Happy 17th Birthday Hilary!!

Last night on the eve of Hil's 17th birthday, she appeared on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno". This episode was significant for 2 reasons: Hil was on it and it was the 50th anniversary of the show. When she made her appearance, she looked nervous and her right leg was shaking real bad! She performed the song "Fly" and unfortunately it sounded at parts like it was performed by a chorus, not by her alone. It was quite obvious that she once again was lip-syncing because she always holds her microphone so close to her mouth as she doesn't want it to show. After her performance, she mentioned that she is going to Mexico with her sister and a couple of friends to celebrate her birthday for a couple of days off with NO WORK!! Unfortunately this sounds like a bad idea for a girl who had her cd coming out the day of her 17th birthday. This means that instead of promoting her cd she is on a beach in Mexico enjoying herself!! I'm curious if this will mean that this cd won't do as well as the first one..the first one turned into a triple platnium seller that was #1 for a few weeks!! However, Hilary wasn't without one little bit of work: she telephoned in on her cellphone to MTV's TRL on Tuesday discussing her cd and her Mexican vacation that she was currently on! Apparently, she does work even on off time!!

One thing that I felt was odd about the release of this cd (which I bought a couple copies of) is that when I went my local Disney Store to find out if they had a special edition version of Hil's cd, the manager of the store said "Is she still employed with us?". I had a hard time not breaking out in laughter when I heard this after all she was standing right in front of a display where her first cd and latest dvd was on the rack!! And to answer this question, YES she is still employed under Disney through the Hollywood Records label. So sad that Disney employees don't even know her status with the company. I guess they don't care enough about her to even know if they are even going to carry her cd!!

On another front, Hil's rival Lindsay has become the cover girl of GQ magazine in a VERY sexy pose. The pictures inside are almost as bad and sexy. Of course I just had to purchase this magazine just because I felt the need to. This is on top of the fact that just the week before Hilary appeared on Blender and Avril (I forgot to wish Avril a happy 20th birthday for Monday, me bad) made the cover of Maxim. All of these young girls appearing on more adult covers is becoming disturbing because they are being treated like sex objects. It almost wouldn't surprise me if we see JoJo on the cover of the next issue of Playboy just to round out the group. I hope I am just kidding and that this won't become true (she's only 13 and well it is way out of her league anyway).

Anyway Hil will be starting her tour of Japan and Australia in a couple of weeks, but no before she appears in this year's version of Nick's "Let's Just Play". I will be reviewing this in my next post. Could it be worse than last year's? We will see....

Until next time..Hil enjoy your vacation and your birthday..have a piece of cake for me!!

see ya'll xoxo lou

World Music Awards 2004 and Hilary in the Blender


On Wednesday September 15, 2004, ABC aired the World Music Awards 2004 show live from Las Vegas. If you thought the MTV VMAs were bad that was nothing, this was many times worse and shared some of the same problems.

To start some of the offenders from the VMAs were there: Alicia Keys, OutKast, and Usher to name a few. The first award handed out was for best new artist and our girl Hil was nominated for this category and suprisingly she WON!!! When she went up on stage, it was easy to tell it was totally unexpected for her, but she managed to thank just about everyone she knew except one person: ME!! I personally feel responsible for putting this girl on the front line of her music career although she would probably disagree!! She looked great in the dress she wore.

About 20 minutes later, Hil was onstage performing her new hit song "Fly" and unfortunately it was easy to tell that she was lip-syncing the whole song!! Nobody could make the song sound like it was just cut from the cd like that!! Its sad that Hilary doesn't feel comfortable enough yet to perform live which may cut her music career significantly. Only time will tell...

Between Hil's two appearances, Avril Lavigne appeared on stage performing her hit "My Happy Ending". All I could think about is "What did she do to her hair?". It looked like she stole a wig from Dolly Parton's 1970's collection!! It looked awful, but she was able to warble through her song without any lip-syncing at all!!

The rest of the show was pretty forgetful until the end when once again OutKast became the end credit performers and once again the stage was littered with confetti this time!! So sad that they don't open the show instead of closing everytime.

My grade for the show is a C-. Hilary's performance is a B-. Avril's performance is a B (the hair gets an F.).

On another topic, I usually like to consider Hil to be the darling of magazines such as Tiger Beat, Bop, Teen People and others. I didn't expect her to be the cover girl of October 2004's Maxim's Blender Magazine. She looked good, but I think she may start alienating her fans by appearing on such an adult magazine. It just didn't seem appropriate that this 16 year old should appear on the cover of this magazine, but all the pics of her were tasteful and NOT sexy staying with her belief that she doesn't want to be sexy. I still would not recommend this magazine to anyone under the age of 16 however. It is still a worthy purchase though for those obssessive fans like myself!! This magazine is now on sale!!

One final note I want to bring up is the idea of messenging me. Some of my closest friends have been ignoring me lately (you know who you are) and some of my newest friends have been not making regular conversations either. Also some old friends like Becky haven't talked to me in about 2 months (SO SAD)!! To everyone, I really want to know what the problem is? Do you hate me? If so, why? Do you think I am out of touch with reality with this Hilary thing? Please I really wanna know? If you don't wanna message me, you can leave a comment or send an email to me!! But please don't leave me in the dark..my feelings can get hurt when I feel left out of everything!!

Anyway..until next time xoxo Hilary...I mean lou