I really think Hilary needs to take a page from Alexz Johnson's book and start hyping up her music and releasing independently. Hilary is so much bigger than her and doing something like that could really change the perception of her.

I'll help her.
Alexz has released a studio album, a remix album, two albums of unreleased material, an EP and is about to release a live album + a documentary of the making of her tour & latest EP. All on her own. She even toured through Kickstarter. She's also working on the follow-up to her last album.