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Hey guys, it's Madison Beer and this is the Wired Autocomplete interview.
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What a satisfying noise, by the way.
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So let's get some ASMR for the kids.
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I've watched every single one of these videos and the fact that I'm holding a board, this is an honor.
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We're going to begin.
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First question, I can't believe I'm doing this.
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First question, what is Madison Beer?
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I found this out the tough way.
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There is a beer company in Wisconsin that is called Madison Beer.
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The reason that I know this is because I had to pay them for their Twitter handle online.
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My Twitter handle used to be at Madison L.
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Beer, which is my middle name.
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They had at Madison Beer and I had to pay them a pretty penny.
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Just kidding, it wasn't that much money.
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But I did have to pay them and now I know that there is a beer company in Madison, Wisconsin called Madison Beer.
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But Madison Beer is also a little gal and she is me.
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what song is madison beer known for
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so this question i think would probably be up for debate
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i would say selfish probably did it for me i think
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that i would like to say that's what i'm known for it's my favorite song of mine
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so i'm gonna say selfish i'm gonna go with my single selfish and
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if you haven't heard it go check it out next question
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what is madison beer's vocal range i've never been classified like a soprano
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or an alto or anything like that i've i've kind of always saying?
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What is Madison Beer's fandom name?
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Oh, I should have seen this one coming.
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This is a topic of discussion amongst my fans.
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So when I was, I think, 13 or 14, I thought it was genius to call my fans imaginers.
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I-M-A-D-G-I-N-E-R-S.
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So like imaginer's.
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Clearly a 13-year-old made that up.
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That is not what my fandom is called.
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I refuse to call my fans imaginers they always are like, what are we called?
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And I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I think that I'll let them pick it.
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I'm more than happy for their creative juices to flow and they can come up with it.
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I will literally call you guys anything but imaginers.
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I just call them my friends.
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Honestly, they're like my homies.
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And I don't feel like I have necessarily a fandom.
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I feel like I've got a family, not to be too corny.
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Let's move on.
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What Madison Beer TikToks?
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Is that grammatically correct?
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Am I reading that wrong?
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What Madison Beer TikToks?
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Like what do I do on TikTok?
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I cry sometimes.
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I, just kidding.
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Board number one, down the hatch.
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Guys, I could do this for hours.
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I love this.
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Next board.
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This is so fun, by the way.
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Who is Madison Beer's best friend?
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So I would say that my best friend is this girl named Lena.
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I met Lena online.
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She, to make a very like long-winded story, beautiful story short, one of the best things social media has ever brought to me.
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She wrote this really compelling and perceptive, basically like read on me.
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And she just basically posted something being like, I see her true colors and I know her heart.
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And I think that, you know, she just saw me and I don't feel seen a lot by a lot of people.
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And so I DM'd her and I was like, who are you?
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I love you.
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You're so smart and so intuitive and perceptive and I want to be friends with you.
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And it's been almost two years since she's been my best friend.
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She spent a couple months with me in LA and it's been really beautiful.
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So my best friend, her name is Lena and she is my earth angel and I love her more than anything.
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Who is Tyler Durden, Madison Beer?
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Tyler Durden is the character in Fight Club, Brad Pitt's character in Fight Club.
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Also my favorite movie of all time.
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I wrote a song called Tyler Durden and it was on my debut EP, As She Pleases.
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And it's definitely my favorite off of the whole EP.
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So check that out.
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But don't check it out if you haven't seen the movie because it's kind of a spoiler.
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But watch the movie.
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Why haven't you seen that movie?
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Okay.
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Who did Madison Beer voice in Monster High.
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Okay.
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This question, this is a common misconception.
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I didn't voice anyone in Monster High.
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Sadly enough, I sang a version of a theme song years and years and years ago called We Are Monster High.
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It was very cool.
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I got my own doll.
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Awesome experience working with Mattel.
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It was really, really cool, but I didn't voice anybody.
