Bebe Rexha Empowers Up-And-Coming Female Songwriters

By Robert Lohbihler. Published: 27 Apr 2018 2:12 PM Last updated: 27 Apr 2018 3:10 PM

With her upcoming album “Expectations” coming out June 22, Bebe Rexha opens up about what inspired her to create her new music.

In a new interview with ET Canada’s Matte Babel in Los Angeles, the songstress reveals how she grew up expecting life and love to be a fairy tale.

“‘Expectations’ for me was about growing up and watching all the fairy tales and all the kids’ channels and like wanting to a princess and thinking that love was like a fairy tale,” she says. “And you’d go to Hollywood and become famous right off the bat and make millions of dollars and you get to LA and you’re like..?”

To avoid disappointment, Rexha adds, “It’s better to have no expectations and live in the moment.”

The 28-year-old star also talks with Matte about the lack of women being represented on the charts and explains how she wants to help her fellow female artists.

One of the ways Rexha says she helps other artists is by hosting dinner events, like the Women In Harmony dinner. She recalls, “I took everyone out for the night and it was a whole roomful of successful songwriters and we talked about being women in music.”

The singer is all about women empowering women and says “it’s kind of my job and other female artists’ jobs [for] songwriters to support each other and make room for all the up and coming artists to know there is room for them.”