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Bebe Rexha postpones album release until “the world is in a better place”
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 10 July 2020
Bebe Rexha has announced that she is postponing the release of her new album until “the world is in a better place”. Which, depending on her criteria and how much of a shift she wants, could mean quite a long wait.
“I know my fans are super frustrated because they want new music”, she said in an Instagram story that she subsequently posted on Twitter. “I promise you my team and I have been working harder than ever. Every day, every single week. We haven’t stopped. This is the best project I have ever worked on and the album is my absolute favourite”.
“I cannot wait for you to hear it”, she adds, before literally saying the opposite of that. “It’s just that we don’t feel like it’s right to release an album during these times. As soon as the world is in a better place we will release it all. We are just waiting for when the time feels right. I promise you it is worth the wait”.
She also confirmed in subsequent tweets that the album is completely finished, but “the timing with the world doesn’t feel right to me in my gut”.
Presumably she is mainly referring to the mounting COVID-19 crisis in the US, where new cases are reaching mind-boggling numbers and still growing.
Although, of course, there is any number of reasons to be down on 2020. And new reasons keep popping up. Like the news this week that the fight for the White House in the US presidential election later this year could end up being between Donald Trump and Kanye West.
Whatever, like I said, Rexha is not clear. However, she does reckon we can turn things around quickly, if we just stop writing this year off.
“I know 2020 sucks”, she tweeted yesterday afternoon. “But we gotta start putting some positive energy out there. If we all keep saying 2020 sucks, all our negative vibes are just gonna make this year worse and worse. Let’s start saying 2020 is gonna get better. 2020 sucks but it’s gonna get better”.
If we all do that, maybe it will push the needle and there will be a Bebe Rexha album before you know it. Or perhaps 2020 is a write-off and we’ll just have to wait until next year. Or never.
