'I'm not naming them!' Bebe Rexha opens up about her 'fluid' sexuality as she teases a secret romance with a female celebrity
Bebe Rexha is opening up about her 'fluid' sexuality and has teased a secret romance with an unnamed female celebrity in a new interview.
'What I believe about sexuality is this: it's a scale,' Bebe, who is currently dating 37-year-old American filmmaker Keyan Safyari, told GayTimes in an article published on Wednesday.
'Have I gone out with girls before? Yes. Have I dated girls? Yes, I have. And famous ones, but I'm not naming them. Even though people would be living for it — no!' the 31-year-old pop star added.
'I'm not naming them!' Bebe Rexha opens up about her 'fluid' sexuality as she teases a secret romance with a female celebrity (pictured in November last year)
Last year, Bebe defined herself as 'fluid' in a separate interview, saying: 'I just want to find someone I love and who loves me — and I don't care if that's a boy or a girl.'
The US singer caught controversy in 2018, when she collaborated on Rita Ora's song Girls - along with Charli XCX and Cardi B - which was criticized for its 'tone-deaf' depictions of same-sex attraction.
The lyrics to the song appeared to be referencing Rita's bisexuality, with lines including: 'I'm 50-50 and I'm never going to hide it,' while the chorus features the line: 'Red wine, I just want to kiss girls.'
Slammed: Bebe caught controversy in 2018 when she appeared on Rita Ora's single Girls, which dealt with the theme of same-sex romances (the pair pictured in August 2018)
Flop: Some LGBTQ+ critics said the song 'fuels the male gaze while marginalizing the idea of women loving women' and both Rita and Cardi B ended up apologizing for causing offense
In Cardi B's verse, the rapper says, 'I could be your lipstick just for one night,' which many deemed clumsy and flippant on social media.
For Bebe's part, she sings: 'You know I tamed it, and then I named it / I put the lion in the cage and then I laid with / Her all night (all night).'
US singer Hayley Kiyoko, who is a lesbian, slammed the track writing: 'A song like this just fuels the male gaze while marginalizing the idea of women loving women... I don't need to drink wine to kiss girls; I've loved women my entire life.'
Hayley went on to say that the song, which flopped in the pop charts, 'belittles and invalidates the very pure feelings of an entire community.'
While both Cardi B and Rita apologized for any offense caused, Bebe went the other direction, telling Entertainment Weekly at the time: 'My sexual life is nobody's business.'
Fluid: Bebe (pictured above with Doja Cat) has described her sexuality as being 'fluid'
The singer added: 'But we're singing a song about kissing girls and that remains true to who I am. It's the life that I live and it’s honest to me.'
Bebe also denied the notion that the song was trying to court controversy in order to generate a hit for Rita, saying: 'That would be pretty f****d-up. And I'd agree with where the critics are coming from [in that case]. Everybody can have their own opinion.'
'People automatically went for the negative instead of saying: "Well maybe these girls do kiss girls, maybe Bebe is bi." You don't know about my sexual orientation, so I felt disrespected.'
She defended herself further saying, 'I've kissed girls, you know what I mean? And I don't do it because it’s fun or whatever. Do you have to be fully lesbian to put out a song about kissing girls? What if you're bi? Isn’t the point of being supportive of the LGBTQ community that you can love whoever you want and everything is fluid and non-judgmental?'
Girls had been expected to be a major hit for Rita, though it did not end up entering the Billboard Hot 100.
However, the song peaked at number three on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, and reached number 22 in the UK, and number 1 in Belgium and Poland.
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