Demi Lovato chronicles the harrowing night of her 2018 overdose in her new video for “Dancing With the Devil.” It appears on Dancing With the Devil…The Art of Starting Over, which was released simultaneously. The album features collaborations with Ariana Grande, Sam Fischer, Saweetie, and Noah Cyrus.
In the clip, which she co-directed with Michael D. Ratner who directed her Dancing With the Devil documentary, the singer recreates the fateful events leading up to her hospitalization and near-fatal overdose.
The visual recreates specific details, from how she was dressed and her hairstyle at the time, to moments from the night. She is seen in a bar, in a room unzipping a bag ostensibly containing drugs, unconscious as she is touched by others, on a gurney and also fighting for her life in a hospital bed hooked to machines as she sings.
The lyrics discuss the temptation she succumbs to as she battles her addiction, where crossing the line from sobriety snowballs out of control.
