Miami. Demi Lovato is not the first nor will she be the last artist to dive into the darkest to make her art, but she is being a pioneer in transforming social media and YouTube into a confessional in the search for connection and mental health .
The American artist of Mexican origin proved it this week, when he revealed the saddest and most honest of his failed engagement with the actor Max Ehrich, With whom he spent months in quarantine in 2020.
“I fooled myself, because I was the safest and most expected. Obviously, I wanted him deeply, but there was something inside me that said, ‘I have to prove to the world that I’m okay.’, Said the artist in an interview that placed her once again in the main Twitter trends.
Feeling much more “empowered” by “her truth,” Lovato explained that breaking the engagement with Ehrich allowed him to begin the “real” path in which he now finds himself. and in which he has presented himself as a “pansexual” and survivor of a much-discussed drug overdose in 2018.
In his documentary “Dancing with the Devil”, which can be seen on YouTube from March 23 and is part of his new album, Lovato took off the mantle of silence with which his family and team covered everything the issue of overdose.
“I was left with brain damage and I’m still suffering from the effects. I can’t handle it because my vision has blind spots. It took me two months to be able to read a book, because my vision was very blurred. Being able to do it was a moment of triumph “, he expresses in the video.
Although the 28-year-old artist has grown up in the public eye after jumping to fame as the companion to “Barney,” the children’s show starring a purple dinosaur, and then as a Disney star, his Confessions have included rape by her boyfriend and that marked the beginning of her sex life at age 15.
And the drug dealer who sold her the substances for which she nearly died in 2018 “took advantage” of her condition to propose to her.
Still, Lovato says he learned to see the positive side and explained that the incident and everything it took led to a review of his diagnosis of bipolar disorder. “I have ADHD,” he explained in reference to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
In addition to his posts on the networks, statements to the press and YouTube, the artist famous for Disney movies like “Camp Rock” and songs like “Sorry Not Sorry,” has dumped his traumas, “shit.” and Truth on their new album “Dancing with The Devil: The Art of Starting Over”.
The audiovisual delivery of the star is being completed with the release of shocking music videos to accompany the songs. The first, with 11 million views in less than a week on YouTube, is the song that gave the project its name and shows a sophisticated version of its first days in the hospital.
The rest are expected to be just as descriptive, as Lovato has made it clear that airing his miseries has given him strength.
This is what he says when he says, “When I look back, in my music I see that before I was more hesitant to be as open as I am today, I feel that in some of my new songs I have just taken out the vulnerability.”