Madison Beer dropped by labels after failing to be Justin Bieber

Madison Beer sat down for an interview with Cosmopolitan for their cover story, where she opened up about her past in the music industry.

The singer was told when she was 12 years old that, “We all love you; you’re going to be the female Justin Bieber, give it a year.”

However, when she wasn’t able to hit that goal by the time she turned 16, she was dropped by her record label.

“Everything in my life went away within 12 hours,” she explained, “The reason it was a thing was because Scooter had signed me, and obviously Scooter had signed Justin. Justin had posted a cover, and I had posted a cover, so it felt synchronized. But Justin was also only a teenager when I got signed — he hadn’t even experienced his adult life yet. He’s been through so much, too.”

Beer continued, “I love him and Hailey very much. I was with them recently and we were like, ‘How special that we’ve known each other for so long,' I’ve known Hailey since I was 10, and I’ve known Justin since I was 12. We’re still in each other’s lives and now they’re married with a baby.”

“My label was like, ‘Good luck.’ And I’m like, ‘You guys just stole years of my childhood that I’ll never get back. And now it’s just ‘good luck’ and ‘have fun’?” she remarked about her feelings at the time. “I can’t go to college because I’ve been homeschooled. I have a high school degree and nothing else because of my career. My whole family uprooted and moved to Los Angeles with no connections. I have no friends. Are you guys kidding me?”

“I felt like I was a dollar sign to them, and when I didn’t bring in enough money, they didn’t care about me anymore,” Beer continued. “Maybe they shouldn’t have signed a 12-year-old without thinking of the consequences of what that was going to do.”

The singer admitted, “It feels even crazier now because when I have 12-year-old girls come to my meet-and-greets, I’m like, ‘You’re a baby. There’s no way that I was a signed artist at your age.’ It’s terrifying. No, it’s sickening. The lack of caring about my childhood was so disturbing. I was like, ‘Wow, y’all really don’t give a f***.'”

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