Demi Lovato: Music explains my struggles

Demi Lovato wants her music 'to do the explaining' about her recent struggles.

The 19-year-old star recently released her third studio album Unbroken. She began working on the record in July 2010, prior to entering a rehab facility for 'emotional and physical issues.'

When she first recorded her current single, Skyscraper, she was battling an eating disorder, which ultimately damaged her vocal cords.

After completing her treatment, Demi rerecorded the single, but ended up choosing the original version on her album. The former Disney star felt inspired to use the rawer version of her music to explain how she was feeling at the time.Read more at Music-News

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Demi Lovato: New music is more adult

Demi Lovato says her new album is 'grown up' but not 'tasteless'.

The 19-year-old star is currently promoting Unbroken. She hopes fans will appreciate her latest musical offering as she feels it reflect her personal journey.

Demi entered a rehab facility for 'emotional and physical issues' last year and felt inspired to use music to explain how she is feeling.

"I think it's grown-up, but it's not too grown-up," she told MTV News. "It's not tasteless. It's growing up with my fans. It's [like] I'm not a kid anymore, but I'm also not a full-grown woman either. So I'm in that in-between stage, trying to figure out where that is. So I'm figuring it out, just like my fans are."

Demi has worked with big names including Timbaland, Missy Elliott, Rock Mafia and Ryan Tedder for her new album. While her previous efforts have had a rock feel, Unbroken has more of an R&B flavour.

Demi insists she feels more comfortable recording R&B songs, admitting she has grown out of making rock music.

"This album is definitely more pop," she explained. "It's definitely more R&B. It's not so pop/rock anymore. I grew up listening to R&B, [and] I guess my rock thing was kind of like a phase. Read more

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Demi Lovato Talks Breakdown: "I Was Dealing With the Pressures to Be Thin"

Demi Lovato has made it no secret she feels "unbroken" following her breakdown earlier this year, but now the Skyscraper starlet is taking to the airwaves, sending a message to young girls facing issues similar to her own.

In a sitdown with Ellen DeGeneres set to air Tuesday, Lovato told the talk show host she wants to make sure young girls don't succumb to the same societal pressures she did—destructive tendencies, she said, that came as a result of idolizing "skinny girls" she saw on the cover of magazines. read More

Demi Lovato: My Breakdown ‘Changed My Life Forever’

People.com: Demi Lovato has come a long way since checking into treatment almost a year ago for "emotional and physical issues."

The Disney star, 19, says she wants to be a "role model."

"There was nobody out there for me to look at and say maybe this is unhealthy," Lovato, who battled eating disorders, says on an episode of the The Ellen DeGeneres Show scheduled to air Tuesday. "I want to be that for a 13-year old girl at home deciding
whether or not to eat dinner, or an 18-year-old girl deciding whether or not to keep her breakfast down."

When the singer-actress finished treatment in January, she wanted to be "outspoken" and freely talk about her "issues" because when she grew up, she "was dealing with the pressures to be thin."

"It was the time in the tabloids when very, very skinny girls were on the cover of every magazine, and that's what I was looking up to," she says. "That's what I had to idolize. I don't want that for young girls to idolize."

Although she calls her life pre-treatment a "mess," she's actually grateful for her "meltdown."

"So many things were going great in my life, and then all of a sudden my personal life just went down at crazy speeds," she says. "I had a negative breakdown and it changed my life forever."

"But if I hadn’t gone into treatment," she continues, "I don't know if, one, I'd even be sitting here today, [or] two, if I'd be alive today."