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| Dignity | 
 enlarge | Artist: Hilary Duff
Label: Hollywood Records
Category: Music
List Price: $22.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 60665
Format: Special Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000033800
UPC: 050087104023
EAN: 0050087104023
ASIN: B000MV9OIG
Release Date: April 3, 2007
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Disc 1
| • | Stranger | | • | Dignity | | • | With Love | | • | Danger | | • | Gypsy Woman | | • | Never Stop | | • | No Work, All Play | | • | Between You And Me | | • | Dreamer | | • | Happy | | • | Burned | | • | Outside Of You | | • | I Wish | | • | Play With Fire |
Disc 2
| • | Why Not | | • | So Yesterday | | • | Come Clean | | • | Our Lips Are Sealed (Non-Movie Version) | | • | Fly | | • | Wake Up | | • | Beat Of My Heart | | • | Play With Fire | | • | With Love | | • | At Home With Hilary Duff Interview |
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In the most dignified way possible, "Dignity"--the title track to this fizz-bomb of a dance-pop disc--sends a disgusted eye-roll and a flagrant puh-lease to underwear-eschewing celebutantes everywhere: "You'd show up to the opening of an envelope," sings Duff, who hangs onto her signature sweetness despite having entered full-on diss mode. "It's not news when you've got a new bag/It's not news when you're looking your best/Come on, give it a rest." Well said. And sung. Not that calling out the phony and the full of it is what Duff, or Dignity, is all about. Mostly, the disc is a beat-studded chronicling of an incredibly healthy 19-year-old psyche: On "Happy," she's happy despite an ex's attempts to make her miserable; on "With Love"--maybe her catchiest, most grown-up song to date--she's willing to accept rejection as long as kindness plays a role in its delivery. Musically, with the help of groove-conscious producers like Tim & Bob and Will.i.am, Duff edges ever closer to adult sensibilities; her goofball Lizzie McGuire days seem far behind. It's an evolution anybody could have seen coming, actually. Has there ever been a starlet with her head on straighter? --Tammy La Gorce
Album Description
This is the deluxe CD/DVD (PAL/Region 0) version which includes 9 music videos. EMI.
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 Great album from Hilary April 5, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is definitely my favorite of Hilary's three studio albums. It's dance/pop music at its best. Her voice may not be the best, but with every song's lyrics co-written by her, she is able to convey a more relatable sound to the songs. Highlights on the album include the two singles With Love and Play with Fire, Gypsy Woman, Happy, and Burned, but all the tracks are really good.
The DVD included in the deluxe edition is fantastic as well. It contains all nine of Hilary's music videos (Why Not, So Yesterday, Come Clean, Our Lips are Sealed, Fly, Wake Up, Beat of My Heart, Play with Fire, and With Love) and a 33 minute interview with Hilary at her home that goes through her entire career, and includes some commentary in the interview on her videos and albums.
The price is definitely worth it for this album. So go out and buy it!
Considerable growth from an artist deserving of more respect. April 4, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the music Hilary should have been recording all along, though it took a bit of life experience to allow her to flesh out all of this material.
I've seen a few fan reviews dismiss the album as little more than 2001-era Kylie Minogue-esque Europop. Couldn't be further from the truth. There are a few hints to that sound, yeah, but it's just pure bubblegum dance pop for the most part. No dominant hint of that throbbing Kylie-esque sound, nor is there a dominance of vintage Hilary bubblegum-rock. There's a nice mixture of all of the above, put into a blender, and finished off with a great contemporary polish; some fresh HOT beats, STRONG melodic hooks, and some Ashlee Simpson-esque heavier guitar-oriented crunchy pop. Big ups to her producers for really getting Hilary in the mode where she individually shines like never before as a personality and vocalist.
Lyrically, it's typical territory compared to her peers' efforts, but new personal ground that Hilary has gained creatively, having obviously played a significant role in the development of all songs except one. Kara DioGuardi did an expectedly strong job taking Hilary's thoughts and emotions and translating them into proper songs, as she's done with other vocalists who have a story to tell. The lyrics work, it's a theme album that covers the gamut of what we know about her personal life lately (a lot of focus on the various stages of breaking up, potentially making up, dealing with loneliness, reaching a conclusion and regaining empowerment, bashing the ex's new girlfriend, partying / meeting new guys, etc). It's all fairly light-hearted, but feels kinda like a catharsis album - though that's not a bad thing, it tackles emotions that are perfect for pop music with a punch; very relateable.
Vocally, the flaws you'd expect are there (the vocals being overproduced and pitch corrected considerably more than most of her peers), but that's not even worth considering in the case of this album because it's a factor you go into a Hilary Duff album expecting and pitch is not what you admire from a Hilary vocal; you want some charm, some sincerity brought to the songs based on her persona(lity), some signature flair. She's always been pretty weak at most of those, but this album shows some huge strides and some natural growth as a young woman. She's starting to develop a signature sound vocally, some cool distinguishing vocal nuances. Good for her, and again, major props to those she's working with for helping mold her. She's got a ways to go here, because her singing voice might be the weakest among this era's pop stars (except for Lindsay Lohan, perhaps), but strides like this make for a great listening experience and a great sign that she's ready to make that ascent out of the Radio Disney depths into more legit contemporary pop.
