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Rock
Release Date: 09/23/2008
Considering that
Demi Lovato's debut album
Don't Forget appeared in the fall of 2008, just as
Miley Cyrus was inching away from
Hannah Montana and into more adult territory, it's hard not to think that
Demi isn't being groomed as a replacement for
Miley, but a better musical comparison for this
Radio Disney queen is the
Jonas Brothers.
Lovato appeared in the
Disney TV movie
Rock Camp with the
Brothers and toured with them prior to the release of
Don't Forget, but the more crucial connection between the two camps is revealed in the album's credits: six of the 11 songs here were co-written the
Jonas Brothers. Given this, it shouldn't come as a great surprise that
Demi's music sounds a lot like the
Brothers: it's bright, sugary, snappy power pop, fueled by big, fuzzy guitars and big, muscular hooks. Unlike the
Brothers' 2008 album
A Little Bit Longer, there is no attempt to sell
Demi Lovato to an audience broader than tweens, so this is pure, unapologetic bubblegum, a fizzy rush of singalong hooks occasionally punctuated by a bit of sighing puppy love, which surfaces most strongly on
"On the Line," an actual duet with the
Jonas Brothers. This is fine fodder for a middle school slow dance, but what's really memorable about
Don't Forget is its parade of urgent, insistent guitar pop -- 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. It's pure pop for tween people.
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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