Beginning Friday, August 12th, MTV Hits will morph into Hilary’s Hits for a five-day celebration of all things Hilary Duff. MTV Hits is MTV’s only all “Hits” driven digital music video channel on-air 24 hours / 7 days a week. The video channel features the hottest artists in popular music today such as Destiny’s Child, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez, Good Charlotte, Usher, Avril Lavigne and more.…
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— go to most recent comments26 - Tan The Man
Maggie, I got an email delivery failure notice. Please give me a working e-mail so you can receive my instructions. Please respond by tomorrow, otherwise I'd have to pick another winner. Thanks.
27 - Melissa
My 5 year old daughter worships Hilary! We have her bedspread, makeup, clothes, Lizzie underwear, music, movies, posters, jewelery, etc! We just went, to her concert where we live in North Carolina and it was awesome!She is such a great role model for the kids! I really love her just as much as my daughter! I have learned all of her songs too! Every song she has is wonderful! I also love that she believes in God which is the most important thing of all! I would give anything if we could meet Hilary in person! That would be that happiest day of my daughter's life! Seeing her in concert was pretty close enough but I would love to sit down and talk with her! Keep up the great work Hilary! You are a beautiful person! We hope that you come back to NC to sing again!
We love you!
Melissa & Cheyenne
28 - Haley
hilary duff weighs over 200 lbs? i swear i just saw someone type that in a post.
29 - Kristie
u are the bomb. in my own way of saying i love u you are my insperation
30 - Kristie
love ya you r the koolest teen singer ever
31 - Ashlyn
let me see your dancers
32 - Bhavik
Hilary, i wish i could see in person or even talk to u oba the net..lol...so plz plz can i get ur email
33 - Alyssa
hilary duff is a stupid stuck up mommas grl who needs to stop acting like shes hard core or somthing cause she cant stand to listen to the real rock !!
34 - jessica
I love u hilary duff and i m ur #1 jessics
35 - jessica
I love u hilary and i=this is ur #1 fan e-mail jessicahatton@peoplepc.com
36 - kylie
hilary duff can never be better she is just tthe bomb i love her music deffernetly sumones watching over me
37 - Haley
I doubt that hilary actually reads this stuff, but whatever...um, "ass like that" by Eminem is a bad song. I mean, its stupid. Jessica Simpson and Hilary Duff don't have a butt at all. But , that's just my opinion.
38 - Tan The Man
She might, never give up hope.
39 - aaron
hey hilary my name is aaron i was wondering if u ever talk on this thing wow im 15 and i dont know why i like u so much maybe its because of ur face i heard u got a new face but i like the old face better ur face was way cooler then it is why did u change ur face u really need to be ur self dont change something because someone told u just try to be ur self its the right thing well i hope u ur self right back to me remember me plz well maybe talk to u later [edited email]
40 - sophie dean
New hater version of Hilary duff’s new song “wake up”
People are talking
Talking about you
We know your name
And we really hate you
But we just know
That we
Hate you
Give me a Lindsay,
Give me a Raven,
Give me somebody, who’s not Hilary
Cuz, we need to go we need to get away from her
She puts her makeup on a Saturday night,
Thinks it looks good, but it doesn’t look right
She always makes mistakes,
She makes them every day,
It’s never any easy, cuz she’s so lame
Makeup! Makeup! On a Saturday night
Thinks it looks good, but it doesn’t look right
London, Paris maybe Tokyo
Don’t wanta see her face any where I go tonight
Tonight
Yeah tonight
People are talking,
To get rid of her,
But she won’t leave and now we really hate her
Cuz she needs to go she needs to get away tonight
She puts her make up on a Saturday night,
Thinks it looks good, but it doesn’t look right
She always makes mistakes,
She makes them every day,
It’s never any easy, cuz she’s so lame
Makeup! Makeup! On a Saturday night
Thinks it looks good, but it doesn’t look right
London, Paris maybe Tokyo
Don’t wanta see her face any where I go tonight
Tonight
Yeah tonight
People looking at her she’s a freak show
People looking at her they don’t wanta know her
Everybody tired and they want her to go
Everybody’s tired they want her leave
Now
Forever
Tonight
Makeup! Makeup!
