Finally, Extraterrestrials Have Their Champion On Earth: Demi Lovato

There are plenty of celebrities who have offered their thoughts on the existence of aliens but there are few who have actually advocated for their rights and terminology. Bravely, Demi Lovato has taken up that mantle.

Recently, Peacock exclusively premiered the pop singer's new show, Unidentified with Demi Lovato. The show seems to be about Lovato's quest in searching for alien life, though it certainly has an air of a vanity project. In a clip Lovato shared to Twitter, they sing their song "Skyscraper" to a device supposedly tuned to pick up alien life. The device lights up at the end, which someone interprets as a "standing ovation" from aliens listening in.

What’s better than a standing ovation from ETs? I’ll wait… 👽

My new show #UnidentifiedwithDemiLovato is streaming NOW on @peacockTV! ✨ pic.twitter.com/F08x8SiHkI

— Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) September 30, 2021

While this is all relatively odd, it wasn't until Lovato began breaking down the semantics of how humans talk about aliens that people really started taking notice. In an interview with Pedestrian.tv Lovato stated that they don't think we should call aliens "aliens" and instead use more generalized terms like "extraterrestrials."

"I think that we have to stop calling them aliens because aliens is a derogatory term for anything," they said.

While this may be true in the context of human immigrants, many noted that aliens would likely not care about how we referred to them in English.

aliens coming aliens seeing
to earth that demi lovato
is their activist pic.twitter.com/t9m1fXq5Tu

— gaytricia clarkson (@gaytricia_c) October 12, 2021

Did Demi Lovato really said that 'alien' is an offensive term when referring to extraterrestrials?! pic.twitter.com/TlTEwrzHtd

— Wirjil (@Wirjil) October 11, 2021

When Aliens come to earth and spare only Demi Lovato and the Lovatics and they become our new god as we live together in peace and the TMZ hq burns in the background >>> pic.twitter.com/jBCU1tvHQs

— Chazz 🖤 (@demishitchhike2) October 11, 2021

When someone calls you an alien instead of an extra terrestrial #DemiLovato pic.twitter.com/AzrX4vNU6z

— R. M. S. Thornton (@RMSThornton) October 13, 2021

Naturally, this led to a spat with Neil Degrasse Tyson, who weighed in on the matter to note that aliens have "no feelings."

Lovato also said they believes ETs are friendly because if they wanted to do anything bad to Earth they would've done it by now. However, judging by [gestures broadly], who's to say they haven't come to Earth already?