{"id":2175553,"date":"2025-11-24T21:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2175553"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:20:20","slug":"is-hilary-duffs-new-song-about-leonardo-dicaprio-or-joel-madden-see-her-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/is-hilary-duffs-new-song-about-leonardo-dicaprio-or-joel-madden-see-her-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Hilary Duff\u2019s new song about Leonardo DiCaprio or Joel Madden? See her reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hilary Duff\u00a0<\/strong>is commenting on the swirling speculation around her new single, ‘Mature,’ even if she isn\u2019t giving away all the answers. The 38-year-old actress and singer, who returned to music after a decade-long hiatus, recently addressed rumors that\u00a0Leonardo DiCaprio\u00a0might be the muse behind the track.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, we\u2019re getting the biggest kick out of the speculations,\u201d Hilary said during a Nov. 22 appearance on On Air With Ryan Seacrest. \u201cIt\u2019s honestly, it\u2019s thrilling. It\u2019s 100 percent thrilling, and the internet is such a funny place. I\u2019m obsessed with everyone, and I\u2019m seeing all the videos.\u201d<\/p>\n

The conversation began as soon as the song dropped earlier this month. Fans pointed out lyrics like, \u201cVery Leo of you with your Scorpio touch,\u201d noting the apparent alignment with DiCaprio\u2019s famously youthful dating pattern, zodiac sign, and even his art taste, Jean-Michel Basquiat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hilary Duff is commenting on the swirling speculation around her new single, ‘Mature,’ even if she isn\u2019t giving away all the answers. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hilary also references leaving her car at Carbon Beach in Malibu, where the actor owns a home, adding further fuel to the speculation. Then came Hilary\u2019s husband, Matthew Koma, co-writer of the track, who posted a meme of DiCaprio holding the single\u2019s cover art, delighting social media sleuths.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, you can\u2019t take anything that Matthew posts seriously. He\u2019s the biggest troll on the planet Earth,\u201d Hilary said. \u201cHe will lead everybody down all the roads and have the most fun doing it.\u201d She kept her cards close to her chest. \u201cSo, not confirming, not denying anything here,\u201d she added, letting fans bask in the guessing game.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo, you can\u2019t take anything that Matthew posts seriously. He\u2019s the biggest troll on the planet Earth,\u201d Hilary said about her husband.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Leo isn\u2019t the only man whispered about online. Some think the song is about\u00a0Joel Madden<\/strong>, Hilary\u2019s ex-boyfriend from 2004 to 2006, when she was 19 and he was 28. Though neither Hilary nor Madden have confirmed this, Nicole Richie, Madden\u2019s wife,\u00a0<\/strong>chimed in with a playful nod on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sharing a photo of herself and Hilary laughing together, Richie wrote, \u201c’Mature’ is not the word I would use to describe us, but regardless, this song is a BOP.\u201d Joel later reposted the picture, delighting fans and further entwining the rumors.<\/p>\n

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Hilary Duff, who returned to music after a decade-long hiatus, recently addressed rumors that Leonardo DiCaprio might be the muse behind the track.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In interviews, Hilary has been clear about the personal lens she brought to the song. \u201cThe song is about reflecting on your past and coming to terms with the choices you\u2019ve made, but without being too hard on yourself,\u201d she told Vogue. \u201cIt is definitely about a brief experience that I had in my\u2014a long, long time ago [laughs]. But it is not totally autobiographical.”<\/p>\n

She continued, “I took a few artistic liberties just to make the song work structurally, but the gist is the gist. I was looking back on this relationship and thinking about whether this guy had a habit of dating younger women or whether I was \u2018special.\u2019 The whole experience was super therapeutic to write about, but being so vulnerable through your music can be really scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Some think the song is about Joel Madden, Hilary\u2019s ex-boyfriend from 2004 to 2006, when she was 19 and he was 28.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cMature\u201d finds Hilary in reflective, playful form, singing lines like, \u201cShe looks like she could be your daughter \/ Like me before I got smarter \/ When I was flattered to hear you say \/ You’re so mature for your age.\u201d The track serves as both a wink at her younger self and a celebration of her current perspective.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Mature\u2019 is a little conversation that my present self is having with my younger self. The two of us are reflecting on a past experience and sending love to each other. It\u2019s a chuckle, a wink, and a sense of being grateful that we are sure-footed in where we landed,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Hilary has been clear about the personal lens she brought to the song.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The song marks Hilary\u2019s first major musical release in a decade and is set to appear on her upcoming sixth studio album, ‘Luck… or Something,’ due Feb. 20, 2026. In discussing her return to music, she cited her husband\u2019s support and the timing in her life as key inspirations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLiving with the person that I live with, who’s my husband, and just being 10 years removed from music and being 38 and just arriving kind of where I am in my life,\u201d she told the Therapuss podcast, \u201cI just felt like I can finally fill in the blanks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hola.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hilary Duff\u00a0is commenting on the swirling speculation around her new single, ‘Mature,’ even if she isn\u2019t giving away all the answers. The 38-year-old actress and singer, who returned to music after a decade-long hiatus, recently addressed rumors that\u00a0Leonardo DiCaprio\u00a0might be the muse behind the track. \u201cFirst of all, we\u2019re getting the biggest kick out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2175554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[24188,37741,21741,22320,375527,21800],"class_list":["post-2175553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-celebrity-couples","tag-celebrity-splits","tag-entertainment","tag-hilary-duff","tag-leonardo-di-caprio","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Is-Hilary-Duffs-new-song-about-Leonardo-DiCaprio-or-Joel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175555,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175553\/revisions\/2175555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2175554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}