Makeup! Makeup!
Makeup! Makeup! On a Saturday night
Thinks it looks good, but it doesn’t look right
London, Paris maybe Tokyo
Don’t wanta see her face any where I go tonight
Makeup! Makeup! On a Saturday night
Thinks it looks good, but it doesn’t look right
London, Paris maybe Tokyo
Don’t wanta see her face any where I go tonight
Tonight
Yeah tonight
Hilary be gone forever
41 - me
HAHA THAT those lyrics are awsome anyways..... Hilary Duff sucks so much i laughed my ass off when she said on an interveiw that on her movie raise your voice she sang every bit in the movie oh im so sure hil, shes such a lip syncing fake and thinks shes so punk by wearing a stud belt she just needs to....leave she cant act she obviously can't sing i mean why the hell is she a singer if shes not going to sing for real at her own concert probly because she well... cant sing yea thats right hilary duff c-a-n-t sing so dont even try to say that she can all you in-mature 10 year olds go buy some glitter eye shadow
42 - Haley
lol, "me" you are so right...
43 - Kate
HI,HILARY
i AM UR BIGGEST FAN. I WATCH EVERY LIZZIE SHOW. AND I LISTEN TO ALL OF UR SONGS. DONT TURN OUT LIKE lINDSEY OR BRITNEY SPEARS BECAUSE U R GORGEOUS AND DONT LET ANYBODY TELL U THAT YOU PRETTY BECAUSE UR GORGEOUS AND HAVE A WONDERFUL VOICE. YOU ROCK !!!!!
44 - Tori
HI, Hilary
You are a geat singer I Looove ur song Getaway. I think your wardrobe is 3 words Fab-U-Las and your more than a great singer ur my ROLEMODLE.
and dont care what anybody wrote bad about u because dont listen to it because you know what there jealous.
By the way I love your makeup.
45 - Jojo
Hey Hilary!, you are an awesome singer, hey E-mail me like u did yesterday because I want to have a pool party with my celeb friends and you are invited it is in L.A like around where u live... OH, and you know on myspace.com invite Kay and her sister Danielle and Aly and A.J Michalka... OK?? I am also inviting Jesse McCartney and Bow Wow, but I think Bow wow can't come come to my party, it's at the party place with the pool, R.S.V P.
46 - Dally
Hi, Hilary
I don't even know if you read these but if you do I wanted to say that you are an incredibly talented singer and actress! Every time another movie with you in it comes out I always make sure I see it as soon as I can. When you were in Winnipeg I tried so hard to get tickets for your concert but it was virtually impossible. Your so pretty and a great role model. You never play in bad movies and you don't swear in your songs.
You'll always be #1 in my opinion.
47 - julie
hey ppl
my niece is a fan of hilary duff but never hardly talks about her
I am mary-kate and ashley olsen's number 1 fan and i talk about them all the time!
If this is the case does this mean she isnt a fan at all!
Please answer my question!
xxjuliexx
48 - cortney porch
i think her teenth is good but i dont know why she do that now she is not my fav i dont think so
49 - Bob A. Booey
Is this like a radio station now with giveaways?
Melissa and Julie, are you sure you women are fully adults? Mentally, I mean. I'd like you to take IQ tests.
Cheyenne's a hot stripper name, so watch your daughter very carefully into her college years. As Chris Rock says, you gots to keep her off the pole.
That is all.
50 - Telaura
Do any of you know what hilary duffs new email address is?
51 - Hammy
YOU THINK HILARY DUFF THE WORST SINGER AND ACTRESS ACTUALLY WOULD read what ur writing
52 - Blondbarf
It is really, realy, and if I didn't stress this enough really sad, that we live in a day and age where crap like this is considered talent, music, entertainment, or anything else remotely connected to REAL ART.
This girl is a marketing gimmick. A media whore straightup! Have you seen what they've done to this girl? I just saw something with her on it. She's had a boob job, collagen injections in her lips, her eyes done, her cheeks, and is anorexic. And what is she like 17? Oh my God! She looks like an anorexic Beverly Hills housewife. She looks like a mess.
