Mixing intimate ballads with upbeat club tracks, Dancing with the Devil… The Art of Starting Over is the perfect contemporary pop artefact.
As she attempts to shed the weight of her past, Demi Lovato embraces every part of herself and creates some of her most unapologetic music to date on Dancing With the Devil.
An ambitious and hugely revealing journey into pop redemption.
Dancing With the Devil is Lovato’s finest, and most cohesive, album to date, and it doesn’t need a plastered-on smile to prove it.
This may all sound a bit too doomladen to listen to, but Lovato and her collaborators never lose sight of the fact that this is a pop album first and foremost.
Ultimately Dancing with the Devil… The Art of Starting Over delivers on the promise of the first half of its title, and skimps on the second. She’s been through hell, it’s clear. But her music isn’t clear about how she wants to begin again.
“I don’t care if you’ve got a dick and I don’t care if you’ve got a WAP, I just want to love.” - Demi Lovato, 2021
I appreciate what she was trying to do with this album and I commend her for being open, but this album is just unfortunately too long and doesn’t have enough compelling songs to make this anything more than decent for me.
If this album was 10-12 tracks, it still wouldn’t be fantastic but it would be a much better experience, ... read more
Demi Lovato is an artist that has been lost for a very long time, actually since her debut she's been stuck in the same type of writing and production. But maybe this time, for real, she's discovering her own sound. She saw too much, lived too much, she experienced trauma heavily, her voice resonates all of that and yet her music used to reflect only her sorrow without TRUE self reflection.
In 'Dancing With The Devil... The Art of Starting Over' her poetic sense blossomed, apart from some ... read more
This album is pretty grand and I do love an album that is quite full and tells a story and stuff that goes inside the mind. Demi comes out of her cocoon transforming herself into a beautiful butterfly. When you know all the deep dive, all the inside scoop in her story, what she went through, this album makes a whole lot of sense. It's a journey, there's a sensitivity behind every track, starting off real dark and growing into the light and comfort zone. It's a storytelling experience that ... read more
No puedo creer que Demi haya hecho algo como esto, es realmente increíble como transformó el dolor, los vicios, la angustia en esta música tan bella. Me ha hecho sentir demasiado, es un proyecto muy sensato y fiel al retrato que Demi quiere darnos en las dos caras, lidiar con el 'diablo' y empezar desde cero. Las colaboraciones son geniales, la producción es brutal, vocales grandiosos. Un álbum muy digno y que recomiendo.
1 | Anyone 3:47 | 76 |
2 | Dancing With The Devil 4:03 | 82 |
3 | ICU (Madison's Lullabye) 3:14 | 72 |
4 | Intro 0:24 | 61 |
5 | The Art Of Starting Over 2:47 | 77 |
6 | Lonely People 2:40 | 68 |
7 | The Way You Don't Look At Me 2:28 | 73 |
8 | Melon Cake 3:32 | 73 |
9 | Met Him Last Night 3:24 feat. Ariana Grande | 82 |
10 | What Other People Say 3:14 with Sam Fischer | 74 |
11 | Carefully 3:11 | 73 |
12 | The Kind Of Lover I Am 3:09 | 69 |
13 | Easy 3:28 with Noah Cyrus | 79 |
14 | 15 Minutes 2:51 | 65 |
15 | My Girlfriends Are My Boyfriend 3:07 feat. Saweetie | 67 |
16 | California Sober 3:05 | 69 |
17 | Mad World 3:02 | 69 |
18 | Butterfly 2:37 | 68 |
19 | Good Place 3:04 | 69 |
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