By James Patrick Herman If you’ve ever listened to Demi Lovato’s “I Love Me” and felt a pulse of pain during the chorus — when the singer belts, “Oh, why do I compare myself to everyone? / And I always got my finger on the self destruct” — you were likely experiencing some of what songwriter and producer Oak Felder, Variety‘s May Hitmaker of the Month, went through in creating it. “To be honest with you, it was a painful process for me specifically: I started working on the idea for that song the week that I found out she had overdosed,” Felder says of Lovato’s July 2018 hospitalization following six years of sobriety.
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