Hilary Duff (album)
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Released | September 15, 2004 | |||
Recorded | 2004 | |||
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Length | 58:50 | |||
Label | Hollywood | |||
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Hilary Duff is the third
The album was a modest commercial success, and it received generally negative reviews from music critics, many of whom compared the album to the music of
The lead single from Hilary Duff, "
Background and development
According to Duff, the album chronicles her experiences over the year before its release: "some of it's good, and some of it's bad, and a lot of it's, like, a big learning experience," she explained.[5] She expressed an interest in recording lyrically more aggressive material than the songs on Metamorphosis (2003) and wanted the album to reflect that, according to her, she is a normal sixteen-year-old. "Well, I'm not going to be singing about lollipops because I no longer relate to lollipops," she said. "Basically, I'm not Lizzie McGuire anymore."[6] She said the album deals with issues she would not discuss publicly and provides "some answers,"[7] but she disagreed with people who believed the album presented a different side of her, saying "I think it's just more me this time because I got to really do it how I wanted to."[8] Duff called the album "different [from]" Metamorphosis and "much more mature," particularly in its sound, but not to the point where it would be inappropriate for children: "I just think that other people will relate better."[9] According to her, she was more "involved" compared to the production of her first album and "confident enough to make suggestions" about the style of the album: "If I thought it needed to be more heavy, more rock, I said so."[1]
Four songs — "Fly", "Someone's Watching over Me", "Shine" and "Jericho" — were used in
Duff herself co-wrote three tracks on the album: "Mr. James Dean", "
Duff told the
Recording and production
Duff recorded the first three songs for the album between the shooting dates of Raise Your Voice and The Perfect Man, two films in which she was involved.[20] Subsequent songs were recorded on the weekends during filming of The Perfect Man and on the nights after concerts on her summer 2004 tour. The album's outro track, "The Last Song", was recorded in her dressing room.[7]
When discussion regarding her second album began, Duff said she wanted to work with the same team of producers and songwriters with whom she worked on Metamorphosis. "[They] made me feel so comfortable and so secure with myself. I loved working with them. I have a great relationship with them. I talk to them [all the time] ... They knew what was going on in my life, what I was going through ... and how I feel inside," Duff said.[12] For songs she did not co-write, Duff discussed her experiences and feelings with the writers and ask them to write songs about them.[12] Members of the creative team behind Metamorphosis who returned for Hilary Duff include Charlie Midnight, John Shanks and Kara DioGuardi (who collaborated on the commercially released singles), Andre Recke, Marc Swersky and Duff's sister Haylie. Hilary said, "I do have a lot to say, and I have a lot going on inside that sometimes is buried and hidden because I'm working so hard, and I don't have time to think about it. But if we sit down and we talk about it and I tell her how I feel and she writes, it'll be good."[21]
Several producers and songwriters who did not contribute to Metamorphosis worked on the album, including
Duff's management team considered recording a song titled "
Singles
"Fly" was the lead and only single with a music video from the album. It is also the only single released in the US. The music video directed by Chris Applebaum, combines black-and-white backstage footage with color shots of Duff performing the song. The video premiered on MTV's Total Request Live on August 26, 2004.
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Other notable songs
Duff said during the time the album was released that she was considering "Haters" as the second single,[7] but she later changed her mind and decided she wanted "Weird" to become the next single.[24]
Towards the end of 2004, several
Promotion
Duff embarked on a concert tour of North America,[26] and several of her shows in Canada sold out in minutes.[27]
Critical reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [28] |
Entertainment Weekly | D−[29][30] |
People | [31] |
Robert Christgau | [32] |
Slant Magazine | [33] |
Stylus | D+[16] |
USA Today | [34] |
The Village Voice | (negative)[15] |
The album received mixed to negative reviews. Ken Barnes of USA Today, which gave Metamorphosis a negative review,[35] commented positively on the album and said it exemplified "a more wholesome brand of rock-flavored pop aimed at teens". Barnes praised the "unstoppably rousing choruses" in some of the songs and said "Duff avoids overextending her thin but pleasant voice, except for a bit of Avrilesque syllable stretching", while he criticised the high number of tracks and the preponderance of "hackneyed self-affirmation messages".[34] AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine categorised Hilary Duff as "a virtual companion to Ashlee Simpson's Autobiography, from its rock/dance-pop fusion to its earnest demeanor" and "a varied, ambitious album ... it feels like the soundtrack to the life of a smart, ambitious, popular teenager trying to sort things out".
A review of Hilary Duff in
In response to Duff's "announcement" that "she's a complicated rock & roll adolescent on the order of Avril and Ashlee", Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Uh-huh. And Betty from the Archie comics is Patti Smith", noting Duff's "tiny" voice is "buried under layers of generic cheese arrangements."[29] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine called the album "a seemingly endless string of three-and-a-half-minute pieces of pop crap – and I like pop music", and wrote that although Duff "can't be held responsible for most of the album's insipid lyrical content", "when [she] gets in on the action things feel contrived".[33] The New York Daily News named it the worst teen pop album of 2004, saying it was "[n]eck-and-neck for junkiest CD of the year with her arch nemesis, Lindsay Lohan [Speak]".[36]
Commercial performance
The album debuted at number two on the US
The album debuted at number one on the
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Fly" | Shanks | 3:42 | |
2. | "Do You Want Me?" |
| Gerrard | 3:30 |
3. | "Weird" |
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| 2:55 |
4. | "Hide Away" |
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| 3:47 |
5. | "Mr. James Dean" |
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| 3:28 |
6. | "Underneath This Smile" |
| Shanks | 3:38 |
7. | "Dangerous to Know" |
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| 3:33 |
8. | "Who's That Girl?" |
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| 3:26 |
9. | "Shine" |
| Shanks | 3:29 |
10. | "I Am" | Diane Warren | Shanks | 3:43 |
11. | "The Getaway" |
| Bunetta | 3:37 |
12. | "Cry" |
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| 3:47 |
13. | "Haters" |
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| 2:59 |
14. | "Rock This World" |
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| 3:46 |
15. | "Someone's Watching Over Me" |
| Shanks | 4:10 |
16. | "Jericho" |
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| 3:55 |
17. | "The Last Song" |
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| 1:25 |
Total length: | 58:50 |
No. | Title | Length |
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18. | "Who's That Girl?" (acoustic mix) | 3:25 |
Total length: | 62:15 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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19. | "Our Lips Are Sealed" | 2:40 | ||
20. | "My Generation" | Pete Townshend |
| 2:43 |
Total length: | 67:38 |
Notes:
- ^a signifies an executive producer
- Later releases of Hilary Duff, including most international editions, include non-listed alternate mixes of "Do You Want Me?" (3:30), "Weird" (2:56), "I Am" (3:43), "Haters" (2:58), "Rock This World" (3:46), "Jericho" (3:55), and "Cry" (4:02).[49][50]
- The North American digital and 2021 LP versions of Hilary Duff include the alternate mix of "Cry" alongside the initial versions of the other tracks.[51][52]
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[66] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
Canada (Music Canada)[67] | 3× Platinum | 300,000^ |
Japan (RIAJ)[68] | Gold | 100,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[69] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Release history
Region | Date | Format | Label | Ref. |
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Japan | September 15, 2004 | CD | Avex Trax | [70] |
Canada | September 28, 2004 | Universal | [71] | |
United States | Hollywood | [72] | ||
Australia | October 18, 2004 | Festival Mushroom | [73] | |
Japan | March 28, 2007 | Avex Trax | [74] | |
United States | May 23, 2022 | LP | Hollywood Records | [75] |
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