''Don't Forget'' is the debut
studio album
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by American singer
Demi Lovato
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. It was released on September 23, 2008, by
Hollywood Records
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. She started working on the album in September 2007, while filming the
Disney Channel
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original movie ''
Camp Rock''. Lovato co-wrote most of the songs with
pop rock
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band
The Jonas Brothers, who produced the album along with record producer
John Fields. Other songwriters include
Kara DioGuardi,
Jason Reeves and
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frontman
Robert Schwartzman. ''Don't Forget'' features primarily a
power pop
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and
rock
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sound, with the lyrical content addressing other adolescent topics.
The album was met with generally positive reviews from critics. Because most of the album was produced by the Jonas Brothers, critics noted distinctive similarities between the artists. ''Don't Forget'' debuted at number two on the
''Billboard'' 200 and was eventually certified gold by the
Recording Industry Association of America
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(RIAA). It has sold over 530,000 copies in the United States. Elsewhere, ''Don't Forget'' reached the top 10 on the
Canadian Albums Chart
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and reached the top 40 in Spain and New Zealand.
"
Get Back
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" was released as the lead single from the album and reached number 43 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100. "
La La Land" was the second single from the album. The song peaked at number 52 in the United States and inside the top 40 in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Background
At 15 years old, Lovato was discovered by
Disney Channel
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during an open call
audition in her hometown of
Dallas
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,
Texas
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and made her debut on the short series ''
As the Bell Rings
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'' in 2007. Lovato subsequently auditioned for a role on the television series ''
Jonas
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'', but did not get the part.
Instead, Lovato received the lead role in the musical film ''
Camp Rock'' after she impressed network executives.
Later, Lovato auditioned for a role on the series ''
Sonny with a Chance'', which Lovato also received.
For ''Camp Rock'', Lovato submitted an audition tape and Gary Marsh,
Disney
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's president of entertainment, asked her to sing.
Lovato recalled that "They kind of put me on the spot. I don't mind it. When people put me on the spot, it's kind of like, 'Hey, I'm not going to get nervous. I'm just going to do what I do.' So I did what I did."
Lovato performed
Christina Aguilera's "
Ain't No Other Man" and
Hollywood Records
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senior vice president Bob Cavallo said that their "jaws just dropped".
The stunt resulted in Lovato receiving the lead role in ''Camp Rock'',
and a record deal with the label in early 2008.
Lovato enlisted her ''Camp Rock'' co-stars the
Jonas Brothers
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to work with her on the album. Lovato said that it was "important" to include them on the album as the singer "would love to have their input anytime".
Lovato felt that she needed help with the writing process as she tended to write songs that were "a little bit more intense and less catchy".
With the album, Lovato wanted to establish herself as a musician; Lovato did not just want to be known as "the girl from ''Camp Rock''".
Lovato explained that her goal was to have fun with the album and that she would include deeper themes on her sophomore effort, stating: "You won't necessarily find a lot of
ark songs
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on the album, but hopefully you will on
the next album. It's my first one, so I wanted it to be fun — stuff you can drive around in your car to and jam out to."
Development
In September 2007, Lovato began writing the songs with the Jonas Brothers, during the filming of ''Camp Rock''.
In early 2008, they co-wrote ten songs in a week during the band's
Look Me in the Eyes Tour.
Lovato said, "I wrote it with them and they helped me. They obviously knew the situation, and then we got on the bus one night — songs just started pouring out."
Before the tour's European leg, they went to the studio where the band co-produced the songs with
John Fields.
Speaking of the experience of co-producing,
Nick Jonas said: "Being able to co-produce was really cool and definitely something we'll be doing a lot more of."
Nick also complimented working with Lovato.
The album was recorded in ten and a half days in Fields' home studio in May 2008.
The inspiration behind "
Get Back
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", a Jonas-penned track, was Lovato not wanting to write a mean or heartbroken song as she felt that there was enough of them. Instead, Lovato wanted to write about getting back together with an old boyfriend.
"It's kind of a fun, upbeat song and it's kind of just fun to sing to the person that I wrote it about", Lovato said of the song.
"
La La Land" was written by Lovato and the Jonas Brothers about "the pressures of fame".
