A "real and raw" new album from Bebe Rexha is incoming, but the first sample has already arrived. Last week the GRAMMY-nominated singer blast back into our world with the pulsating and vulnerable new, "I Like You Better Than Me," and now she's ready to talk about what's next.
LISTEN NOW: Audacy Check In with Bebe Rexha
Inside the Rockstar Suite at the Hard Rock Hotel New York, Rexha lets us inside the making of her album, Dirty Blonde, out everywhere on June 12, telling Mike Adam how her latest chapter came together.
Rexha took some risks on her fourth full length project, featuring "a little bit of the old Bebe, new Bebe," blending Country, Pop, Dance, and live guitars into something uniquely her. “That's been really fun to me, kind of genre bending a little bit," she shares.
Feeling the full range of everything, Bebe explains, "like crying in the bedroom to crying on the dance floor... there's some songs like that, and then there's some songs that are like, 'I'm the s***.'"
"When I started the project, I started it being more of a dance album and then I kind of hit a wall because I was like, 'I don't know if I could do 13 songs.' I have so much I want to say," she shares. "I feel like I'm just like dying to get this part of me out that feels like it's hidden by a wall, and then we were able to write songs like 'I Like You Better Than Me,' or 'Time,' which is really meaningful to me, or 'The Way I Want You,' that talk about so many different things that are really vulnerable for me."
"Whether it's unrequited love or my insecurities or feeling like I wasted the best years of my life in the wrong relationships, so many different topics that speak to me, but then there's also the songs that are towards the end, I think that's when I was starting to feel myself because I had kind of work through all of that."
For more on the making of Dirty Blonde, navigating mental health, songwriting, and more, check out the full Audacy Check In above.