Madison Beer knew her third album would be called Locket long before she even really dug into making it. After wrapping her most recent tour last fall, she was ready to dive into a new project, and this time around, the title felt important to her. She wanted it to feel authentic to who she is as an artist, perhaps an item or a word that felt tangible.

“I was in my Notes app for weeks on end just writing words I related to,” she says over the phone in early October. “I just kept on gravitating towards [ Locket ] every single time I would read the list.”

The word became a north star for Beer and her collaborators before they even got back into the studio. They would listen to songs or exchange ideas and say things like “This is so Locket ” or “ Locket -core.”

As she describes it

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