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i don't think she's developing her own style...she simply follows trends.
i tried giving karma but i have to spread reputation first 
thanks, Juliet! 'Hot For Hilary' - YOU Magazine Article
Hot for Hilary
By STUART HUSBAND Last updated at 17:37pm on 16th March 2007
Hiliary Duff
Though only 19, Hiliary's worth an estimated $25 million
She?s still only 19, but Hilary Duff can put singer, actress, designer and multi-millionaire on her CV. The girl has taken over from troubled Britney and Christina as a role model for adolescent girls ? and she isn?t stopping there?
It's approaching 10am in an unseasonably murky Los Angeles, and Hilary Duff has already been up for hours. 'I never, like, sleep in, no matter how late I've stayed up,' she explains perkily. 'Sometimes I wish I could just slob out but it's not in my nature. I'm a do-er,' she smiles.
That's something of an understatement. The measure of Duff's pro-activity over the past seven years is, to use one of her own pet adjectives, awesome.
She's starred in several TV series, appeared in movies, released million-selling albums, presided over a highly successful fashion line, and started her own kids' charity.
At 19, she's worth an estimated $25 million. But if her name means nothing to you, you're probably the wrong side of 20; Duff is the original US Tween-Teen Queen.
Forget Britney or Jessica Simpson or any of the other pretenders; thanks to her embodiment of the Every-Tween title character in the Disney Channel's hit series Lizzie McGuire, Duff became an icon for the new breed of adolescent girl; media-savvy and street-smart, but still subject to the same old growing pains.
Such is her standing in this peer group that Elizabeth Arden, the makers of Duff's new scent With Love, have proclaimed that she 'personifies the many dimensions of today's modern young women.' What, I ask Duff, does she think they mean by that?
'Um, wow, I've never thought about it that deeply,' she replies, somewhat abashed. 'That's a lot to live up to. I guess they're saying that today's girls want to be independent, they want to have fun, they want to work hard, and they want to be successful. We want it all,' she laughs. 'But we want it on our own terms. And in many ways, I represent all of that.'
Duff isn't being grandiose when she says this; she doesn't do highfalutin. Approachability has been the key to her success.
She's pretty ? with almond eyes and a wide-mouthed smile that can verge on the goofy - but not formidably so; what she lacks in singing ability she makes up for with her on-stage cheer-leading skills; as an actress she's yet to give the Oscar panel any sleepless nights (though she has been nominated for a few worst-actress Razzie awards), but her charm has carried her through the teen wish-fulfilment roles, in the likes of the movie A Cinderella Story, that she's cornered the market in. Even her scent has a fresh, welcoming top-note (of 'succulent mangosteen fruit').
But hang on, though - isn't that a more complex amber note unspooling at the base? Is this the first harbinger of a knottier, more adult Hilary Duff coming through?
'I think it is a reflection of where I'm at, sure,' she says, her naturally breezy Valley Girl mode (there isn't a trace of her native Texas in her accent) subsiding briefly into a more thoughtful tone.
'As I become more mature, my tastes and interests change. Like, so many people have watched me grow up, and I find it really weird when they say to me 'tell us about your new look.' I'm, like, what new look? It's just me growing and getting more confident about my style.'
These manifestations of maturity are also coming through in Duff's music. Her new album - her fourth, unbelievably, despite the fact that she's still not legally old enough to toast the fact with champagne in her native state - modifies her fluffy pop-rock template with some harder-edged dance sounds, as exemplified on the new single With Love (also to be featured in the ad campaign for her scent - a textbook example of what marketing types call synergy), which has a Gwen-Stefani-in-a-rah-rah-skirt feel to it.
'It was cool to experiment with different sounds,' avers Duff, 'because my music was pretty light before, and that's just not where music is right now.
'I've put some electro and some 80s-influenced stuff in there, and I'm also writing more. I mean, I never knew that I could write before, because when I first got my record deal, I was like, I get to sing! That was all I cared about. But now I'm older,' she concludes, incontrovertibly. 'I think it's definitely time to stretch my wings a little more.'
The question is, can Duff loft her audience skywards along with her? Is she concerned about leaving them behind? 'I think I'm at the place now where I'm more into doing what I want,' she says emphatically.
'I worried about the fans for a while, and I think it held me back. I mean, I do care about them, but moms would come up to me and say oh my gosh, you're so confident, we love you, never change.'
