Justin Herbert isn't waiting for the 2026 NFL season to secure his first ring. The LA Chargers franchise quarterback proposed to singer Madison Beer with the couple making the engagement public on Tuesday.
Beer has been in Chargers fans' lives since last season, and while she has quite the following, her music isn't as culturally ingrained as that of fellow NFL partner Taylor Swift.
But don't you worry! We here at Bolt Beat have you covered. In honor of the engagement, we put together the ultimate Madison Beer playlist for Chargers fans with every song representing an opponent on the Chargers' 2026 schedule.
The ultimate Madison Beer playlist for LA Chargers fans:
You can preview the playlist below. Click this link to open your Spotify account to listen to the entire playlist.
Arizona Cardinals - "At Your Worst"
"At Your Worst" is all about wanting someone who will love and stand by you when you are at your lowest. Those are the people who deserve to love you when you are at your best.
The Cardinals are testing this with their very own fanbase this season. Arizona is clearly more focused on the future than on succeeding this season, especially with a stacked quarterback class in the 2027 season. Only the fans that stick by the Cardinals this year can root for them in the future, assuming the tank goes as planned.
Las Vegas Raiders - "All for Love" featuring Jack & Jack
Don't take the name of this song literally, the Chargers have absolutely no love for the Las Vegas Raiders. It's the meaning of the song that hits home for the Raiders; a song all about making reckless decisions in the name of love.
Go look it up in the dictionary. Reckless and Raiders are perfect synonyms.
Buffalo Bills - "Everything Happens for a Reason"
The LA Chargers have a pretty tumultuous past, but it pales in comparison to the Buffalo Bills. I mean, c'mon, the Bills were the bridesmaids four years in a row in the early 90s, never winning it all to become the bride.
Buffalo has had even more heartbreaks with Josh Allen, so it's only fitting they represent the journey of coming to grips with heartbreak as a natural part of life.
Seattle Seahawks - "Somehow I got Lucky"
The Seattle Seahawks won a Super Bowl with Sam Darnold. If I would have told you that 12 months ago you would have pinched yourself. There's no better song given the circumstance.
Denver Broncos - "Bad Enough"
I want you to close your eyes (wait, how are you still reading this?) and picture Sean Payton aimlessly staring out the plane window from his first-class seat on United Airlines. Payton is thinking about Bo Nix. He whispers...
I know that it seems easy
But I like that he needs me
My friends all say my standards are too low
But it's not bad enough to let my baby go
Go, go, go
It's not bad enough to let my baby go
Go, go, go
It's not bad enough to let him go
The lyrics speak for themselves.
Kansas City Chiefs - "Tyler Durden"
This track, which is inspired by Brad Pitt's character in "Fight Club", is all about falling in love with a fictionalized version of someone instead of falling in love with who they really are (sorry if that spoils the movie for you at all, I also haven't seen it).
It might not be a fully fictionalized version of the Chiefs that NFL fans have in their minds, but it's a version of the Chiefs that existed in the past, not the present. The dynasty is over. The Chargers ended it. The Chiefs will be a good team, but they are far from the unslayable dragon they once were. That is a fictionalized understanding of what the team is in 2026.
Los Angeles Rams - "Ryder"
Another song with a name as the title, "Ryder" is all about Beer's relationship with her brother growing up. In many ways, the Chargers and Rams are proverbial NFL siblings as they both made the controversial decision to move to Los Angeles when both host cities apalled the idea.
Beer sings about "growing up in the same house" and two siblings being caught in the crossfire. It's not a perfect analogy for the Chargers-Rams relationship, but Beer doesn't have any songs about the eagerness to trade first-round picks, so this is the best we got.
Houston Texans - "Fools"
This song is more about all of us Chargers fans every time the team plays the Texans, not so much the Texans themselves. The song is about going into a relationship you know is going to end badly, which sounds exactly like Chargers fans' mindset whenever the Bolts play Houston.
Every single time these two teams square off we all convince ourselves that the Texans don't have the talent to keep up with the Chargers. And every single time we are disappointed. Houston beat the Chargers last season, walloped them in the playoffs two years ago, and even had that devastating win over the 2021 Chargers that essentially ended their playoff hopes.
And all this being said, we will still convince ourselves that it's a great matchup by the time Week 9 rolls around.
Baltimore Ravens - "Reckless"
There isn't a better fit on this entire playlist than "Reckless" for Jesse Minter and the Baltimore Ravens. The song is all about watching an ex-lover do all the same things they used to do for you but for someone else. Sound familiar?
You might love her now, but you loved me first
Said you'd never hurt me, but here we are
Oh, you swore on every star
How could you be so reckless with my heart?
Minter was an exceptional defensive coordinator for the Chargers who quickly became a fan favorite. Now he's the head coach of the Ravens and we all need to move on.
New York Jets - "HeartLess"
The New York Jets' song is very similar to Buffalo's, yet theirs is somehow even sadder. "HeartLess" is all about becoming guarded and closed off after constant heartbreak, which sounds like every Jets fan in our lives.
But hey, at least the Knicks won the NBA Championship! The pain of watching Jets football is much easier to swallow with an NBA Championship in your rear pocket. I just feel bad for any Jets fans who are somehow Brooklyn Nets fans... (shoutout to FanSided's own Mike Luciano.)
New England Patriots - "Blue"
One of the New England Patriots' primary colors is blue. They sometimes wear blue jerseys. They were feeling a little blue after losing the Super Bowl. With Beer's discography dominated by songs about relationships, there just weren't any obvious fits for the Patriots...
Let's move on.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers - "Sour Times"
Vita Vea just demanded a trade, Mike Evans left this offseason, and Baker Mayfield is playing on the last year of his deal without extending. "Sour Times" is all about an ugly end to a relationship and the yearning to go back to how things used to be. For the Bucs, it feels like the start of a new era that hasn't exactly gone as planned.
They'll always have a chance in the comically bad NFC South, but by the time Week 13 rolls around, most Bucs fans might be looking back at what used to be a happy, fun team to root for instead of whatever version shows up in 2026.
San Francisco 49ers - "Stained Glass"
There isn't a single team in the NFL that has been as negatively impacted by injuries in recent years than the San Francisco 49ers. Heck, the 49ers missed out on a trip to the Super Bowl several years ago when the team essentially lost the entire quarterback room in the NFC Championship Game.
"Stained Glass" is more about emotional vulnerability than anything else, but if we take the lyrics quite literally, it's hard not to make a connection to the 49ers. Beer sings about her skin being made of glass and that it's stained from her past. That's the 49ers.
Miami Dolphins - "I wonder"
Mike McDaniel has to wait nearly the entire season to get his revenge on the Miami Dolphins, who by this point in the season, will probably be left wondering what could have been different had there been different circumstances.
McDaniel is considered one of the best offensive minds in the sport yet he lost his head coaching job after he was shackled with a bad quarterback who he still got the most out of. After seeing the inevitable great pairing of McDaniel and Herbert in action for an entire season, Dolphins fans will undoubtedly be left wondering what could have been.
There's dual meaning in this specific song. The song itself is about turning a page and wondering why she subjected herself to a lesser life. That's the Chargers with Greg Roman. But there's also the literal wonder the Miami Dolphins have, especially given they could have had McDaniel and Herbert together.
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