Demi Lovato is strongly encouraging fans to stop using the word "aliens" when referring to extraterrestrials.
The former Disney Star's new Peacock show, Unidentified with Demi Lovato, sees the singer, their sister, Dallas, and their skeptical friend, Matthew Montogomery, go on the hunt for alien life.
Over the course of four episodes, the trio tries to find out more about possible extraterrestrial life through investigating alleged eyewitnesses, looking into top-secret government records, and even meeting individuals who claim to have been abducted by UFOs.
Speaking about the term "aliens", Demi believes it's an offensive word that needs to be scrapped.
"I think that we have to stop calling them aliens because aliens is a derogatory term for anything. That's why I like to call them ETs," they told Pedestrian TV.
The term "aliens" has been one of hot debate in recent years, as many have deemed it derogatory to use toward illegal immigrants.
What's more, Lovato said that they're particularly irked by misconceptions that extraterrestrials are "harmful or that they’ll come and take over the planet."
"I really think that if there was anything out there that would want to do that to us, it would have happened by now," they added.
Elsewhere in the discussion, Lovato expanded on their idea that humans are likely safe from harm when it comes to aliens.
"I think that if there were beings that could harm us, we would have been gone a long time ago," they said, per People.
"I also think that if there are civilizations that are of consciousness in other dimensions, which has given them the technology to be able to travel through space, I think that they are looking for nothing but peaceful encounters and interactions because like I said, if they wanted us gone, we would have been gone a long time ago."
"What if they’re waiting for us?" Lovato later asked. "What if that’s what they’re waiting on?"
The show involves interviewing alien "abductees," poring over government reports, and going to UFO "hot spots" where eyewitnesses have reported strange activity in the sky.
"When I say make contact, I don’t mean like touching fingers with an ET," the singer said. "What I mean by making contact is just by putting the intention out into the universe that you will see something from another world."
Lovato says in a trailer for the show that they had a "crazy experience" at Joshua Tree National Park in California in which they saw a bright light "that kind of moved in these weird ways that a plane wouldn’t move."
"What if extraterrestrials aren’t traveling light years to visit us?" Lovato wonders in the trailer. "What if they’re already here, waiting for us to reach out?"
Lovato believes that humans are not alone in the universe, adding: "I am totally OK with people thinking that I have lost my marbles, but I have seen some things in the sky that I cannot explain."
