One house in Los Angeles is having a very loud 2026. Demi Lovato released It's Not That Deep (Unless You Want It To Be) in April, expanding her ninth album from 11 to 19 tracks behind the dance-floor single Low Rise Jeans, while her world tour runs from Orlando in April to a September 16 close in São Paulo. And the songwriter she married in May 2025 is one of this wiki's own: Jutes.
The dance-pop pivot paid off
It's Not That Deep, released last October, was Lovato's deliberate swerve from the rock-leaning records of her recent era into full dance-pop, and the deluxe is the sound of a bet that worked: eight new songs added mid-tour, singles stacking, and a routing that runs the Americas for five months. Ninth albums do not usually get victory-lap deluxes. This one earned it.
The Jutes angle
Readers know Jutes as the Kars, Ontario farm kid who rebuilt himself from a Capitol pop-punk deal into an independent breakthrough with Sleepyhead, then into a Position Music signing with a Juno nomination. But his other resume is as an outside writer with credits for Demi Lovato herself, among others, work that predates and threads through the marriage. The couple's creative households now span her arena pop and his raspy alt-rock, two catalogs growing in parallel under one roof.
She expanded a hit album mid-tour. He carried a Juno nomination into it. One address.
The original bet, for the record
The deluxe only exists because the October original overdelivered. It's Not That Deep arrived October 24 as Lovato's ninth album and a clean break into dance-pop after years of rock-leaning records, spawning three singles in Fast, Here All Night and Kiss before the expansion added eight more tracks with Zhone's Low Rise Jeans out front. Ninth albums are where legacy acts coast. This one re-entered the conversation aggressively enough to justify a two-continent tour, and the songwriting circle around the household, Jutes' credits included, is part of how the machine keeps producing.
The wider read
Music-industry marriages usually orbit one career. This one runs two active ones simultaneously, and 2026 is the proof year: her biggest tour of the decade, his November single It Takes Two still working, and a songwriting partnership that gives each project an in-house collaborator most artists pay for. The Lovato-Lutes household is quietly one of pop's more productive small businesses.