Demi Lovato is gearing up for the release of her ninth studio album. The hit-making singer released her previous LP Holy Fvck in 2022, marking a return to her rock roots from her first two albums more than a decade ago. The following year, she released Revamped, a remix album of her biggest hits reimagined in new rock arrangements. Now, she’s returning to her former pop sound with “Fast,” the lead single off her next project.
“Fast,” like the rest of the new album, was produced by Zhone, who’s previously collaborated with the likes of Kylie Minogue, Kesha, and Troye Sivan. In his view, Lovato is “a master in the studio.” “This album is about letting inhibitions go, and we had so much fun making this music,” he told Rolling Stone. “It really comes across throughout.”
“I’m not so sure I’ve ever felt like this before / I can’t deny, it feels so right / I must confess, already got me so obsessed / Is that alright?” Lovato sings on the track. “I wanna go fast, I wanna go hard / I wanna go anywhere, anywhere you are / No matter how close, no matter how far / I wanna go anywhere, anywhere you are.”
Last year, Lovato made her directorial debut with the documentary Child Star, where she and other celebrities like Drew Barrymore and fellow Disney Channel star Raven-Symoné opened up about the trials and tribulations of growing up in the public eye. When thinking about what’s next for her, she admits she had to look back on past traumas and revisit the pain in order to move forward.
“I oftentimes think about what I want to do with my future, and I don’t know what that looks like yet,” Lovato told Teen Vogue last year. “But I felt like I had to go back to the beginning to figure that out: Why I got into the industry; what was it about it that made me want to do this particular job; what I love about it; and what did I fight for when I thought it was getting stripped away? I have to go back to the beginning in order to figure out what future I want for myself.”