{"id":64579,"date":"2025-01-28T19:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/why-is-demi-lovatos-29-song-trending-on-tiktok-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T19:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:50:18","slug":"why-is-demi-lovatos-29-song-trending-on-tiktok-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/why-is-demi-lovatos-29-song-trending-on-tiktok-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Demi Lovato\u2019s \u201929\u2019 song trending on TikTok? &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Demi Lovato\u2019s \u201929\u2019 song trending on TikTok? INSTAGRAM: DDLOVATODemi Lovato\u2019s new song \u201929\u2019 takes on the subject of significant age gap relationships and has sparked a new trend on TikTok. The singer-songwriter teased the song in a viral video shared on the social media app earlier this month, which featured the lyrics: \u201cFinally 29, funny, just like you were at the time, thought it was a teenage dream, just a fantasy, but was it yours or was it mine? 17, 29.\u201d The video garnered almost 4 million views, and fans speculated the song was about the pop star\u2019s six-year relationship with Wilmer Valderrama. The actor was 29 when he first met 17-year-old Demi, and the two began dating when Demi turned 18, sparking backlash from fans. Demi Lovato\u2019s \u201929\u2019 song prompts new TikTok trend \u201929\u2019 has now emerged on the social media app as an anthem for women and girls to share their experiences of being in \u201cpredatory\u201d relationships with older men. TikTok users who have been in significant age-gap relationships are using Demi\u2019s song to share pictures of themselves and the men who they believe to have taken advantage of them. Content creator nopenotagain2000 was among the first ones to open up about her relationship. She shared a 24-second clip with video text that read: \u201cAnybody else listen to this song and realized you are groomed by older men, but you thought it was cool as a teen that a older man digged you?\u201d She also stated that she started dating a man at 18 who was 29, but by the time she turned 20, he told her that she was \u201cgetting a little old for him.\u201d In another video, user phantasticarmy shared her own TikTok suggesting she was 17 when she met a man who was 39. There are several other videos posted using the song\u2019s chorus lyrics: \u201cThought it was a teenage dream, just a fantasy, but was it yours or was it mine? 17. 29,\u201d and Demi has responded to the women and teenage girls who have shared their experiences. In a recent clip, which has been viewed over a million times, the singer said she\u2019s seen everyone\u2019s stories, and wants them to know that they are loved. As of now, Demi has yet to address the rumor that \u201929\u2019 is about about her on and off relationship with Wilmer, although lyrics in the song heavily imply that it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Demi Lovato\u2019s \u201929\u2019 song trending on TikTok? INSTAGRAM: DDLOVATODemi Lovato\u2019s new song \u201929\u2019 takes on the subject of significant age gap relationships and has sparked a new trend on TikTok. The singer-songwriter teased the song in a viral video shared on the social media app earlier this month, which featured the lyrics: \u201cFinally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}