hey demi how are you i'm so good how are you i'm doing great yo dude when did you start talking it's new for me too congratulations on coming back with new music marshmallow uh with demi lovato the perfect voice to make a song like this uh it's okay
not to be okay amazing voice this song is important okay not to be okay you know we are now in a situation with udemy where when you decide to show up and use your voice i feel like purpose is at the forefront of your mind um and that songs matter and melody
matters but the message of what you're trying to say really is standing alongside those things in a big big way right now this song is obviously very important to me and i'm so excited but i think even over the next couple months the music
that i'll be releasing will be very purpose driven and um will definitely i feel like you know what we've kind of missed in this um in this year is music that kind of encapsulates everything that we're going through and so this i feel like is is the is this the
touchstone of what um i'm about to embark on being a a very purpose-driven um journey and especially with my music so you know it's great that i get to start it out light and that i get to start it out in a way where i'm giving hope to people
by saying you know what we're not all doing great right now and that's okay and this song was written uh on a piano i i i'd imagine him it feels like a ballad to me it feels like a a moment that that marshmallow then was able to take and apply his really tasteful
uh feel to and his arrangement to um but what was the environment in which the art that the song was originally she did the song and then i got it and it was just kind of piano and that's about it and so i spent a long time trying to find that exact
moment where i was like okay this is exactly how the song should sound this is how it makes me feel so just kind of like emotion turned to music in a way it kind of provides you that escape that you need right now that that dance break that
you're like you know what i'm not doing okay but i'm just gonna forget it for the second and we just dance and we dance and everything's good there was only one way the song could be you're somebody who has been to some well documented very very dark
very difficult places to come back from i've dealt with depression and suicidal ideation since i was seven years old and that's something that i've been very vocal about i've talked about it for years and um so today i don't take it lightly um i easily
could have been someone that wasn't having this interview today and um and so i'm grateful that i've had the support and the team around me to help me get through this time and what i just want everyone else to know is that you know
i've been there and you can get past it too i think it's just such an important subject um i think a lot of people about negative feelings and negative thoughts are kind of that are affecting them are kind of scared to bring it up scared to talk about it
when in reality they're scared because maybe the person won't relate or the person will understand when in reality most of the time the person that you could bring it up to will most likely has felt like this or will understand or can relate as well so
i think it's very important to talk about it we have to remember that we can't seek permanent solutions for temporary problems because life is it life ebbs and flows and just as happiness can be fleeting sadnesses as well so we have to hold on to that
hope and we have to just keep fighting and powering through and um because when you feel alone you have to remember that there are actually so many people that care about you one last thing before like if anyone is out there struggling right now
just know that sometimes the best thing that you can do is just get through the day so if you're struggling just just know that if i can make it through the day you can make it through the day too like we're in this together and i got you and it will be okay