希拉里·達夫：發現自己

退出流行歌壇與娛樂圈8年之后，希拉里·達夫在2015年攜新專輯回歸。不同的是，這一次她不再是當年聚光燈下的小童星，而是身為人母、自信前行的職業女性！

It doesnt take a genius to understand how fickle the pop music industry can be， which certainly makes it a bad idea to take a lengthy break from the business， say， for 8 years.

This is why it seems more than “so yesterday” that actress and singer Hilary Duff released her last album Dignity. But shes back in the game now with her 5th studio album， which came out in early June， 2015—Breathe In. Breathe Out.

The 28-year-old is no stranger to people of her age. She started as a child star and shot to fame as the leading character in Disney Channels Lizzie McGuire in 1999. She basically grew up in the spotlight.

But the experience was not exactly as enviable as everyone thought it would be. “It is isolating and it was lonely，” she told Popjustice， a music website. And after years of hard work she was “burnt out on everything”.

Moreover， it was difficult for people to see Duff as anything but a teen star， something many who get famous while young struggle with.

That was when Duff decided to take a bold step. “I was ready to live my life and not be blasted on the cover of Star magazine，” she said. “I needed to learn what I liked and who I was and make normal peoples decisions.”

流行樂壇的飛速變化盡人皆知，長期隱退從來都不是上選，尤其是一別8年之久。

這也許就是為什么演員兼歌手希拉里·達夫“隱退”前發行的最后一張專輯Dignity已如明日黃花。不過，2015年6月初，她已攜第5張錄音室專輯Breathe In. Breathe Out回歸流行樂壇。

與28歲的希拉里·達夫同齡的人對她并不感到陌生。早在1999年她因出演迪士尼頻道電視劇《新成長的煩惱》主角而名聲大噪，成為一名小童星。她幾乎是在聚光燈下長大的。

但這些經歷并不像人人所想的那般令人羨慕。在接受音樂網站Popjustice采訪時，達夫表示：“（聚光燈下的生活）仿佛與世隔絕，令人倍感孤單。”加之經過數年的高強度工作，她表示自己已經“對一切燃盡了熱情”。

此外，人們都只是把她當作一個童星，僅此而已，許多小時候成名的人都想盡力擺脫這種童星印象。

這也促使達夫做出了一個勇敢的決定。她說：“我已經準備好過自己的生活，不再去《明星》雜志的封面上刷存在感了。我需要找到自己所愛、認識自己，像普通人一樣做決定。”

And she did. During the past 8 years she got to remodel a house， get married， have a baby boy， Luca， and travel the world. She got divorced in early 2014.

“I feel like it was a big growing process，” she said. “Im an adult now and I was a kid before... I feel so much more confident as a person.”

The album has been received positively. US entertainment site The Verge commented that it was “smartly structured and ruthlessly catchy” and “imbued with real personality”， and Times review says that the tunes are “binge-able” and are “going to get anybody hyperventilating”.

“I know the pressures of what society thinks is a good choice to make， or what your family thinks are choices that you should make，” she told Buzzfeed， a website， when asked about advice she would give to young women. “As long as youre aware of what makes you happy and what youre good at... and making sure youre working hard and you know your path.”

她確實做到了。在過去的8年間，她改造房屋、嫁為人妻、有了孩子——男孩盧卡，還去世界各地旅行。2014年初，她又恢復了單身。

她說：“我覺得這是一段收獲頗豐的成長歷程。以前我是一個孩子，但我現在已成人……我覺得自己變得自信多了。”

她的這張專輯反響很不錯。美國娛樂網站The Verge評論它“結構巧妙、歌詞旋律朗朗上口，其中還深藏個人的真情實感。”《時代周刊》的樂評則是：曲調能令人“沉溺其中”，甚至令所有人呼吸急促。

當網站Buzzfeed問達夫有什么建議給年輕女性時，她說：“我知道整個社會、整個家庭對我們選擇的壓力。只要你知道什么能帶給你真正的快樂以及什么是你所擅長的……確保你正在很努力地工作，也深知你正在前行的道路，就夠了。”