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Hilary Duff is back on stage and delivered the performance of Lizzie McGuire fans’ dreams.
Duff, 38, took the stage at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Monday, Jan. 19, in her first concert since 2015. During the highly anticipated show, she performed her 2003 hit “What Dreams Are Made Of” live for the first time, reports Rolling Stone. The song initially appeared in The Lizzie McGuire Movie.
The performance comes ahead of the upcoming Feb. 2 release of Duff’s album luck…or something. Its first single, “Mature,” was released on Nov. 6, and the second, “Roommates,” dropped on Jan. 16.
The singer and actress released the steamy new “Roommates” alongside a rain-soaked music video, a callback to the video for her 2003 hit “Come Clean,” where she sits by a window watching a storm outside.
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“Roommates” features lyrics about longing for the exciting and intimate parts of a romantic relationship that’s since become a bit more mundane.
“I only want the beginning, I don’t want the end / Want the part where you say, ‘Goddamn’ / Back of the dive bar, giving you head /Then sneak home late, wake up your roommates,” she sings on the chorus.
Reminiscing on a time when she and a partner weren’t “practically roommates,” she sings later in the track, “I’m touching myself looking at porn / ‘Cause you don’t even look my way no more.”
In a statement about the single, Duff explained, “’Roommates’ is a song about when life is life-ing, babe.”
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The performer, who’s married to husband Matthew Koma, continued, “It’s that ache for a wilder, freer time — before the days were swallowed by carpools, budget talks, grocery runs and letting old or new insecurities slip in. It’s the restless hum of wanting to find your way back — to your rhythm, to your person, to yourself.”
In support of luck…or something, Duff’s Small Rooms, Big Nerves Tour will continue in Toronto on Jan. 24, before heading to the U.S. for more shows, including a residency in Las Vegas.
