![]() ![]() During the pandemic, the Friends and Harry Potter reunions cropped up out of nowhere, causing momentary pandemonium before fading into the obscurity of infinite streaming libraries. Whether the pandemic caused this trend, when people starved of new content grew nostalgic in isolation, or whether it’s a product of the digital era when the internet makes content from past decades widely accessible, many artists and corporations have benefitted from this resurgence. The early 2020s have been the era of the reboot. On her eighth album, Holy Fvck, Lovato expresses hope and renewal through a pop-rock sound rife with self-criticism and cynicism at her old ways. The redundancy of the title speaks for itself: it would be a long time before Lovato actually enacted what this book professed. Although Lovato had already undergone treatment for drug abuse and mental health issues before her near-fatal 2018 overdose, her music pre-2018 existed in a parallel universe to the Lovato of the tabloids, despite that she had publicly addressed the tabloid fodder in other ways, such as her 2013 memoir Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year. Before that point, addressing such negativity would have broken the fourth wall of her performance. It served as a landmark in her catalog for its honesty, as Lovato addressed the industry corruption behind the production of her music for the first time. Her previous album, 2021’s Dancing With the Devil…The Art of Starting Over offered a bloated but multi-faceted renewal of her persona. D emi Lovato has reinvented herself many times. ![]()
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