2020Released
3:05

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Demi Lovato's struggles with mental illness and self-harm have been much publicized. She has been an advocate for mental health for years, and here she teams up with Marshmello for a single about the topic. The pair released the track in partnership with not-for-profit agency Hope for the Day on September 10, 2020, World Suicide Prevention Day, to raise awareness on suicide prevention and help break the stigma.

Lovato sings of her personal experience with mental illness and her feelings of discouragement and isolation. She reminds us it's "OK not to be OK" when feeling down and to embrace the fact that it's human nature to be low sometimes. Lovato wrote in an Instagram post that she penned the song for all those who feel besieged by suicidal thoughts and depression, having battled them herself for much of her life. "I've had many days where I've struggled, but please let this song be an anthem to anyone who needs it right now," she said. "You can get through whatever it is you're going through... I'm here for you always, you are not alone and I love you."

Lovato recorded the song in partnership with Marshmello after the pair kept running into one another at various awards shows and music events. The helmeted DJ told Apple Music's Zane Lowe that when Lovato presented him with the demo, it was just her voice with piano accompaniment. "So then I was like, how can I create an instrumental, instruments, that complement the emotion of the song?" he explained. "So in the beginning it's very slow and stuff, so I made the instrumental very slow. And then during the hook, which is the resolve of the song, I kind of picked it up with the energy and it's kind of like a little dance tune." "I think that was a huge driving force in making the song, as well, as there was only one way the song could be," Marshmello continued about his disco-inflected production. "And so I spent a long time trying to find that exact moment where I was like, "Oh, okay, this is exactly how the song should sound. This is how it makes me feel." So it was just kind of like emotion turned to music in a way."

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Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of OK Not To Be OK - Lost Stories Remix.
EKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
105BPM

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Joytime Collective
© 2020 Joytime Collective, under exclusive license to UMG Recordings, Inc.
Island Records; ℗ 2020 Joytime Collective, under exclusive license to UMG Recordings, Inc.

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