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Hilary Duff opens up about her return to music after nearly a decade away, shares the story behind some of her biggest hits like 'Come Clean' and 'So Yesterday,' and how she was originally cast as Lizzie McGuire.

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00:00I got fired. Well, I'm also going to be a pop star, so watch this. The internet is forever.

00:05I feel nervous. I don't know why.

00:13Oh. You didn't trick me at all. Let's go back. Back to the beginning. Okay, this has come clean.

00:20Let's go back. Back to the beginning. Oh my gosh, I think it felt like an absolute dream. I think it

00:32was like a combination of not entirely knowing what I was doing and also being like thrilled to

00:39be a pop star and to be like singing and to have made a record and to have a record deal and to be

00:44like shooting music videos. I don't know. It's like that combination of when you're young and you just

00:49like don't know that you should care. So you just are like, here I am and here's what I'm doing and

00:54here's what I want to say and here's how I want to do it. And I was coming out of my Lizzie McGuire

00:58era. So I was just very focused on being Hillary and what that looked like. I didn't grow up singing

01:03at all. I had a speech impediment when I was a kid and somebody was like telling my mom like put in

01:08voice lessons. And my mom was like, okay. And I ended up loving doing the voice lessons and I loved the

01:13exercises, but I wasn't like a singer. And it wasn't until I was obsessed with Britney Spears that

01:20I was like, well, I'm also going to be a pop star. So watch this. Oh yeah. You'll never get to heaven

01:27or even to LA if you don't believe there's a way. Oh yeah. Wait a minute. This is Why Not.

01:35The audition for the TV show was crazy. I had decided that I wanted to go back to Texas and like

01:49be a normal kid. I had just gotten replaced off of a TV show because they replaced me with twins

01:55so they could work longer hours. And I remember being like, I got fired 11 years old and I got

02:03fired from a job. It was like absolutely devastating. Then my manager called my mom and was

02:09like, Disney wants to see Hillary for this thing. And I walked in and I was super unprepared. It was

02:13like a monologue. And I'll never forget the casting director. Her name was Robin Lippins. And she was

02:19like, you're not very prepared for this. And I was like, I always kind of love a challenge. And so she

02:24was like, can you go be better prepared and like come back tomorrow? And I was like, yes, I can. I came back

02:30the next day and I was like completely off book. And I had it down. And I actually like loved the

02:34sides. Go back and you get a call back and then you go to producers and then you go to what's your

02:38special talent? And I started like walking around on my hands because I used to do gymnastics. I think

02:44I was trying to like shock everybody. And then I got the job. And then they had her do a lot of

02:49gymnastics in the show throughout the seasons. So the gymnastics came in handy. Toss.

02:55Okay, you can tell me I'm wrong or that I'm coming on way too strong. And that's with love.

03:06I'm so glad that people have so much joy recreating that moment. It's not necessarily

03:11like fun to watch yourself get made fun of. But I can also like have a chuckle and ride the wave

03:19and see what is so fun about it. But I look back at that time and there was like many days that

03:25were great. And I had like a lot of enthusiasm for what I was doing. And there was many days where

03:29I was like super uncomfortable in my own skin and struggling to be who I was at the time. So

03:37it's very layered. The internet is forever. Oh, I could almost kiss the stars for shining so bright

03:45I had never been to Europe before. So that was honestly really cool to be in Italy and see all

04:00of those things and be seeing it on a level of our crew is there and like people are watching us.

04:04It was a really fun time. And then I also remember that the hotel we were staying at would like put a

04:10breakfast spread out every morning. And I remember being like, whoa, their breakfasts are so different

04:15than ours. They have risola and prosciutto and cheese and stuff. And I was like, whoa, this is not

04:22like eggs and bacon. We also filmed half in Vancouver and half in Italy. So like all the exterior

04:29stuff was in Italy. And then the other stuff was like on a soundstage in Vancouver. And so we went

04:34from shooting in Italy and like being in this crazy like bubble to nonstop rain for like a month.

04:46You can promise castles, treasures, babies, I don't care. And that would be Sparks.