She looks incredulous. 'And I would feel like saying that's great, thank you, but if someone told you at 17, 18, whatever, never change? It's a pretty heavy thing to deal with, you know? Who would want to be in their 20s or even 30s and still be behaving like a teenager?
'I think they're not always taking on board that there's a person behind the performer,' she says with just a hint of steeliness.
Hilary Duff might be ready to tinker with the formula, but she - and the team behind Hilary Duff Inc, including her mother and manager, record producer Susan Duff - are too canny to make radical changes; caution is the watchword.
Thus, her clothing line, stuffbyhilaryduff - which made $5 million in its first year at the US retail chain Target, and which is represented in the UK by a trinket line at Claire's Accessories - is looking to introduce a line that's 'a little more high-fashion, for older girls, with a designer-vintage-mix look, more like my own style.'
But Duff, a self-confessed shopaholic - 'I can't go more than about 72 hours without shopping, but I don't think I'm excessive,' says, not entirely convincingly ? that she will continue to oversee the main lines, which, she says happily, are 'mass market - not forward or edgy. I create and design the line,' she emphasises.
'I'm very involved. I draw designs, bring in tear-sheets of colours and styles I like, get involved in everything from how the jeans fit to the size of the buttons.'
Similarly, Duff's latest movie Material Girls grants her a slightly more grown-up role arc. She and her elder sister Haylie - also a singer and actress - play the heirs to a cosmetics fortune (the movie was originally written for the perma-peppy Olsen twins) whose inheritance is derailed by scandal, forcing them to confront the everyday horror of actually having to work for a living; this Simple Life-style reality check leads to Life Lessons Learned and group-hugs all round.
This is presumably the kind of thing that Duff is talking about when she says that she wants to move forward but not to alienate anyone. It's hard to imagine her taking the Britney-Christina scorched earth approach of suddenly sporting leather chaps or not sporting any knickers.
'Know what? That's not really my style,' she says forcefully. 'I'm going to work really hard to stay successful and appeal to as many different people as I can, but I know there's always going to be someone younger and cooler coming after me, just like I took over from the one before me. And if it doesn't work,' she shrugs, 'I guess I'm going to have to think harder and maybe try something else.'
Brave words, but it's hard to see exactly what that 'something else' might be, as Duff has been in what she habitually calls 'the business' virtually all her life.
She was born in Houston in 1987 into a comfortable background; her father, Bob, runs a lucrative chain of convenience stores. She says she got the creative bug from her mother, who would constantly play her daughters Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Carole King and Janis Joplin records - Duff now professes, somewhat incongruously, to be a 'huge fan' of the ragged, ribald, doomed Joplin - and she was all of six years old when she decided to follow the trail her sister Haylie was already blazing out of amateur ballet companies and into acting auditions.
'It wasn't that we wanted to be famous,' she stresses. 'I mean, we were, like, from Texas? We didn't even know what that meant? It was just that my sister wanted to act and she was my role model, and still is. And we were obsessed. I don't know how people can say that kids don't know what they want; we knew exactly which direction we wanted to go in.'
Duff's mother Susan decided to ship both girls out to Los Angeles and chaperone them on the audition circuit; not, Duff insists, in a pushy-parent kind of way - 'she is so not like that' - but to help the pair fulfil their dreams.
'When we came out to California, everyone back at home was making a big joke out of us,' says Duff. 'They would ask what we were working on and why we weren't superstars. It was tough at first. My mom was like, we'll go home tomorrow if you don't want to be here any more. But,' she says proudly, 'we stuck it out.'
Duff's persistence started bearing fruit - she played a young witch in the 1998 kiddie-movie Casper Meets Wendy - but her apotheosis came in 2001, when she landed the title role of Lizzie McGuire.
Over two seasons, McGuire articulated the triumphs and traumas of Tween-into-Teen-hood - the show opened with Lizzie buying her first bra, and ended with her leaving Junior High - and Duff and the character became virtually interchangeable.
'I got lucky,' she acknowledges. 'But at that time, I was Lizzie. I dressed like her, I felt like I didn't fit in like her, I felt ugly and dorky like her. I'd tell the writers about the problems my friends and I were going through. I didn't actually go to high school' - Duff was actually home-schooled from the age of 10 - 'but I'd hear stories and pass them on. They took so many storylines off me.'
