Hilary Duff

Did anyone at Hollywood listen to Hilary Duff's fourth album? Because Dignity is kind of, well, bitter -- not a Disney-sanctioned emotion. Actually, the acrimony of the girl who would be Britney is understandable: She's broken up with this jerk (see the clubby/tragic "Stranger"), and he moved on to a soul-sucking socialite (Nicole Richie skewered, Duff-style, on "Dignity") who eats(ish) good girls like Hilary for breakfast. Now Hilary's all dead inside at 20 ("Burned," a "Lucky"-like cry for help). She's still not Britney, and let's hope she never gets to that point.

“It’s not news when you got into bed!” rails Duff against the Paris Hiltons of the world,
over Gwen Stefani-style techno-lite beats. For her fourth record, the nineteen-year-old
Duff set out to make an adult dance-pop record, with surprisingly successful results.
“You’re not the person that I once knew,” she sings on “Stranger,” presumably
speaking to her ex, Joel Madden of Good Charlotte. “Did I ever do anything that... More >