Hilary
USA Today, although giving the album only 2.5/4 stars, has a great interview with Hilary Duff.
First, Hilary Duff talks about ?Stranger? and ?Gypsy Woman? and how they relate to her parents - NOT to Joel Madden & Nicole Richie:
Duff insists that both songs ?Stranger and Gypsy Woman? were inspired by a crisis having nothing to do with her former beau.
?This is so hard to talk about,? Duff says, holed up in a tiny dressing room at MTV?s studios, where she co-hosted TRL last week. She?s referring to the separation last year of her parents, Bob and Susan Duff, which the family managed to keep more private than the Duff/Madden breakup. ?For some reason, I was embarrassed that my family wasn?t perfect and that some woman had broken it up.?
That other woman, she says, is the subject of Gypsy, which the singer co-wrote with her elder sister and frequent collaborator, Haylie. ?And Stranger is a song I wrote about how my mom must feel around my dad. I made it seem like it was about a relationship I was in, because I didn?t want people to know about my parents. But I?ve realized that so many people can relate to what I?ve gone through.?