“I almost made it to heaven / It was closer than you know,”
Demi Lovato sings on her new soul-baring comeback single. If you’ve seen her
docuseries of the same name, which probes into the circumstances surrounding her near-fatal 2018 overdose, you
do know how true that is. As she did on that year’s “
Sober,” Demi chooses to be as real as it gets here, referencing the drug paraphernalia and mental rationalizations that nearly cost her everything. What prevents “Dancing With the Devil” from disappearing into a black hole, though, is her voice — bellowing as ever, rising up with good force and perseverance. —
Patrick Hosken