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I wish I was, what's her name?
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Frankie Stein.
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I wish I was one of them.
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I did not get to do that though, but I've also always wanted to be a voice actor.
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I can do a really mean Rick and Morty impression, which don't even ask.
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I'm not doing it, but I can do one.
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And yeah, I didn't get to voice anyone though, but I did sing a theme song. Who?
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Madison Beer, Outer Banks.
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You're asking me?
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You're asking the wrong person.
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I have no idea.
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I'm not in Outer Banks.
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Madeline Klein, I think is what you meant to write.
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But I'll take it.
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I'll take the compliment.
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Thank you for mistaking me for Madeline Klein.
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Yay.
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Okay.
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Okay, is Madison Beer a K-pop idol?
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Aw, I wouldn't consider myself a K-pop idol,
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but I did a K-pop song slash feature with this group called KDA for League of Legends, which is a video game.
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And we did this little girl group with, actually I did it with a K-pop band called G-idol, which they're amazing and incredible.
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So I guess I have made a K-pop song, but I wouldn't say I'm a K-pop idol.
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I wouldn't give myself that, but it's definitely done very well and people have taken a liking to it.
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And I actually got to perform in Seoul in South Korea like two, three years ago.
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And it was the most incredible experience.
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And I miss South Korea a lot.
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It's such a beautiful place.
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Okay, is Madison Beer from Long Island?
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You know it, baby.
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What are you talking about?
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Of course I'm from Long Island.
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I grew up in Long Island, which isn't.
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Sorry if I'm offending any Long Islanders, but I'm a Long Islander, so I can say it.
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It's not as cool as Manhattan.
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It's just not.
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So whenever I tell people I'm from New York, I'm just hoping they just assume Manhattan.
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They don't ask me.
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But I think the Wolf of Wall Street kind of put Long Island on a little bit.
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And now people are like, oh my God, can you do the Margot Robbie accent?
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I'm like, yeah, I can do the Margot Robbie accent.
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I can give you her whole little spiel.
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Ready?
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Okay.
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She says, well, aren't you married?
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He says, yeah, married people can't have friends.
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Oh, we're going to be friends.
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We're not going to be friends.
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There's my Margot Robbie Wolf of Wall Street impression, everybody.
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But yeah, I love being from Long Island.
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I love the accent.
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Maybe I should start the rest of the video.
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We're going to talk like this.
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So let's keep it going.
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Is Madison Beer left-handed?
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I'm not left-handed.
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I'm right.
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I'm right-handed.
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Maybe I don't know.
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Yeah, no, I'm not left-handed.
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Okay.
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Is Madison Beer a Pisces?
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Of course I'm a Pisces.
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I'm a Pisces.
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Rising Gemini, Moon Libra, Scorpio Mars.
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I can keep going if you want me to.
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I can read my whole birth chart off.
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I am a Pisces.
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I actually wasn't always into astrology, to be completely honest with you.
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I got into it because literally, no joke, I was at a concert and I was walking down the aisle
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and this woman literally came up to me and was like, you have the most beautiful, radiant Pisces energy.
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And I was like, in my head, am I even a Pisces?
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And I was like, how do you know that?
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But I'm very, very, very into astrology and I really believe in it.
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And I'm also like on a whole spiritual journey and whatever.
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So I am a Pisces, proud to be one.
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Okay, is Madison Beer in Final Destination?
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Is there a character who looks like me in Final Destination?
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I am not in Final Destination.
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I've actually never seen it because I remember hearing about a scene in it when I was younger that was very disturbing.
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And I was like, I don't wanna watch someone get their head cut off on a rollercoaster.
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Like, no, thank you.
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I'm not in Final Destination.
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I've never even seen it, to be honest.
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And that's the end of board number three.
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Let's keep it going.
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Now we got some hows.
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All right.
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How was Madison Beer discovered?
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I was discovered at 12 years old on YouTube.
