Demi Lovato’s ‘Confident’ Album: Review Revue
Demi Lovato‘s new album Confident is officially out today (October 16), and the project confirms that the singer has thrown away her Disney shell and is finding her own voice as a pop artist.
In our review, we gave it a 3 out of 5: “There’s no right or wrong approach, but if you’re going to relaunch as an irreverent pop siren like Teenage Dream-era Katy Perry, you better have an album full of surefire hits to back it up. And Confident is lacking in that department.”
So how do other music industry critics feel about Demi Lovato’s latest musical effort? Read what they had to say down below!
:: The A.V. Club scored it with a “B”: “The ’empowered pop star’ trope is a familiar one by now, but Confident’s subtly modern music, as well as Lovato’s strong and nuanced vocal performances, elevate the record.”
:: While The Guardian also gave it three stars: “Lovato has the voice and the backstory to ensure that her fifth album is often compelling: a teenage stint in rehab may be behind her, but – perversely for an album called Confident – her fragility surfaces more than once.”
:: Billboard are huge fans, giving it a 4.5: “In some ways, Confident updates the adult-contemporary album archetype for tween graduates. Throughout, Lovato’s clarion voice is front and center on midtempo tracks that assert her stronger-than-yesterday bona fides.”
:: NME continued the 3 out of 5 trend: “But despite its complete lack of subtlety, ‘Confident’ hints there’s more to Demi Lovato than her unfortunate recent comments about crockery.”
:: Newsday had this to say: “Lovato’s swaggering search for self is remarkably revealing, as she tackles everything from sexual experimentation to mental health issues to her relationship with her estranged father. And she does it unflinchingly, taking the styles of her contemporaries and twisting them to suit her own messages.”
:: Popcrush called it a “confused audio-filibuster”:” Lovato’s quest to jump more concertedly into her peers’ arena is understandable, but, with Confident, she’s unarmed—her preferred weaponry is missing. So, where she could have done damage, she’s simply hoping to survive long enough for the crowd to notice her skulking between the battlefield’s more interesting duels. ‘Cool for the Summer’ is fun, and deserved more praise than it got. But longtime Lovato fans deserved more than what came next.”
:: Entertainment Weekly pulled a comparison between Demi & Selena: “Taken on their own, Gomez’s and Lovato’s albums aren’t breaking any radical new pop ground. In fact, both could have benefited by taking inspiration from the other. (Fans could easily make their own Selemi Gomato playlist—and the result would be killer.) But what’s most remarkable and exciting about Revival and Confident is how two talented women who may have seemed like carbon copies of each other at first are becoming individual artists. Not unlike Britney and Christina.”
:: Lastly, The Standard said the album is “low on intrigue”: “She’s more at home on the ballads such as Lionheart, while Kingdom Come, an atmospheric prowl featuring Iggy Azalea, all moody changes and trap beats, is a welcome respite from a personality record weirdly lacking in personality.”
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