{"id":123457,"date":"2025-11-07T20:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123457\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:07:12","slug":"hilary-duff-fans-declare-queen-of-pop-is-back-as-she","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123457\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff fans declare \u2018queen of pop is back\u2019 as she\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hilary Duff<\/a> has sent fans into a frenzy with the release of her first song in a decade. <\/p>\n

The track \u2014 which features lyrics like, \u201cShe looks \/ like she could be your daughter \/ like me before I got smarter\u201d \u2014 serves as Duff\u2019s reflection on a past relationship<\/a> with a partner who moved on to a younger woman. <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Mature\u2019 speaks to my mature self calling my not so mature self on the phone many years ago, and she\u2019s letting her know we landed softly,\u201d the <\/a>Lizzie McGuire<\/a> star wrote on Instagram. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a brief time with a lover that left me with so many questions\u2026 It felt like a good place to start. How are we feeling\u2026 Mature?\u201d<\/p>\n

Hilary Duff starred alongside Frankie Muniz (left) in the 2003 family action movie \u2018Agent Cody Banks\u2019 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The song, which comes 10 years after the 2015 release of Duff\u2019s most recent album, Breathe In. Breath Out., has already become an earworm for many fans, who have declared: \u201cThe queen of pop is back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it\u2019s about time!\u201d one said on X. \u201cIf anyone can bring back a bit of fun and cheekiness, it\u2019s Hilary. I\u2019ll have that on repeat with a cuppa in hand!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe came back and the song is actually good,\u201d a second praised. \u201cShe\u2019s effortlessly talented.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cITS A FREAKING BOP,\u201d a third agreed, while a fourth found that \u201ca comeback single like this shows her evolution as an artist while maintaining her signature style.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHillary [sic] Duff goes petty with this one I\u2019m here for it,\u201d another applauded. <\/p>\n

\u201cHilary Duff<\/a> you ATE!!\u201d someone else praised, with another adding, \u201c\u2018Mature\u2019 feels like the perfect title for this new era.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duff rose to fame as the star of Disney Channel\u2019s comedy series Lizzie McGuire. During its four-year run from 2001 to 2004, she also starred in a string of family movies, including Disney Channel hits The Lizzie McGuire Movie and Cadet Kelly, as well as feature films Agent Cody Banks and Cheaper by the Dozen. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, she released a handful of albums: Santa Claus Lane (2002), Metamorphosis (2003), Hilary Duff (2004) and Dignity (2007), as well as her latest, Breath In. Breathe Out. (2015).<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking music was a huge risk that I took at such a young age, and it was a huge part of my makeup for the longest time,\u201d Duff said in a new interview with Vogue<\/a>. \u201cIt was hard to step away from it, but I always knew I would come back whenever the timing felt right.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent years, she starred opposite Sutton Foster in TV Land\u2019s seven-season sitcom Younger, and most recently led the short-lived How I Met Your Mother spinoff, How I Met Your Father. <\/p>\n

Hilary Duff and her husband, Matthew Koma, have been married since 2019 (Getty Images for Vanity Fair)<\/p>\n

Last year, she also welcomed her fourth child, daughter Townes, with her husband, singer-songwriter Matthew Koma. The pair, who\u2019ve been married since 2019, share two other daughters: Banks, seven, and Mae, four. Duff shares her oldest child, son Luca, 13, with her ex-husband, Mike Comrie.<\/p>\n

Of her long-awaited return to music, Duff told podcaster Jake Shane, she was \u201cready to fill in the blanks and share with people and connect with them on the level of now.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, it\u2019s taken a lot of twists and turns and ups and downs and all of those things, but I have this crazy connection with fans that I\u2019ve known since I was nine, 10 years old, and I just want to connect with them again,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have gone through a lot of the same things \u2014 whether that\u2019s complicated relationships, anxiety, raising kids, divorces, trying to find yourself in adulthood, family drama,\u201d Duff said. \u201cFinally, I felt safe enough and comfortable in my own family to step outside and open that part of myself up again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff has sent fans into a frenzy with the release of her first song in a decade.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[251,784,156,788,782,157,111,43,785,783,786,139,69,787,255],"class_list":["post-123457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-entertainment","tag-global-news","tag-inkl","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123457","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=123457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}