Madison Beer continues to tighten her creative grip on pop with locket, a new studio album that pushes deeper into her instincts and emotional range. Written and co-produced by Beer herself, the record is shaped alongside longtime collaborators One Love, LOSTBOY, and Leroy Clampitt, resulting in an album that feels intentional, emotional, and sleekly modern. After a year of runaway singles, locket lands as the moment where all of that momentum snaps into focus.

The new album already carries heat thanks to “bittersweet,” Beer’s fastest song ever to break into Top 40 radio, along with the razor-edged “yes baby.” Both tracks point toward a sharper, more confident version of her pop voice, one that balances vulnerability with a sense of command that keeps getting stronger with every release. These aren’t singles built for a fleeting chart run, they feel like cornerstones of a bigger story.

Beer had the album’s title from the very start, and that idea threads through everything here. A locket, after all, is a place for what you don’t want to lose—the things you carry quietly, even when the world moves on. That concept shapes the album into something like a collection of emotional snapshots, with Beer arranging memories, heartbreak, and self-realization inside polished pop frames that never feel hollow. The songwriting and vocal performances are among her most dynamic yet, letting her move between tenderness and power without losing the thread.

“As I was writing the album, it started to feel like each song lived inside this metaphorical locket for safe keeping,” Beer explains. “Each album feels like an era, and once it’s out in the world that chapter, usually with what I wrote about, is closed.” It’s a revealing way to think about her catalog. Not as a loose trail of singles, but as chapters she opens, lives inside, and then gently seals.

Locket arrives on the heels of one of the strongest runs of Beer’s career. Her second album, Silence Between Songs, earned her first Grammy nomination and a Billboard 200 debut, following 2021’s Life Support. She then landed a second Grammy nod for “Make You Mine,” which topped Billboard’s Dance Airplay chart, followed by another number one with “15 MINUTES.”