| Product Summary | | Label: Undermind Records | | UPC: 00050087123567 | | Release Date: 9/23/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 209027392 | | Item#: M4EYR5 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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| | With producer Jon Fields at the helm, Demi teamed up with Jonas Brothers to co-write several of the album's 11 songs. It was a natural collaboration, since Demi counts Nick, Joe and Kevin among her best friends. Their inerrant feel for hook-laden rock helped Demi deliver on her vision. "If I were to write the album by myself it would probably have been a little more serious," she notes. "But I didn't want that. I wanted a fun album."
It's hard to imagine anything more musically fun than full-out rockers like "Get Back" and "Gonna Get Caught," both written by Demi with Jonas Brothers. Says Demi, "So many guys cheat and play games. I thought there needed to be a song about a guy getting caught. Nick said, `Can't it have a happy ending?' But I said, `No, no, no!'"
She balances the uptempo tracks with sweeping ballads like "Two Worlds" and "Believe in Me," the latter featuring a message Demi takes seriously. "Being a teenage girl you deal with insecurity," she says. "People think if you're in the spotlight, you're overly confident, but most of us deal with so much criticism, it gets to us. I'm the type of person who wants to take it with a grain of salt."
Demi's vulnerable side comes through on "Until Your Mine" and the title track, a touching ballad (co-written with Jonas Brothers) about a faltering relationship. She explores similar territory in "On the Line," an uptempo duet she co-wrote and sings with Nick Jonas. "We wanted to write a breakup song," Demi says, "and what better way to say it when you're breaking up over the phone than with the title `On the Line.'"
Demi's inner rocker girl comes roaring back on "Party" and "LA LA Land," a droll take on SoCal life and all its attending artifice. Showing her songwriting skills Demi wrote "Trainwreck" all by herself. She wraps the album with "The Middle," a strikingly mature song about finding balance in love and life.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Demi Lovato (vocals); John Taylor, Nick Jonas, Kevin Jonas II (vocals, guitars); Robert Schwartzman, Joe Jonas, Kara DioGuardi (vocals); Devin Bronson, Jason Reeves (guitar); John Fields (guitars, keyboards, bass guitar, programming); Will Owlsey (guitars); Tommy Barbarella (organ); Jack Lawless, Michael Bland, Dorian Crozier (drums); Ken Chastain (percussion, programming). | | A friend and prot?g? of the Jonas Brothers, with whom she starred in the 2008 Disney Channel original movie CAMP ROCK, 16-year-old actress and singer Demi Lovato is a bit more rock-oriented than fellow Disney graduate Miley Cyrus. Her debut album, DON'T FORGET, is heavy on the power pop guitars and assertive tough-girl lyrics ("Gonna Get Caught"), although songs like the title track and "Believe In Me" are more traditional sugary teen-pop ballads. Lovato wrote several songs herself and in collaboration with members of the Jonas Brothers. | | Considering that Demi Lovato's debut album, Don't Forget, appeared in the fall of 2008, just as Miley Cyrus was inching away from Hannah Montana and into more adult territory, it's hard not to think that Demi isn't being groomed as a replacement for Miley, but a better musical comparison for this Radio Disney queen is the Jonas Brothers. Lovato appeared in the Disney TV movie Rock Camp with the Brothers and toured with them prior to the release of Don't Forget, but the more crucial connection between the two camps is revealed in the album's credits: six of the 11 songs here were co-written by the Jonas Brothers. Given this, it shouldn't come as a great surprise that Demi's music sounds a lot like the Brothers: it's bright, sugary, snappy power pop, fueled by big, fuzzy guitars and big, muscular hooks. Unlike the Brothers' 2008 album, A Little Bit Longer, there is no attempt to sell Demi Lovato to an audience broader than tweens, so this is pure, unapologetic bubblegum, a fizzy rush of singalong hooks occasionally punctuated by a bit of sighing puppy love, which surfaces most strongly on "On the Line," an actual duet with the Jonas Brothers. This is fine fodder for a middle school slow dance, but what's really memorable about Don't Forget is its parade of urgent, insistent guitar pop -- the kind of pop that feels disposable but winds up sticking around longer than its more considered cousins. This kind of trashy fun was missing on A Little Bit Longer, so it's nice to find that it surfaces proudly on Don't Forget. It's pure pop for tween people. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Musical Guests | | Jonas Brothers |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/23/2008 | | Original Release Date : 2008 | | Catalog ID : D000213202 | | Label : Hollywood Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00050087123567 |
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