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  1. Nov 13, 2021
    3
    This album is a little bit underwhelming and boring. The songs are incohesive also.
  2. Aug 21, 2022
    3
    Aburrídisimo. No contiene ninguna canción que sea inolvidable. Más bien se convierte en algo interminable de escuchar, tanto que solo deseas que sea la última canción.
  3. Jul 22, 2021
    3
    This album begins with the grating track "Anyone", which sets the tone for the rest of the album: if you don't like it, you're not going to like the rest of it either.
  4. Apr 2, 2021
    2
    Here comes Demi again trying her best. But she fails again. I get it she’s been through some tough times we all have but her milking this overdoes is sick. The only song on this album worth a listen is the one with Ariana and even that one is so repetitive. Noah Cyrus sounds good on her feature but still trash.
  5. Apr 2, 2021
    2
    I liked the collabs on this album. However, her solo songs are weak sonically and the album sounds lost and not cohesive. I hope she learns from this album and grows artistically as she is a talented vocalist.
  6. Apr 2, 2021
    2
    lyrically well done but lacks variety as the majority of the tracks sound very similar and recall the same story over and over again.
  7. Apr 4, 2021
    1
    Demi's work follows a vicious cycle. How can you sell an intimate and personal job with 13 producers doing her job?And none of the songs were written entirely by her. It is poor, desperate and disheartening to hear a scream
  8. Apr 2, 2021
    1
    Mixing intimate ballads with upbeat club tracks, Dancing with the Devil… The Art of Starting Over is the perfect contemporary pop artefact.
  9. Apr 2, 2021
    1
    Lyrically brilliant. Sonically boring. Not an album I would listen to more than once. Wish her the best though.
  10. Apr 4, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Don't feel an innovative job, it seems like something that's been heard before apart it's like the beat of previous songs that have hit worldwide, from or this for more but didn't look like this time. Expand
  11. Apr 2, 2021
    1
    this after tmylm is very disappointing, i expected much more srry demi but you know
  12. Apr 10, 2021
    1
    such a trash album positions is so much better. so boring redundant and basic.
  13. Apr 2, 2021
    1
    Basic lyrics and generic songs with a little bit of decent production to cover up the mess. It feels like I’m listening to a slightly more mature Disney Channel movie soundtrack. Nothing groundbreaking or daring, like it always is with miss Lovato.
  14. Apr 9, 2021
    1
    That was awful I am sorry for her ,her voice isn’t good at all
  15. Apr 9, 2021
    1
    someone has to warn her that no one can take more overcoming songs. this album is boring and no one cares
  16. Aug 23, 2022
    1
    Para mí, música con la capacidad de influenciar mis sentimientos es buena música. Música que me hace sentir.
  17. Aug 23, 2022
    1
    bunch of noise, blame her for the decadency of music, please quit and make a favor to the industry
  18. Aug 23, 2022
    1
    The opening three tracks are almost an EP in their own right, before a quick reset. Semi title track ‘The Art Of Starting Over’ begins anew, a straight forward bop that gets to the root of Demi’s recovery – her natural talent, her ear for pop magic, affording room for personal renewal.
  19. Aug 23, 2022
    1
    Wow! Lovato transcends his pain and bad habits from the past in happy and well-produced songs. Transforming pain into pure art. The art of starting over, starting over as an artist and finally finding the best of herself. Very proud of this album. Totally outside the comfort zone,
  20. Aug 23, 2022
    1
    pobresilla la serie sta muy desgarradora la vdd no pueo creer todo lo que le ha pasado y a susfanaticps ya por favor dejenla vivir empaz por favor dejenla escapar de su sotano ya que sea libre
  21. Aug 23, 2022
    1
    Esto es arte puro, el crecimiento y la mezcla de estilos en este álbum es totalmente increíble, es una pena por los swifties y selenators, cegados por una vida miserable... En fin, es un excelente álbum, en dónde podemos sentir la tragedia pero también el resurgimiento de una artista nueva.
  22. Aug 23, 2022
    1
    One of her very best albuns, imo. The sound is very different from her previous works which surprised me in the best way possible! So glad she's sharing her story with us once again!
  23. Aug 23, 2022
    1
    y el proposito cual fue? siempre llamando la atencion romantizando lo que le pasa, no hay nada que admirarle a esta mujer, definitivamente hay que sacarla del plató
  24. Apr 2, 2021
    0
    This is an absolute masterpiece and I am absolutely in love with it! She completely snapped!
  25. Apr 2, 2021
    0
    Cuando todo se basa en una MENTIRA, nada tiene significado

    Muy mal flopvato, desesperada
  26. Apr 3, 2021
    0
    Lovato has truly overstayed her welcome, at least in terms of putting out albums that move you. The vim and vigor which so characterized her early work is largely absent. It almost feels as if she's going through the motions - it's corporatized. I wish she's returned to that stripped down, essentially progression that she used to write in her early days.
  27. Apr 8, 2021
    0
    really generic lyrics over really tired and generic production, this kind of gives me a cringe feeling the lyrics are so poor.
  28. Apr 3, 2021
    0
    Unfortunately, there's nothing new here. Even though the whole behind this album, Demi still releases the same songs.
  29. Nov 20, 2021
    0
    dancing with the devil... the art of starting over was the album I listened to the most this year. I still listen to a lot of it every day, it's such a good and complete album, demi lovato's best work so far. I'm proud to be a fan of someone as talented as demi is musically.
  30. Apr 7, 2021
    0
    How did she go from the excellence of TMYLM to... something so underwhelming? I really wanted to like this but I'm disappointed. Besides MHLN, which is a masterpiece, everything is lacklustre. TMYLM > HWGA > Unbroken > DWTD > Demi > Don't Forget
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Apr 15, 2021
    60
    Lovato's frankness is disarming, forcing a listener to reckon with the depths of the singer's distinction, yet the album works best when it veers toward lighter territory, letting the slick R&B rhythms and sugared hooks carry Lovato's emoting.
  2. Apr 8, 2021
    80
    Dancing With the Devil… The Art of Starting Over is Demi Lovato like we have never heard before. She is sassy and carefree while serious about her identity and personhood in a way she has been itching to be for years.
  3. Apr 8, 2021
    80
    The opening three tracks are almost an EP in their own right, before a quick reset. Semi title track ‘The Art Of Starting Over’ begins anew, a straight forward bop that gets to the root of Demi’s recovery – her natural talent, her ear for pop magic, affording room for personal renewal.