How indicative of the rest of the album is the sound of “Skin of My Teeth”? And in doing so, I think it made an anthem for people who struggle with addiction. What happened was, you know, I did go back to treatment, and when I came out, I saw all of these headlines that were like, “Demi leaves treatment again!” And I’m like, “F–k you, I’m going to write a song about that, and I’m putting that headline in the first line.” So it just was owning my narrative - owning the fact that this is my story, and I’m going to tell it, and I don’t need anyone else to tell it. It wasn’t difficult at all for me - I’m so used to being open with my fans, and being vulnerable with my music. Lyrically, I’m struck by the mix of personal vulnerability and this sense of universal determination to survive and thrive. And that always feels really great, when people are like, “Oh, this sounds like your old stuff,” and I’m like, “Yeah!” It just shows me that I have supporters that have been fans for quite a long time. It’s true that a lot of listeners will hear “Skin of My Teeth” as a departure, but it really is a return to where you started. And so I just wanted to go back to what my roots were. And I had fun performing the other stuff onstage, but I also just felt like it didn’t feel authentic to me - like, the wigs and the outfit changes and all of that. I just wanted to take it a little step further this time around, and make an album that felt really fun to perform onstage.
If you go back into my older catalog - listen to my first album, my second album - definitely the pop-rock influence.
I went into this album with the intention of separating myself from the music that I’ve been doing, and embarking on a new journey that was grounded in the roots of where my music started. that was really productive.ĭid you have the sound of the song in mind when you were writing it? I had a week in the studio where we knocked out, like, five songs that ended up making the album - just a week working on it in L.A. I wrote it in the second or third week of January, and was just super-excited about it. When did “Skin of My Teeth” come together? Prior to the single’s release, Lovato chatted with Billboard about its conception, landing upon that opening lyric, launching Holy Fvck during Pride Month and receiving positive signs from the universe. After Lovato worked with producer Warren “Oak” Felder to nail the sound of “Skin of My Teeth,” expect a lot more guitars in the mix on the forthcoming album, as well as a more head-banging vibe when Lovato takes the project on the road in North America and South America this fall. 19 – one day before Lovato’s 30th birthday – on Island Records. The sonic and lyrical urgency of the single tees up Holy Fvck, Lovato’s eighth studio album, due out Aug. The song’s bridge finds Lovato admitting above drum wallops, “I’m just trying to keep my head above water,” followed immediately by the declaration, “I’m your son and I’m your daughter, I’m your mother, I’m your father – I’m just a product of the problem.” It’s her chance to not only participate in the mainstream’s recent pop-punk revival, but to harken back to the guitar-heavy vibrancy of her first two albums, 2008’s Don’t Forget and 2009’s Here We Go Again, released before 2011’s more R&B-influenced Unbroken delivered Lovato as a radio-friendly pop star.Īnd while Dancing with the Devil – Lovato’s first album since their harrowing 2018 overdose – addressed their journey towards recovery, “Skin of My Teeth” represents an even more unflinching look at addiction and the searing frustration that it can cause, from both a general and personal perspective. Post-funeral, then, “Skin of My Teeth” is Lovato’s riotous wake.
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In January, the superstar held a “funeral” for their pop music, officially starting a fresh professional chapter following last year’s sprawling, A-list collaborations-heavy album Dancing With the Devil… The Art of Starting Over. The couplet, and the razor-wire guitar riff around it, serve as an abrupt introduction into Lovato’s new era. “Demi leaves rehab again,” Demi Lovato begins new single “Skin of My Teeth.” “When is this s-t gonna end?”
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