{"id":2285782,"date":"2026-02-17T15:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2285782"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:01:29","slug":"hilary-duff-says-everyone-is-both-right-and-wrong-about-who-the-song-mature-is-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hilary-duff-says-everyone-is-both-right-and-wrong-about-who-the-song-mature-is-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff Says Everyone Is Both Right and Wrong About Who the Song \u2018Mature\u2019 Is About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since the moment that Hilary Duff<\/a> dropped her single, \u201cMature,\u201d<\/a> fans have been making wild guesses as to who might have inspired it. Duff still isn’t naming names, but she will confirm that there’s a true story behind the lyrics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely about a relationship that I had,\u201d she told Glamour<\/em> in her cover interview.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the song, Duff sings, \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, babe.’\u201d The track also includes a few specific details, including, \u201cBet she’s so impressed by your Basquiat,\u201d and, \u201cListening to Strawberry Letter 23\/Hid my car at Carbon Beach so I wasn’t seen at yours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Explaining the backstory, Duff said to Glamour<\/em>, “It was very brief with someone older than me, and that was not illegal, but inappropriate when you have this much time removed from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hilary Duff Is Fully in the Driver\u2019s Seat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

With a personal new album, an upcoming world tour, and four kids at home, the millennial icon opens up about growing up in public, tabloid culture, and why this moment just feels right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The internet’s most popular theory<\/a> is that the song is about Joel Madden, who is Duff dated for two years when she was 16 and he was 25. Others think the lyrics refer to Leonardo DiCaprio\u2014who isn’t known to have had a relationship with Duff, but who does have a bit of a reputation for dating much younger women.<\/p>\n

While Hilary Duff won’t confirm or deny anything, she does think some folks on the internet may be missing some of the nuances to the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody speculates, but I\u2019m not sure they got it right\u2026. I think that it\u2019s super nuanced, and it\u2019s hard to defend certain things that have happened in my life,\u201d Duff said to Glamour<\/em>. She added, \u201cBut the one thing that I\u2019ll say is, working as an adult since I was 10 years old, it\u2019s very hard to have relationships with people your own age.\u201d<\/p>\n\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.glamour.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the moment that Hilary Duff dropped her single, \u201cMature,\u201d fans have been making wild guesses as to who might have inspired it. Duff still isn’t naming names, but she will confirm that there’s a true story behind the lyrics. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely about a relationship that I had,\u201d she told Glamour in her cover interview. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2285783,"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":[25177],"tags":[22320,21738],"class_list":["post-2285782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-hilary-duff","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hilary-Duff-Says-Everyone-Is-Both-Right-and-Wrong-About.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285782","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=2285782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285784,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285782\/revisions\/2285784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}