Hilary Duff is making a surprise return to music — and her fans couldn’t be happier.
The 37-year-old singer and actor, who hasn’t released an album of new songs since 2015’s Breathe In. Breathe Out., has signed a deal with Atlantic Records.
The former Lizzie McGuire and Younger star is also collaborating with Sam Wrench, the filmmaker behind Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter, on an “intimate docuseries” that chronicles her return to music and her personal journey, the release said.
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The docuseries will embrace “the ups, downs, and everything in between” and show Duff “as she balances raising a family, recording new music, live show rehearsals, and preparing to perform on stage for the first time in over a decade”.
Duff also shared the news, albeit with fewer details, the same day on Instagram.
“New music … or something,” she captioned a trio of photos on Instagram.
One picture showed Duff wearing jeans and a T-shirt as she lounged in a chair next to a drum. Another showed her embracing her musician husband, Matthew Koma, as he played a keyboard in what looked to be a recording studio.
Another picture showed Duff’s hands holding a smartphone next to a pair of headphones.
Koma, who collaborated with Duff on her last studio album, shared the same photos in his Instagram stories along with the image of a Billboard news article about Duff’s new projects, over which he wrote, “Let’s. F******. Go.”
Fans hopped into the comments of Duff’s post to express their excitement over the news.
“This is what dreams are made of,” several wrote in honor of Duff’s 2003 song What Dreams Are Made Of.
“So happy to hear you’re coming out with music again soon! I feel like doing cartwheels,” wrote another.
“I’M CRYING TEARS OF JOY,” added a third.
Duff shot to stardom in 2001 as the star of the Disney Channel tween sitcom Lizzie McGuire, which led to 2003’s The Lizzie McGuire Movie.
She went on to star in several more TV shows and movies, including the long-running Younger and Hulu’s How I Met Your Mother spinoff How I Met Your Father.
Along the way, Duff released five studio albums, including 2003’s Metamorphosis, which included the Billboard Hot 100 hits So Yesterday and Come Clean.
She scored additional hits later with the singles Wake Up and With Love.
