Millennial Pop Queen Hilary Duff Is Recording Again

Nearly a decade after the release of Breathe In. Breathe Out., Hilary Duff is quietly dusting off the studio mic.

Her husband, Matthew Koma, teased the news on Instagram, ending a heart-melting Mother’s Day tribute with one last plea, the same one we’ve all been repeating since 2015: “Now please go save millennial pop music, it needs you now more than ever,” he wrote.

Duff’s last album came out in June 2015. Since then, she’s welcomed four children with Koma and filmed a handful of TV shows, most recently starring in How I Met Your Father.

“You see the good because you are the good,” Koma wrote to Duff. “And we love you something beyond. Happy Mother’s Day ba. Now please go save millennial pop music, it needs you now more than ever.”

But before that send-off, he had a lot more to say. “When I scroll through my photos of us, there’s like 3 months of us back together before you’re pregnant with Banks?” he wrote. “We’d kill our kids if they did that…but it really, really worked out for us, specifically me & the littles.”

He went on to describe her as a “top tier, class A mom,” recalling how he already knew she’d be that person from watching her raise her son Luca. And while he joked about being “severely, hormonally repulsed” during that first pregnancy, the love never wavered. “I love being parents with you, so much,” he wrote. “Mostly because it gives me the front row seat to see how much our kids love you and there’s nothing sweeter.”

He praised her ability to make their kids feel “safe, seen, understood, heard, & truly unconditionally loved," even when she’s hiding in the bedroom or just slightly out of frame. “They were born into a family where they’re free to become whoever it is they want to be, as many times over as it takes… That’s the world you’ve built.”

“You just have this magic trick,” he added, “where you make everyone feel celebrated for being them…even some of our kids’ little asshole friends whom I have no patience for.”

Koma and Duff met in 2015 while working on Breathe In. Breathe Out., so it’s fitting that their latest collaboration might be more full-circle than anyone expected. The album marked Duff’s first release in eight years back then.

So far, there's no official release date or press rollout. All we got is quiet confirmation buried in a love letter, and for the women who grew up watching Lizzie McGuire (like me!), that's more exciting than a surprise album drop because it feels personal.

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