"Every day is
a surprise. I wake up and I can't believe this
is my job and I get to do this."
— Hilary Duff |
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August
14, 2005 |
from
herald-dispatch.com |
Hilary Duff in concert
at Charleston Civic Center
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“It’s going really good.
We’ve had great shows, and
everyone is really excited
to be here,” said the
17-year-old pop, TV and
movie star Hilary Duff by
phone.
“We are in Kissimmee,
Florida, right now. My whole
family is in Florida, and we
have like 12 dogs. ... And
we all miss each other.”
Like her packed bus of
family love there in
Florida, it is hard to
imagine a teenage pop life
more full.
Duff is a
multi-platinum-selling pop
artist in the midst of her
well-titled “Most Wanted
Tour,” which is promoting
her new 13-song CD “Most
Wanted” (in stores Tuesday,
Aug. 16). She also stars in
“The Perfect Man,” a movie
released July 17,
The Houston, Texas, native
triple threat star brings
her show to the Charleston
Civic Center at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 26. Tickets are
$45.50.
Featuring a batch of her
most popular songs such as
“So Yesterday,” a No. 1
single off of her pop CD
“Metamorphosis,” as well as
three new songs, “Most
Wanted” benefits from a
little rock edge, thanks
perhaps to some inspiration
from her boyfriend, Good
Charlotte lead singer Joel
Madden.
Duff said that while it was
tough to pick one out, she
loves the first single off
the CD, “Wake Up,” which
already a big hit with MTV’s
TRL crowd.
“It’s really dancy and pop,
and everything has been so
hip-hop driven, but I think
people are going to see a
lot more just pop music come
back,” Duff said. “It’s got
an ’80s pop- type vibe, and
it’s got a great message. It
puts you in a great mood.
The other songs on the CD,
we had a really hard time
picking them, but a lot
sound like pop punk and some
techno. There’s a little bit
of that in it.”
While the genres may blur,
the thing that doesn’t is
the fact that Duff’s songs
carry a bouncy energy.
“They are so fun to perform
live. I did the
‘Confessions’ on AOL, so
about half of the audience
already knows the lyrics and
half doesn’t. But everyone
is dancing, and that is a
good sign,” Duff said.
Duff, who became a worldwide
star in 2001 as “Lizzie
McGuire” on the Disney
Channel, said she puts a lot
of energy into her live
shows. Expectations are high
for the actress, who has
been in such movies as
“Agent Cody Banks,” “Cheaper
By the Dozen,” “A Cinderella
Story” and, of course, “The
Lizzie McGuire Movie.”
She has two artists opening
up. Tyler Hilton stars as
Chris Keller on “One Tree
Hill,” the popular WB
series. He will play Elvis
Presley in the upcoming
Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the
Line.” Teddy Geiger is a
17-year-old guitarist and
songwriting prodigy who has
a debut CD on Columbia
Records.
Duff then rolls out with her
laser lights and kicking
show. Her seven-member band
includes Shauney Baby, an
original member of the
Delfonics, and identical
triplets Abbey, Baili and
Rachel Siducao from Tampa,
Fla., who have been singing
and dancing since age 7.
“We have become so close,
and I just love that,” Duff
said of the band. “We have
so many talented people, and
they all have great
résumés.”
So, how do you keep singing
triplets straight?
“They are identical, but the
way I tell them apart is
Baili has her eyebrow
pierced, so Baili and brow.
Rachel has her nose pierced,
so it’s Rachel and ring.
Abbey has nothing. So, I
have to look at their
faces.”
Duff said this tour has been
great, since she is more at
ease with the whole idea
that she — self-described as
“one little person in front
of 10,000 people” — can
direct that sea and its
collective energy.
“The show is really cool
with a whole laser light
show that is incredible and
all of these images on a
blanket with black,” Duff
said. “The first tour that I
had was really a learning
experience, and you learn
through trial and error. Now
we know what to expect and
when something is wrong, we
can fix it and make it how
we wanted it.”
Although there are certainly
easier ways to spend a
summer than doing multiple
nights of shows with little
rest in between, Duff said
she loves the energy of
traveling across America and
seeing and meeting the fans.
“I really feed off of the
energy that the crowd gives.
It really is so much fun,”
Duff said. |
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