Hilary Duff admits it's "intimidating" re-entering the pop music world.
The 26-year-old Houston-born, L.A.-based singer-songwriter-actress made the statement Wednesday while supporting a Duracell batteries donation campaign to the Children's Miracle Network and its 14 member hospitals across Canada including Sick Kids in Toronto.
Duff, whose last studio album was 2007's more dance-electro-pop sounding Dignity followed by a 2008 greatest hits before ending her Hollywood Records contract, says
she's written "seven or eight songs," and will have a new single out by spring and a new album by fall on a new label still to be determined.
As for what she'll sound like in 2014:
"There's some EDM influence. And then some songs kind of like indie and earthy. I don't know, that sounds really weird. It's all over the map. Some songs have really heavy piano. Some have like funky weird tinkering sounds."
Still, it's a whole new pop music landscape what with Miley Cryus twerking up a storm, among other things.
"It's such a different business now," Duff told QMI Agency in an Canadian newspaper exclusive one-on-one interview.
"Honestly, it can be intimidating. I'm not comparing myself to (Miley Cyrus) but a lot of the things that go on in pop music or not me or who I am. Or not yet. Who knows what I'm going to wake up tomorrow and feel like? I really just try to come and be who I am ... And one person that I think is a really good example is like Taylor Swift. She's really honest with her lyrics and her stage show isn't like some crazy thing that's controversial. But I think what Miley Cyrus is doing is really cool and I think she's being who she wants to be and that is important. And so I respect that."
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/12/04...r-pop-comeback
The respect, the acclaim 
The Miley stans here better learn 