It's Lizzie's shadow that Duff is now valiantly trying to shake off, but the 'role model' aspect continues to haunt her, as was seen recently when the press took her to task for appearing too size-zero a la Paris, Nicole, or her erstwhile friend Lindsay Lohan (the pair fell out years ago: 'I can't even remember over what,' says Duff breezily).
'I did get skinny,' she concedes. 'I've felt that pressure like everyone else in my position has. When a paper comes out that says 'Duff Puff - she must have gained 15 pounds,' or something like that, how would any normal person react? It's so mean, but everyone keeps buying that stuff and talking about it, so it's not going to go away.'
In many ways, Duff has the daunting professionalism of an industry veteran; she's adamant that 'I don't want people to know everything about my life,' but she confirms that she's currently single, following the break-up of her relationship with Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden last November ('I felt like we were great together, and being on my own is great too,' she offers, a little wistfully).
In other ways, she still sounds like the teen she is; she shares her LA house with her sister, but her mother recently moved out to a house down the street.
'It was her idea,' says Duff. 'She said, I want to give you guys more freedom, and I'm like, I don't want that. I want you here. So I call her every day and I still always consult her before any big decision.'
But whatever the growing-pain challenges ahead, Duff surely has the determination - and the work ethic - to meet them.
'Bottom line?' she says, before heading off to her next appointment. 'I love being a career woman. I love being a business woman. I love getting older and being able to express myself in all these different ways. I love, like, doing all this stuff.'
And she departs, leaving an intriguing, sultry hint of musk in her wake.
hilary-forum.com
Hot for Hilary
By STUART HUSBAND Last updated at 17:37pm on 16th March 2007
Hiliary Duff
Though only 19, Hiliary's worth an estimated $25 million
She?s still only 19, but Hilary Duff can put singer, actress, designer and multi-millionaire on her CV. The girl has taken over from troubled Britney and Christina as a role model for adolescent girls ? and she isn?t stopping there?
It's approaching 10am in an unseasonably murky Los Angeles, and Hilary Duff has already been up for hours. 'I never, like, sleep in, no matter how late I've stayed up,' she explains perkily. 'Sometimes I wish I could just slob out but it's not in my nature. I'm a do-er,' she smiles.
That's something of an understatement. The measure of Duff's pro-activity over the past seven years is, to use one of her own pet adjectives, awesome.
She's starred in several TV series, appeared in movies, released million-selling albums, presided over a highly successful fashion line, and started her own kids' charity.
At 19, she's worth an estimated $25 million. But if her name means nothing to you, you're probably the wrong side of 20; Duff is the original US Tween-Teen Queen.
Forget Britney or Jessica Simpson or any of the other pretenders; thanks to her embodiment of the Every-Tween title character in the Disney Channel's hit series Lizzie McGuire, Duff became an icon for the new breed of adolescent girl; media-savvy and street-smart, but still subject to the same old growing pains.
Such is her standing in this peer group that Elizabeth Arden, the makers of Duff's new scent With Love, have proclaimed that she 'personifies the many dimensions of today's modern young women.' What, I ask Duff, does she think they mean by that?
'Um, wow, I've never thought about it that deeply,' she replies, somewhat abashed. 'That's a lot to live up to. I guess they're saying that today's girls want to be independent, they want to have fun, they want to work hard, and they want to be successful. We want it all,' she laughs. 'But we want it on our own terms. And in many ways, I represent all of that.'
Duff isn't being grandiose when she says this; she doesn't do highfalutin. Approachability has been the key to her success.
She's pretty ? with almond eyes and a wide-mouthed smile that can verge on the goofy - but not formidably so; what she lacks in singing ability she makes up for with her on-stage cheer-leading skills; as an actress she's yet to give the Oscar panel any sleepless nights (though she has been nominated for a few worst-actress Razzie awards), but her charm has carried her through the teen wish-fulfilment roles, in the likes of the movie A Cinderella Story, that she's cornered the market in. Even her scent has a fresh, welcoming top-note (of 'succulent mangosteen fruit').
But hang on, though - isn't that a more complex amber note unspooling at the base? Is this the first harbinger of a knottier, more adult Hilary Duff coming through?
'I think it is a reflection of where I'm at, sure,' she says, her naturally breezy Valley Girl mode (there isn't a trace of her native Texas in her accent) subsiding briefly into a more thoughtful tone.
'As I become more mature, my tastes and interests change. Like, so many people have watched me grow up, and I find it really weird when they say to me 'tell us about your new look.' I'm, like, what new look? It's just me growing and getting more confident about my style.'
