![]() ![]() ![]() Her sparkling bubblegum vocals were made for expressing the kind of holiday cheer that just can't be contained if you told me Hilary Duff was born inside a snow globe and raised as a professional Christmas caroler, I might believe you. ![]() But unless you're the actual Grinch, one undeniable fact is that Santa Claus Lane is an album for Christmas, about Christmas, to be played around Christmastime.Ĭhristmas purists will love Duff's few covers, sprinkled amongst the original work. New York Times writer Kelefa Sanneh described the album later as "a concept album loosely inspired by Saint Nicholas, the fourth-century bishop of Myra" - a stale and roundabout way to avoid referring to it as, simply, a Christmas album. When the album first came out in 2002, critics acted as though they were the same people who get upset over Starbucks' holiday cups - it wasn't Christmas-y enough, or didn't add enough to the pre-existing canon of music, as if there was a traditional formula to follow, like Jesus popped out of the womb singing "Jingle Bells". As the world prepares to welcome Lizzie McGuire back into our lives with its forthcoming Disney+ reboot, now is the ideal time to revisit some of Duff's earliest work. As Lizzie McGuire took off - and Duff realized she wanted to give music a go - her first efforts were marked by a single holiday compilation album: Santa Claus Lane. She had yet to become a household name, or to truly explore the possibility of adding the role of pop star to her repertoire. In Look Back at It, we revisit pop culture gems of the past and see if they're still relevant and worthy of their designated icon status in our now wildly different world.īefore Hilary Duff let the rain fall down on Metamorphosis, children bred on the Disney Channel were just getting to know her as a middle schooler named Lizzie. ![]()
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