āBreathe In. Breathe Out.ā Turns 10, And Hilary Just Dragged Us Through Memory Lane With Lip Gloss, Trauma, and TikTok Guilt Trips
HELLO TO THE FIVE DUFFSTERS STILL STANNINGāyour queen just popped outta her vintage sepia-filtered time capsule to celebrate Breathe In. Breathe Out. turning 10 YEARS OLD. Yes, the album is now old enough to lie about its age and get a TikTok account.
Hilary Duffāaka the mother of Disney Channel, the OG Instagram baddie before filters got AI brains, and your cool millennial cousin whoās emotionally stable but still dyes her hair in times of crisisātook to Insta on June 12 to reminisce on her 2015 album Breathe In. Breathe Out. (aka BIBO for the ride-or-die few who memorized every lyric to āSparksā while dramatically staring out the window).
āMy photo roll from 2015 is truly lol,ā she wrote. āThe selfies PR team was strong and a sepia filter hated to see me coming.ā
Translation: Girl was fighting for her life… with iPhone 6 camera quality.
She also casually roasted her old hairstyles (bless the Crayola bleach job era), paid tribute to her late dog Dubs (RIP, real one), and admitted Dubsmash was her gateway drug into TikTok behavior. We BEEN knew she invented lip syncing before Gen Z tried to gaslight us otherwise.
AND THENācue dramatic sparkle sound effectāHILARY LOWKEY TEASED NEW MUSIC.
She said BIBO ādidnāt have major successā (okay ouch) but added that some of it felt āauthentic,ā and then straight-up joked it was the fansā fault it flopped (but also not, but also yes, but also donāt let it happen again š« ). Honestly, gaslight, gatekeep, glitter-pop queen behavior.
Oh, and plot twistāBIBO also birthed her relationship with Matthew Koma (the husband/fellow millennial/music nerd), so really the album was just her elaborate dating app.
Matthew reposted the whole thing like a proud husband slash former studio flirt and added,
ā10 yeras. Dang. Still remember writing this⦠and then flirting with the talent.ā
(Sir, autocorrect said years, not yeras, but okay romantic poet.)
He helped write āConfetti,ā āArms Around a Memory,ā and the title track, which honestly still slaps in a cry-while-dancing kind of way. Plus, Ed Sheeran and Colbie Caillat were on the album too, which means BIBO was basically the 2015 version of a Coachella lineupāunderappreciated but vibes.
Now hereās the real tea: Matthew recently begged Hilary to āplease save millennial pop musicā on Motherās Day. And guess what? Sheās BEEN spotted in the studio.
You smell that?? Thatās the aroma of a COMEBACK BREWING.
So, if you were one of the five people (Hilaryās words, not ours) who streamed BIBO like it was your religion, nowās the time to rise from the ashes and declare your fave track. Mine? āSparks,ā obviously. The whistle still haunts my dreams.
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