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Join us back stage at Audacy's Leading Ladies as we sit down with Haven Madison to talk about American Idol, new music, and so much more!

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00:00I'm Karen Carson at Leading Ladies in the Terra Origin interview lounge with Haven Madison

00:08who just blew the doors off of the King's Theatre in Brooklyn and we are so glad to

00:13have you part of Leading Ladies.

00:14Oh my goodness I'm just so grateful to be here.

00:16Like sharing the stage with those women was crazy.

00:19You were on stage with Cassie Ashton and Alessia Cara and the three of you I thought were just

00:26did that feel good?

00:28Oh my goodness I'm such fans of them and there's something about like a writer's round

00:32style.

00:33You know I'm from Nashville so it's just there's a certain energy about it and I feel like

00:36I could write a hundred songs about it now.

00:38I just feel so inspired.

00:40That's amazing.

00:41That's amazing.

00:42Well you were no stranger to show business having been raised in the music world.

00:46Can you tell us a little bit about that?

00:48Your dad was always on the road right?

00:51Yeah so I grew up about the first seven years of my life on a tour bus so I still to this

00:55day I'm going to sleep better in a moving vehicle than in my bed at home which is so

00:58weird but yeah I know it's been amazing and it's given me such amazing tools of really

01:03understanding the nitty-gritty of the music industry and having nothing foreign to me

01:07and it's just been so much fun navigating it in my own personal artistry as well.

01:12And congratulations on making the top eight American Idol.

01:16I'm so impressed that you auditioned with your own song.

01:21I think that is has got to be a little scary.

01:24You blew the judge's doors off and Katy Perry is actually someone you really look up to right?

01:31Yeah absolutely.

01:32I think that was such a special moment because I've always had a lot to say.

01:36I'm very bad at shutting up.

01:38My teachers from high school could probably vouch for that but yeah no I definitely I

01:42have so many songs that I write and I think from the beginning I've always been a songwriter

01:46so when that opportunity came about I knew that I wanted to lead with that and even the

01:49opportunities since then and in the last year just unlocking just a new level of my

01:53writing and getting to walk in new and bigger rooms has just been so amazing.

01:57I'm just so grateful that this is my job.

01:59Seriously I love it.

02:00A lot of great stuff is happening and it's fun to be a girl in the music industry isn't

02:04it?

02:05It's fun.

02:06It definitely has its challenges but I think it's really fun.

02:08I love when I walk into a session and there's a female producer or just being in the room

02:12with boss ladies with leading ladies you know it's just it's empowering.

02:16It's amazing.

02:17Oh I'm so glad.

02:18Let's talk about Why Do The Pills Work.

02:21That is so emotional that song and it makes me want to cry but it's so good.

02:27Do you want to talk about that a little bit?

02:29Yeah absolutely.

02:30I think from a young age I always knew I was going to do music.

02:33I joke that there was like no fighting chance at me doing anything else and I think I always

02:39knew I wanted to be very human and very authentic in the words that I was writing and the music

02:42I was putting out.

02:44So when I first wrote this song it was almost too vulnerable.

02:46I was like I'm not.

02:48I can't.

02:49I can't do anything with it.

02:50I didn't send it to anybody.

02:51But I just think the fans spoke for themselves and my team was just super passionate about

02:56it and it's been amazing seeing that it's so much more than me and so much more than

03:00the room and the guitar I wrote it on.

03:02Just seeing it change people's lives and it's about mental health.

03:05It's about my struggle with it and taking medication and people don't realize they feel

03:09less alone but I also feel less alone because they're responding and reacting to it.

03:13So it's just been such an intimate experience.

03:16And Castle, that addicting melody.

03:20It's so addicting.

03:22When is that song coming out?

03:24That song is coming out May 9th.

03:26I'm so excited.

03:27It's the first time I've said the date out loud so I feel like I'm like waiting for the

03:29thunder.

03:30It's here.

03:31It's here.

03:32Almost.

03:33So tell us about Castle and what that was like.

03:35It's a I think such a relatable song for so many people going through.

03:40I mean everybody's got some kind of you know mental issues like with depression maybe or

03:46anxiety whether you're high or low on it.

03:50Everybody does.

03:51Yeah I think love sucks until it doesn't honestly and so this song was kind of about maybe one

03:57day there's going to be a pivot when it doesn't and there's going to be somebody that is worth

04:00tearing down these really tall exterior walls that I've built up and letting them in and

04:05letting them know that I'm broken but that it's beautiful and they'll appreciate that.

04:10So it's a very hopeful song.

04:11I wrote it about somebody I haven't met yet but I'm excited to meet and yeah I think the

04:15melody is something so different vocally.

04:17It took it took months of learning how to sing it different ways to figure out the right

04:22way.

04:23So yeah.

04:24It's addicting.

04:25I mean it is now.

04:26It's definitely one of those things where it's it has taken a lot of effort to get to where

04:29it is but it just feels so right and so authentically me and I'm really excited.

04:33You're so amazing.

04:34Just like this beautiful soul and you are so I mean I've seen your videos and I've actually

04:42you know listened to your songs so much but seeing you live is a whole different story

04:47and you got a girl.

04:49Thank you so much.

04:50And congratulations on all your success.

04:52Looking forward to Castle.

04:53May 9th.

04:54May 9th.

04:55I'm excited.

04:56I'm excited.

04:57Thank you so much.

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