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Lovato performed the song live for the first time at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards ceremony, where she sang the song as she played the piano. The Lincoln Project, a group composed mainly of Republicans against Trump, teamed up with Lovato to release an alternative music video that displays a montage of images of people suffering, with shots of people detained at border detention centers, COVID-19 hospitalizations, and Black Lives Matter protests. It features diverse Americans of different genders, races, sexual orientations, and ability groups lip-syncing the song before Lovato appears and performs the final moments of the song. The music video for the song was released on October 14, 2020, and was directed by Director X. We'll be in the streets while you're bunkering down If we fight for what's right, there won't be justice for just some We're in a state of crisis, people are dyin'Ĭommander in Chief, how does it feel to still 'Cause there are people worse off that have suffered enoughįightin' fires with flyers and prayin' for rain

That's been affected and resented every story you've spun If you mess with things selfishly, they're bound to come undone? The singer, who has been outspoken about her political beliefs in the past, announced that the song had been released later that night on October 14, with a post captioned 'I'm calling on all of you, please join me in voting for this years election. The cover of the single also shows Lovato wearing a face mask that reads 'VOTE'. A few days later, on October 13, Lovato began to tease the song by posting a few clips of the upcoming music video to her Instagram page, featuring a young black girl and an older white man mouthing the lyrics.

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The full song had leaked prior to release on October 11, 2020. In the song, Lovato asks, 'Do you even know the truth? / We're in a state of crisis / People are dying / While you line your pockets deep / Commander in Chief / How does it feel / To still be able to breathe?' Moreover, Lovato says that she does not wish to divide the nation further politically with the song, but hopes it instead inspires conversation and increases voter turnout.

In an interview with CNN, Lovato asserts she wrote the song's lyrics to President Trump, specifically calling out his 'mishandling of racial injustice, white supremacy, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the dismantling of LGBTQ rights.' Lovato says the song began with a recurring desire for her to write the President a letter or set up a meeting with him to ask him the questions posed by the song, but that she ultimately decided to write a song instead and release it so that everyone would be able to share the confrontation and demand 'answers' as well.