Demi Lovato says she’s 'made peace' with her past as new era begins

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Demi Lovato says she’s entering a new era of self-acceptance — one that embraces her past, celebrates her present and doesn’t take itself too seriously.

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00:00I guess I didn't realize that I've done iconic things, and if they are like cringed

00:29to some people, they're fun to me, like the Disney news, they are iconic.

00:36And so it's like, it's a matter of like owning the fact that I've made an impact and claiming

00:45those moments, but also I think it's like making peace with my past.

00:50I haven't had the like, this era for me is like you said celebratory and fun, and I think

00:58this is the first time where I've ever really stepped into this chapter of my life where

01:02I'm like, I've made peace with my journey and now I'm celebrating where I'm at today.

01:08And you know, if that's celebrating memes that have gone viral for, you know, silly reasons,

01:15like I will own those memes because that's a part of making peace with my past.

01:21I used to like, for instance, the Poot meme, when it first happened, I didn't realize it

01:27was photoshopped, I thought it was a bad angle of me.

01:30So I like was really self-conscious about that meme and was like, oh my God, like I can't

01:35believe people are laughing at a bad angle of me.

01:37And then I realized it was photoshopped and I was like, wait, this is actually hilarious.

01:41And even if it was a bad angle of me, why not laugh at it?

01:45You know what I mean?

01:46Life is too short to take yourself too seriously and I'm definitely not doing that anymore.

01:51And, um, so it's about reclaiming, you know, or owning my past and also just like having

01:59fun in the moment.

02:00I think there's something about your thirties too, where you just take a second and you,

02:11and you are able to let go of some of the pressures that you once put on yourself maybe

02:16in your twenties and now I'm 33 and, and I, I'm not taking myself so seriously because

02:23I, I realized there's room for everyone.

02:26It's not about like trying to write the most in depth song or, um, or emotional song, or

02:33it's not about, you know, it's just about like, it's about owning where you're at and just loving

02:42yourself for you.

02:43Well, I think I used to find it easier to write songs that were based off of things that

02:53actually happened.

02:54And so when I stepped into this era, I was like, wait, I can't just write like every song

03:02can't be like super sexy or super happy.

03:05I was like, I have to have some, you know, duality to it.

03:12I think what drives the transformations for me are literally what is inspiring me musically

03:31at the moment.

03:33And so I'm a fan of all genres of music pretty much for the most part.

03:38Um, I, when I was in my rock era, like I was listening to a lot of rock music that was

03:49inspiring me.

03:50And, um, and now going, like I went from, it was actually an interesting journey getting

03:57to this place today, um, sonically where I went into this album thinking I'm going to

04:06make a even harder rock album.

04:08Like I want to go even more rock.

04:09Like, so I started this process and I realized, I was like, there's only so many happy rock

04:18songs that you can write.

04:19Like, I'm in love, I'm feeling empowered and I'm in this like really great place and I don't

04:25know how to write rock songs that are, you know, all sunshine and rainbows and, and there's

04:32only so many of that that you can write.

04:34And so, um, I was like, I need to switch up the genre.

04:38So I tried a couple other genres and, but what was really inspiring me was all the pop

04:44girlies.

04:52Oh my God, there's, I've had so much support in this era and, and in my life and in my career

04:59in general, like I've had so much support.

05:01I'm really, really grateful, um, it's really nice.

05:05I feel like it's so easy for, um, artists to be competitive, but what I found, especially

05:15in this era is like, people just want to help each other and, um, and be supportive of one

05:22another and like, I love seeing other artists build other artists up.

05:31I can always lock back in to where I was when I recorded the song.

05:40Um, and sometimes that's a very emotional place for me.

05:44Sometimes it brings me to tears while I'm on stage, but other times I could sing the song

05:49with a smile.

05:49I think my voice remembers and it kind of like imprints, um, the soulfulness of what

05:56I'm singing.

05:57It kind of like imprints it into what I deliver.

06:01And so I just, if I'm singing skyscraper, I could, I could have a smile on my face, but

06:07you're going to hear the pain in my voice because it was so meaningful to me then.

06:12And it, it still means so much to me now.

06:14It just, I'm singing it from a different place, but it still has that same, um, emotion.

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