Confident
The title is no idle boast: Demi Lovato’s fifth album is their most assured. Enlisting master craftsmen of 21st-century pop such as Max Martin, Stargate and Ryan Tedder, they\'ve built a collection of sparkling, hip-hop-laced electro-pop that’s impressively punchy in tone and melody. Self-empowerment is the motif as Lovato chews up haters (“Waitin for You”), chases sexual adventure (“Cool for the Summer”) and confronts heartbreak and grief on gale-force ballads “For You” and “Father”.
Watching Demi Lovato slowly but surely wrest control of her career away from the Disney machine has been a joy to behold. After her 2008 debut, the Jonas Brothers-dominated Don’t Forget, each subsequent album has found her pushing more of her personal musical agenda and preferences, whether it was writing songs with…
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Demi Lovato's fifth studio LP is the album she was born to make: a brassy, sleek, dynamic pop production that lets her powerful voice soar to new emotional highs.
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The charismatic former Disney star thinks shouting is the equivalent of showing emotion
The album is dominated by a mix of hip-hop-infused midtempo jams and equally misguided rock-tinged power ballads.
Former Disney star Demi Lovato delivers a starkly autobiographical album full of tremendous pop songs