These manifestations of maturity are also coming through in Duff's music. Her new album - her fourth, unbelievably, despite the fact that she's still not legally old enough to toast the fact with champagne in her native state - modifies her fluffy pop-rock template with some harder-edged dance sounds, as exemplified on the new single With Love (also to be featured in the ad campaign for her scent - a textbook example of what marketing types call synergy), which has a Gwen-Stefani-in-a-rah-rah-skirt feel to it.
'It was cool to experiment with different sounds,' avers Duff, 'because my music was pretty light before, and that's just not where music is right now.
'I've put some electro and some 80s-influenced stuff in there, and I'm also writing more. I mean, I never knew that I could write before, because when I first got my record deal, I was like, I get to sing! That was all I cared about. But now I'm older,' she concludes, incontrovertibly. 'I think it's definitely time to stretch my wings a little more.'
The question is, can Duff loft her audience skywards along with her? Is she concerned about leaving them behind? 'I think I'm at the place now where I'm more into doing what I want,' she says emphatically.
'I worried about the fans for a while, and I think it held me back. I mean, I do care about them, but moms would come up to me and say oh my gosh, you're so confident, we love you, never change.'
She looks incredulous. 'And I would feel like saying that's great, thank you, but if someone told you at 17, 18, whatever, never change? It's a pretty heavy thing to deal with, you know? Who would want to be in their 20s or even 30s and still be behaving like a teenager?
'I think they're not always taking on board that there's a person behind the performer,' she says with just a hint of steeliness.
Hilary Duff might be ready to tinker with the formula, but she - and the team behind Hilary Duff Inc, including her mother and manager, record producer Susan Duff - are too canny to make radical changes; caution is the watchword.
Thus, her clothing line, stuffbyhilaryduff - which made $5 million in its first year at the US retail chain Target, and which is represented in the UK by a trinket line at Claire's Accessories - is looking to introduce a line that's 'a little more high-fashion, for older girls, with a designer-vintage-mix look, more like my own style.'
But Duff, a self-confessed shopaholic - 'I can't go more than about 72 hours without shopping, but I don't think I'm excessive,' says, not entirely convincingly ? that she will continue to oversee the main lines, which, she says happily, are 'mass market - not forward or edgy. I create and design the line,' she emphasises.
'I'm very involved. I draw designs, bring in tear-sheets of colours and styles I like, get involved in everything from how the jeans fit to the size of the buttons.'
Similarly, Duff's latest movie Material Girls grants her a slightly more grown-up role arc. She and her elder sister Haylie - also a singer and actress - play the heirs to a cosmetics fortune (the movie was originally written for the perma-peppy Olsen twins) whose inheritance is derailed by scandal, forcing them to confront the everyday horror of actually having to work for a living; this Simple Life-style reality check leads to Life Lessons Learned and group-hugs all round.
This is presumably the kind of thing that Duff is talking about when she says that she wants to move forward but not to alienate anyone. It's hard to imagine her taking the Britney-Christina scorched earth approach of suddenly sporting leather chaps or not sporting any knickers.
'Know what? That's not really my style,' she says forcefully. 'I'm going to work really hard to stay successful and appeal to as many different people as I can, but I know there's always going to be someone younger and cooler coming after me, just like I took over from the one before me. And if it doesn't work,' she shrugs, 'I guess I'm going to have to think harder and maybe try something else.'
Brave words, but it's hard to see exactly what that 'something else' might be, as Duff has been in what she habitually calls 'the business' virtually all her life.
She was born in Houston in 1987 into a comfortable background; her father, Bob, runs a lucrative chain of convenience stores. She says she got the creative bug from her mother, who would constantly play her daughters Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Carole King and Janis Joplin records - Duff now professes, somewhat incongruously, to be a 'huge fan' of the ragged, ribald, doomed Joplin - and she was all of six years old when she decided to follow the trail her sister Haylie was already blazing out of amateur ballet companies and into acting auditions.
'It wasn't that we wanted to be famous,' she stresses. 'I mean, we were, like, from Texas? We didn't even know what that meant? It was just that my sister wanted to act and she was my role model, and still is. And we were obsessed. I don't know how people can say that kids don't know what they want; we knew exactly which direction we wanted to go in.'
Duff's mother Susan decided to ship both girls out to Los Angeles and chaperone them on the audition circuit; not, Duff insists, in a pushy-parent kind of way - 'she is so not like that' - but to help the pair fulfil their dreams.
