{"id":143105,"date":"2025-10-24T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143105\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:46:10","slug":"demi-lovato-its-not-that-deep-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143105\/","title":{"rendered":"Demi Lovato – It\u2019s Not That Deep | Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the cover of her ninth studio album, Demi Lovato<\/strong> takes centre-stage in a world that revolves around her, whether the people in her periphery notice or not.\u00a0A kid plays football, grandpas while away their afternoon playing chess, a paparazzo flashes her camera at another off-screen star. Lovato doesn\u2019t seem to mind, because she knows something she didn\u2019t before: It\u2019s Not That Deep.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Executive produced by Zhone<\/strong>, the album skims over casual rendezvouses, massive heartbreaks, and an acceptance of where she is, almost two decades into her career. At just half an hour long, the record skips by in just enough time to take to the dancefloor, take a breath out the side door, and make it back to sweat your stuff to your favourite song: on this album, it\u2019s hard to pick just one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lovato said: \u201cThis album represents an exciting chapter for me which has been filled with joy, freedom and lightness. Creating this album was the most fun I\u2019ve ever had in the studio.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can feel it, too: on \u2018Fast\u2019, the album\u2019s opener, Lovato is back on the breakbeat and there to have fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Here All Night\u2019 is emblematic of what this new era represents: despite being steeled as a heartbreak anthem, it\u2019s as much an ode to the club as it is a letter to anything as little as lost love.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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On \u2018Frequency\u2019, which feels gorgeously indebted to Madonna\u2019s \u2018Erotica\u2019,<\/a><\/strong> Lovato finds somewhere that leaves nowhere to hide, despite its heavy synths. It\u2019s primal, raw, no-holds-barred.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Kiss\u2019, too, is an out-and-out banger that reads like Slayyyter<\/a><\/strong> on truth serum. The \u2018Brat\u2019<\/a><\/strong> comparisons are bound to be inevitable, but Lovato shouldn\u2019t pay it any mind. She\u2019s found something that feels her own here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The last songs, \u2018Before I Knew You\u2019 and \u2018Ghost\u2019, are two that reach the sincerity of Lovato\u2019s early work. The first, a middle-fingered goodbye to the worst kind of boyfriend, is reminiscent of 2013\u2019s \u2018Heart Attack\u2019, while the second works over ways to avoid saying goodbye at all, a sky-wish to be haunted by the man she loves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whether she\u2019s sticking her neck out into newer territory or playing faithful to her roots, one thing\u2019s clear: Lovato\u2019s at her best when it comes easy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Words: Kate Jeffrie<\/strong><\/p>\n

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