{"id":236440,"date":"2025-10-24T08:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/236440\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:07:09","slug":"demi-lovatos-ninth-album-its-not-that-deep-goes-for-a-frolic-on-the-dancefloor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/236440\/","title":{"rendered":"Demi Lovato’s ninth album, ‘It’s Not That Deep’, goes for a frolic on the dancefloor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t She\u2019s lived a rollercoaster ride of a life, rampantly exploring sexuality<\/a>, drink and drugs amid chaos, abuse and serious mental health calamities, and she\u2019s overcome the worst of it.<\/p>\n

Alongside all that, unlike most of her Disney child star peers, she\u2019s maintained a successful career, both as a film and TV actor, and as a singer who, for well over a decade-and-a-half, has consistently taken her albums Top 10 in the UK and US. On her last album, she \u201cwent rock\u201d (Slash is a pal) but her latest, her ninth, is an unabashed dance-pop affair, full of dancefloor lust.<\/p>\n

It’s Not That Deep is co-written and produced by Zhone, who\u2019s worked with Zara Larsson, Kesha and Troye Zivan, and has input from Leland who\u2019s in-house songwriter for RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race. Put those two references together, and you\u2019ll have a good idea what these 11 tracks sound like. Another pertinent comparison would be Charli XCX. This is very much post-Brat pop, especially Euro-pumpin\u2019 bangers such as \u201cFrequency\u201d and the single \u201cKiss\u201d.<\/p>\n

The lyrics throughout, as the album\u2019s title genially suggests, don\u2019t attempt to go beyond fun and flirty frolics: \u201cI kiss for fun, it\u2019s fun to kiss, I use my tongue like this\u201d, \u201cI just wanna feel your hands all over me, right where they wanna be\u201d, \u201cWhat if we touch a little bit\u2026 undress a little bit\u201d, and so on. Most of this action, it\u2019s implied, is taking place in a club, although there are slower interludes of Year Eight-level love-pining such as \u201cBefore I Knew You\u201d and \u201cLet You Go\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Not That Deep is well-rendered four-to-the-floor froth that, should you play it loudly, will turn your room into the local cheesy-but-bangin\u2019 LGBT club.<\/p>\n

Below: Watch the video for “Kiss” by Demi Lovato<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She\u2019s lived a rollercoaster ride of a life, rampantly exploring sexuality, drink and drugs amid chaos, abuse and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-236440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}