Demi Lovato Recorded “Anyone” Four Days Before Her Overdose (UPDATE)

UPDATE 1-25-20: Demi Lovato confirmed that she’ll debut “Anyone” during her Grammys performance. She just sat down with Beats 1’s Zane Lowe, where she opened up about her new song, which she recorded four days before her overdose.

Looking back on how the song prefaced her hospitalization, she feels the lyrics took on a different meaning. “At the time, when I was recording it, I almost listen back and hear these lyrics as a cry for help,” she said. “You kind of listen back to it and you kind of think, how did nobody listen to this song and think, ‘Let’s help this girl.’” And I even think that I was recording it in a state of mind where I felt like I was OK, but clearly I wasn’t.”

“I just want to go up there and tell my story, and I just have three minutes to do so,” she continued. “So I’m just gonna do the best that I can. It’s only telling a fraction of my story, but it’s a little bit, and it’s enough to show the world where I’ve been.”

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Demi Lovato is making her comeback this year, and she’s slated to perform at the Grammys on January 26. While her setlist is still unknown, TMZ reports that she’ll debut a new song at Music’s Biggest Night that was written four days before her overdose in 2018.

The tabloid notes that the lyrics from the “big ballad style” track will “reflect her state of mind during that time in her life.” Back in July 2018, the pop star was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following the near-fatal experience.

Lovato has been open about her struggles with substance abuse in the past, and she previously touched on her journey to sobriety on “Sober”:

I’m sorry to my future love for the man that left my bed
For making love the way I saved for you inside my head
And I’m sorry for the fans I lost who watched me fall again
I wanna be a role model, but I’m only human

The singer achieved a six-year streak of sobriety in March 2018:

Lovato wrote about the upcoming performance in an Instagram caption: “I told you the next time you’d hear from me I’d be singing 😇😝”

In November, the singer teased new material at the Teen Vogue Summit. “I have new music coming. I didn’t say when—now I’m just teasing you,” she said. “It’s important to remember that I am so cautious this time around of jumping back into things. I’ve really decided to take my time with things… When the time is right, I will put it out there. I am dying to release new music… but everything in due time.”

She’s also scheduled to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl on February 2, and she’ll appear as a guest star on Will & Grace.

Lovato’s last LP, Tell Me You Love Me, came out in 2017.

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