Justin Bieber’s protege Madison Beer released her debut album Life Support from Epic Records on Friday.

And the star told to DailyMail.com that the album – which she wrote and sang on – covers her struggle with mental health – specifically anxiety – while she touches on prescription drugs and delves into past toxic relationships.

‘Writing songs is like therapy for me,’ the 21-year-old told DailyMail.com. ‘That’s why this album is called Life Support. It helped me get rid of the darkness and see the light.’ She added, ‘My inspirations sonically are really diverse. I guess I’m not an easy artist to pigeonhole, and a lot of these songs are like nothing I’ve ever attempted before.’

‘All of me is laid bare on this album; it’s been a really fulfilling experience to create something that feels so true to myself,’ said the New York native.

She has been romantically linked to Blake Griffin, Zack Bia, and Jack Gilinsky. She has also reportedly been close to Brooklyn Beckham.

Sonically Life Support is reflective of Madison’s eclectic musical tastes, while lyrically it pushes the boundaries of accepted norms from female singer songwriters in pop in the same way as Rina Sawayama’s SAWAYAMA or Hayley Williams’ Petals For Armor do.

There are references to mental health and prescription drugs,toxic relationships and to the atypical life that Madison has led since famously being discovered by Justin Bieber on YouTube aged just 13. An album written as catharsis, Life Support is delivered as a document of all Madison has experienced and a self-care guide to coming out the other side.

Madison Beer’s Life Support is a strong personal and artistic statement as she wrote her own songs, producing and creating her own visuals.

Beer broke down each song and the meaning behind it exclusively for DailyMail.com

She said Good In Goodbye that she was inspired by her real life loves. ‘At my age, when you break up with someone, you tend to get back together at least a few times,’ she told DailyMail.com.

‘This captures the weird, purgatory place you’re in. You know you’re not with the right person, but you can’t bear to sever the ties. The song starts with someone diving in to water – that’s me pushing myself to take the plunge and end it.’

In Follow The White Rabbit – part inspired by The Matrix, part Alice in Wonderland, ‘There’s a raw undertone to this song, a cool, grungey sound that took it to a different place. It’s a genre of music I’ve always liked but never felt able to tap in to before.’

Effortlessly is one of her favorites. ‘It is one of the most vulnerable songs on the album. It’s about me and my mental health—the struggles I’ve been through that led me to therapy and medication and what they forced me to confront,’ she shared with DailyMail.com. ‘My mental health journey is not something I’ve spoken about before in my music.’

Regarding The Interlude: ‘I’m a huge fan of Daft Punk – who were the key inspirations behind this interlude. The song has a beautiful melody and the lyric was built around that. It’s saying that you should feel like the most special person when you’re in a relationship, not just someone in your partner’s world.’

Homesick is one of the album’s oldest songs.

‘It’s a fantasy/fiction story about how I’ve felt my whole life – homesick for a planet which I’ve never been to. I know it sounds strange, but growing up, I felt like I was in some sort of Truman Show. I grew up in a peculiar way that not many people experience – recognition at 12, being signed so young and having to fend for myself in the world of social media. It was hard. I felt super isolated. I didn’t fit in to the world in a regular way and I still don’t. The song closes with a sample of Rick and Morty, my favorite cartoon.’

Selfish was one of the hardest for her to record. ‘There were a lot of tears in the studio that day. The song started off about my ex and evolved to include my dad too. They’re both Geminis and I realized at the time of writing that I was dating someone who reminded me of my dad. That was overwhelming.’

She added: ‘They’re two men in my life who have hurt me in different ways. I’m sure a lot of daughters have issues with their dads, about being overlooked, in my case. Writing this song was forcing myself to open my eyes to those issues.