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Given the title and Hilary Duff's sophisticated, uptown-girl look on the cover, 2007's DIGNITY seems to announce that the teen starlet is all grown up. Yet the album is still full of effervescent dance-pop, as fresh-faced and catchy as fans of Top 40 and commercial bubblegum would expect. The production techniques, complete with electronic flourishes and nods to club music, are well crafted, to be sure, but DIGNITY isn't about cutting-edge sounds or thumping club bangers. Instead, the electro-beats reinforce the pop song structures and make the singalong tunes shine. The most sophisticated thing about DIGNITY may be its lyrics. Gossip-mill regulars will be able to parse references to Duff's much-publicized entanglements with other commercial pop stars, but what stands out is Duff's mature response to her life's tumult. The album plays like a confession, but does so with a cool head and a clear eye, underscoring the album's title without detracting from the music's inherently fun, bouncy style. From the soft-focused, impeccably styled, tasteful cover photo -- better suited for Harper's Bazaar than a pop album -- to the haughty implications of the title, Hilary Duff's third album, Dignity, appears to be the teen star's self-styled, self-conscious adult album. Almost too adult, actually, since the packaging makes it seem like Hilary skipped over her wild, restless years and headed straight toward polished adult contemporary blandness. But, as Bo Diddley once sang, you can't judge a book by looking at its cover, and Dignity isn't quite what it seems. To be sure, it's an adult album, but it's a young adult album, driven almost entirely by gleaming electronic beats, consisting almost entirely of dance songs, and never once seeming as stuffy as that ill-conceived cover. While it is never as stylish and brittle as the cold, robotic funk of FutureSex/LoveSounds, Dignity surely strives to be a happier, friendlier spin on that electro-pop sound -- dance-pop for people who never set foot in clubs, which also means that even if the rhythms are pushed to the forefront, the tracks are built upon a strong songwriting foundation that, thanks to teen pop impresario Kara DioGuardi, are sturdy, hooky, and memorable. It's the kind of music made be somebody who knows what's fashionable but isn't by any means a trend-setter, but that, in a nutshell, is who Hilary Duff is: she's not the coolest kid around, but she's the popular girl who's still friendly to the misfits, nerds, and burnouts, so everybody still likes her even if it's at times begrudging. That persona shines strongly on Dignity, which bears a stronger autobiographical imprint than almost any other teen pop album of the 2000s. Despite that glossy photo, Hilary comes across as contradictory and conflicted as any 20-year-old in the throes of a messy, public breakup would. At its core, Dignity is the sound of the most popular girl at school shedding her long-time boyfriend and her old friends and starting life all over again. The ex-friends she takes completely unveiled swipes at are Lindsay and Britney, who earn Hilary's disdain as they party away in the Hollywood Hills, while the boyfriend is Good Charlotte's Joel Madden -- and knowing all this via tabloids and gossip blogs actually makes Dignity's literal lyrics more interesting, since when she sings about being tempted by dangerous older men or rediscovering a part of her she lost or even fending off stalkers, they play like confessions, not inventions. Having these journal entries married to sleek wannabe club beats gives this an appealingly fresh, contemporary feel, as the sound matches the ideas behind the lyrics; it's the sound of teen pop growing old in the late 2000s. Too bad, then, that Hilary still sounds like a girl. She doesn't quite sound like the spunky Lizzy McGuire, but her voice is thin, sweet, fragile, not at all like a woman, so Dignity can occasionally feel like she's trying on her big sister's clothes as she iEntertainment Weekly (p.75) - "DIGNITY is 100 percent electro-pop, awash in bleeping synths and multitracked Duff vocals delivered with a newfound petulance..." -- Grade: B+ Dignity Music | List Price | $13.95 (You save $1.36) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Pop CDs, Teen Pop, Rock | | Label | Hollywood | | Orig Year | 2007 | | All Time Sales Rank | 70265  | | CD Universe Part number | 7383686 | | Catalog number | 162668 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 03, 2007 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Hilary Duff; Andre Recke | | Recording Time | 49 minutes |
Hilary Duff Dignity Songs Dignity Music Review Average Rating: (4.2 out of 5 stars)    List All Reviews HIGH QUALITY MUSIC, THE BEST OF HILARY DUFF This album is AMAZING i love this so much, the songs are AWESOME, the music is very nice, Hilary Duff is an excellent singer, she did an amazing job here. THIS SHOULD BE IN EVERYONES COLLECTION.
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Excellent Album The songs are really cool. Submitted by John (San Francisco, California) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful.
i wish i could give her 6 stars hey hilary keep on going i love your cd i have it in fact keep going i love singing to your songs your voice is just so natural i love it keep going
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let's be honest if you like over-produced, commercialized bubblegum pop, that's perfectly alright. you're certainly free to do so. but please don't tell me that it's creative music. it isn't. it's mindless fluff that's short on imagination and talent, and long on gimmick. Submitted by tom (california) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 2 of 4 found this helpful.
Different Hilary's first 3 CD's were great this one is different I think. It's more dancey. I like though how she wrote all the songs but one on her other CD's it was here and there and people who write their own stuff I think are great artists. Play With Fire, Stranger & Dignity I think are the best songs. If your a true Hilary fan it's worth buying. Submitted by Meg (Mpls USA) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
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