The most significant thing about this album is that Hilary has finally recorded a bonafide great pop album. As I said before, this is exactly the best-case-scenario album from Hilary Duff; a strong pop album covering far more than her usual light pop-rock, and now with a more sincere heartfelt message this time. It's exactly what she had to do right now, and I hope she's rewarded with a lot of commercial success for this record.
 Duff Does Derivative Dance April 4, 2007
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Avoiding the trappings of bland teen-pop and artistic pretensions that plagued her first albums, Hilary Duff has found a new home in straight-up dancefloor confections on "Dignity." Her "voice" is still nothing to speak of; even at 19 she sounds immature and cartoonish, doubtlessly aided by multi-tracked computers, and the subject matter is tailor-made for the youthfully self-absorbed. However, the album has something going for it.
Much like her naïve but sometimes well-crafted (thanks to writing/producing team The Matrix) debut LP "Metamorphosis," "Dignity" benefits from a degree of sonic merit. The production is too loud, and the melodies are a little weak - but somehow most of the songs make the grade, especially considering that Duff's targeted demographic is hardly looking for the next "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" or "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road."
Lead single "With Love," inching its way toward the Top 40, for example, is a flighty, energetic little slice of danceable fluff. Its hook is hard to detect and its choruses repetitive - much like the rest of the record, no song particularly begs to be played multiple times. Indeed, the beats may pulse with a welcome frenetic energy and high BPM, but she poses no threat to established club favorites. Madonna can breathe easy.
Speaking of Madonna, the one true downfall of the album is that it is an unabashedly derivative affair all across the board. There is nothing wrong with an homage or two, but "Dignity" not only dares to move the line but then crosses it anyway. It is probable that Duff was listening to Gwen Stefani and Kylie Minogue records to find a template for her delivery. Stefani in particular is channeled in tracks like "Danger" and "No Work, All Play," a fun, breezy standout. "Gypsy Woman" sounds just like Minogue's "Red-Blooded Woman," and "Never Stop," would be a clone of Madonna's "Can't Stop" if two decades worth of technological advances were peeled away.
Despite her unoriginality, Duff remains a far better role model for young people than most. The self-sufficient "Happy" for instance, is the perfect musical accompaniment for a teenage girl's first terrible breakup, and "Outside of You" criticizes superficiality, particularly how it tends to get in the way of a genuine, loving connection. The title track also lambastes media harlots Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan unflinchingly. "Where is your dignity? I think you lost it in the Hollywood hills," she sings over a dizzying smorgasbord of bubbly beats.
Still, it is hard to not to balk as she points her finger and criticizes that "money makes the world go `round," for there has been no better-marketed mass media personality this side of the 20th century than Duff herself. Also, "Danger" cheaply exploits ex-boyfriend Joel Madden (of the pop/punk band Good Charlotte), and "Dreamer" smatters of egotistical self-righetousness: "Oh you're such a dreamer/But I'm not a believer/In all the things that you dream/Stop watchin' me/Stop watchin' me." Boys, you can't have her.
It may not be memorable or have any artistic merit - Duff's detractors will go right on detracting - but in and of itself "Dignity" is an inoffensive, mildly enjoyable pop record. Far better than her past attempts, it has the ingredients for a prime guilty pleasure of 2007.
This deluxe version includes a host of music videos and an interview.
Dignity: The Shocker Album of 2007 April 11, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Hilary Duff, whose popularity boomed mostly because of her Disney Channel show, "Lizzie Mcguire", decided to take a turn into being a singer as well as an actress. I remember when "Lizzie Mcguire" was the "it" thing back in the early 2000's, and I absolutely loved Lizzie. Some time had passed and I didn't like Lizzie AKA Hilary as much and was aware that she had albums out (mostly because they played her music videos nonstop on Disney Channel). Then a year or so ago, a new Hilary Duff music video was on Disney and it was for the song, "Beat of My Heart", a song many a person would be surprised to hear from Hilary Duff. Mostly because of it's 80's alternative rock sound. I know I was sort of surprised at the song, mostly because of the way the song sounded and the video period. She certainly seemed to want to take an 80's feel and look to her music career. And even though because of my dislike for her at the time, I really was annoyed that I actually liked the song. And that was only the beginning of Hilary Duff's growth.
Now coming to the present, Ms. Duff has taken a total 80's, Europop feel to her music. And that, to me, was surprising. As had been the single "Beat of my Heart". So now, since I watch Nickelodeon as well, I have been seeing her there a lot more often, which I find interesting. That's beside the point of this review though. So, my mom and I were listening to this, or should I say, she started listening to it first and heard most of the first song "Stranger" and said it was good. We listened to the whole album and found it was actually... good! So, Ms. Duff as you can hear from listening to her new material, has definitely grown. Although if you don't like the Europop 80's music or dance music, this is not your CD. So if you liked her old stuff there are a few songs that sort of go back to that, although most of it is 80's like dance stuff. And I can honestly say that I hope Ms. Duff continues to make decent albums in the near future.
Wow!! April 3, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is by far Hilary's best album, it is such a change from her three previous albums. She co-wrote every song on here except one, and was the executive producer on the album. She is definatley coming into her own as an artist and she is one of my favorites! I think that she will go far with this one! You go girl! :-)
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