'When we came out to California, everyone back at home was making a big joke out of us,' says Duff. 'They would ask what we were working on and why we weren't superstars. It was tough at first. My mom was like, we'll go home tomorrow if you don't want to be here any more. But,' she says proudly, 'we stuck it out.'
Duff's persistence started bearing fruit - she played a young witch in the 1998 kiddie-movie Casper Meets Wendy - but her apotheosis came in 2001, when she landed the title role of Lizzie McGuire.
Over two seasons, McGuire articulated the triumphs and traumas of Tween-into-Teen-hood - the show opened with Lizzie buying her first bra, and ended with her leaving Junior High - and Duff and the character became virtually interchangeable.
'I got lucky,' she acknowledges. 'But at that time, I was Lizzie. I dressed like her, I felt like I didn't fit in like her, I felt ugly and dorky like her. I'd tell the writers about the problems my friends and I were going through. I didn't actually go to high school' - Duff was actually home-schooled from the age of 10 - 'but I'd hear stories and pass them on. They took so many storylines off me.'
It's Lizzie's shadow that Duff is now valiantly trying to shake off, but the 'role model' aspect continues to haunt her, as was seen recently when the press took her to task for appearing too size-zero a la Paris, Nicole, or her erstwhile friend Lindsay Lohan (the pair fell out years ago: 'I can't even remember over what,' says Duff breezily).
'I did get skinny,' she concedes. 'I've felt that pressure like everyone else in my position has. When a paper comes out that says 'Duff Puff - she must have gained 15 pounds,' or something like that, how would any normal person react? It's so mean, but everyone keeps buying that stuff and talking about it, so it's not going to go away.'
In many ways, Duff has the daunting professionalism of an industry veteran; she's adamant that 'I don't want people to know everything about my life,' but she confirms that she's currently single, following the break-up of her relationship with Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden last November ('I felt like we were great together, and being on my own is great too,' she offers, a little wistfully).
In other ways, she still sounds like the teen she is; she shares her LA house with her sister, but her mother recently moved out to a house down the street.
'It was her idea,' says Duff. 'She said, I want to give you guys more freedom, and I'm like, I don't want that. I want you here. So I call her every day and I still always consult her before any big decision.'
But whatever the growing-pain challenges ahead, Duff surely has the determination - and the work ethic - to meet them.
'Bottom line?' she says, before heading off to her next appointment. 'I love being a career woman. I love being a business woman. I love getting older and being able to express myself in all these different ways. I love, like, doing all this stuff.'
And she departs, leaving an intriguing, sultry hint of musk in her wake.
hilary-forum.com
it's so long... sorry, somehow i missed thatShe's got a new movie for 2008. It's called Talking with Dog and it has to do with Global warming. According to IMDB is set to shoot before mid-year.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0967955/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0967955/
Hil Emerges From Breakup With Dignity
As multimedia momentum goes, no one need teach 19-year-old Hilary Duff a thing.
For the past decade, she has built a career that began on TV, peaking in 2001 with her title role in Disney's 65-episode "Lizzie McGuire," making her a name brand among tweens.
Two years later, she recorded a full-length studio album, "Metamorphosis," which hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and the single "Come Clean" reached the Hot 100's top 40. The project sold 3.7 million copies -- and an MTV star was born.
With her upcoming album "Dignity," due April 3 via Disney's Hollywood Records label, Duff is coming out with the majesty of a high-class debutante. Duff co-wrote all songs on the album with A-lister Kara DioGuardi ( Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera), including the uptempo single "With Love." She is also promoting her new Elizabeth Arden fragrance, With Love, in addition to a clothing line, Stuff by Hilary Duff, available at mass-market retailers Wal-Mart, Kohls and Target.
"I know how lucky I am, but I've worked hard," Duff says. "Who could complain? I've traveled the world multiple times with so many rewards."
For the new album, Duff insisted on being more involved. "I knew I couldn't do it myself, but working with Kara allowed me to talk about things on my mind. It was one big therapy session." During the songwriting process, Duff endured the full scope of a relationship -- true love, doubt, breakup and resolution -- all of which play out during the course of the set's 14 tracks. (The other party was Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden, who is now dating Nicole Richie.)
"People don't know a lot about my life, but these songs are self-explanatory. It was crazy to be in the midst of a loving relationship, then not knowing why you're still there, then not being in it. I cover these emotions and the feeling of being in the dark," she says.