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I was posting covers, singing some songs, and Mr. Justin Bieber saw one of them, and I was signed to him and Scooter and all that stuff,
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and it was very, it was a whirlwind, you know?
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I'm a random kid from Long Island, New York, and it doesn't happen, So it was pretty trippy that it happened to me.
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It's been literally 10 years since then.
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And I will always be eternally grateful to Justin for the initial kickstart and believing in me, you know, at the beginning.
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So it was very cool.
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It was very, very, very cool for me.
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How?
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To sing like Madison Beer.
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Aw, that's so sweet.
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I wish I could tell you.
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I don't know.
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Honestly, I would just listen to as many covers or songs of mine as you can.
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And if you want to copy it, do it.
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It's nothing but a compliment to me, but also sing like you.
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I want to hear you sing.
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Sing your own version of my song.
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I love hearing people just be themselves.
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And yeah, so don't sing like me.
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Sing like you.
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How to hit Madison Beer riff.
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Okay, so I'm going to assume this is referring to the riff in Selfish, which went viral on TikTok, which was so cool because I actually wish I had my phone on me.
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I could play you guys the original version.
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So when we initially did the Selfish riff, it went down, which I couldn't even do it if I tried
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because the high one is so implanted in my brain
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but like it went down and I remember listening to the demo
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and just being like this doesn't feel right I'm not into it
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and I tried so many different runs to go up
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and I couldn't nail it
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and then literally like two days before we sent it to
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master I was like let me try one more thing
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and I accidentally did my one that made it in the song
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and it turned out people liked it and it was so great just practice.
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It's not that hard to be honest.
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It probably sounds harder than it is.
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It's fun.
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It's not that many notes.
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It's not that many notes.
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You got it.
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It's easy.
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How to be like Madison Beer.
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Why would you want to be like me?
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It's not what it shapes up to be.
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I promise.
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I promise you what you're seeing online
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and what you think you know about me
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and what you think you know about anybody is probably not
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even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what reality is.
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So don't get too hung up on that.
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And please remember that like you are seeing what we and everyone wants you to see.
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Don't get yourself in a comparison hole of like looking at other people's lives, relationships, looks, you know, success.
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You don't see what goes on behind the scenes.
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And I promise you there's a lot of it.
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So just remember that you should be you.
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You don't need to be like me, I promise.
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Let's move on.
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All right, this one's quick.
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Does Madison Beer play LOL?
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Oh, I'm like, what's LOL?
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League of Legends.
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I've tried it, I'm terrible at it.
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Does Madison Beer speak Spanish?
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Un poquito.
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Was that even right?
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I don't know.
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I tried to learn French in quarantine, and I don't know how to say much, but if I'm trying to flirt with somebody else,
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I'll say, which means basically you'll never understand how much I love you.
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Does Madison Beer have tattoos?
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She has 12.
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In fact, they are predominantly, and a majority of them are on my feet.
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That's why I don't see them.
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That's why I don't know about them.
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I really love this one on my ring finger.
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It says, eventually.
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It's a reference to the Tame Impala song, eventually.
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I also just think it has a greater like meaning of just like things will happen in time. Be patient.
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Don't rush life.
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You know, let it happen.
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I like that one the best.
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Does Madison Beer play piano?
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I do play piano.
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I would not say that I'm like a pianist or I'm good, but I do play piano.
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I can get by pretty well.
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I can play all the chords and yeah, I love piano.
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It's the best.
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Does Madison Beer have siblings?
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I do.
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I'm actually repping him right now my little brother Ryder goes to the Berklee School of Music and he's amazing.
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He wants to be a producer and he has the most talent and he's the cutest, sweetest, most angelic and I love him so much.
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He's literally my world.
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So I do my big brother Ryder.
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Yeah, Ryder and I haven't fully done a collab yet, but we're planning on it.
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We're going to, you know, he's got some work to do, but we're going to do it together.
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We're going to do it.
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Final board.
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I'm sad.
