Unbroken

Demi Lovato | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 20, 2011)
• Original Release Date: 2011
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hollywood Records
• ASIN: B005EZJ3MW
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (108 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,469 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2011 release, the third album from the actress and performer and Camp Rock star. Unbroken is her first album since leaving rehab and announcing that she was leaving her hit TV show Sonny With A Chance to concentrate on her music career. Features appearances from Missy Elliot, Timbaland and others.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 48 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Fixing a Heart In and Out of the Club October 15, 2011

By Jonathan

Format:Audio CD

Unbroken, Demi Lovato's third studio album, is far different from anything her sophomore record pointed toward. If rehab had never happened, we may have seen a barely-pop, mostly-rock album, much in the vein of John Mayer during it's quiet moments while exploding like an especially exuberant Paramore single during it's uptempo cuts. Instead, Demi's world spiraled to its lowest point, and she was taken out of the spotlight for majority of the time between albums, exiting rehab a different person around the spring of 2011. So what do we make of the first album from a new woman?

If you're hoping Skyscraper was a taste of what this album as whole would sound like, it's not. There are some beautiful moments, but you won't reach them until track five, the beautiful Lightweight. It's the sort of song that could have opened the album, but then that album would have been a beautiful artistic statement, something Demi doesn't seem ready for. Instead, the whole affair begins with thumping Timbaland beats and a Missy Elliot feature; hardly the sort of thing that a girl that has stared self-destruction in the face would be expected to record. It's a brilliant track, no doubt, being one of the best club songs recorded by an artist under legal drinking age this year. However, it is a catalyst to a slew of far inferior club songs, the nadir being the Dev-assisted Who's That Boy. It's completely unnecessary and nearly inappropriate, offensive at its worst. Why record a song like this when you have been through so much in your life, Demi? Why bother trying to get the club hits with an artist that is just beginning their career as it is? No strong argument comes to mind. You're My Only Shorty, with commercially-flailing Iyaz, marks another low point. Fortunately Demi pairs up with Jason DeRulo for the best song he's ever put his name on, and we begin to see a glimmer of hope.

The previously mentioned Lightweight begins the real album, perfectly performed and masterfully stripped, building slowly the feature a sparse array of instrumentation. It's one of the best moments on the album by a country mile, and what follows feels like the sort of record Demi should have kept herself to. Some beat-heavy up-tempo numbers such as the title track and Give Your Heart a Break feel genuine, though it's all eclipsed by the phenomenal Fix a Heart and tragic For the Love of a Daughter. The latter 2/3 of the album is a truly strong affair nonetheless, balancing well-penned dance songs with autobiographical heartache.

Bottom Line: Unbroken is a strong third album. It's just too bad that some poorly-crafted club tracks precede the truly great music.

Recommended Tracks: All Night Long, Lightweight, Fix a Heart, Give Your Heart a Break, For the Love of a Daughter

Skip: Who's That Boy, You're My Only Shorty, Skyscraper (Wizz Dumb Remix)

30 of 37 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars the one & only Demi September 20, 2011

By Brady James

Format:Audio CD

I am a Lovatic through and through! I've been a fan of demi's from the beginning! Don't Forget was full of sass and sadness and Here We Go Again was new and fresh showing off her amazing voice and talented writing. Now here she is ... after such a hard year, ready to shine again! "UNBROKEN" is amazing. Although I feel the album OS split, unevenly, in two. The first four songs have featured artists thy coke off 75% good.
ALL NIGHT LONG sounds like classic Timbaland with a cool guest rap from Missy Elliot Demi sounds a lot like JoJo on this track but its good all about going out with ur Guy.
WHOS THAT BOY features Dev she sounds good with Demi and it's a fun catchy track, very r&b!
YOU'RE MY ONLY SHORTY features Iyaz and is the only track I don't feel at all its just silly.
TOGETHER Demi is joined by Jason Derulo and its a good track bit it seems like the typical 'come together and be happy' song bit their voices do go well together l!
The second, heavier half of the disc is just Demi and therefore where she shines!
LIGHTWEIGHT starts off very GLEE -ISH but it quickly becomes amazing! Its Demi telling a Guy a friend the world that she's fragile and is easily affected, its my favorite track! Her voice soars and near the end u get a small taste of accapella which I loved!
UNBROKEN is very dancy and very freeing! It's about just giving love it all going through without regret! A solid amazing track!
FIX A HEART feels like Demi is letting u into her world around the time things really went bad referencing 'cuts' its bittersweet and beautiful!
HOLD UP is like a literal hold up but instead of a gun and violence its being faced with love and taking it regardless of consequence!
MISTAKE is pretty self-explanatory very catchy and reminiscent of her first album.
GIVE YOUR HEART A BREAK I just love this song its about falling in love from another perspective when u don't want it you simply need a break.
SKYSCRAPER this was a tailormade Demi anthem its about healing and rising above, perfection!
IN REAL LIFE feels like it would have fit just right on her second album verry bluesy and lounge like about an innattentive lover who is perfect only in her dreams!
MY LOVE IS LIKE A STAR comparing love to stars so beautiful always there even when out of sight.
FOR THE LOVE OF A DAUGHTER speaks for itself, heartbreaking!

There's also a remix of SKYSCRAPER which is cool the album is amazing and will be a hit!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I listen to way too much Demi Lovoto... April 6, 2012

By Andrew Ellington VINE™ VOICE

Format:Audio CD

I wrote off Demi Lovoto far before I ever heard a single song from her merely because she was a Disney Channel refuge and she just seemed like the type of artist that was too cure for her own good. Them a few months ago I happened to hear `Skyscraper' while out to dinner and was taken aback by the fact that such a beautifully constructed ballad was the result of this young `troubled' artist.

I dove into this album with reckless abandon and happen to listen to this FAR too much.

Some have already noted that the album does not open on its strongest foot. The seemingly obligatory club tracks that litter the first few tracks on the album are decent enough but nothing spectacular. I happen to like the feel to `You're My Only Shorty', even if the lyrical content is rather simplistic and shortsighted, and the opening `All Night Long' is certainly on the top of its game when you consider the genre it dwells in. As much as I hate Justin Derulo, and I think his contribution to `Together' is minimal, I must admit that it is with that track that this album really picks itself.

`Lightweight' is a beautiful benchmark in the true uplift of this album.

With `Lightweight', Lovoto begins crafted a perfectly balanced album. Even the tracks that don't work completely thrive under the direction she took herself here. `Fix a Heart' is subtle and moving in it's musical simplicity, but Demi's vocals cut through that like a knife. `Skyscraper' is still my favorite track on the album. I'm literally obsessed with this song. It is just so emotionally compacted, exploding with such genuine insight and heartbreak. It rises and falls in all the right places, and while the Wizz Dumb Remix isn't anything universally different, it still serves as a great addition to the album. `For the Love of a Daughter' is another track that shatters emotionally. It really feels ingrained in Demi, a heartbreaking reality that she delivers with emotional fluidity.

Song like `Unbroken' and `Hold Up' handle the pop aspect of the album with sharp delivery, and `Mistake' balances both up-tempo and ballad qualities effortlessly.

Overall, this is a really, really good album. Despite a shaky start (those first three tracks are far from bad, they just don't feel genuine to this artist) this transforms into one of the more well-rounded and beautifully crafted albums I've heard in quite a while.