Madison Beer Tuned Out the Noise to Make Her Album ‘Silence Between Songs’

The pop singer took inspiration from the Beach Boys, Tame Impala, and her “idol” Lana Del Rey, who she says listened to the LP and loved it

Madison Beer sleeps best with the TV on at night. She needs things to be noisy enough that she doesn’t have the space to think. “I don’t like to be in the quiet,” she says. But with her new album, Silence Between Songs, out Sept. 15, Beer chose to do the opposite and really listen to herself.

“Those moments in between the noise is when you’re able to reflect,” she says. “I was able to look at things with a better perspective. That’s where these records came from.