i really like "confident"
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 18 September 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
Cool For The Summer and Confident are great singles but this album is a real slog.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
yeah both this and the selena gomez album were big disappointments. brilliant lead singles, was ready for them to step up and make some really interesting pop albums...instead we get generic, bland titles and incoherent singles-plus-filler
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/fashion/daily/2015/10/27/27-demi-lovato.w529.h793.jpg
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
oh dearie me
in any event, i enjoyed confident even though it's kinda sorta really uneven & idk what she or even her label was thinking having iggy azalea slither onto a song, though the presence of nu-dubstep production would seem to indicate the answer is being notably behind the times on a general cultural level.
the singles are tremendous, liked "stone cold," "yes" and "wildfire" beyond that, rest of it i can take or leave (minus the iggy feature, which is execrable)
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
i read the pieces mocking the iggy feature before i heard it and sort of rolled my eyes at everyone kicking an easy target yet again but then i heard it and my jaw dropped at how terrible it was
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
I really like "Cool for the Summer" except for the "die for each other" line which seems completely out of place.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
xp lol yea, i wouldve given it the benefit of the doubt if it'd been passable (like, i can tolerate her on "problem" bc its not bad enough to undo the song) but...it is not.
i did laugh at her referring to nick young as a king, thats prob the nicest thing anyone's said about him
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
Spencer, having a gay relationship under multople jurisdictions right now is essentially being willing to die for each other. The melodrama is right for the song
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 00:32 (eight years ago) link
Interesting, but in that case, the song title is out of place - who would die for a summer fling?
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 03:49 (eight years ago) link
I like the "die for each other" line because I like think of it as a figure of speech ...even though I know it probably isn't used that way.
― daavid, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 04:10 (eight years ago) link
an overly exaggerated figure of speech, I mean, like bff.
― daavid, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 04:11 (eight years ago) link
"die for each other" is one of the best lines in the song because it brings this manic Spring Breakers aspect of partying in the summer into focus, it gives it an earnest YOLOness, making the memories of our lives having feelings amidst the decadence etc
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 28 October 2015 05:32 (eight years ago) link
no the point is that you can be killed for a summer fling. it's about conveying the inherent and not even slightly exaggerated risk.
and also yeah karl otm
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 09:12 (eight years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link
yes, karl otm. I'm changing my argument to what karl said.
― daavid, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1352662289l/11289919.jpg
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
But you are giving the lyric for this song a lot more credit that it deserves.― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, October 28, 2015 12:30 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
do tell me exactly what the writer told you the intention was! or perhaps demi told you exactly how she interpreted it
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 14:07 (eight years ago) link
― Spencer Chow,
c'mon the whole point of these immersive crushes is that for a few weeks you think you'd die for each other!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link
You guys need to chill. Her artpop could mean anything!
― Cousin Slappy, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
lex, the likelihood that "Die die each other" is about anxiety related to "having a gay relationship under multiple jurisdictions" is only slightly better than "Got a taste for the cherry/I just want to take a bite" being a reference to a severe case of prunusmania.
I'm not trying to discount the resonance this song may have to gay or bisexual listeners. I think it's brave on a number of levels. But I also think karl's theory seems a lot more likely.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
demis twitter game has been pretty good recently
Demi Lovato @ddlovato 13h13 hours agoHow many people can name someone on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list •Can name 1 or more •What's that •Can name all Biebers exes6,599 retweets 10,689 likesReply Retweet 6.6K Like 11K More
― nxd, Friday, 24 June 2016 08:50 (seven years ago) link
demi's new single to be released tomorrow is produced by pop & oak?
The countdown begins #SorryNotSorryMidnight pic.twitter.com/gRPLFtEPtp— Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) July 10, 2017
― dyl, Monday, 10 July 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
i really like this song
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
now payback is a bad bitch
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 November 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
single is great but album is a really harsh listen, "Daddy Issues" is very o_0
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 12 November 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
ok I just tried listening to that for some reason and seriously who though that was a good idea?!
― Simon H., Sunday, 12 November 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
Am I the only I one who is wondering if that’s her on the chorus? Since when does she dig like Patti LaBelle?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 30 November 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
the "I'm sorry" part def is as she sings it live, I think the response is probably a mix of her and backups......
assuming that's the song you mean and not another one
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 December 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
TMZ reporting some upsetting news
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
Oh, no. Hope she pulls through.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
Suspected heroin overdose. Fucking hell.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
fuck :(
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
Update: Sources say Demi Lovato is "okay and stable" following an apparent narcotics overdose on Tuesday morning https://t.co/yc2OrLig0m pic.twitter.com/lolKQkd3uK— billboard (@billboard) July 24, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
terrifying
― dyl, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 04:06 (five years ago) link
This may be the first high-profile naloxone success story - this opioid/opiate antagonist likely saved Demi's life yesterday, and had it been administered in time could have saved Prince and Petty too. It's becoming much easier and cheaper to obtain this emergency drug. If anyone you know is an recreational heroin, fentanyl, or other opioid user, or a pain sufferer using high doses of these drugs including hydrocodone, oxycodone, Dilauded, or similar meds, be sure they and anyone often at home with them has some naloxone and knows how to use it. Some types can only be administered by another person, not the one barely breathing due to an opioid overdose.
― Lee626, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
wow that's very interesting and good to know, thanks.
― evol j, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
I've got a friend living in an Oxford House (which is a sober/halfway house) and they have two boxes of intranasal naloxone on the kitchen counter. every resident of the house receives instruction on how to administer.
It's imperative to get this into the hands of every addict and friends if addicts. Unthinkable how many lives could and should have been saved just in the past few years.
― antisocal (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
Heard her version of Let It Go while out and about today and got really bummed out. Hope she's doing well.
― incarcerated moonfaces (how's life), Sunday, 19 August 2018 00:18 (five years ago) link
funnily enough I heard Cool For The Summer in a bar tonight and it really leapt out at me and made me feel sad about what's happening to her. It's such a great song - her delivery and focus and energy is probably unrivalled in pop right now for me
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 19 August 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
it blows my mind that at ten years old she was in Barney and was releasing albums in her mid teens - it's like, how do you reconcile that kind of fame and pressure with being adolescent?
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 19 August 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
By taking smack
― the article don, Sunday, 19 August 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
nice, only 13 hours to come up w/ that one
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 August 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
don the real article
― alomar lines, Sunday, 19 August 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link