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}} ''Hilary Duff'' is the self-titled third studio album by American recording artist Hilary Duff. It was released on September 15, 2004, by Hollywood Records. Duff cited the album as being more mature than her previous albums, stating "Basically, I'm not Lizzie McGuire anymore". The seventeen-track album saw Duff collaborating with the same producers she did on ''Metamorphosis'', saying that it was more comfortable for her that way. Recording sessions for the album took place during May to August 2004, partially between filming of ''Raise Your Voice'' (2004) and ''The Perfect Man'' (2005), both in which Duff had starring roles. It received generally negative reviews from music critics, many of whom compared the album to the music of Avril Lavigne and Ashlee Simpson. The album debuted at number two on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart, selling 192,000 copies in its first week. To date, ''Hilary Duff'' has sold 1,800,000 copies in the US.〔()〕 It became her second consecutive number one debut in Canada and produced two singles that were not major hits. It was eventually certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). ''Hilary Duff'' was number sixty-five on ''Billboard'' magazine's year-end top albums chart in November 2005.〔("2005 Year End Charts - The Billboard 200 Titles" ). ''Billboard''. Issue date: November 26, 2005. Retrieved October 28, 2004.〕 The lead single from ''Hilary Duff'', "Fly" pemiered on August 26, 2004 on MTV's ''Total Request Live''. The song was officially released as a single on October 19, 2004, it peaked outside the top twenty on the ''Billboard'' Top 40 Mainstream chart but failed to chart on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.〔("Hilary Duff - Billboard Singles" ). Allmusic and ''Billboard''. Retrieved October 27, 2006.〕 "Fly" was the only single released in the United States. The second Australian single, "Someone's Watching Over Me" was released on February 21, 2005 to promote the film ''Raise Your Voice'', achieving moderated success; only charting at number 22 on the ARIA Singles Chart. == Background and development == According to Duff, the album chronicles her experiences over the year before its release: "some of its good, and some of its bad, and a lot of its, like, a big learning experience", she explained.〔("Hilary Duff Says New Album Is More Personal" ). Yahoo! Music. September 27, 2004. Retrieved October 27, 2006.〕 She expressed an interest in recording lyrically more aggressive material ("Well, I'm not going to be singing about lollipops because I no longer relate to lollipops")〔Duerden, Nick. ("The Golden Girl" ). ''Blender''. October 2004. Retrieved October 27, 2006. 〕 than the songs on ''Metamorphosis'' (2003) and wanted the album to reflect that, according to her, she is a normal sixteen-year-old. "Basically, I'm not Lizzie McGuire anymore", she said.〔 She said the album deals with issues she would not discuss publicly and provides "some answers",〔 but she disagreed with people who believed the album presented a different side of her, saying "I think it's just ''more'' me this time because I got to really do it how I wanted to."〔Goodman, Abbey. ("Hilary Duff: The Nicest Brat" ). MTV News. November 12, 2004. Retrieved October 27, 2006.〕 Duff called the album "different ()" ''Metamorphosis'' and "much more mature", particularly in its "sound", but not to the point where it would be inappropriate for children; "I just think that other people will relate better", she said.〔Harrington, Jim. ("'Tween queen" ). ''Oakland Tribune''. August 13, 2004.〕 According to her, she was more "involved" compared to the production of her first album and "confident enough to make suggestions" about the style of the album: "If I thought it needed to be more heavy, more rock, I said so".〔("Hilary Duff comes to Manchester on Jan. 27" ). ''The Dover Community News''. December 31, 2004. Retrieved October 27, 2006.〕 Its US release date, September 28, 2004, was Duff's seventeenth birthday.〔 Three songs — "Fly", "Someone's Watching over Me" and "Jericho" — were used in ''Raise Your Voice'', a drama film released shortly after the album in which Duff starred as an aspiring singer who attends a prestigious performing arts summer school. Duff has described "Fly" as "an uplifting song" about "how people are scared to open up and show who they are inside because they're afraid of what others are going to say".〔Sony Music. ("Hilary Duff - ''Hilary Duff''" ). ''The Star''. Retrieved October 27, 2006.〕 Her character performs "Someone's Watching over Me" at the film's climax and "Jericho" during the end credits, with the other characters performing the instruments. The album's release in Japan includes three bonus tracks: an acoustic version of "Who's That Girl?", a cover of The Go-Go's' "Our Lips Are Sealed" recorded with Haylie for the soundtrack to Duff's film ''A Cinderella Story'' ("We really wanted to work together, and my label knew that, so we found this song and we're like, 'Yes! We have to do this!'", Duff said〔Moss, Corey. ("Hilary And Haylie Give The Go-Go's A Double-Duff Treatment" ). MTV News. May 20, 2004. Retrieved October 27, 2006.〕), and a cover of The Who's "My Generation" in which the lyric "I hope I die before I get old" was changed to "I hope I don't die before I get old". Duff began performing it in concert after a suggestion from her manager, who was a fan of the song.〔 Duff herself co-wrote three tracks on the album: "Mr. James Dean", "Haters" and "Rock This World", the first two of which, along with "The Last Song", Haylie co-wrote. Hilary said she refrained from co-writing the entire album because "I don't know if I'm secure enough with myself to do that".〔 She has characterised "Haters" as "tongue-in-cheek" and said people would know what it is about when they heard it,〔 and it attracted substantial publicity when rumors circulated that it was about actress Lindsay Lohan, with whom Duff was alleged to have been feuding.〔("Duff Blasts Lohan on New Album" ). WENN. October 8, 2004. Retrieved October 27, 2006.〕〔Williams, Rob. ("Hilary wows young Winnipeg fans" ). ''Winnipeg Sun''. January 10, 2005. Retrieved October 27, 2006.〕〔Wood, Mikael. ("The Jig Is Up" ). ''The Village Voice''. November 12, 2004. Retrieved October 27, 2006.〕〔 The Scoop, a gossip section of the website MSNBC, quoted an insider who had said, "Hilary thinks that Lindsay has been directing negativity at her for too long."〔Walls, Jeannette. ("Duff-Lohan feud hits sour note" ). MSNBC. October 6, 2004. Retrieved October 27, 2006.〕 Duff denied that the rumors were true, saying she did not know Lohan and would not write a song about her.〔("Inside Interview - Hilary Duff, the talented US teenager singer" ). ''New Weekly''. Retrieved October 27, 2006.〕 She said that at the time she wrote it she was feeling she had to openly discuss her personal life because "people make accusations and there are lies and rumors constantly ... people are so negative. They love to read what's coming out next on Page Six (the ''New York Post'' ) and I just felt like it was appropriate." She said she felt "normal girls" could relate to the song because of the "petty stuff" that occurs in schools.〔 Duff told the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' in 2005 that because she was under the control of a record label during the making of ''Metamorphosis'' and ''Hilary Duff'', she wasn't able to incorporate the sound she wanted into her recordings. She said the production "(has --> ) been mastered and sounds really pretty ... If I could change it, I would, and it would sound (pop ). My name is Hilary Duff, and I don't know why I don't get to make Hilary Duff music."〔DeRogatis, Jim. ("Is She For Real?" ). ''Chicago Sun-Times''. July 19, 2005. Retrieved July 7, 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hilary Duff (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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