Holy Fvck is the eighth studio album by the American singer Demi Lovato, released on August 19, 2022, through Island Records.

Most of the album was produced by Warren "Oak" Felder, Alex Niceforo, and Keith "Ten4" Sorrells, with additional production from Mitch Allan on three tracks.

Demi Lovato first considered the kind of music she wished to make for her eighth studio album in 2021, following the release of Ain't It Tragic by the American rock band Dead Sara that year.

[3] In the months following this event, Lovato enthusiastically shared various snippets of a more rock sound on her social media, with "crashing guitars, soaring vocals and cutting lyrics".

[5] On Instagram stories in April 2022, the singer confirmed her upcoming album to reflect on "the artist's ups and downs during her personal journey".

[8] Lovato finally confirmed the lead single would be titled "Skin of My Teeth" on May 23, 2022, indirectly through a short tweet that was responding to fan speculation.

[10] Lovato announced the album with its cover art and release date on June 6, 2022, with a link to her official store where fans could order physical copies of the record.

Lovato also referred to Holy Fvck as her most authentic album to date, and that she felt proud of her previous work but "it didn't make me feel very happy.

[14] "Skin of My Teeth" was compared by NPR to the sound of "Celebrity Skin" by Hole with the vocal affectations of "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga;[17] and was praised by Loudwire for tackling addiction, while describing it as having "an immediate sense of urgency, opening with two snare hits and some chord strumming" after which Lovato begins to sing in a sardonic vocal tone.

[18] Third track and second single "Substance" was described by Emily Zemler of Rolling Stone as a "raucous", "anthemic pop-punk" song,[19] featuring Lovato singing loudly over guitars and drums inspired by the earlier years of punk music.

[21][22] "Eat Me", featuring Royal & the Serpent, is the album's fourth track, and was compared by Beaumont to "Muse's more grinding synth-rock" and "swivels the target from herself to the industry that shackled her to their lucrative expectations.

"Be more predictable, be less political, not too original, keep the tradition but stay individual," she groans, listing A&R notes before kicking back on a power punk chorus: "I know the girl that you adored, she's dead, it's time to fucking mourn… you'll have to eat me as I am.

"[14] USA Today further compared "Eat Me" to the music of Nine Inch Nails, which sees Lovato and Royal & the Serpent "tiptoe in on a creeping goth vibe before the song explodes into a fireball of anger".

[26][27] "Happy Ending" was described by Beaumont as "a rousing slab of grunge pop soul-searching" with Lovato confessing that "I miss my vices", "demons are calling and tearing me to shreds".

[14] The eighth track "Heaven" is an "industrial goth-rock"[16] song which features a "glam drumbeat" and was likened by Hall to "sound[ing] like a mash-up between the Sweet and Megadeth",[25] In an interview with Los Angeles Times, Lovato states that the song's lyrics are "actually based on a Bible verse" further explaining "Matthew 5:30 says, 'If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off; [for] it's better to lose one part of your body than your entire body to hell.'

[28] "Come Together", the album's twelfth track, is a pop rock song which "excellently blends the singer's two most prominent sounds into an explosion of euphoric expression.

A masterclass in using production to your advantage, the song leans back when it needs to in order to let a blast of joyful noise wash over you on the infectious chorus.

"[15] "Dead Friends", the thirteenth track, is a "banging pop punk jam session, filled with fast guitars and plenty of double-time drum patterns";[15] and was said by Lovato in an interview with British Vogue to have originally been "a slower song, but I ended up turning it into a faster one.

[14] George Griffiths of Official Charts Company called it "a dark and dangerous collection of high-throttle pop-punk stompers which contain some really genuine, heartbreaking lyrical revelations.

Mylrea praised "Substance" and the "saucy" "City of Angels" as "cantering pop-punk moments", and Lovato's "powerhouse vocals" which "shine throughout, dripping with emotion and demonstrating impressive gymnastics" and was critical of the "slower, saccharine cuts such as 'Happy Ending', '4 Ever 4 Me' and 'Wasted'" and the length of the album's track list.