![]() Where does the song “29,” which touches on an age gap in a previous relationship, fit into the album arc? ![]() You might think it’s about getting high, but it’s about finding a high that's better than any other high I've ever felt. The beginning of the album is honoring my anger, then it goes into being sexually empowered-songs like “City of Angels” and “Bones”-and then it goes into love songs, like ‘Wasted.’ I wanted to make a song where you hear the title, and you think it's going to be about something else With ‘Wasted,’ I wanted to write a song about being wasted off of love. Let’s talk about the song “Wasted.” You sing about “getting wasted on you.” What’s the story behind the lyrics? I’ve learned that over the past year, and from just getting older and going into my 30s. You have a better understanding of yourself. I think that I have a healthy relationship with anger, because I’m able to honor it without letting it control me or send me into a rage like I did when I was younger. In order to be spiritually balanced, you can’t ignore the negative feelings that you have, because then you’re just pretending and living with this facade that everything’s okay all the time. There’s a healthy amount of angst when it comes to understanding your trauma and honoring it-honoring your anger. When you get older, you start to realize where your trauma comes from. I also write, ‘I met God just for a minute, sat in his house, took a look around and saw I didn't fit in.’ That song kicked off the album, and from there I ended up writing ‘Holy Fvck.’ It’s Matthew 5:30: ‘If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off-it's better to lose one part of your body than your entire body to hell.’ I have my own sex toy, so it’s no secret that I am very sexually empowered. There’s a song called ‘Heaven’ that I wrote, and it’s actually based on a Bible verse about masturbation. There was also a kind of sexual oppression that I felt came from the church. Being queer, I definitely felt like I was misunderstood. I grew up in the church as a Christian, and I had some anger towards it. There wasn’t a specific approach that I had in mind when it came to the album, where I was like, ‘Oh, I want this to have religious undertones.’ It just came out in the writing process. But I left it up to the creative process of what came out while I was making the album.Īs evidenced by the title, HOLY FVCK**, there are a lot of nods to religion on this album. I wanted it to go harder than my first and second album. There wasn’t an intentional sound that I had-I just know that I wanted it to be harder. (On “Heaven,” for one, she sings, “If pleasure is wrong, cast me out like a sinner, I found myself with my two little fingers.”) The angsty tracks navigate themes of relationships, religion, and sex with a newfound candor for Lovato. On the album, Lovato aims to free herself of both musical and aesthetic expectations that have been placed on her-and for once, chooses to be unapologetic about doing so. “I wanted to go back to my roots,” says Lovato of the new sound. It marks a return to Lovato’s earlier work, when she burst onto the scene in 2008 with her rock-pop album, Don’t Forget, and starred in the tween film Camp Rock with the Jonas Brothers. The rock sound on Lovato’s HOLY FVCK may be a dramatic switch-up compared to her recent dance-pop albums, but it’s not exactly new territory for the singer. And it’s one that’s much rawer-and more real. “Wearing the leotards on stage, and trying to fit the mold of what other people wanted from me.” Having previously dominated charts with songs like “Cool For The Summer” and “Confident,” the singer is clearly ready for her next chapter. “I was referring to the hyper-feminine pop star that I used to be,” Lovato tells Vogue of the song. ![]() ![]() Paired with her new musical sound, a fusion of rock and metal, it’s a clear message: Lovato is done being your bubblegum pop star. “Would you like me better if I was still her?” “Is this what you’d all prefer?” Lovato sings with grit. On “Eat Me”-one of the early tracks on Demi Lovato’s eighth studio album, HOLY FVCK, releasing tomorrow-the singer follows up her punchy guitar riffs with two rhetorical questions. ![]()
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