Happy Summer, everybody. I am stepping into your feed to share a bonus conversation I had recently with one of my favorite artists right now.

Singer-songwriter producer Madison McPherron. You might know Madison from her viral video guilty. In 2021 she jumped on her keyboard and just ripped a melody in response to the

news of that Minneapolis police officer who was found guilty of murdering

George Floyd. Madison has been on her own liberation journey the last few

years and you can really hear it in the music and her new album

that she dropped this spring called I Hope You Can Forgive Me what she basically

conceived and wrote all on her own. I actually had her music on loop when I was writing season five of truth be told, so you know I had to get her on the show.

Madison and I connected at the Blackbird Collective in Los Angeles to talk about the process of writing and

producing this album and how she's evolving and forging an identity that is

separate from her famous musician father Bobby McFerrin. You know I've always wondered what it would be like to grow up with the famous parent.

It just seems like even if your parents don't push you there is always this unspoken expectation that you're going to follow in your parents

footsteps and everybody's always looking and comparing. Well for Madison and

you might not be surprised by this it was an LSD trip that helped her work through the pressure of it all.

And that's where we start our conversation. Were there expectations of you grow?

For me, know that it's late.

I needed the space just to be... Were there expectations of you growing up on who you were to be?

Not for my family. I decided I wanted to sing when I was five and I think that was more so out of like being a little kid and having an example of somebody who sings and makes a career out of it and just being like,

oh, that's possible, I can do it, you know?

I was never going to have the parents that were like,

you can't make money off of art.

You know, like that was just...

Look at us.

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