04:55I'm really proud of this record. And there's a lot of this record that I enjoyed the process of and

05:01the outcome of. But it was like, it doesn't feel like cohesive to me. I was like, not really like

05:09holding my own ground with knowing exactly what I was doing. So it was like a lot of like, oh,

05:16like, go to Sweden and work with this person and go write with this person because they're a top line

05:22writer of this pop song. And, you know, and it was like all over the place. When I look, listen to Sparks

05:28or, you know, even watch the video, I'm like, who is that girl? I know there's parts of it that are

05:33they're like iconic and people love it. And it's a great pop song. I don't know that I would have

05:38ever like created that song on my own. Okay. Oh, they know my name. They think they know

05:46everything, but they don't know anything about me. There was just so many eyes on me at that time.

06:00Like it was like the height of gossip columns and tabloids and paparazzi. And there was like no

06:08controlling your narrative, no social media that was like, here's what I want you to see. And here's

06:13what I can control. It was just people assumed and people would like sell stories. And like,

06:18it was a really wild time. My boyfriend at the time wrote this song. And I remember feeling like so

06:25seen and so like taken care of, and honestly was always a favorite to do live. Oh.

06:35She looks like all of your girls, but blonder, a little like me, just younger. And that is mature,

06:41my friend.

06:47The song is about a very brief romance that I had with an older guy. And it is kind of like a

06:58conversation talking to the past version of myself and looking back at that time with like the maturity

07:06of a formed grown adult. Being 10 years removed from a time in your life, there's like a lot that

07:14happened. People have been following my career and having like a connection. And I think I was just

07:19really ready to reintroduce myself to them and connect with them with the kind of stuff that fills my life

07:26now and has for the past 10 years. I never wanted to like jump the gun and do something that didn't

07:30totally feel right. For whatever reason, this moment in time and the people that I've surrounded

07:35myself with and all of it just seemed like the stars aligned and it felt really right. The album title

07:41is one of the last lines of the record on a song called Adult Size Medium. It's really about

07:52wearing a t-shirt with holes in it and maybe it's from your like 20s and you've owned it for a really

07:58long time. And you're wondering if you still recognize that person from that time. And you're a little bit

08:05reminiscing about a simpler time, but also a really complicated time where you don't know yourself as

08:11well. One of the lines at the end of the song is like, how did we get here? Was it luck or something?

08:17And I think that just really is a common theme in my life. It hits a lot of questions that I get asked

08:27a lot. How were you the normal one? And how did you like escape all of these childhood stardom things?

08:35And I can give certain things credit or I can also give myself credit. And I think that there's like

08:41a lot of weight in the or something part of it because it's just like all about the

08:48the journey and it's like a mixture of things, some of it being luck and some of it being me.

08:57Oh, we're into we're into movie lines. Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought.

09:06Useless and disappointing. That would be a Cinderella story. Because waiting for you is like waiting for

09:12rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing. You're not that pretty and you're not that smart.

09:19By the way, also it's been so much fun to watch her career. She just goes there in such a big way that

09:26it was really impressive and like slightly intimidating as like a teenager. And she was

09:29like mean to me. So it was like a little scary because I was only like 15. And she was just,

09:34you know, mean to me because she's like my evil stepmother. At the time, I think I was like,

09:39I had to be like, you're filming a movie, you're filming a movie.

09:42But I did just talk to my son about how difficult it was to text back in the day and how you had to push

09:49the button three times sometimes to get the letter that you desired. And he was like,

09:55no, I don't understand. I was like, okay, moving on. Never mind.

10:01Can you hear it calling? Can you feel it in your soul? This is fly.

10:09I have so many memories tied to like performing my music live and those feelings of like performing

10:16on stage and having like an audience sing back your words to you. It was so impactful and I have

10:21so many great memories. The other day I put on Mbop and I just love that song.

10:28But I put like go to radio and then like after listening for 12 minutes or something,

10:32like my music started to come on and I was like, ah, like it's sweet. Yes.

10:38Ah, haven't you heard that I'm going to be okay? And that's so yesterday.

10:53I don't remember recording the song, but I do remember hearing it on the radio for the first

11:00time and I was leaving Warner Brothers. I was driving because I had my driver's license at the

11:05time and I remember hearing it on the radio and I was like so excited. I was just like in my car,

11:14pulling out of the studio, thinking my life was like normal. I feel so excited to

11:22sing my old songs again for the first time in a really long time, like 15 years maybe it's been.

11:29That's going to be so much fun. I think for myself as an adult now, revisiting what they

11:35mean to me now and then for the audience, like to hear them and feel that nostalgic feeling that

11:41everybody craves and feels so good and kind of like do it my way now. It's going to be really

11:46a lovely, lovely victory lap.

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