The music industry is a sausage factory now. They take cutesy girls, and then turn them into prostitutes after a couple of years. It is the sickest thing I have ever seen next to the modeling industry.
They don't make music anylonger. What they make is a viable "safe" product, with sexual mixed messages, that they can cross over into MANY different forms of media, and mass market the hell out of. They suck the life from these girls, and then toss them aside like trash. And go...NEXT!
Sure these girls exit stage left rich. If they have a mother like Britney Spears that is. But they leave with a false, shattered self image, low self esteem, and no dignity whatsoever. Not mention any lasting remark on the music biz.We have basically reverted back to the 1950's in this country. With The Bush administration in office, all the neo conservatism, all the "terrorist commies", and all the "safe, pretty" girl singers.
It is just like the 1950's. You had Sandra Dee, Shelly Fabraes or however you spell her name, Anette Funicello. And behind all of this was a world in turmoil, scared of the "commies" and reds. It is EXACTLY the same now as it was then, if not worse. Because back then most people didn't think for themselves. Just like now. They think how they are told to think, or programmed.
This country has taken 5 steps backwards in it's progress. Not only in the development of culture and art, but in the way we view the REAL world around us. Sure we have technology and all. But what good is it if you no longer have freedom.
That means freedom to make decisions without the media constantly shoving marketing ploys down in your head. Freedom to believe in your political stance, and most off freedom to speak your mind against all the utter garbasge that exists today.
It's so totally gross...I want to barf!
53 - Bob A. Booey
Interesting take, Blondbarf.
I don't know what it is, but I think she's gotten less cute and kind of angular/emaciated looking too.
The 1950s analogy isn't bad, but I've always tended to think we've been in the 1970s again culturally for a while, except that rock is dead and so is the pop tart/boy band genre as well. At least in the 1950s, you had good pop music and doo wop. Music today is a wasteland, like the early - mid 1970s.
That is all.
54 - kelly
I really don't like hilary duff. i think she is a horrible actress. she plays the same role in every freakn movie. she should really try and branch out, maybe try a movie with actual depth. her singing is AWFUL!!! i can't believe people listen to it. the only reason she is famous is because four year olds buy her junk. have you noticed that none of her movies go above a PG rating? thats because if they did she would lose her entire audience. plus, the media portrays her as this total goody two shoes. when, in reality, my friends older sister actually met her in a club and said she was really mean when asked who she was. i wish people would listen to real music and not pop computer junk. she doesn't even write her own lyrics! in my opinion you should not be able to perfrom unless you play your own instruments or write your own music. hilary does niether.
55 - Libbie
I think Hilary Duff is realy kool.She is a gr8 person.I love the way she dresses.I wish i could be like here.She is so pretty skiny.
56 - kelly
did anybody even read what i posted?
57 - stephanie
hey Hilery i use to think that you were relly cool.i mean i still do,but youve changed alot.i read your article on your self and about how you started and how alot people sayed mean things about you ,but you know you shouldent be pushed down because of what people say about you,your the one who needs the truth and as long as you knoe that truth,know one can take that away.and you know how you said that you prey to angels?well thats not right,its a sin and God doesent like it.he can handel it i mean come on hes the CREATOR OF THE W O R L D !you need to thank about it and relly actuly read the bible not just say that you do because god knows that truth .iv traveld to many places and know how crude things are.AND alot of what people say is because ther relly mad about(i dont know how to put this)about your new looks i mean just just look at the picture 4 a moment look at how you did look and now? theres a huge difference! some times the way you dress it completly inapropret/at least you dont look like Brittney Spearse!thats 4 shure, its just to weard to love some one so cuit and sweet and then see her sorta falling a part. well lov ya
58 - Elizabeth
Hilary is so awsome she's gr8! I wish I could meet her! I love the way she dresses and looks I love her so much! She's a gr8 singer and a gr8 person she's wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
59 - Tan The Man
She is awesome. My local radio station played a block of all of her singles the other day, er I think so. I heard "So Yesterday", "Come Clean" and "Fly". I'm assuming the station played her latest before "So Yesterday". It made my day.
60 - Bob A. Booey
What's up with this girl's weight? I was watching a few minutes of an old Oprah rerun from last season with my broad last night and she looked really short and kinda heavy. But now I see her in some ads and pictures where she's almost too skinny, with gaunt cheekbones.
