Life Support

This review is of the debut album of Madison Beer, Life Support. This album consists of 17 tracks with varying themes and tones. The album opens up with “The Beginning” a track consisting of beautiful vocalizations, showcasing Beer’s vocal ability. The song following after is the lead single “Good In Goodbye”, a very upbeat and spiteful song that discusses how she is glad that her relationship is ending, and that there is good in this goodbye. The record tremendously switches tone into “Default”, a very short but haunting song about her depression and bipolar disorder. The next few songs switch between a pop, upbeat sound, and a solemn and haunting sound in every other song up until the eighth track, “Interlude”, which according to Beer, marks to switch between happy songs and sad songs. The song following the interlude is “Homesick”, which talks about how she feels she doesn't belong anywhere. The track “Selfish” is the second single on the record, showcasing a very royal and angelic tone, discussing how she had not seen the red flag within her relationship and deciding who to blame. The album ends with “Channel Surfing / The End”, which showcases several other songs from the album as if she was channel surfing through cable TV. The song ends with an upbeat instrumental as a thank you to the audience of the album. Overall, I believe this album to be an amazing debut album, consisting of very well-produced songs and deep lyrics. I would definitely listen again.