.BebeRexha is making 'power-boss-b*tch' moves with her new album BetterMistakes. We talked mental health, getting real, and her refusal to follow the rules
, a gap elongated by changes to the pop star’s team. As she began to craft the new project, Rexha wanted it to live in the same catchy, vulnerable realm of the self-deprecating “I’m a Mess,” which she feels “most connected to” of her catalog of hits.
“When I was younger, I would have loved to have somebody to look up to that was open about [mental health], so I didn't feel so alone,” she says. “It’s something that'll always be a part of me, and I was thinking if I'm real with my fans, maybe there's somebody out there who will listen to it and it'll help them.”
Writing about these often-taboo topics comes easily to Rexha, a seasoned songwriter who’s also penned hits for superstar artists like Selena Gomez , as well as Eminem and Rihanna . However, she still gets pangs of nervousness before releasing such intimate tracks about her mental health due to how they affect one listener in particular. “My mother, for some reason, feels like she made a mistake and fucked up in some way,” she says.
One of the only genres she opted to avoid on the album is country, despite the fact that her 2017 singleis her biggest hit, with 50 weeks at No. 1 on country radio, a Grammy nomination, and more recently, a Diamond certification from the RIAA for 10 million units sold.
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