Lovato said, "You get to Hollywood and a lot of times people can try to shape you and mould you into what they want you to be. The song is just about keeping it real and trying to stay yourself when you're out in Hollywood".
"
Don't Forget", was written by Lovato and the Jonas Brothers, the song is about Lovato's experience of falling in love with someone who "just walks away and goes somewhere else".
"I went through an experience like that and wanted to write about it. I got over it, and now a year later I don't have those feelings about that person anymore", Lovato said.
Musical influences for the album included
Paramore
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,
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter, author, and television personality. She rose to fame after winning the first season of ''American Idol'' in 2002, which earned her a record deal with RCA. Her debu ...
,
Christina Aguilera,
Billy Gillman,
Aretha Franklin
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and
Gladys Knight.
The album's final track listing consisted of six songs co-written by the Jonas Brothers, including the duet "On the Line".
The remainder of the album was produced by Fields.
Lovato enlisted
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frontman
Robert Coppola Schwartzman for the track "Party", stating that Lovato put their "musical input and lyrics" into the song and Schwartzman helped Lovato, mainly on the
hook.
Lovato wrote the song "Trainwreck" alone and co-wrote most of the remaining tracks, except for "The Middle", written by Fields,
Kara DioGuardi and
Jason Reeves, and "Until You're Mine", written by Andy Dodd and
Adam Watts.
Composition
The songs of ''Don't Forget'' draws from
power pop
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and
rock
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* Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...
music genres.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of
Allmusic
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wrote that it includes "bright, sugary, snappy power pop, fueled by big, fuzzy guitars and big, muscular
hooks."
As most of the album was co-written and co-produced by the Jonas Brothers, critics noted a similar sound between the artists.
Erlewine noted that, unlike the Jonas Brothers' album ''
A Little Bit Longer'', the album does not attempt to draw an audience broader than the
tween
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demographic, calling it "pure, unapologetic
bubblegum".
The lyrics of the songs deal with teen issues, such as being independent or heartbroken.
Digital Spy
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's Nick Levine wrote that recurring themes include; "staying true to yourself, making up and breaking up,
ndlusting over someone unattainable."
The opening track, "La La Land", is about Lovato feeling "out of place" in Hollywood, demonstrated in the verses, "Who said I can't wear my
Converse with my dress?", and "I'm not a supermodel, I still eat
McDonald's
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."
The next track, "Get Back", is a guitar-driven upbeat 1980s power pop song.
The track speaks of wanting to get back together with an old boyfriend.
"On the Line", a duet with the Jonas Brothers, is a breakup song described as bubblegum with a "fizzy" singalong hook.
"Don't Forget", shows a transition from the album's tween pop into more mature
glam rock.
The song is a midtempo
power ballad
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and features Lovato singing with breathy vocals in a
falsetto
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It is produced by the vibration of the ligamentous ed ...
tone.
According to Joey Guerra of ''
Houston Chronicle
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'', "Trainwreck" and "Gonna Get Caught" include
Beatles
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-esque melodies.
"Trainwreck" contains references to medication.
"Two Worlds Collide" is about a young couple who finds strength from their shared dreams.
The ninth track, "The Middle", is about Lovato being eager to go for a ride with a guy, and willing to "crash" and "fall" just for the thrill of it.
In "Until You're Mine", Lovato is desperate to "fill an emotional vacancy with a boy".
Michael Slezak of ''
Entertainment Weekly
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'' wrote that the closing track, "Believe in Me", includes "platitudes that might as well have been penned by ''
Dora the Explorer''."
Promotion
![Mike, Demi, Kevin & Drew](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Mike%2C_Demi%2C_Kevin_%26_Drew.jpg)
As a part of promotion, Lovato performed tracks from the album on several televised appearances and occasions. Lovato performed "Get Back" for the first time at the
2008 Disney Channel Games on May 3, 2008. Later, Lovato performed the same song in ''
Good Morning America
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'' and ''
The Ellen DeGeneres Show''. Later on January 19, 2009, she performed "Get Back" and "La La Land" at the
Kids' Inaugural: "We Are the Future" event on January 19, 2009, in Washington D.C. at the
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. The event was held to celebrate the inauguration of
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as President of the United States. On April 7, 2009, Lovato performed "La La Land" on the
eighth season of ''
Dancing with the Stars
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''.
