This is what Y2K dreams are made of. Earlier this week, Hilary Duff announced that she would release her new song, “Mature,” on November 6 – her first new music since her last album, 2015’s. Inspire. Expire.
Speaking to host Jake Shane for the season two finale episode on the Therapist podcast, Duff discussed her return to the studio and shared some ideas about her next single. “It was always going to happen,” Duff said. “There’s no way this isn’t part of my story.”
The pop star and Disney alumna said that after 10 years away from music and where she is now in her life at 38, she feels “ready to fill in the blanks and share with people and connect with them on today’s level.”
“Obviously it’s taken a lot of twists and turns and ups and downs and all those things, but I have this crazy connection with the fans that I’ve known since I was nine or ten years old, and I just want to connect with them again,” she continued. “We went through a lot of similar things – whether it was complicated relationships, anxiety, raising kids, divorces, trying to find ourselves as adults, family drama… Eventually, I felt safe and comfortable enough in my own family to come out and open that part of myself again.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Duff described “Mature” as “talking to my younger self about an experience that we had and just reflecting on it, and being okay with it and having a little ironic moment with yourself and accepting your past and being good to where you landed.” The singer also said that the music video shows “the journey of the two selves meeting” and includes a “sweet butterfly moment”, which has been an important theme in her life since Metamorphosis.
News of her upcoming single came about two months after it was announced that Duff had signed with Atlantic Records and would be featured in a documentary series following her return to music. According to a press release, the project, directed and produced by Sam Screw (An Absurd Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter And Taylor Swift: the era tour), will chronicle “the highs, the lows, and everything in between,” and touts that “fans will ride shotgun as she balances raising a family, recording new music, rehearsing live shows, and preparing to perform on stage for the first time in over a decade.”
