Music Blog

i woke up watching mtv. i actually thought i was watching disney because these two were on. and to drive the actually even deeper, coming out of my slumber at first i thought it was hilary duff. So, then, I see the new 50 cent and Olivia video for Best Friend. Is it me or does Olivia have a Ciara type thing going on in the video? I don’t know, there’s something about Olivia that doesn’t make her marketable, like does she have any songs where she can carry herself alone? i haven’t been impressed by her and honestly, I think this is one of them cases where the original is better than the remix.. “Best Friend” is better when it’s 50 alone. and then comes the horrid LL song with J.Lo, *shaking head* i heard a cut off his album featuring Lyfe called Freeze and it’s so much hotter than Control Myself.. but it IS about marketing so what can i say? you’re not going to generate a lot of buzz and make it on TRL with a rough looking guitar playing singer. it’s just that now i have to control myself not to toss my cookies.

my ears. my poor bloody abused ears. charlotte church's "new" songs are absolutely horrendous. it's like listening to hilary duff and ashley simpson combined. and i'm aware that this "review" is several months late.

i am such a teeny bopper. i saw “a cinderella story”, the hilary duff movie, tonight and it brought back all those high school feelings. all that innocent, superpassionate perfect romance is so something that i want. hilary duff captures the feeling perfectly in the movie — it’s the same feeling i got from mandy moore’s “a walk to remember”.

Hilary Duff’s new commercial for Candies & Kohl’s which features Hilary’s new single “Wake Up” has been put up on the Candies website. You can check it out here

A few nights ago I had the opportunity to view a perfectly charming movie, which would be pretty cool to take in this summer.� 'The Perfect Man', starring Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear (the queen of several TV Gen-X series, dating back to 'Dynasty', 'Melrose Place', and 'Spin City', as well as Christ Noth of 'Sex and the City' and 'Law & Order' fame, is a surprisingly fun look at the struggles that a teen daughter of a single mom who is still hopeful for love (but needs to learn to be strong in her own skin), has to endure.� The film takes the attitude that it is the daughter who needs to learn to be appreciative of the struggles and heartache of her mom, and in so doing, makes it a morality play (though a nice, subtle one), about the need of teens to respect and honor parents.� While that is true, the movie for me showed how much children often try mightily to have some sense of normalcy in their lives.� Poor Holly Hamilton, played by Miss Duff, is totally distraught about how her mom Jean, played by Ms. Locklear, always seems to go 'vamonos muchachas' when she gets dumped by another second-rate, bottom-feeder kind of guy.� She doesn't just get upset, no, she gets out of town, which means another school, another attempt at new friends and fitting in.� Being drop-dead pretty doesn't hurt that struggle, and being mature and responsible for her age, but it doesn't seem to matter.�

While the above description is true of the movie I see the movie as more of a picture about a relationship with a mother and a daughter, than one about trying to find the perfect man. The mother, Jean, played by veteran television actress Heather Locklear, is the perfect example of a woman who has to find her identity in a man. She has one failed relationship after another and rather than deal with her disappointment and search out the reasons why she is failing in these relationships, she chooses to uproot her family and move to another town. This isn’t the best way to parent your children. This gets old for the daughter Holly, played by Hilary Duff, as you see her blog about what it is like to be on the road all the time because her mother continues to run away, dragging her from place to place so that she can’t even get close to someone and even go to a dance.

My friend Mieke, who also happens to be a frequent visitor to this blog AND a big blabber mouth ,name droppin' liberal (not that there's anything WRONG with that), needs our help. Her client's movie, THE PERFECT MAN, staring Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, and Chris Noth, is opening on June 17th against Batman and they are going to get their asses kicked. It is really important that they have a strong opening weekend and week so please spread the word and get out and see it. You can even buy a ticket to see it and then slip into another movie playing...

I also share it with the kids (7 and 11) so I was fully expecting Pokemon and Hilary Duff to lead the list, but here's what I got:

Directed by Martha Coolidge, the story revolves around a scandal that causes two wealthy heiresses (Haylie and Hilary Duff) to lose their fortune, forcing them to battle to recover their status.

Teen screen and music sensation Hilary Duff has signed a management pact with the executives who helped turn twin pop icons Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen into household names.

As the two began scouting new management opportunities a few weeks ago, Duff was at the top of their list, in part because Susan Duff had contacted them a few years ago about becoming involved in Hilary Duff's career, Thorne said.

And then you have the new good pop stuff, like Kelly Clarkson, Josh Groban, Jet, Ashley Simpson, Hilary Duff, Gwen Sephani.

Ten and I went to see Raise Your Voice last night. Yes, of course she picked the movie as it is a total chick flick. However Hilary Duff is hot so I agreed to watch it. As my gym trainer commented to me, she can always get her boyfriend to watch a chick flick, as long as the girls are hot. Us men are kind of easy to manipulate that way.

However movie was pretty lame and predictable. A few funny moments, but not many.

The other night I was sitting upon my Pottery Barn-esque sectional sofa couch downstairs watching some MMM-MMM good TV with the kids snuggled up with me in the dark. (Digression #1, I believe we were watching Cadet Kelly with the uber-wholesome Hilary Duff, but after you read the following...

(Digression #5, I was wearing my lovely new cropped yoga pants over my GAP undies, so don't be calling CPS and say that I was watching Hilary Duff in only my gotchies. Oh, and I had a very baggy top on too.)

Recent productions by Dylan Sellers include Warner Bros. Pictures' "A Cinderella Story" starring Hilary Duff; and "Agent Cody Banks" and its sequel "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London."

Now credit card companies are rushing to capture that audience with prepaid cards, featuring celebrities such as rapper Usher and actress Hilary Duff, as well as cartoon characters like Hello Kitty.

The campaign began in earnest on Monday night, when Alyssa Milano, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Hilary Duff and her sister Haylie all attended a "PSP-a-porter" fashion show in Hollywood to kick off L.A. Fashion Week. The runway show featured PSP accessories specially designed by fashion world talents such as Diane von Furstenberg.

At this rate, soon you won't be able to tell a Winnipeg sports fan from a Hilary Duff disciple.