Friday, January 30, 2009

Hilary Duff: How To Have A Half-Arsed Music Career


Hilary Duff's 'Best Of' compilation is out this week.

No, really.

No, REALLY.

Here is a selected plethora of facts about this album:

- It includes a groundbreakingly massive FIVE (yes, FIVE) Top 40 singles.

- The lyrically ridiculous 'Beat Of My Heart' and 'Why Not' are real, real low points.

- Her only two Top 10 singles, 'So Yesterday' and 'Wake Up', have not aged well. They sound very dated and are quite rightly tucked away at the rear end of the track-listing.

- The only highlights of the set are the tracks that were never released as singles (note especially 'Dignity'). What they're doing on a 'Best Of' collection therefore needs some explaination (maybe because without them there'd only be five tracks on it), but it just goes to prove that Duff's singles, however likeable she is, have never been anything above average. On the rare occasion that she has made an alright (dare we say it, GOOD) song, they've been damned to remain as unreleased album tracks forevermore.

- The overall message, or moral if you will, of this sorry collection of "hits" is that whatever Hilary Duff can do, someone else can do better.

But just because her music career hasn't been a TOTAL waste of time, here are two songs that were never released as singles that are in fact very very good.



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