Haven Madison Is Graduating High School on Her Way to Stardom (Exclusive)

Haven Madison has excepted her debut EP, Flip Off The entire LightsThe American Idol alum, who made the Supremacy 8 extreme season, graduated highschool this weekWith a up to date proceed to Nashville, Madison is able to fly prime

There’s a buzz environment Haven Madison, and she will be able to really feel it. 

“I walk in these writers’ rooms, and I’ve been greeted several times by people saying, ‘Why are so many people talking about you?’ Madison, 18, tells PEOPLE with a laugh while on a recent week-long writing visit to Los Angeles. “It’s been a laugh attending to progress in these kinds of rooms and turn out why there’s buzz.”

No doubt, there’s a self assurance oozing from the pop sensation who clash the big-time extreme hour as a finalist on Season 21 of American Idol, as it’s she who who just lately signed her first label do business in and just lately excepted her label-debut EP, Flip Off The entire Lighting fixtures, a candy selection of irate songs that each and every reserve a lyrical punch inside them. 

“All the songs have some level of emotional pull to them,” explains the Clarksville, Tennessee, local that moved to Nashville simply extreme future. “They make you either feel absolute rage or absolute empowerment or pure heartbreak or pure sarcasm.”

“How You Like Me Now” is an instance of that distinctive sarcasm. 

“It’s super fun because it just scratches the surface of being a pissed-off girl, but it’s also chill,” says Madison of the bouncing ball of lyrics she wrote along songwriters Eric Arjes and Mary Kutter. “It keeps it happy and lighthearted.”

Among this seesaw of lyrical feelings is an plain sonic stunner of a singer who turns out with the intention to without difficulty clash notes that some may most effective dream of hitting. 

“I think those were just natural choices that came to be when I go into songwriting sessions,” says Madison. “I just play a chord and start singing and whatever naturally comes out is usually the melody we go with, because it’s what the song wanted. I think the best songs are the ones where it’s almost as if the song already existed and I just had to find it.”

She hits a few of the ones notes within the beautiful “Sky Up.”

“The high notes are an ache,” she says of the sounds featured within the track she wrote with Grammy-nominated songwriter/manufacturer Dave Pittenger. “It’s what makes you feel so much. It’s when you can feel that mojo and that ache in my voice, and I’ve learned what placements make me feel that the most. Your voice is your instrument. So, it’s just learning the ways around that.”

This finding out advance started when Madison was once simply a teen rising up within the highlight of her dad — Grammy-nominated Construction 429 top singer Jason Roy. Madison was once additionally homeschooled till she started attending population faculty right through her freshman hour of highschool. “All public school taught me how to do truthfully was survive humans… and cheat,” she admits with fun.

It’s a year that Madison bonded over with American Idol pass judgement on Katy Perry, as the 2 made headlines extreme hour with their collaboration on “Still Need You,” the poignant ballad Haven wrote about her brother Avery’s fight with melancholy.

“The moment we shared was vulnerable and raw,” Madison recalls of the efficiency that had the 2 dressed in denims and disagree footwear. “We literally fought our hair and makeup team away. We just wanted to exist here. I think it made for such a special moment for the two of us, and still to this day, it’s one of my favorite performances I’ve ever done.”

It’s all been a part of the relatively surreal year of Madison, who just lately went house to advance to promenade and progress around the level at Clarksville Prime College to get her degree this while. And there to cheer her on can be her brother Avery. 

“He was struggling, and he went through a long depressive phase and suicide was something he was considering,” she says. “Today, I just am so proud of him. And it’s amazing because not only is he my drummer, but he’s a phenomenal one. Every night I get to play a show with him, he does something that just solidifies every reason why he is not only an amazing drummer, but such a necessary person to exist. Every night we hug each other before we go on and we’re like, ‘Look at us. We thought we weren’t going to make it, and here we are.'”