I realize her age might have a lot to do with the ups and downs, but it seems like two extremes.
And her boyfriend is such a poseur. He's so not punk and he's ten years older than her.
That is all.
61 - Tan The Man
Don't get me started on how horrible a band Good Charlotte is.
62 - carly
hey everyone my name is carly i think hilary is really kool. her and joll make a good couple if anyone wants to email me ppppppllleassse!!!!!!
63 - Renu
Hi Hilary!!!
i love your music and here's the thing i think that you look great,but you look even better without make-up,i'm not saying that you don't look good. and forget about kelly, she is just so wrong so ignore her and keep up the good work and please can you tell everyone your new e-mail address. we are soooooooooooo desperate to know. bye
love, Renu
64 - Haley
Hilary, you'rre music blows and you are supremely ugly. But you have a way with naive preteen girls. Congrats. Here's my 3 tips for you:
1. Get singing lessons because you can't sing
2. Never make another crappy teeny bopper movie agin
3. Quickly fade out of the limelight...NOW
65 - Haley
I can't spell to day...My bad
* you're
*again
66 - AJ
That bitch sucks hard
67 - CW
Im not a gr8 fan coz shez kinda litle kidz sorta songz but i think some ov ur songz r pretty damn good!I like da FLY 1. Rock on hilary!
68 - Kate
hey hil ,if u read dis, i try 2 watch u every day on tv and listen 2 ur songz but az a tip, mite i add that, well, mayb u shuld stop magazinez sayin dat u bcame punk coz no offence, but u r so not punk!!
69 - Derek
Can I have Hilary Duffs Email address
70 - John Morton
Greatest Hits and Misses
Last month singer/actress Hillary Duff released her first greatest hits package “Most Wanted”, which debuted at number one on billboard’s album charts. It was the teen queen’s first number one record and most successful selling debut ever which begs the question. How does a teenager who has released only two albums and one Christmas compilation release a “Best of” compilation?
“Used to be a time when a band put out a “Greatest Hits/Best Of” compilation midway through their career,” wrote IGN writer Spence D. in his recent review of Duff’s “Most Wanted”. “Times have changed, however, and the new wave of pop stars tend to crank out “Greatest Hits/Best Of”, live and remix albums at the drop of a hat,” he added.
Journalist Nekesa Mumbi Moody recently wrote a very insightful and intriguing article for the Associated Press detailing the over flooding of the market with “Best of” compilations from artists associated with only one hit or a string of minor hits.
In the article Moody writes about some of the more questionable greatest-hits collections that have popped up in recent years including Duff’s “Most Wanted”, Britney Spears’ “Greatest Hits: My Prerogative,” (a retrospective of Spears’ six year recording career), “Toy Soldiers: The Best of Martika” (one hit wonder from the summer of 1989); “The Best of Mandy Moore,” (known more as an actress than singer) and “The Best of O.D.B.,” (the late troubled hip hop artist who spent time in prison during his short career).
In an online post on eBaum’s World forum one disgruntled individual scathingly attacked the tendencies of pop stars, most notably Hillary Duff, to release hits packages and denounced the people that purchased them saying, “Who the hell releases a greatest hits package after two albums? (Referring to Duff). “If you want the hit singles that badly, record them off the radio, download them, or buy the single discs! Otherwise, stop being so cheap and buy the freakin albums!”
The individual then listed three possible reasons for Duff to release a hits package so early: They were as follows:
a) They (music executives) figure her career is pretty much over, so might as well put it out and make as much money off of her while they still can.
b) New strategy to fight illegal downloading: release greatest hits packages after a couple of albums so people who just want the hits won't have to wait several years to pick up a compilation.
c) Both... but mostly a
The shelf life of a teen pop star is very short so the tendency to over-saturate the market with countless recordings and merchandise is regarded as a way to fully capitalize on what is a viewed as a limited opportunity to make a profit.
“It’s all about money as usual,” said Canadian writer Marc Gervais. “Usually artists don’t have much of a choice when it comes to their own greatest hits packages.”
