Bebe Rexha Performs at 2023 Billboard Music Awards

Bebe Rexha delivered an electrical efficiency of her and David Guetta‘s songs on the 2023 Billboard Music Awards.

Rexha, 34, and Guetta, 56, introduced their 2022 hit, “I’m Good (Blue)” — which is nominated for High Collaboration, High Billboard International Tune and High Dance/Digital Tune — and its 2023 follow-up, “One in a Million,” to the Sunday, November 19, awards present. “I’m Good (Blue)” notably spent 55 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Scorching Dance/Digital Songs chart, making it the second longest-running No. 1 track within the chart’s historical past after “Happier” by Marshmello and Bastille at 69 weeks.

The efficiency began out with Rexha surrounded by an orchestra as she sang a slowed down model of “I’m Good (Blue).” Because the track transitioned into “One in a Million,” she modified out of her ballgown into darkish leggings with a corset high and glowing boots as she joined dancers on a stage surrounded by followers.

Following the efficiency, Rexha accepted the award for High Dance/Digital Tune. “It’s been such an unimaginable journey … we didn’t suppose it was going to grow to be such a worldwide anthem. We needed to only flip a enjoyable track from again within the day, I simply can’t imagine how far the track has gone,” she gushed whereas thanking her followers.

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Guetta shared his acceptance speech from one other location. “Thanks so, a lot. That is unimaginable,” he mentioned. “Bebe, I like you. Thanks for being part of my life. I feel we deliver luck to one another. I’m so pleased with you. I noticed you beginning as a songwriter to being a famous person proper now.”

Rexha and Guetta wrote “I’m Good (Blue)” in 2017 however initially shelved the observe. Years later, she was shocked to listen to a bootleg model of the recording on social media. “I used to be simply scrolling on TikTok and I heard a woman singing on a remix of ‘Blue,’” she informed Selection in October 2022, referring to Eiffel 65’s 1998 track “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” that impressed her collaboration with Guetta. “I used to be like, ‘Rattling, David and I had an thought to do this again within the day.’”

Rexha solely later realized, after sending the video to her social media supervisor, that she was listening to her personal track. “I’m going to YouTube and it has 30 million views,” she recalled. “I used to be informed it pops up on YouTube yearly, goes viral after which will get pulled down.”

When Rexha found the unreleased track’s reputation, she rerecorded her vocals and inspired Guetta to complete producing it so they might drop the official rendition. Upon its launch, the observe turned a chart-topping hit. “It’s unimaginable,” Guetta mentioned. “It’s refreshing that we live in a time when actually persons are selecting what they need to hearken to.”

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As for the rationale behind the track’s success, Rexha pointed to the familiarity of its sound. “Individuals love nostalgia and the ‘00s are again in full power in the case of style and music,” she defined. “I additionally suppose individuals have been cooped up for 3 years and so they simply need to be pleased and really feel good.”

Guetta, in the meantime, believed the reply was simpler. “Typically if you handle to specific a easy emotion, individuals actually relate to that,” he famous. “Doing one thing easy that doesn’t really feel tacky could be very troublesome. Typically it really works, typically it doesn’t. However this time it labored higher than we may ever think about.”