ven in a crowd, Madison Beer can point out her fans by name. “I’m not even kidding,” she says. “There’s Ryan. That’s Laura. That’s Luciana. That’s Max. Who else is out there? I can’t even see. That’s Tori. That’s Amanda.” We’re sitting on a bus outside the JBL Store in Soho, New York City. It’s the day after her show at Radio City Music Hall for her Spinnin Tour, and you can bet Ryan, Laura, Luciana, and everyone else showed up then, just like they showed up today.
Having grown up in Jericho on Long Island, performing at an iconic venue like Radio City was more than just a career milestone for Madison Beer; it was also her hometown show. “It feels ridiculous. I actually can’t believe that it happened. I can’t believe I made it through the whole show,” she tells Teen Vogue, struggling to hide her excitement. “I was like, ‘It’s going well.
I’m doing it.’ I ran off stage halfway through the show during [my song] ‘Reckless,’ and I just was in disbelief that it was going as good as it did and I wasn’t messing things up.”Supporting the release of her sophomore studio album, Silence Between Songs, Beer kicked off The Spinnin Tour back in February in Sweden, taking the show across Europe first before heading stateside in late April. Since then, she has completed the bulk of her 56-date world tour, officially wrapping up the North American leg this June, with the last stops in Asia resuming in August. The tour is going to be the thing that colors her year, and she’s preparing for the remainder of it as such. Her tour bus doesn’t have room for a giant JBL Party Box speaker, but it’s got Clips hanging everywhere, and she’s using them to listen to something you are also probably bumping: the new Billie Eilish record.
“My headphones are essential for me,” Beer explains. “The bus can be really loud when it’s moving [so I need] music. I like to have music around me all the time, anywhere that I can.”