“I couldn’t ask for anything better,” Hilary Duff said just hours before her second sold-out Los Angeles show.
The 38-year-old singer and actress is in the midst of The Lucky Me tour, her first major tour in over a decade. She waded back into the touring water last year with her intimate Small Rooms, Big Nerves tour. Hordes of young millennials and older Gen Z fans flocked to Inglewood’s Kia Forum on Wednesday. The crowd, many of whom were dressed in bright pink, green and orange, looked like they wandered off the set of Duff’s teen star-making show Lizzie McGuire.
Duff got emotional about playing in L.A., noting that her family was in attendance. “I’m home,” she shouted to Wednesday’s gathered crowd, telling them that she’s been to so many shows at the Forum over the year.
“Honestly, [the tour’s] just been joyful and fun and extremely rewarding. That’s not to say not a ton of work,” she told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of her second L.A. show. “But what a summer.”
Duff’s promoting her latest album, Luck… or Something, her first in a decade. The singer’s prolific career as a teen and young star was a bit of a balancing act, juggling acting and an earnest pop career, and balance seems to be a theme of the new tour as well. The singer has been made to thread the tough but necessary needle of fitting her aughts hits and her new music into a single setlist. She also has to make sure it’s engaging for both new and old fans.
