Madison Beer has always been beloved by the gays, even if the general public is lagging behind. Now, in a new interview, the 26-year-old pop star opened up about her own bisexuality, including why she’s confused that her queerness is such a hot topic for interviewers.
“I’m just like, ‘Yeah, I don’t really know why you give a f*ck that I want to date a girl,’” Beer explained to Cosmopolitan. “I’ve never understood homophobic people, because I’m just like, ‘Why are you affected by someone else’s sexual preference?’ It doesn’t affect me unless I’m trying to sleep with you and you don’t want to sleep with me.”
“I like to speak about it because I know how much the gay community has been through,” Beer added. “My grandfather married a woman and had three children with her because he was trying to convert himself. It makes me so upset that we live in this world where you can’t just be who you are.”
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Elsewhere in the interview, Beer spoke to the misogyny and objectification she experienced as a child in the music industry, having been signed at just 12 years old. According to Beer, she was dropped from her label for a lack of success early in her career, when higher-ups in the industry weren’t sure how to market her as an artist.
“There was a conversation around me when I was 14,” she recalled. “I remember people being like, ‘She’s too sexy’ and ‘We can’t sell the sex because she’s so young, so we’d have to wait.’ This was a real conversation, grown men talking about how I was too sexy. I was 14.”
Now, though, Beer is looking forward to the exciting next chapter of her career, including a new album coming out later this year.
“I have the highest goals,” she said of her hopes for the new album. “This is hopefully what solidifies everything for me, whatever that means. That’s why it’s been hard to make — there’s a lot of pressure I’m putting on myself. So it’s taking me a second, but it feels exciting. I don’t want to succeed if it means not being who I am. I don’t need people to love me. And I don’t want people to listen to my music if it’s not real.”
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