Even so, the melodic template of the album is refreshingly dance/pop. "It's so different from my other albums, which were pop/rock," Duff says. "I didn't necessarily plan the album to sound like this, but it was so easy to write to."
Hollywood has a flush of promotion in place to ensure that "Dignity" reconnects fans who have grown up alongside the teen. Duff is co-hosting MTV's "TRL" the week before release, in addition to a three-episode reality special following promotion in Italy, Madrid and London. Yahoo also sent a crew to record a multi-episode series surrounding the project, focusing on Duff's musical maturity and refined womanly image. TV appearances include "Good Morning America," "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," as well as commentary on VH1's "Maxim's Top 100" countdown.
Duff will support "Dignity" with a headlining tour, while she plans for further branding, including a line of eyeglass wear and youthful bedroom furniture to enhance Stuff by Hilary Duff. She also wants to develop "fashion-forward" clothing attuned to her age group.
But most of all, Duff hopes to maintain stance as a role model, based on the title track of her new project. "I don't insinuate that I have a ton of dignity -- come on, I'm 19 -- but it's something I strive to possess and important in how you treat others, how you handle your job and treat yourself," she says. "It's also something that can be easily lost. I hope I can hold on to dignity as I move forward."
MEANWHILE JOEL MADDEN AND NICOLE RITCHIE ARE GETTING MARRIED! (
)
Just do it With Love Hilary.......
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As multimedia momentum goes, no one need teach 19-year-old Hilary Duff a thing.
For the past decade, she has built a career that began on TV, peaking in 2001 with her title role in Disney's 65-episode "Lizzie McGuire," making her a name brand among tweens.
Two years later, she recorded a full-length studio album, "Metamorphosis," which hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and the single "Come Clean" reached the Hot 100's top 40. The project sold 3.7 million copies -- and an MTV star was born.
With her upcoming album "Dignity," due April 3 via Disney's Hollywood Records label, Duff is coming out with the majesty of a high-class debutante. Duff co-wrote all songs on the album with A-lister Kara DioGuardi ( Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera), including the uptempo single "With Love." She is also promoting her new Elizabeth Arden fragrance, With Love, in addition to a clothing line, Stuff by Hilary Duff, available at mass-market retailers Wal-Mart, Kohls and Target.
"I know how lucky I am, but I've worked hard," Duff says. "Who could complain? I've traveled the world multiple times with so many rewards."
For the new album, Duff insisted on being more involved. "I knew I couldn't do it myself, but working with Kara allowed me to talk about things on my mind. It was one big therapy session." During the songwriting process, Duff endured the full scope of a relationship -- true love, doubt, breakup and resolution -- all of which play out during the course of the set's 14 tracks. (The other party was Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden, who is now dating Nicole Richie.)
"People don't know a lot about my life, but these songs are self-explanatory. It was crazy to be in the midst of a loving relationship, then not knowing why you're still there, then not being in it. I cover these emotions and the feeling of being in the dark," she says.
Even so, the melodic template of the album is refreshingly dance/pop. "It's so different from my other albums, which were pop/rock," Duff says. "I didn't necessarily plan the album to sound like this, but it was so easy to write to."
Hollywood has a flush of promotion in place to ensure that "Dignity" reconnects fans who have grown up alongside the teen. Duff is co-hosting MTV's "TRL" the week before release, in addition to a three-episode reality special following promotion in Italy, Madrid and London. Yahoo also sent a crew to record a multi-episode series surrounding the project, focusing on Duff's musical maturity and refined womanly image. TV appearances include "Good Morning America," "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," as well as commentary on VH1's "Maxim's Top 100" countdown.
Duff will support "Dignity" with a headlining tour, while she plans for further branding, including a line of eyeglass wear and youthful bedroom furniture to enhance Stuff by Hilary Duff. She also wants to develop "fashion-forward" clothing attuned to her age group.
But most of all, Duff hopes to maintain stance as a role model, based on the title track of her new project. "I don't insinuate that I have a ton of dignity -- come on, I'm 19 -- but it's something I strive to possess and important in how you treat others, how you handle your job and treat yourself," she says. "It's also something that can be easily lost. I hope I can hold on to dignity as I move forward."
MEANWHILE JOEL MADDEN AND NICOLE RITCHIE ARE GETTING MARRIED! (
)Just do it With Love Hilary.......
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what!?!?! joel madden is getting married to nicole richie wtf...
