Friday, 11 September 2020
The new song “OK Not To Be OK” by Demi Lovato and Marshmello is finally here!The dynamic duo dropped their collab, as well as the music video, on Thursday (September 10), which was also World Suicide Prevention Day.Towards the end of the video, there’s was some information and resources for Hope For The Day, a non-profit movement empowering the conversation on proactive suicide prevention and mental health education.“I think it’s just such an important subject. I think a lot of people, about negative feelings and negative thoughts that are affecting them, are kind of scared to bring it up, scared to talk about it,” Marshmello told Apple Music about releasing the song on World Suicide Prevention Day.“When in reality, they’re scared because maybe the person won’t relate or the person won’t understand, when in reality most of the time the person that you could bring it up to, will most likely have felt like this or will understand or can relate as well. So I think it’s very important to talk about it,” he added.He also opened up about how the collab came about, and how it was years in the making.
“I met Demi, I think four years ago. I actually played a party or something for her a while back and before I went on. It was at a hotel in LA, and I went upstairs and met her before and all that stuff,” he said. “And so we’ve known each other since then. So this collaboration has because we would always say, ‘Hi,’ at award shows and all that, so this collaboration has kind of been just in the works, I would say since we met about four years ago.”