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Why, why, why, Madison Beer?
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I'm going to assume that's a reference to my song, Dead.
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Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why?
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That's my song, Dead.
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And I say that, I say the word why.
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I actually would love to do a why count of how many times I say it.
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I'm not sure off the top of my head, but I do say it a lot.
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Why, why, why, Madison Beer?
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I ask myself the same thing every day.
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It's definitely one of my core songs, I would say.
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It is a landmark song for me.
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it was my first song as an independent artist it was
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like a really just a special song I actually also just really love the messaging behind it
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because I feel like now also
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that I'm older I like have understood the messaging a little bit more
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which is like
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if you say you can't live without me why aren't you
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dead yet it basically is just like you know keeping somebody accountable for their word
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and that's that's kind of the premise of the song obviously
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not literally don't take it literal Madison Beer Olivia Rodrigo I don't know
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if this is a question or a statement but um I love Olivia Rodrigo.
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I think she's so talented.
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I think her music is incredible and she's so pretty and cute and sweet seeming.
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I don't know her, but she seems adorable.
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So Madison Beer, Olivia Rodrigo, question mark.
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Olivia, hit a girl up, but yeah, she's amazing.
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And I'm really, really proud of her and all her success.
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I'm like blown away by everything she releases.
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Proud to be grouped in with someone like her.
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Where does Madison Beer get her hoops?
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I really am not like a, I need to wear expensive hoops.
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To be fair, I can't wear fake jewelry.
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My ears will literally like turn green
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and I have like genuine allergic reactions to fake jewelry
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so I do get at least like gold plated jewelry
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but I this it doesn't run you up too much um
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where is Madison Beer right now right now I am in
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my home in Long Island New York very happy to be
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here zero are you ready for your debut I can't he's
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the cutest thing look at this size of this thing hi baby No, you're wet.
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Why are you wet?
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Were you running around somewhere?
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Nothing really came as a surprise to me.
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These were all great questions and I'm very happy with how it turned out.
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All right, Wired, thank you so much for having me.
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This was a dream come true.
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I've literally wanted to do one of these my entire life, so thank you so much.
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Say thank you, Zero.
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We'll see you guys soon.
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Love you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 323 sentences and 2867 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:08. The speaker talks fast, about 203 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| selfish adjective | /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/ | Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making. |
| piano noun | /piˈænɪː/ | A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers… |
| idol noun | /ˈaɪ.dl̩/ | A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power. |
| accent noun | /ækˈsɛnt/ | A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to… |
| fraction noun | /ˈfɹæk.ʃən/ | A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part. |
| jewellery noun | /ˈd͡ʒʊ-/ | Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones. |
| fandom noun | /ˈfændəm/ | The fans of a sport, activity, work, person etc., taken as a group. |
| discover verb | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | To find or learn something for the first time. |
| impression noun | /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/ | The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another. |
| compliment noun | /ˈkɑmpləmənt/ | An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect. |
| topic noun | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest. |
| finger noun | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other… |
| necessarily adverb | /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ | Inevitably; of necessity. |
| rush verb | /ɹʌʃ/ | To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully. |
| chart noun | /t͡ʃɑɹt/ | A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
| turn out verb | To end up; to result. |
| blow away verb | To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind. |
| come up to verb | To approach. |
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. |
| go up verb | To move upwards. |
| run around verb | To be very busy doing many different things. |
| walk down verb | To continually advance (on an opponent) and punch (the opponent) in order to control the fight and dominate the opponent, while shrugging off the opponent's… |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've watched · haven't heard · i've never been classified |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is called · been classified · was discovered |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | Beer, which is · Legends, which is · TikTok, which was |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 123 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, fraction /ˈfɹæk.ʃən/, impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, misconception /ˌmɪs.kənˈsɛp.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, adorable /əˈdoɹ.əˌbəl/, predominantly /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnəntli/, intuitive /ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like selfish, piano, idol.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.