the courage it takes to leave the past behind and embrace a love that sets you free.
Words Mariel Ann Breanna Puli
Photos courtesy of Madison Beer
May 29, 2026
Two-time GRAMMY-nominated and platinum-selling artist Madison Beer is releasing an album that feels like compiling the messy, beautiful archives of falling in love.
With the arrival of Locket Deluxe, she invites everyone back into a world where being a “lovergirl” is both distressing and freeing.
Through fifteen tracks, Madison shows us that while love can feel like an endless loop of nostalgia and self-doubt, real freedom happens when you finally close the locket of your past, letting go of what was and what-ifs to make room for a love that actually allows you to breathe.
Crying Over What’s Gone
“All our memories, safe in my locket, I carry it.”
The album feels like a time capsule of Madison’s own growth, guiding us through the high-stakes cycle of a romance.
It starts with the heavy, lingering “locket theme,” where jewelry becomes a metaphor for the memories we refuse to put down—those ghosts from the past versions of ourselves and the people we loved.
This lovergirl is the one that’s determined to keep the past even if it’s not there anymore, still craving for that deep kind of love.
In her song “angel wings,” she yearns for a love that transcends the surface. She also doesn’t want a love that’s trivial. In her chart-topping song “yes baby,” she expresses that her commitment is both intense and vulnerable.
Moreover, the album is brave enough to show us the bruises that come with loving so hard.
In “complexity,” Madison gets painfully honest about loving so intensely but also fearing intimacy, and the agonizing habit of staying with people who already have one foot out the door because the thought of them leaving is scarier than the pain of them staying.
These moments of self-sabotage reflect an all-or-nothing intensity—loving with a hundred percent of your soul, but also feeling like your whole world is ending when things go wrong. This song will make us feel that we should just not feel our emotions but also survive it.
And whether she is exploring self-destructive coping mechanisms in the rebound-anthem “healthy habit”—where she admits using others to fill a void—or dismantling the lie that time heals all wounds in her haunting song “you’re still my everything,” she admits that some love leaves a permanent scar that stays even when the person is gone.
Breaking the Cycle
“I’m gettin’ over what you put me through.”
The shift into the four brand-new deluxe tracks feels like the sun breaking through the clouds.
At this moment, the lovergirl is moving from just surviving love to actually thriving in it. We see her moving past the lingering sting of her breakout hit “bittersweet”—a song that earned her a career debut on the Billboard Hot 100.
And she is no longer the girl in “for the night” who is begging her partner to love her so she can finally feel better. Instead, she is growing up.
In the deluxe standout “nothing at all,” she confronts the melancholic fear of feeling happiness. When you have been hurt for so long, joy starts to feel like a trap, and you find yourself waiting for good things to fall apart because it’s impossible for something good to last forever.
But the beauty of this album is that she doesn’t let that fear control her. She pushes through it to find a love that doesn’t intentionally hurt.
Seeing this personal evolution play out alongside her massive success makes it all the sweeter. Since 2014, the pulse-pounding “make you mine” has turned Madison into a true pop powerhouse, earning her a 2025 GRAMMY nomination for Best Dance Pop Recording and making her first solo #1 on Billboard’s Dance Airplay chart.
From her viral performance at the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show—which peaked at 2.5M live viewers—to an epic debut of “bad enough” on The Tonight Show hosted by Jimmy Fallon, Madison has successfully turned her private diary into a grand, cinematic masterpiece.
The Lovergirl
“Why would we ever stop ourselves from doing what feels good?”
The locket deluxe is dropping just as Madison hits the road for her 32-date tour across Europe, the UK, and North America. After kicking things off in Kraków on May 11, she is currently sharing these intimate songs with thousands of fans every night.
The journey feels like it leads to the ultimate happy ending found in the final tracks: the airy, light-filled “free,” and the grounded “somehow i got lucky.” These songs represent the moment the lovergirl finally gets it right—finding someone who doesn’t make love feel like a cage or a struggle, but a safe harbor.
For all the lovergirls in the crowd, Madison’s warm message is that loving hard is not an ultimate curse; it’s bigger than that—it’s a very generous gift.
In the cinematic music video for “lovergirl,” she visually deconstructs the weight of this identity, moving through the scenes that mirror the hesitation between the fear of being too much and the beauty of a heart that refuses to go cold.
The song’s lyrics serve as a vulnerable anthem for the unapologetic romantic, admitting that while she might love so hard that it makes her cry, that intensity is exactly what makes her connection to the world so profound.
By the time the video reaches its climax, Madison isn’t running away anymore, but she’s reclaiming it. She’s proving that being a lovergirl isn’t about being a victim of your emotions, but about having the immense courage to still love despite all the heartaches.
While the locket of the past is part of you, it no longer has to be your anchor—because the same heart that was broken is finally healed enough to love again . . . and to only allow the kind of love that feels like home.
You can keep the memories safe in the locket, but you don’t have to let them weigh you down forever.
