"Met Him Last Night" | ||||
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Single by Demi Lovato featuring Ariana Grande | ||||
from the album Dancing with the Devil ... the Art of Starting Over | ||||
Released | April 13, 2021 | |||
Recorded | 2021 | |||
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Length | 3:24 | |||
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"Met Him Last Night" on YouTube |
"Met Him Last Night" is a song by American singer Demi Lovato featuring American singer Ariana Grande. The song was originally released on April 2,2021,as the ninth track on Lovato's seventh studio album Dancing with the Devil... the Art of Starting Over . It was later serviced to US contemporary hit radio by Island Records on April 13,2021,as the album's fourth and final single. "Met Him Last Night" was written by Grande alongside Albert Stanaj,Tommy Brown,and Courageous Xavier "Xavi" Herrera,and was produced by Brown and Xavi,with vocal production by Mitch Allan. At the 64th Annual Grammy Awards,the Dave Audé remix of the song was nominated for Best Remixed Recording.
After Demi Lovato played Ariana Grande some songs from her then-forthcoming album in 2019,the latter began to write "Met Him Last Night" specifically with Lovato's story in mind;the former said:"She knew about the story behind it and everything,and she's a close friend of mine,so she knew my story pretty well". [3] Originally,Grande did not want to appear on the song herself,with Lovato later convincing her:"I was like 'I feel like the world would love to hear us together,like we should do that'". [4] She expressed her excitement about working with Grande in an interview with People . [5]
At the end of March 2021,Lovato revealed the featured artists for her seventh studio album, Dancing with the Devil... the Art of Starting Over ,by posting snippets of the collaborations on her social media accounts,including the song with Grande. [6] In an interview with Paper Magazine ,she confirmed the title of the track,"Met Him Last Night". [7] The singer also stated that it was a late addition to the album,having been recorded in the three weeks prior to its release. [8]
Lovato stated the song is "best representative" of a period in her life discussed in the documentary series Demi Lovato:Dancing with the Devil ,which involves "the downfalls of recovery" and that "sometimes you slip up",presumably referencing a slip-up had after a "week-long intensive trauma retreat" due to calling up her drug dealer in hopes of trying to "rewrite his choice of violating me". [9] [10] The song is a follow-up to Lovato's prior single "Dancing with the Devil",as "Met Him Last Night" features the "Devil" as the seductive title character and antagonist that Lovato and Grande sing about meeting up with. [11] [12]
Following the release of Dancing with the Devil... the Art of Starting Over,"Met Him Last Night" was sent to contemporary hit radio in the United States on April 13,2021,as the fourth and final single from the album. [13] To further promotion,a remix of the song produced by Dave Audé was released on May 12,2021. It was later nominated at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards in the category of Best Remixed Recording,Non-Classical. [14]
"Met Him Last Night" was described by Billboard as "a dark,twisted fantasy about chilling with the devil and finding out that,well,he's kind of a funny,chill dude who might be relationship material",containing the lyrics "I've seen the devil,yeah,I met him last night/ One conversation,now he's spendin' the night," which an "urgent" Lovato sings "in a couplet that clearly has a much deeper meaning about flirting with disaster." [15]
Music critics labeled "Met Him Last Night" as the most anticipated track from Dancing with the Devil... the Art of Starting Over. [16] [17] In reviews of the album,"Met Him Last Night" was referred to by NME as a "dark and atmospheric electro bop", [1] and Neil McCormick from The Daily Telegraph highlighted the song as not only "a flirty duet in which the seductive title character is the Devil" that "succeeds in both acknowledging the dangers of the high life and making fun of them at the same time," but that it reflects the way in which Lovato's album as an entirety pleasurably "succeeds in grappling with serious matters without jettisoning any of the lightness,melodiousness,nimble rhythms and sugar-high hooks of her pop genre." [18]
Recording and management
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Dancing with the Devil... the Art of Starting Over. [19]
Chart (2021) | Peak position |
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Australia (ARIA) [20] | 52 |
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders) [21] | 33 |
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [22] | 48 |
Global 200 ( Billboard ) [23] | 29 |
Greece International (IFPI) [24] | 88 |
Hungary (Single Top 40) [25] | 37 |
Ireland (IRMA) [26] | 32 |
Lithuania (AGATA) [27] | 66 |
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [28] | 3 |
Norway (VG-lista) [29] | 39 |
Portugal (AFP) [30] | 42 |
Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100) [31] | 80 |
Sweden Heatseeker (Sverigetopplistan) [32] | 5 |
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [33] | 88 |
UK Singles (OCC) [34] | 44 |
US Billboard Hot 100 [35] | 61 |
US Adult Top 40 ( Billboard ) [36] | 32 |
US Mainstream Top 40 ( Billboard ) [37] | 37 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [38] | Platinum | 40,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Version | Label(s) | Ref. |
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Various | April 2,2021 | Original | Island | [39] | |
United States | April 13,2021 | Contemporary hit radio |
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Various | May 12,2021 |
| Dave Audé remix | Island | [40] |
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