realize, though, that I am a pop singer. And I’m not gonna try to be too ‘Oh, I’m hardcore, I’m a rock girl.’ No, I’m with the Disney Channel! But bubblegum isn’t really my thing.” She adds, “I didn’t really get to channel any hard rock, but the song I wrote with Robert Schwartzman — I wanted to write it like a song that had a southern rock feel, more rock than some of the songs on my album.” Called “Party,” the song is about “just having a good time.” Don’t Forget was released in September , debuting at number two on the Billboard . Not too shabby for an album largely recorded in ten days!
“I feel a lot of pressure when my voice is tired,” Demi admitted. “Like one day, right before I went on Good Morning America, I completely lost my voice and I had a lot of stage fright actually. But I kinda pulled it off I guess, but my voice was still really tired.” Demi claims she has found the best treatment, which she always keeps backstage. “I have to have potato chips,” she says. “The grease and the oil help your throat.”
wish I could just secretly do vocals, and nobody would know it’s me. I would love to just do a couple of screams. One time I was at soundcheck and I told my musical director that I really want to pig squeal, and he said, ‘Go ahead — I don’t care.’ I didn’t want to, because I could see there were fans nearby, and he said, ‘Just do it.’ And I did, and these fans reacted. They were like, ‘Wow, that’s awesome — I don’t even know what that is, but it’s cool.’” On Demi’s th birthday, she was delighted by a “shout out” video compiled by friends in which people sent their good wishes, including two of her rock idols. “Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx wished me happy birthday,” she says. “And I cried . . . I was like, ‘Oh my gosh this is the coolest thing ever’! It was incredible.”
Metalhead Much to the amusement of rock journalists, Demi — product of Disney’s squeaky-clean teen idol machine — loves heavy metal. “I guess it started in school,” she says. “I started listening to stuff with screaming in it, and then I started [exploring] more metal. MySpace helped me a lot, and friends will tell me about certain bands. And some of the bands I like aren’t necessarily too metal. It’s funny, because the Jonas Brothers dance and play dance music in their dressing room, and I’ll be across the hall, and I just blare metal. People walk by and go,‘Really?’” Demi has said she’d jump at the chance to collaborate with an existing band, such as Underoath, although she might not attach her name to the work. She says, “I
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