The same month, Lovato also performed "Don't Forget" on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show''. On April 25, 2009, Lovato appeared on the final episode of singing competition ''My Camp Rock'', where she presented the award to the winner and performed "La La Land".
Apart from the live performances, Lovato embarked on her first headlining tour Demi Live! Warm Up Tour in 2008 and continued with
Demi Lovato: Live in Concert in 2009, with dates in North America. After days of speculation on blogs and fansites, it was confirmed on April 15, 2009 that
David Archuleta
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would serve as the tour's opening act.
Lovato announced it on her
Myspace blog, where Lovato also wrote, "I'm so excited about headlining my own tour. I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night, and it never gets old."
Singer
Jordan Pruitt
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and girl group
KSM joined on select dates.
Tickets for the tour went on sale on April 25, 2009,
and a special pre-sale offer was made available through Lovato's newly-launched official fan club on April 15. Lovato said of the tour, "I've always dreamed of headlining my own tour, and it's so exciting to have that dream come true. I'm looking forward to seeing all my incredible and supportive fans, and play new music for them."
The tour launched on June 21, 2009 at
XL Center
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in
Hartford,
Connecticut
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and was originally supposed to run forty-seven dates through August. The last three dates were rescheduled for October and November 2009, and three other dates were canceled completely, making it 44 concerts in total. The tour was produced by
AEG Live and sponsored by
AT&T
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and
Choice Hotels.
Singles
"
Get Back
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" was released on August 12, 2008, as the
lead single from the album, through digital distribution. It received positive reviews from critics, who compared it to works by
Tommy Tutone
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and
Greg Kihn.
"Get Back" enjoyed little chart success, reaching number 43 in the United States and 93 in Canada. The song's accompanying music video was directed by
Philip Andelman
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and shows Lovato and her band performing the song on top of an abandoned building with Manhattan Bridge in the background.
The song has sold over 560,000 copies in the United States.
"
La La Land" was released on December 18, 2008, as the second single from the album. The song received positive reviews from critics, who noted it as one of the album's top tracks.
"La La Land" reached number 52 in the United States and cracked the top 40 in Ireland and the United Kingdom. The music video was directed by
Brendan Malloy and Tim Wheeler
and was used to promote Lovato's sitcom ''
Sonny with a Chance'', featuring appearances by her co-stars.
"
Don't Forget" was released in 2009 as the third and final single from the album.
[Sources concerning the single release of "Don't Forget":
*
*] It debuted on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 at number sixty-eight on October 11, 2008 and fell off the chart the following week. On April 4, 2009, it re-entered the chart at number eighty-four. The song steadily ascended the chart for three weeks, before eventually reaching a peak of number forty-one on its fifth week on the chart. It was Lovato's best performing solo song on the chart until "
Here We Go Again" reached number fifteen on August 8, 2009. In Canada, "Don't Forget" debuted on the
Canadian Hot 100
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at number eighty-two on May 2, 2009. The next week, it reached seventy-six, which became its peak. The song also reached number sixty-two on the now defunct
Pop 100 chart.
Critical reception
''Don't Forget'' was met with generally positive reviews from critics.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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of AllMusic wrote a positive review of the album, calling it "pure pop for tween people". He said that the "parade of urgent, insistent guitar pop" is what makes the album memorable, stating, "the kind of pop that feels disposable but winds up sticking around longer than its more considered cousins. This kind of trashy fun was missing on ''A Little Bit Longer,'' so it's nice to find that it surfaces proudly on ''Don't Forget''."
Nick Levine of Digital Spy noted that the album sounds "like a female-fronted Jonas Brothers". Levine was positive regarding Lovato's vocals on the album, saying that "she is certainly a stronger singer than the Jonases. In fact, her full-bodied vocal performances are consistently impressive." He noted that the album's "relatively risqué moments
..come on the tracks that the Jonases have nothing to do with." Levine rated the album three out of five stars and wrote "None of its eleven songs is terrific, but none is terrible either, and Lovato makes a good first impression, coming off like a more innocent, less try-hard
Katy Perry
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."
Joey Guerra of ''Houston Chronicle'' stated that the album "casts Lovato as a female counterpart to the Jonas Brothers". Guerra was mixed regarding Lovato's vocal delivery on the album, calling it "at times too earnest".
