Shane asked Duff<\/a>\u00a0if she knew the song was going to be a hit. \u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d she replied. \u201cI don\u2019t even remember recording it.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cSome of the like, being in Italy for Lizzie McGuire (I remember), but then the rest of it filmed in Vancouver,\u201d she continued. \u201cI could barely remember any of that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sorry, what? She doesn\u2019t remember making history? And altering the very fabric of the pop culture spacetime continuum? That song\u2014a masterpiece, if you will\u2014defined the essence of early-aughts girlhood.\u00a0Personally, it\u2019s seared so deep into my memory that hearing the words \u201chey now\u201d triggers instant flashbacks to a sleepover at Keira\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a weird time,\u201d Duff said. \u201cIt technically wasn\u2019t even my song\u2014it was a Lizzie McGuire song.\u201d She added, \u201cActually, when I sing it now, I feel a lot of joy. I just think there was such a separation back then\u2014between me, my music, and Lizzie McGuire.\u201d She did clarify that she does remember loving it while filming the movie.<\/p>\n
In retrospect, it\u2019s difficult to fathom what our childhood idols were actually going through during this time. To us, they were living the dream, but for them, it was a full-time job. Duff was only 13 when she started Lizzie McGuire, juggling fame, identity, and puberty under fluorescent Disney Channel lighting.<\/p>\n
In Duff\u2019s new single \u201cMature,\u201d which is already climbing the charts, she reflects on her younger self, who was once told \u201cyou\u2019re so mature for your age\u201d by a man, now looking back with the wisdom to recognize it as manipulation. I love to see Hilary shed Lizzie McGuire\u2019s butterfly persona but keep all the sparkle, and I couldn\u2019t be more excited for this comeback era.<\/p>\n
And don\u2019t worry\u2014she did tease the idea of singing \u201cWhat Dreams Are Made Of\u201d again. \u201cIf I were to ever go on tour again\u2026 just maybe\u2026 hypothetically,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Dare I say,\u00a0this\u2026is what dreams are made of???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you came of age in the early aughts, then the song \u201cWhat Dreams Are Made Of\u201d is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-124337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124337","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=124337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}