![]() Performing her early single “I Can’t Stop Drinking About You” a year later when another boyfriend split with her, Rexha said she would cry on stage. “What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.”īut the approach is not always cathartic. “The writing process was very tough,” she said. The album was also highly personal for Rexha, who poured emotion into songs about a breakup. “I can’t sit here forever - for another 10 years - doing this album.” “It’s very nerve-racking because you want people to like it and you want to like it, and sometimes you have to put your foot down and say this is what it’s going to be,” she added. “You need to know when to surrender the album,” she said. Rexha co-wrote The Monster, the chart-topping 2013 hit by Eminem and Rihanna, as well as songs for Selena Gomez, Iggy Azalea and Nick Jonas.īlessed with a voice that can go into high soprano range yet maintain a soulful texture, Rexha said recording her own album was a new experience. She was discovered after she won a national contest for teenage songwriters run by the Recording Academy, which administers the Grammy Awards. She has already enjoyed a prolific career as a songwriter at her young age. Rexha entered the Top 10 in the United States and several European countries last year with Me, Myself & I, a collaboration with rapper G-Eazy. The song comes out ahead of her debut full-length album, the cryptically titled A.Y.F., which will be released in January. Rexha’s next single will feature a “big drum that has a very sexy feel to it,” she said, adding that she sees it as an inheritance from Albanian music. “And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.” “I want to show every part of me, and every colour of me,” she said. “When I was first starting out, I didn’t know how to grasp that, how to intertwine that in my music,” she said.īut she eventually realised that “the more real you are” the better. While her sound is consistent with R’n’B-tinged mainstream pop, she said there are underlying Albanian influences, including sounds she heard at weddings. Part of being true to herself is expressing her Albanian heritage. “I just want to be myself and be real and be funny,” she said. The singer said with a mischievous look that she was practicing pranks for the internationally televised awards night, whose performers will include Bruno Mars and Shawn Mendes. In Europe, “it kind of feels that sometimes they’re a step ahead, and I think they’re open to different-sounding music, and I like that,” she said. With a sizable fan base in parts of Europe as well as Mexico, Rexha said she always immerses herself in local music scenes when travelling. The honour reflects the 27-year-old’s fast-growing stardom and the connection she feels to Europe.īorn in New York to Albanian parents, Rexha will take centre-stage on November 6 in the Dutch city of Rotterdam for a gala geared to a more global audience than MTV’s signature Video Music Awards. The 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards logo and promos were designed in-house by MTV World Design Studio in Milan and Buenos Aires with additional input by Swedish graphic design company Kungen & Hertigen.The force behind a string of hits for other artists, pop singer Bebe Rexha was named the host of the MTV Europe Music Awards on Monday before her first album has even been released. Though the MTV EMAs have traditionally been advertised as Europe's premiere music event, few European artists received nominations in key categories. Pete Wentz was the host for the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards webcast. Nominations for regional awards were announced on 1 September 2009, followed by those of the main awards on September 21, 2009. ![]() Thus Berlin became the first city to host the event twice. It was the fourth time that the MTV Europe Music Awards were hosted in Germany and the second time that they were hosted in Berlin, since the inaugural edition of the MTV Europe Music Awards also took place there. The awards ceremony was presented by Katy Perry for a 2nd consecutive year. The MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 took place in Berlin, Germany at the O2 World and Brandenburg Gate on 5 November 2009. ![]()
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