Despite young Demi Lovato's precocious résumé—the affiliation with a certain purple dinosaur, the Disney star turn—the spectacle of their maturation into a fantastically efferverscent pop singer was still a sight to behold. Amid the teen-ingenue gloss, Lovato always cut an authentic figure, and when their humongous voice and independent streak flourished, it was all but a fireworks display. The singer raged with Fall Out Boy, explored bi-curiosity (“Cool for the Summer”) and proved they could slam-dunk a vocally gymnastic power ballad with the shiver-inducing “Stone Cold.” After suffering an overdose in 2018, and with their health back in check, Lovato returned to the stage on live TV to debut “Anyone”—a sort of cry for help that they wrote before their nearly fatal experience. Prior to the performance, Lovato told Apple Music's Zane Lowe, "I feel really excited and I'm ready. I feel like I've been waiting for this moment for so long. And it's going to be hard not to go on stage and just word-vomit everything, you know? I just want to go up there and tell my story."