{"id":122450,"date":"2025-11-07T06:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122450\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:15:09","slug":"allow-hilary-duff-to-reintroduce-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122450\/","title":{"rendered":"Allow Hilary Duff to Reintroduce Herself"},"content":{"rendered":"

That time, it seems, is now: the 38-year-old performer\u2019s new single, \u201cMature,\u201d marks her first release under a recent deal with Atlantic Records. Duff describes the shimmering pop-rock track\u2014a collaboration between Duff, Koma, and Madison Love, who\u2019s written hits for everyone from Lady Gaga to Addison Rae\u2014as \u201ca little conversation that my present self is having with my younger self.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lyrics see Duff reflecting on a past fling with an older lover: \u201cShe looks like she could be your daughter, like me before I got smarter,\u201d she sings on the chorus, \u201cwhen I was flattered to hear you say: You\u2019re so mature for your age, babe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely about a brief experience that I had a long, long time ago,\u201d Duff says, choosing her words carefully. \u201cIt was extremely therapeutic to write about things that a normal conversation doesn\u2019t really give you the opportunity to.\u201d<\/p>\n

The music video for \u201cMature\u201d sees Duff seated in an otherwise empty theater, watching a version of herself perform onstage. She describes it as a \u201cslightly meta\u201d interpretation of the song\u2019s lyrics, which question if she was being her authentic self in past relationships, or just performing a version of what men expected her to be.<\/p>\n

Duff relished the opportunity to slip into \u201cpop star mode\u201d again for the visual. \u201cThere was some muscle memory there,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s part of me that stepped up, grabbed the microphone, and was like, Okay, I know what I\u2019m doing here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Allow<\/p>\n

Photo: Aaron Idelson<\/p>\n

\"Allow<\/p>\n

Photo: Aaron Idelson<\/p>\n

After years of seeing fans beg for music in her Instagram comments, Duff certainly felt the weight of their expectations. Also top of mind was the matter of navigating a pop ecosystem that looks very different from the one she came of age in.<\/p>\n

\u201cMature\u201d proved a perfect point of re-entry, pushing Duff\u2019s sound in new directions while still feeling quintessentially Hilary. The guitar-forward production could just as easily live on an Olivia Rodrigo album as on Metamorphosis, Duff\u2019s early-aughts magnum opus that spawned hits like \u201cSo Yesterday\u201d and \u201cCome Clean.\u201d But Duff is no longer that 16-year old girl running to the recording studio during breaks from Lizzie McGuire\u2014and she wants her new music to reflect that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have the honor and joy of meaning so much to so many people during a very specific time in their lives,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I\u2019m ready to meet them again as the woman I am now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That time, it seems, is now: the 38-year-old performer\u2019s new single, \u201cMature,\u201d marks her first release under a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1247,156,157,111,139,69,1248,21490,5290,1251],"class_list":["post-122450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-_syndication_noshow","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-onecolumn","tag-storytypeinterview","tag-textabovecenterfullbleed","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}