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Artist Friendly with Joel Madden

Bebe Rexha

6/10/20261 hr 5 min

On this week's episode of Artist Friendly, Joel Madden is joined by Bebe Rexha. Before she signed to Warner in 2013, Rexha was in a short-lived electropop band with Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz called Black Cards, which led to touring with Travie McCoy, multiple solo albums, and a summer on Warped Tour in 2015. Now she’s freshly independent, forming a partnership with indie label and distributor EMPIRE. In a conversation with Joel, they get into pushing yourself forward, turning pain into songwriting, and her new visual album, Dirty Blonde, out Friday (June 12). “I feel like I can always do better — this is the problem with me — but there are some records on there that I’m absolutely so proud of…” she says. “I don’t like being stuck in a box. I grew up on so many different sounds… If I wanna do a classical album next, I’m gonna do that.”

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Host: Joel Madden, @joelmadden Executive Producers: Joel Madden, Benji Madden Producers: Janice Leary, Josh Madden, Joey Simmrin Director/Visual Producer/Editor: Ryan Schaefer Audio Producer/Composer: Nick Gray Music/Theme Composer: Nick Gray Cover Art/Design: Ryan Schaefer Additional Contributors: Anna Zanes, Neville Hardman

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Clips

Healing Your Inner Child
After The Grammy Snub
No Permission, Just Action
Dad’s Ultimatum Basement Moment
10k Steps Is ‘BS’

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Joel Madden· Host0:00

    This episode is brought to you by Good Charlotte. Good Charlotte is a band I started when I was 16 with my brother, and it is the reason I'm sitting here today. Thank you, Good Charlotte. We're going on tour June 20th, San Diego County Fair, Del Mar, California, and July 25th through August 30th, Good Charlotte and Avenged Sevenfold touring in the US, starting July 25th, Thunder Ridge Nature Arena in Ridgedale, Missouri, and ending at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, California on August 30th. Tickets are on sale now. We will see you at the show.

  2. Bebe Rexha· Guest0:35

    For me, I always just really loved, loved making music.

  3. Joel Madden· Host0:39

    That part is the best part.

  4. Bebe Rexha· Guest0:41

    Like, I really just loved it.

  5. Joel Madden· Host0:43

    Well, you're good at it.

  6. Bebe Rexha· Guest0:43

    Uh, I wasn't always good at it, and I have my moments, but I just loved it. I loved the feeling of it. I loved how it made me feel. I loved how it was therapeutic, sitting in my parents' basement with all their storage stuff. Got a job, bought my own computer, two KRK speakers, a cheap microphone, was making beats on GarageBand with my l- my keyboard. I couldn't even buy a MIDI. And I always just loved the music part of it. Bad times. I don't wanna have bad.

  7. Joel Madden· Host1:13

    You know, sometimes you make money.

  8. Bebe Rexha· Guest1:15

    Make that money.

  9. Joel Madden· Host1:16

    Sometimes we make money.

  10. Bebe Rexha· Guest1:17

    I mean, in the industry, it's like, what are you gonna do? Sometimes you make money, sometimes you don't.

  11. Joel Madden· Host1:21

    Yeah, sometimes you make an impact.

  12. Bebe Rexha· Guest1:23

    Ooh, that's more important.

  13. Joel Madden· Host1:25

    And sometimes you make both.

  14. Bebe Rexha· Guest1:26

    Yes. That would be nice.

  15. Joel Madden· Host1:28

    And sometimes you have, uh,

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