Hilary Duff is addressing critics who claim her new music is just regurgitated Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift bangers.
“I have a really hard time talking about other female artists and, like, trying to compare,” Duff, 38, said during the Tuesday, March 3, episode of Jessie and Lennie Ware’s “Table Manners” podcast. “The internet is so fast to hear something one time and then be like, ‘Oh, reheated Sabrina.’”
Duff continued, “I’m just saying a cruel, like, internet take is wild. And you’re like, ‘Well, I am older [than Carpenter], and I was here first.”
Duff, who gained fame while starring on Disney Channel’s Lizzie McGuire from 2001 to 2004, launched her music career with the Christmas album Santa Claus Lane in 2002. She subsequently released the albums Metamorphosis, Hilary Duff and Dignity between 2003 and 2007.
After stepping away from the music industry for a few years, Duff released her fifth studio album, Breathe In. Breathe Out, in 2015. She then went on a 10-year-hiatus, returning to music in February with the release of her album Luck … or Something.
“There’s plenty of space, obviously, for everyone,” the Cadet Kelly star continued, referring to fellow pop artists including Carpenter, 26, and Swift, 36.
“But every music is just, it’s very hard to be completely original anymore,” Duff added. “You just have to go in the studio and make what you think is cool and make what you want to f***ing blast in the cars … and be alone with your windows down, driving. Like, that’s the record that I wanted to make. And, you know, it’s pop. So pop is pop.”
Duff concluded, “A lot of that takes cues from other songs or sounds. And if anything, it’s a compliment because, like, these women are out there and [it] feels like they’ve put a lot more time in than me. I stepped away to have a family.”
Duff shares son Luca, 13, with ex-husband Mike Comrie, as well as daughters Banks, 7, Mae, 4, and Townes, 22 months, with husband Matthew Koma, whom she married in 2019.
Duff’s new music marks a shift from her older work, with the controversial track “Roommates” featuring racy references to porn and masturbation.
“I’m not making music for my kids. I’m not making music for 7-year-olds,” Duff said on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast on February 25. “I’m making music for myself. I’m making music for people like myself. I was singing crazy lyrics when I was young, too, that I had no idea what they meant.”
Duff continued, “I don’t think it impacted my relationship with sex, but I think it’s just been another one of those things that comes along with my career that I didn’t really ask for and had to learn how to just accept. It was really hard as a young girl because I was coined ‘the good girl.’”
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