Demi Lovato’s meme twin, Poot Lovato, has finally seen the light of day. On Thursday, to celebrate Halloween – and one week of her new album It’s Not That Deep – Lovato shared a series of silly photos and videos dressed as the infamous photoshopped “twin” she once joked would be hidden from the public forever.
“Happy Halloween and happy one week of intd!!!” she wrote on Instagram, referring to her new album’s acronym, before adding: “[I’ve] been so locked in this era thought I’d let pootvato out.”
In the photos, Lovato poses like the overexposed viral character that emerged from a photoshopped, unflattering picture of Demi Lovato during a 2014 event. The original meme shows an altered version of Lovato’s face with what appears to be a strange buzzcut-combover hairdo. Fans joked at the time that it was Lovato’s twin sister, and Lovato clarified: “She was locked in a basement her whole life… This picture was taken the first time she went outside. Her name is Poot.”
In her Halloween posts as Poot on Thursday, Lovato’s meme twin tries to escape from a garage and gives a “house tour” of the basement where she supposedly lives – all soundtracked by Sabrina Carpenter’s “House Tour.”
When Poot Lovato first popped up, Lovato wasn’t as in on the joke, writing on Twitter at the time, “cool to see a shitty angle turn into a meme that circula
Demi Lovato Jokes About Keeping “Poot” Locked in the Basement Following Halloween Post
Demi Lovato playfully addressed fan speculation about a mysterious “Poot” following a recent Halloween-themed post. Lovato shared a lip-sync video on social media responding to a request to “let Poot out of the basement,” stating, “What an offer, let me sleep on it though,” and adding in the caption, “And I’m never letting her out.”
the post followed a series of images from Lovato’s INTD (It’s Not That Deep) album release week,including behind-the-scenes photos and videos from her One Night Only show in Hollywood last Saturday.
In a more heartfelt post, Lovato expressed gratitude for the positive reception of her album.”Thank you for embracing this album and having so much fun with it, I am so grateful. Every version of myself exists in this project,” she wrote on Instagram.She continued, explaining that she felt she had “honored every era by giving [her] current self this space to realy play and create from a place of pure joy, while honoring that I still like to get a little bit deep.”
Lovato is preparing for her It’s Not That Deep arena tour, set to begin next year with Adéla as the opening act. Rolling Stone praised the album, awarding it four stars and highlighting its “playful synths, club-ready energy, and free-flowing sounds.”
Sources:
* https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/demi-lovato-its-not-that-deep-tour-1235454732/
* https://www.instagram.com/p/DQc4bh4ElA7/?img_index=18&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D