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    Pop finds a new spirit: sisterhood

    by Raisa Bruner Jul 02, 2018 5 minutes
    Artists Tove Lo, and Charli XCX, who worked together on a song on the Pop 2 mixtape, are some of collaborative pop’s biggest proponents

    BEBE REXHA’S DINNER PARTY IN Los Angeles wasn’t necessarily meant to be a bold feminist statement. Rexha, a singer-songwriter who has penned songs for Rihanna and Selena Gomez and will release her debut album Expectations on June 22, just wanted to celebrate the female community she had struggled to find for years in an industry dominated by men behind the scenes—and by solo divas in the spotlight. “You never saw Britney [Spears] and Christina [Aguilera] hanging out, or Shakira and Britney, or Jessica Simpson,” Rexha says.

    But at her Women in Harmony dinner, Rexha and her peers—including pop experimentalist Charli XCX, up-and-coming singer Kim Petras and country breakout Kelsea Ballerini—were happy to make new friends and swap phone numbers. The evening testified to a paradigm shift for women in music: this is

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