{"id":500762,"date":"2026-02-26T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500762\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:12:10","slug":"hilary-duff-fires-back-at-critics-over-provocative-roommates-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500762\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff fires back at critics over provocative &#8216;Roommates&#8217; lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/hilary-duff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hilary Duff<\/a> fired back at critics who took issue with provocative lyrics in her latest song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Duff&#8217;s new song, &#8220;Roommates,&#8221; featured a lyric about porn and masturbation, shocking &#8220;Lizzie McGuire&#8221; star&#8217;s fans. The former Disney Channel star said she was surprised by some of the reactions to the headline-making lyric, adding that the song was always intended to push buttons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that probably my initial reaction was like, &#8216;Oh, they just haven&#8217;t, like, evolved yet.&#8217; And I don&#8217;t care at all,&#8221; Duff said during an appearance on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NTzvAnm3PmU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Call Her Daddy.<\/a>&#8221; &#8220;One of the craziest comments that I saw was like, &#8216;And do you do that in front of your children?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I was like, \u2018No, what? Are you OK?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hilary-duff-purple-dress.jpg\" alt=\"Hilary Duff posing on a red carpet at the Academy Museum Gala.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Hilary Duff responded to critics of the provacative lyrics on her song &#8220;Roommates.&#8221; (Gilbert Flores\/Variety via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Duff recalled some of the other criticism she received that said, &#8220;Do your kids sing that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I&#8217;m like, I&#8217;m not making music for my kids,&#8221; Duff, 38, told host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/call-her-daddy-podcast-host-alex-cooper-accuses-former-college-soccer-coach-sexual-harassment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alexandra Cooper<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m not making music for 7-year-olds. I&#8217;m making music for myself. I&#8217;m making music for people like myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Duff, the song was &#8220;meant to be polarizing,&#8221; not raunchy as some perceived online. &#8220;Like, it&#8217;s a plea and, like, I think that&#8217;s relatable to women,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hilary-duff-album-release.jpg\" alt=\"Hilary Duff attending her &quot;luck...or something&quot; album celebration event at The Grove.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Hilary Duff attends her &#8220;Luck&#8230;or Something&#8221; album release event Feb. 20. (Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images for ABA)<\/p>\n<p>But Duff explained she took &#8220;lyrical liberties&#8221; when writing the song, which is about becoming &#8220;basically roommates&#8221; with your romantic partner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was important for me that the song felt, like, very polarizing because that&#8217;s how it feels in a moment of a lull in a relationship where you&#8217;re just, like, &#8216;I need to sort this out. I need to get through this. I can&#8217;t keep feeling this way.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Duff worked together with her husband, Matthew Koma, on her sixth studio album, &#8220;Luck\u2026 Or Something.&#8221; Koma, also 38, is known for his songwriting, specifically his songs &#8220;Clarity,&#8221; &#8220;Spectrum&#8221; and &#8220;Find You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn\u2019t interested in making a record with anyone else,&#8221; Duff said during a recent conversation with Dakota Fanning for Interview magazine. &#8220;I was like, &#8216;It has to just be me and you.&#8217; The most honest stuff came from that because he has a front row to my life and everything I\u2019ve experienced, the really difficult times and the really easy good times that made me who I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hilary-duff-matthew-koma-married.jpg\" alt=\"Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma sitting at microphones in a radio studio.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Hilary Duff worked with her husband, Matthew Koma, on her new album, &#8220;Luck\u2026 or Something.&#8221; (Amy Sussman \/ Getty Images for Apple Music)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hilary-duff-lizzie-mcguire.jpg\" alt=\"Hilary Duff arriving at a film premiere at The El Capitan Theater.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Hilary Duff gained fame for her role in the Disney Channel&#8217;s &#8220;Lizzie McGuire.&#8221; (L. Cohen\/WireImage)<\/p>\n<p>Duff, who dominated the early 2000s with various roles on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/disney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Disney Channel.<\/a> notoriously stepped away from the spotlight after her teen stardom.<\/p>\n<p>After releasing her album &#8220;Dignity&#8221; in 2007, Duff didn&#8217;t release another album until her 2015 project, &#8220;Breathe In. Breathe Out.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/movies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The &#8220;Cadet Kelly&#8221; star<\/a> also shifted to indie film and TV work after welcoming her first child in 2012 with ex-husband Mike Comrie.<\/p>\n<p>She welcomed three more children with Koma and has spent the last several years leaning into motherhood before returning to reclaim her pop star status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  Related Article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/hilary-duff-confesses-throwing-her-husbands-phone-during-yearly-drag-out-fight\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_article-content_related-article_1_1_media\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772107930_82_hilary-duff-matthew-koma-married.jpg\" alt=\"Hilary Duff confesses to throwing her husband\u2019s phone during their yearly 'drag-out' fight\" width=\"117\" height=\"66\"\/><\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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