Alex Macpherson of EMI writes a review of ?Dignity? for The Guardian.
It used to be the case that, when a teenpop starlet wanted to signify that she was all grown up, she would abandon frothy dance pop in favour of rocking out. That?s not the case here. Hilary Duff made some of the best bubblegum pop songs, but Dignity sees her metamorphose into a moody electro princess, with a dark hairstyle to match. Her jump dancewards is curious commercially, but thoroughly worthwhile artistically: the best cuts here hold their own against Kylie, though the more apt comparison is Rachel Stevens? fantastic but underperforming solo album. Beats crunch, the bass purrs and ersatz eastern strings swoop. Duff, as ever, is charmingly chameleon-like, most triumphant on the impassioned groove of With Love, the Depeche Mode rip-off Dreamer, and the tabloid fodder of the title track - in which Duff turns her nose up at some of her contemporaries? more outrageous behaviour, and which could be taken as a catty swipe at Lindsay Lohan, with whom she has an ongoing feud.