Billboard: Demi Lovato, ‘Demi’: Track-By-Track Review

At this point, Demi Lovato’s story of success is well-known and does not need to be further dissected. In 2012, the 20-year-old scored her biggest hit to date with the sumptuously simple “Give Your Heart a Break,” headlined a well-received summer tour to support her 2011 album “Unbroken” and increased her national profile by sitting on “The X Factor” judges panel; Lovato was a musical star to those who didn’t know the details of her prior personal struggles, and many of those who did viewed the singer as a source of inspiration. As anticipation mounted for her next full-length, pop fans didn’t wonder if the album was going to be a success, but whether or not it would bring the singer to the upper echelon of the genre, to a place reserved for vocalists with a deep catalogue of hits and a magnetism that makes them empirically unavoidable…

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