He also noted that "her rock tendencies sometimes dwindle into unmelodic misses". He concluded his review, writing, "at 16 years old, Lovato should be allowed some wide-eyed wiggle room. ''Don't Forget'' does its job and leaves her room to grow."
Michael Slezak of ''Entertainment Weekly'' graded the album a C and wrote, "The ''Camp Rock'' star Demi Lovato's debut album might be an indication that today's crop of rocker ''grrrls'' are taking their inspiration from
Ashlee Simpson rather than, say,
Janis Joplin
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."
Commercial performance
''Don't Forget'' debuted at number two on the US
''Billboard'' 200, selling 89,000 copies in its first week of release.
The following week, the album descended to number 16. It spent a total of 45 weeks on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart.
The album was certified
gold
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by the
Recording Industry Association of America
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(RIAA) for sales of over 500,000 copies in the United States.
In Canada, the album debuted at number nine on the
Canadian Albums Chart
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on October 11, 2008,
and spent two weeks on the chart.
On April 26, 2009, ''Don't Forget'' entered the
Spanish Albums Chart
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at number 13. The album spent a total of 23 weeks on the chart and its last appearance was on the issue dated September 27, 2009.
The album debuted at number 34 on the
New Zealand Albums Chart
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on February 23, 2009 and remained at the same position for another week before falling off.
On May 2, 2009, ''Don't Forget'' made its debut at number 192 on the
UK Albums Chart
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.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''Don't Forget''.
Performers and musicians
*
Demi Lovato
Demetria Devonne Lovato ( ; born August 20, 1992), known as Demi Lovato, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. After appearing on the children's television series ''Barney & Friends'' (2002–2004), Lovato rose to prominence for pl ...
– lead vocals, guitar , piano
*
Nick Jonas – lead vocals , guitar , background vocals , keyboard , drums , percussion
*
Joe Jonas
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– lead vocals , background vocals
*
Kevin Jonas – guitar , background vocals
*
John Fields – guitar, bass, keyboard
*
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– guitar , background vocals
*
Will Owsley
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– guitar , background vocals
*
Robert Schwartzman – background vocals
*
Kara DioGuardi – background vocals
*
Devin Bronson – guitar solo
*
Jason Reeves – guitar
*
Tim Pierce – guitar
*Dorian Crozier – drums
*
Jack Lawless
Jack Lawless (born September 20, 1987) is an American musician and singer. He is the drummer for the bands DNCE and Ocean Grove, as well as a live drummer for the Jonas Brothers. He grew up in Middletown Township, New Jersey, part of Monmouth C ...
– drums
*
Michael Bland – drums
*
Ken Chastain
Kenneth Lee Chastain (born October 15, 1964, Hanover, New Hampshire) is a musician, engineer, and producer currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is featured on percussion on Ziggy Marley's ''Love Is My Religion'' album and many other well ...
– percussion
*
Tommy Barbarella
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Barbarella also played on Miley Cyrus's album, '' Breakout''. In 2010, Barbarella be ...
– organ , keyboard
*Stephen Lu – keyboard
Production
*
John Fields – production, programming
*
Jonas Brothers
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– production
*
Chris Lord-Alge – mixing
*Nik Karpin – assistant mixing
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Ted Jensen
Ted Jensen (born September 19, 1954) is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered many recordings, including the Eagles' ''Hotel California'', Green Day's '' American Idiot'' and Norah Jones' ''Come Away with Me''.
Biography
Ted ...
– mastering
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Ken Chastain
Kenneth Lee Chastain (born October 15, 1964, Hanover, New Hampshire) is a musician, engineer, and producer currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is featured on percussion on Ziggy Marley's ''Love Is My Religion'' album and many other well ...
– programming
*Stephen Lu – string arrangement
Design and management
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Jon Lind – A&R
*Cindy Warden – A&R coordination
*Phil McIntyre – management
*Kevin Jonas, Sr. – management
*Eddie De La Garza – management
*Dave Snow – creative director
*Gavin Taylor – art direction, design
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Sheryl Nields – photography
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
Notes
References
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2008 debut albums
Albums produced by John Fields (record producer)
Demi Lovato albums
Hollywood Records albums