“Hits compilations are usually released to fill a contract obligation or when an artist leaves their old record company,” said Gervais. “The company then releases a hits album to squeeze every last amount of money they can before the artist starts making money with a new record company.”
That seems to be the case with new and old artists alike regardless if they’re pop, rock, hip-hop or country artists. “Best of” albums are an easy way to make money without spending much on making a brand new record.
“I guess with music becoming so disposable, things just happen so much faster now,” said Collective Soul guitarist Dean Roland in Nekesa Mumbi Moody’s article. “The short answer to the whole thing is it comes out to a money issue. The labels can put a greatest-hits album out and it’s going to sell.”
Seventies rockers turned 90’s video darlings Aerosmith have had their share of hits compilations and live records but the band insists that it’s not there doing but the record companies decision.
“Y’know, you sign a multimillion-dollar contract, and the label says you owe them four studio albums,” said Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler in a 2002 interview with Maxim magazine.
“ What they don’t tell you is that they’ve also got Greatest Hits tucked in there, Greatest Greatest Hits, the Not-So-Greatest Hits, the Outtakes, Classics Live, and Live Classics. They just keep releasing whatever they want to as long as the band’s relevant. Unfortunately for us, we’ve remained relevant. It’s f**king insane,” added Tyler.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the top selling hits albums in U.S history are: 1.) Eagles “Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975” (28 Million). 2.) Billy Joel “Hits Vol. I & II” (21 million). 3.) The Beatles “1967-1970” (16 Million). 4.) Elton John “Greatest Hits” (16 Million). 5.) The Beatles (1962-1966) (15 Million).
The Eagles Greatest Hits album overcame Michael Jackson’s Thriller to become the top selling album in the U.S of all-time. It’s very unlikely that compilations from mall queen Tiffany or early 90’s rap act PM Dawn will appear on this list any time soon.
It can be said that the music industry’s short attention span coupled with an even shorter shelf space retailers offer has led to this fluctuation of unnecessary “Best of” compilations.
“Everyone is vying for limited space in an ever crowded market and artists have to get their product out to as many people as possible,” said writer Marc Gervais. “I can’t tell you how many times I go to a record store and an album I want that contains a certain song is never in stock so a hits album is good in that regard since it may contain the songs you want.”
It seems the days when hits albums were summary points to an artist career and not just cash grabs are over. The hits package used to be an integral part of a fans collection for those fans that owned all or most of a certain artists discography. Now a hits album may be the only record that is bought from a certain artist.
The longevity and viability of artists has changed over the years, as has the music industry as a whole. Other than a handful of contemporary artists nobody seems destined to release the next “Hot Rocks” (The Rolling Stones) or “Smash Hits” (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) or even something on par with the latest Guns n’ Roses hits album.
“I just bought Pearl Jam’s hits record and that is a hell of a ‘best of’ CD,” said Gervais. “Hits albums like Pearl Jam’s ‘Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003)’ and Neil Young’s 2004 hits record are timeless and will always have a place within people’s hearts.”
“It’s soundtrack music to people’s lives, not some flash in the pan some teeny bopper dances to in her room,” Gervais said. “This years hot new hits compilation from the latest mini pop is next years bargain bin item. Like seriously, are people really going to remember Lindsay Lohan in fifty years?”
Trent McMartin
71 - Haley
Trust me, Hilary doesn't read these comments... she's too busy making crappy music and movies... you Hilary Duff groupies are disgusting...smh
72 - eleanor
I love hilary duff, please give me her email address if u have it! She's the BEST!
73 - Haley
eleanor, you are sad... i rather listen to good charlotte than hilary duff and that's saying a lot because i hate rock/punk/metal with a firey passion.
Rap
R&B
Hip Hop
^^^^ The best types of music out there.
74 - ana
omg!!!!! hu eva made da new version of 'wake up' is creative but thats so mean! u use her song and then say bad stuff. u can get stfed!!! if i knew hu u are i would giv u a piece of my mind. shes great so if i could, i would mak a worse song about u dat i actully would mak myself not copying som1 elses!!!!!
75 - Sangi
I dunno what the hell is wrong with you people.
She sucks.
She lip-syncs.
She's a whiny little brat.
She needs to stop singing.