Hilary Duff is taking a bold new turn in her music career, dropping jaws with a sexually explicit single just as drama swirls around her personal life.
The 38-year-old singer and actress is shifting the spotlight from rumored feuds with Ashley Tisdale and her own sister Haylie Duff, and placing it firmly on her NSFW lyrics.
As controversy over Tisdale’s “toxic mom group” essay continues to dominate headlines, Duff teased fans with a provocative track that’s lighting up social media, per the Daily Mail.
The new song ditches her squeaky-clean image in favor of something much more risqué — and fans can’t stop talking about it.
Hilary’s X-rated lyrics spark wild fan reactions
In the new track, Duff sings about a steamy bar hookup and sexual frustration, marking a radical departure from her Lizzie McGuire days.
“I want the part where you say ‘goddamn’ / back of a dive bar giving you h**d / then sneak home late, wake up your roommates,” she sings.
“I’m touching myself by the front door, but you don’t even look my way no more,” she adds.
The lyrics have triggered a mix of shock and admiration from fans.
One stunned listener wrote: “Back of a dive bar giving you WHAT!!?” Another commented: “Back of a dive bar giving you h**d!! This really takes me back to my hoe days, love it.”
But not everyone is on board.
A concerned parent added: “I have four daughters and this makes me so sad. I am all for a healthy sex life but this is not cute. This is not what I want my girls boppin too. This is a problem in this world. Why do we feel the need to be like this ladies?? Save it for your husband.”
The track is expected to appear on Duff’s upcoming album, which she co-wrote with her husband, musician Matthew Koma.
Matthew Koma slams Tisdale after essay about ‘toxic’ mom group
As Duff breaks the internet with her new sound, her husband is stirring things up on social media in his own way.
Koma, 38, didn’t hold back in his response to Tisdale’s essay, mocking the former High School Musical star with a brutal Instagram post.
Koma shared a doctored version of The Cut's essay cover photo, replacing Tisdale’s head with his own.
The fake headline read: “When You’re the Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person on Earth, Other Moms Tend to Shift Focus to Their Actual Toddlers.”
Another line below read: “A Mom Group Tell All Through A Father's Eye.”
The jab came after Tisdale’s viral essay, “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group,” in which she revealed feeling abandoned by friends during her postpartum recovery.
Though she didn’t name names, fans quickly pieced things together — especially after Tisdale unfollowed both Duff and fellow mom Mandy Moore on Instagram.
Tisdale had once gushed about her “village of moms,” a group that included Duff, Moore, and Meghan Trainor.
The women had shared vacations, baby classes, and years of playdates. But cracks started to show after Tisdale gave birth to her daughter Jupiter in 2021.
In the piece, Tisdale claimed she noticed she wasn’t invited to events, only to later see them posted online.
“It took me back to an unpleasant but familiar feeling I thought I’d left behind years ago,” she wrote.
“Here I was sitting alone one night after getting my daughter to bed thinking Maybe I’m not cool enough? All of a sudden I was in high school again, feeling totally lost as to what I was doing ‘wrong’ to be left out.”
She eventually texted the group: “This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.”
“To be clear I have never considered the moms to be bad people (maybe one),” Tisdale added. “But I do think our group dynamic stopped being healthy and positive - for me anyway.”
Haylie Duff adds fuel to family rift rumors
While Duff has stayed silent on the fallout, another twist emerged as fans noticed that her sister Haylie Duff appeared to back Tisdale’s side.
Haylie, 40, hit like on both The Cut’s Instagram post and Tisdale’s promotion of the essay — a subtle but telling move that’s reigniting speculation of a rift between the Duff sisters.
The two siblings were once famously close, but haven’t been photographed together since 2019. Social media interactions between them have also been minimal in recent years, prompting long-standing rumors of estrangement.
Now, with Hilary stepping into an edgy new musical era and her personal circle imploding, fans are left wondering what’s next for the pop star.