Luck... Or Something

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As a teen idol of the early 2000, the Disney Channel star turned singer felt like your coolest friend—an earnest American everygirl who just so happened to be famou, with an arsenal of accessories to make Y2K revivalists weep. Hilary Duff’s voice is madeleine-like to the millennial, triggering Proustian memories of butterfly clips and <i>Laguna Beach</i> rerun. Now a mother of four, the former tabloid fixture spent the past decade focusing on her family and her acting career. But in late 2025, Duff announced that she’d signed to Atlantic Records and was preparing to release <i>luck… or something</i>, her first new album in over a decade. “When you step away from something for such a long time, you have no idea how the reaction will be and if anyone’s going to be on the other side waiting,” the 38-year-old singer admitted in an Apple Music radio takeover shortly after the release of lead single “Mature.” Duff was speaking to songwriter and producer Matthew Koma, who produced most of the album and also happens to be her husband of six year. (He’s the co-writer behind another millennial classic, “Clarity” by Zedd.) She commended Koma for encouraging her comeback: “I would stay home forever with our kid, but you knew that I really wanted to do thi,” she said. “We literally put the gates up and just hunkered down and made something really cool together.” .

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