MUSIC On Working Together I think Demi and I both sort of looked up about nine to ten months ago and said how amazing both of our individual careers have kind of taken shape in a whole new way … and feeling like we’re both at a place where, if we were ever going to do this again, it was right now ... knowing that we could put a really great show together … On Making New Music I see every challenge as an opportunity to pivot and find something, a new way of Demi Lovato and showing people what you’re all about and Nick Jonas hit giving them some more depth. LA and MTM had a behind-the- scenes pass. MTM and the Music Scene PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEY CARMAN On Taking A Stand My connection with the LGBT[Q] community—I’ve always kind of been an outsider when I lived in texas. I never fit in and I didn’t agree with a lot of the opinions down in the South and when I got out to California, I just saw a whole new world and I thought, I have no idea why this isn’t like the the rest of the United States and the rest of the world, to be honest. So, I’m just standing up for what’s right … On Staying On Making New Music Healthy I wanted to prove to people that I My days now consist wasn’t just a stereotypical Hollywood of doing things that starlet [who] goes to rehab and falls are going to better back into the trap of the things that myself ... So my life got her there. I wanted to make right now consists sure that the music that I made was of gym, AA meetings great … and I sang my heart out. and the studio, so ... I wanted to continue … using my that’s pretty much platform for more things than just my life. And I love it. singing ... That’s what music is for ... getting you through times, but also using it to inspire people. Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas on September 17, 2016 during the "Future Now" tour at The Forum SPECIAL THANKS TO KAREN "RODSKEE" CARMAN AT JOEY CARMAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND MELISSA O'TOOLE AT 42 WEST WINTER 2016-17 | 59 .