On Demi Lovato’s sixth album, Tell Me You Love Me, out now, the singer embraces her R&B influences like never before. “I’m really proud of that,” she says, speaking of jams like lead single “Sorry Not Sorry,” which has been bouncing around the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in recent weeks, and the set’s title track. “[Those songs] helped me find the direction that I wanted to accomplish.”
“I was definitely into the Spice Girls. They had just come out with their movie, Spice World, and I was obsessed. I was singing their songs in the mirror and dancing around my room to them.”
“I’ve always wanted to see Aretha Franklin live. I became a fan of hers when I was about 8 years old. My mom passed along [the fandom], and then I explored a little more on my own. My mother always had music on in the house and loved country music, like Martina McBride.”
“I love Eminem. I started getting into him when he did the MTV Video Music Awards performance [in 2000] with all of those copycats standing with him. And then when he did [his 2010 LP] Recovery, I really related to that.”
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