In October 2002, Hilary Duff released her holiday album Santa Claus Lane. Twenty-four years later, she’s bringing back the cheer with the EP Holiday Things, out this Friday, October 23.
Holiday Things contains three original tracks: “I Guess it’s Christmas,” “All You Want for Christmas Is Me,” and “I Want (A Few Small Things).” She also rerecorded George Michael’s “Last Christmas” (originally on the Santa Claus Lane album), and cut “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” which concludes the EP.
Duff first teased Holiday Things last week on Instagram, when she posted the cover of Santa Claus Lane. “Today Santa Claus Lane turns 24, and it has me reminiscing on all the fun we’ve had around the holidays together over the years,” she wrote. “Let’s do it again this year?”
The former Lizzie McGuire star - who is riding high amid her successful Lucky Me world tour - has announced the fun tune CATastrophe from the upcoming animation of The Cat in the Hat.
Hilary Duff is adding a little more chaos to her comeback year — this time with a certain mischievous feline.
The pop star has released “CATastrophe,” an original song written for Warner Bros. Pictures Animation’s upcoming theatrical adaptation of The Cat in the Hat. The track arrived Friday (Oct. 2) along with a music video that drops Duff into a series of colorful, oversized worlds inspired by the whimsical visual language of Dr. Seuss.
Alongside a video preview, she wrote on Instagram: “hey, I got nine lives, let’s live one up tonight …”
The clip sees Hilary stumble upon the iconic red and white-striped top hat the cat wears in the iconic Dr. Seuss tale.
The new song comes shortly after Hilary announced a major expansion of her Lucky Me world tour, confirming 32 additional dates after overwhelming demand.
The new leg begins on May 7 in Madrid and will take the multiplatinum star through Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, San Juan, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago.
Rebecca Black will join Hilary as support across all European shows.
The So Yesterday hitmaker will return to the United States later in the year, launching the 2027 North American leg on October 1 in Sunrise, Florida. The run includes stops in Orlando, Raleigh, Baltimore, Uncasville, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, Milwaukee and Denver, before wrapping on November 20 in Anaheim.
Duff co-wrote the song with her husband and frequent collaborator Matthew Koma, Madison Love and Brian Phillips, with Koma and Phillips also handling production. Rather than just serving as a playful tie-in to the movie, “CATastrophe” explores a pretty relatable idea: what happens when life suddenly changes before you’re even ready for it.
In a statement provided to Billboard, Duff explained that Dr. Seuss books were a fixture in her childhood home, making the opportunity to contribute to the movie an easy yes. She also described the song as being about the feeling of having your entire world rearranged without getting a say in the matter — an idea that she wanted to pair with an upbeat, car-ready pop song; a great juxtaposition.
