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On sale -50%Their return from darkness out of the way, Demi Lovato returns to the serious business of stardom on Demi, their fourth album and the first positioned as the work of a true adult. Maturity is a bit of a tricky business on Demi, as it finds them copping modern trends without quite shaking off the studio system that fostered them. The latter is problematic, resulting in half-baked exercises in pageantry -- such as the "Skyscraper" rewrite "Nightingale" -- and the occasional cultural dissonance, like when they tell a suitor "you try to take me home like you're DiMaggio," a name not heard in a pop song for almost 25 years. Unfortunately, a lot of these stumbles arrive early in the record, but the back half of Demi shifts into a place where the studio professionalism and blatant cash-ins click. They bring in Cher Lloyd, from the seventh season of the British X-Factor, to rap on the brightly brickwalled kiss-off "Really Don't Care," they skip through the wildly appealing "Something That We're Not" -- quite easily the purest and best piece of pop here -- and deliriously rip off Katy Perry's "Firework" on "Fire Starter," which is shameless in its appropriation of the prior hit's construction and progression, but not its attitude. This second half is strong enough to make some of the earlier, tentative moments seem a bit better -- this is particularly true of "Made in the USA," which cops Miley's "Party in the USA," but it's not quite so fetching an exploitation as "Fire Starter" -- but ultimately, this isn't an album of purpose, it's a collection of moments, and it has just enough good ones to solidify Demi Lovato's comeback.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Jason Evigan, ComposerLyricist - Mitch Allan, ComposerLyricist - Demi Lovato, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Aaron Phillips, ComposerLyricist - Sean Douglas, ComposerLyricist - Nikki Williams, ComposerLyricist - The Suspex, Producer, Unknown, Other
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Jason Evigan, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Demi Lovato, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jonas Jeberg, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Corey Chorus, ComposerLyricist - Blair Perkins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Roy Battle, ComposerLyricist - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Matt Squire, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Demi Lovato, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - BattleRoy, Producer, Unknown, Other - Freddy Wexler, ComposerLyricist - David "DQ" Quinones, Producer, Unknown, Other
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Ryan Tedder, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Demi Lovato, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Noel Zancanella, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Tiffany Vartanyan, ComposerLyricist - Mario Marchetti, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Livvi Franc, ComposerLyricist - Jason Evigan, ComposerLyricist - Mitch Allan, ComposerLyricist - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Demi Lovato, MainArtist - The Suspex, Producer, Unknown, Other
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Matt Radosevich, ComposerLyricist - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - ANNE PREVEN, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Demi Lovato, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Matt Rad, Producer, Unknown, Other - Felicia Barton, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Serban Ghenea, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Emanuel Kiriakou, ComposerLyricist - Demi Lovato, MainArtist - Priscilla Renea, ComposerLyricist - Emanuel “Eman” Kiriakou, Producer, Unknown, Other
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Savan Kotecha, Composer - Carl Falk, Composer, Producer, Unknown, Other - Rami, Producer, Unknown, Other - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Rami Yacoub, Composer - Demi Lovato, Composer, MainArtist - Cher Lloyd, Composer, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Lindy Robbins, ComposerLyricist - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Demi Lovato, MainArtist - Julia Michaels, ComposerLyricist - David "DQ" Quinones, Producer, Unknown, Other - The Suspex, Producer - Jaz Rogers, Producer, Unknown, Other - Jarrad 'Jaz' Rogers, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Savan Kotecha, ComposerLyricist - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Emanuel Kiriakou, ComposerLyricist - Demi Lovato, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Goldstein, ComposerLyricist - Andrew "Goldstein" Goldstein, Producer, Unknown, Other - Emanuel “Eman” Kiriakou, Producer, Unknown, Other
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Jason Evigan, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Ali Tamposi, ComposerLyricist - Demi Lovato, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Stefan Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Jordan Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Marcus Lomax, ComposerLyricist - The Monsters & Strangerz, Producer, Unknown, Other
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Savan Kotecha, ComposerLyricist - Carl Falk, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Rami, Producer, Unknown, Other - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Rami Yacoub, ComposerLyricist - Demi Lovato, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Lindy Robbins, ComposerLyricist - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Emanuel Kiriakou, ComposerLyricist - Demi Lovato, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Andrew "Goldstein" Goldstein, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Emanuel “Eman” Kiriakou, Producer, Unknown, Other
℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
Album review
Their return from darkness out of the way, Demi Lovato returns to the serious business of stardom on Demi, their fourth album and the first positioned as the work of a true adult. Maturity is a bit of a tricky business on Demi, as it finds them copping modern trends without quite shaking off the studio system that fostered them. The latter is problematic, resulting in half-baked exercises in pageantry -- such as the "Skyscraper" rewrite "Nightingale" -- and the occasional cultural dissonance, like when they tell a suitor "you try to take me home like you're DiMaggio," a name not heard in a pop song for almost 25 years. Unfortunately, a lot of these stumbles arrive early in the record, but the back half of Demi shifts into a place where the studio professionalism and blatant cash-ins click. They bring in Cher Lloyd, from the seventh season of the British X-Factor, to rap on the brightly brickwalled kiss-off "Really Don't Care," they skip through the wildly appealing "Something That We're Not" -- quite easily the purest and best piece of pop here -- and deliriously rip off Katy Perry's "Firework" on "Fire Starter," which is shameless in its appropriation of the prior hit's construction and progression, but not its attitude. This second half is strong enough to make some of the earlier, tentative moments seem a bit better -- this is particularly true of "Made in the USA," which cops Miley's "Party in the USA," but it's not quite so fetching an exploitation as "Fire Starter" -- but ultimately, this isn't an album of purpose, it's a collection of moments, and it has just enough good ones to solidify Demi Lovato's comeback.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:47:38
- Main artists: Demi Lovato
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Hollywood Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc. ℗ 2013 Hollywood Records, Inc.
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