How Hilary Duff’s ‘Metamorphosis’ Inspired Millennial Women
“Hilary Duff is banned from this year’s talent show.”These were the words that sent an entire room of Lizzie McGuire merch-wearing 9-year-olds into a frenzy. The year is 2003. “The Lizzie McGuire Movie” had changed the lives of younger millennials everywhere, and Duff released her first studio album, “Metamorphosis,” just months later. I don’t know how my fourth grade music teacher found the confidence to shut down over a dozen synchronized dances and off-key renditions of Duff’s “So Yesterday.” But, to this day, I don’t think I’ll ever forgive her for the absolutely epic performance me and my friends had worked on that’ll never be seen in public. (That said, we absolutely killed our Beach Boys interpretive dance.)Today, if you ask any early 30-something American woman what “metamorphosis...