{"id":28736,"date":"2019-08-12T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1064185"},"modified":"2019-08-12T12:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T18:03:16","slug":"bebe-rexha-slams-male-music-exec-who-said-i-am-too-old-to-be-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/bebe-rexha-slams-male-music-exec-who-said-i-am-too-old-to-be-sexy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bebe Rexha Slams Male Music Exec &#8220;Who Said I Am Too Old to Be Sexy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.931654676259\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019214\/rs_634x1024-190314155743-634-bebe-rexha.cl.031419.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Bebe Rexha, 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards, Arrivals\" alt=\"Bebe Rexha, 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards, Arrivals\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Matt Baron\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"16.745127436282\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/bebe_rexha\">Bebe Rexha<\/a><\/strong> is on a mission for her next birthday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the star famously sings, &#8220;I&#8217;m done with the drinking, I&#8217;m done with the smoking,&nbsp;I&#8217;m done with the playing, I&#8217;m done with the joking&#8221;\u2014and from the sound of it, she&#8217;s done with the gender stereotypes and ageism in Hollywood.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The star spoke up on Instagram while taking aim at an unnamed male music executive and his alleged comments toward her. &#8220;I recently had a MALE music executive tell me that I was getting too old and that my brand was &#8216;confusing.&#8217; Because&#8230; I&#8217;m a songwriter and I post sexy pics on my Instagram and that&#8217;s not what female songwriters are suppose to do, especially for my age. I&#8217;m 29.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"66\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"22\">\n<p>The Grammy nominee continued, &#8220;I&#8217;m fed up with being put in a box. I make my own rules. I&#8217;m tired of women getting labeled as &#8216;hags&#8217; when they get old and guys get labeled as sexy with age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In honor of her upcoming golden birthday, the star pledged to embrace her age. &#8220;Anyways, I&#8217;m turning 30 on August 30 and you know what, I&#8217;m not running away from it. I&#8217;m not gonna lie about my age or sing songs that I feel will sell better because they sound &#8216;younger,'&#8221; she told followers. &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna celebrate my age because you know what, I&#8217;m wiser, I&#8217;m stronger and TRUST ME I&#8217;m a much better lover than I was 10 years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She further dedicated the black and white photo she posted of herself in a bra and underwear &#8220;to the music executive who said I am too old to be sexy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no age that you can&#8217;t be be sexy,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;Im not scared to speak out. Especially if it&#8217;s my truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>Not shy about passionately speaking up, Rexha previously took a stand against editing her bikini photo to fit societal expectations of women&#8217;s bodies. &#8220;I probably should of photoshopped my stomach and made it look flat. I probably should of photoshopped my legs to make them look thinner. I probably should of made myself look taller and Smoothed my legs. But I didn&#8217;t,&#8221; she captioned the picture back in May. &#8220;Society can really f&#8211;k with you. Here is what a real woman looks like on Instagram without photoshop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One year older, keep that wisdom coming, Bebe!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1064185\/bebe-rexha-slams-male-music-exec-who-said-i-am-too-old-to-be-sexy?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Baron\/REX\/Shutterstock Bebe Rexha is on a mission for her next birthday.&nbsp; As the star famously sings, &#8220;I&#8217;m done with the drinking, I&#8217;m done with the smoking,&nbsp;I&#8217;m done with the playing, I&#8217;m done with the joking&#8221;\u2014and from the sound of it, she&#8217;s done with the gender stereotypes and ageism in Hollywood.&nbsp; The star spoke up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 10:38:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}