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From deep cuts to surprise guests, Duff's comeback show basks in millennial magic (just don't forget your butterfly clips)
Don’t ask Hilary Duff about “The Math.” The centerpiece of 2003’s Metamorphosis, it’s a cheeky rocker that conveys a frustrating relationship through mathematical terms — there are minus signs, plus signs, and even a reference to *69, the ye olde service code for a call return. Thinking about it nearly 25 years later, the 38-year-old musician and actress finds it a little cringe. “I literally die inside every time,” she told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “Those lyrics? I’m ashamed.” As her husband and collaborator Matthew Koma puts it: “That’s been our inside joke since day one. We’re like, ‘All right, play ‘The Math’ three times in the set!”
Except that totally happened — sadly not three times, just once — at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Aug. 6. Duff, on tour behind her fantastic new album Luck … or Something, unearthed the fan favorite, performing it for the first time since 2006. “I hope you remember the words to this song,” she told the crowd. “I hope I remember the words to this song.” (Don’t worry, she did.)
Luck … or Something marks Duff’s first new album in over a decade, after 2015’s Breathe In. Breathe Out. Her massive Lucky Me World Tour plays in the U.S. through August, before she heads overseas through the fall — and resumes again early next year. Here are six reasons you should see her right now.
