The proverbial in-patient program in question is The Khia Asylum, named perhaps unfairly after the rapper Khia, whose 2003 hit "My Neck, My Back (Lick It)" peaked just outside top 40 but lives on in infamy via this piece of pop terminology, used to describe any whiff of commercial under-performance. Since pop fans started using the term a couple of years ago, prior residents like Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX and Zara Larsson have all graduated from perceived flopdom, thus breaking out of the asylum. Could Bebe Rexha be next? Earlier this year, you posted that video of you running on the treadmill, joking about trying to exit the Khia Asylum. Do you feel like you've now broken out? I'm the type of person who just likes to create music. I'm such a Virgo – I'm trying to celebrate that the album went number one on the dance chart, but I'm the type of person who is like, "Oh my god, I could still write better songs. I could do more." More, more, more. Every day, I don't wake up being like, "Did I break out of The Khia Asylum?" I'm doing my thing. Once I hit a stride, I'll know and it will feel good, but I still feel like I'm in the building stages of what I'm trying to build. https://www.papermag.com/bebe-rexha-cover-story