"I felt like I was trying to explain myself so much,’” she says. “It became more about telling the story of myself rather than just creating art that I’m proud of."Lovato's star was on the rise, but privately she was in turmoil. By the time she turned 18, she had spent years dealing with depression and an eating disorder. She self-medicated by using drugs and alcohol to cope with the pressure of an increasingly demanding career.
For most of her life, Lovato had struggled to find a sense of balance. “I’ve always been an all-or-nothing person,” she says, thinking back on her childhood. Her mother, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader who also struggled with an eating disorder, began entering Demi in beauty pageants when she was 7. “My self-esteem was completely damaged from those beauty pageants,” she shared in the first episode of her documentary.
“I’ll always look at child stardom, at what I went through, as something traumatic for me,” she says. “No child should ever be in the limelight. It’s too much pressure. There’s an absence of childhood that you never get to experience. It makes things confusing because you develop problems from that experience, whether it’s addiction or trust issues or financial stress. It follows you into adulthood.
“I’ve been a kind of musical chameleon over the past few years,” Lovato says, referencing the pop and R&B bent of her previous records. “I’ve tried on different things, made music of different genres, but this is the one that clicks for me. This is the one that I love the most. It’s where my future lies.”
That outlook imbued Lovato’s songwriting with a wild, youthful energy that can be heard throughout the album. Lovato sets the tone on opener “Freak,” singing over carnival-like instrumentation, “Get your tickets to the freak show, baby / Step right up to watch the freak go crazy / I am what I am, and what I am is a piece of meat / Take a bite just to watch me bleed.”The song is a world away from the Lovato of Dancing with the Devil.
That eagerness to jump into the genre drew Armstrong and the other members of Dead Sara to work with Lovato. In their sessions, Armstrong says Lovato’s determination was inspiring. Lovato hasn’t confirmed the subject of the song, but she’s proud that it’s helped so many other people come forward with their own stories. “If I could go back in time, even if I wouldn't listen, I would still try to warn my younger self that this isn't right,” she says.
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