"Fast" is a song by the American singerDemi Lovato. It was released throughIsland Records on August 1, 2025, as the lead single from her ninth studio albumIt's Not That Deep (2025). She wrote the track with Jake Torrey,Chloe Angelides, and its producer, Kevin "Zhone" Hickey. Thediva house andelectropop song was marketed as Lovato's return topop music, with reviews noting it contains elements ofEDM anddance-pop.
Daniel Sachon directed the accompanying music video for "Fast", which premiered alongside the single. The video follows Lovato walking through city streets while chaotic situations occur around her, and includes references tointernet memes featuring the singer. As part of the song's promotion, she hosted a fan event atthe Bigg Chill, a frozen yogurt shop Lovato had criticized years prior as part of apublic controversy. "Fast" received a nomination forSong of Summer at the2025 MTV Video Music Awards.
I tend to write from the place I'm in at the moment. Lately, it's been amazing — I've been writing nothing but love songs and sexy songs because I'm in a really good place. It feels good to be able to create from that space.
"Fast" marks a return topop after Lovato's 2022punk-rock albumHoly Fvck. The song was first teased through video snippets on social media, highlighting itsEDM-influenced sound. Its release suggests a musical shift back toward the style of her earlier pop songs such as "Cool for the Summer" and "Sorry Not Sorry". Prior to the release ofHoly Fvck, Lovato symbolically declared the end of her pop era by posting a photo onInstagram dressed in black with their team, captioned "A funeral for my pop music". The promotion of "Fast" signaled a reemergence of that earlier sound.[3]
Lovato started teasing new music in 2025 with several videos to social media. That July, she wiped herInstagram account and shared promotional pictures captioned with new lyrics.[4][5] An snippet of an unreleased track was published to social media with the title "Fast".[6][7] On July 30, 2025, Lovato hosted a fan event inthe Bigg Chill, afrozen yogurt shop she had criticized as part of apublic controversy in 2021. She also shared videos filmed at the store using a previous viral audio from her apology years prior.[8][9][10]
"Fast" was released on August 1, 2025, throughIsland Records, as the first single from Lovato's ninth studio album,It's Not That Deep (2025).[11][12][13] The single was sent to Italianradio airplay byUniversal Music Group on the same date,[14] and is set to be issued in a7-inch single format on October 31, 2025, with a "Gravagerz remix" as itsB-side.[15] Its initial release was accompanied by a music video that Daniel Sachon directed, which features Lovato walking through city streets while she sings the lyrics and different chaotic situations occur around her, including car explosions and people running around in their underwear.[11][13][16] The singer later passes by a display of television screens projecting severalinternet memes that had featured her, including a clip from the showUnidentified with Demi Lovato (2021) and the fictional characterPoot Lovato.[16][17] At the end of the video, she arrives on a nightclub dance floor.[18]
"Fast" is three minutes and one second long.[19] Sonically, it is adiva house,[11]electronic,[20] andelectropop[21] song withEDM[22][20] anddance-pop elements[18] On "Fast", Lovato sings, "Cuz baby honestly / I just wanna feel your hands all over me (over and over) / Right where they wanna be / Even if it's only for tonight".[23] Writing forUSA Today, Anna Kaufman likened "Fast" with thesynth-pop sound of Lovato's 2015 single "Cool for the Summer".[18]
Rolling Stone writer Tomás Mier described it as a stellar album rollout.[12] Joseph Ine from theMelodic Magazine praised the track as an "exciting return" for Lovato, and thought that the accompanying music video "perfectly captures this new chapter in Demi's career".[24] At the2025 MTV Video Music Awards, "Fast" received a nomination for the social categorySong of Summer, losing to "Just Keep Watching" byTate McRae.[25][26]
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