Demi Lovato
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Demi Lovato is back in pop music mode after returning to the rock sound that accompanied her debut with her 2022 album Holy Fvck. The hit-making singer showed she was ready to dance with the single “Fast” over the summer and the follow-up singles “Here All Night” and “Kiss.” After delving deep into her personal life with her 2021 album Dancing With the Devil… The Art of Starting Over, Lovato has confessed recently that she’s in a much lighter and more celebratory place in her life. Naturally, her recent releases have come to reflect that.
Lovato’s fittingly titled ninth studio album It’s Not That Deep is out now, and like the previously released singles, is packed with club-ready dance tracks and a carefree attitude. On “Frequency,” for example, she sings about being with someone who can keep up with her in every sense, all over a booming Berghain-esque beat. “I found somebody who can match my frequency / You can’t deny all this electric energy / Under the lights, we synchronize, just you and I / No one can f**k up the vibе, f**k up the vibe,” she sings on the track.
Reflecting on the album creation process, Lovato admitted that it was easier for her to make music that made listeners want to have fun rather than drill down on serious subject matter that she couldn’t relate to at this point in her life. “I started this album off in such a different place,” she said on the Just Trish podcast, saying the album is “about chasing the energy and the vibe.” “I’ve taken a new approach with my writing. ‘Here All Night’ is about a breakup, but I didn’t write it about an actual breakup. I made it up. And that was part of this album that was a little challenging for me was, ‘How do I write songs about breakups when I just got married?’”
It’s not all sexy dance tracks, however. Lovato has often been known for her ballads, and while they were put on the backburner in making this project, those heavier tracks haven’t disappeared entirely. On “Before I Knew You,” for example, Lovato slows it down to sing passionately about a relationship from the past and the person she was before then. “Wish I left you right where I found you / Wish I still knew nothing about you / Wish I could go back to the way I was / I liked me more before I knew you,” she croons.
After years of having her personal struggles on display both in the public eye and in her music, Lovato is able to have fun again.
“This era, for me, I’m not taking myself too seriously. I think every other era of my life I’ve written music for the albums to be really cathartic and therapeutic, and it was always just such intense and heavy topics that I was singing about,” she explained on the Chicks in the Office podcast. “I started writing really emotional songs and it just wasn’t resonating because I’m not in that place anymore. I’m not in a bad place in my life where I need to write these really intense, emotional songs. I’m happy, and I’m in love, and It’s Not That Deep anymore.”
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cmalone/2025/10/24/demi-lovato-says-its-not-that-deep-on-new-album/
