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" Seventeen: Even though you&amp;#039;ve said you and Niall Horan are friends, he called you his &amp;quot;dream girl.&amp;quot; So, what&amp;#039;s really going on between you guys? Demi Lovato: I think Niall is super, super sweet and we&amp;#039;ve become good friends. I get what it&amp;#039;s like to be in the spotlight since I&amp;#039;ve grown up in it. I want to introduce all the One Direction guys to the United States, but especially Niall because he hasn&amp;#039;t been here that much. I want to make sure he \u2014 or any of them really, I just don&amp;#039;t know the other guys as well \u2014 has someone to hang out with in the States. He&amp;#039;s really sweet and it&amp;#039;s always flattering when a guy says he has a crush on you. But, I&amp;#039;m in a place right now where I&amp;#039;m not dating. I&amp;#039;ve sworn off dating for a long time. You never know what the future holds of course, but for now I am an independent woman and proud of it! 17: Are you and Niall going to hang out when he&amp;#039;s in the States for the MTV Music Video Awards next month? DL: Yeah, I would love to! I&amp;#039;m just so busy because I&amp;#039;m still performing shows on the weekends, but hopefully I&amp;#039;ll have time. 17: You are such a style star! Are there any fashion trends you are loving right now? DL: Right now, I love colored denim shorts and vintage denim shorts with studs on them. I&amp;#039;m also really loving having blue hair!  17: As a former Seventeen editor, you talked a lot about developing confidence. As an X-Factor judge, how does confidence play into a person&amp;#039;s performance? DL: I can definitely tell which contestants have confidence and which ones don&amp;#039;t. To be a great performer, you have to be able to captivate an audience and that takes confidence. Anyone we put through and who made it to boot camp had confidence \u2014 it really shows in their stage presence. The season premiere is September 12 on Fox and is really exciting, so everyone should watch! 17: You recently got the chance to help a teen develop more confidence and live out her dream. What was that like? DL: I partnerned with Acuvue and was able to mentor someone for a day and help her achieve her dream of becoming a singer. I took her backstage at one of my concerts and gave her a vocal lesson. The first day, she was a little nervous, but as time went on, she became a lot more comfortable. It was great to see her open up like that. (Click here to watch a video of Demi and her mentee!) Joe Jonas and Tyler Blackburn are also Acuvue mentors! Read their interviews (click here for Joe&amp;#039;s and here for Tyler&amp;#039;s) to see what they shared with Seventeen about their experience! Watch Demi host season two of The X-Factor, premiering September 12, 2012 on Fox. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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