Growing up Duff

As teen star Hilary Duff edges into her transition from squeaky-clean television and movie star to pop starlet, she seems to be making her own rules. Some of her peers — Lindsay Lohan comes quickly to mind — appear hell-bent on making a train wreck of their public images, clearly in confused attempts to break from their Mickey Mouse pasts and assert their coming adulthood.

Duff, however, is taking things slowly. Her dance-oriented, fluffy pop is innocuous, but slightly more thoughtful than most similar music that fits such a bill. And she’s made the jump to the photo-spread for Maxim magazine, like so many divas-in-waiting before her, but instead of coming off like a runaway strumpet, Duff is — like her music, and like the character she’s repeatedly played on TV and the big screen — more wholesome, less show boaty, as if she’s convinced dipping one toe into the pop-machine pool is a wiser course than stripping naked and diving straight in.

Duff’s first tour as an adult brings her to the Darien Lake Performing Arts Center on Saturday for a 7:30 p.m. appearance. She brings along her guests, the teen-pop version of ’70s power-poppers the Knack known as the Click Five.

Tickets are priced $25-$45 reserved, $20 on the lawn, and can be found now through www.LiveNation.com, and all Ticketmaster locations.

[Source: Buffalo News]
[Photo Credit: Democraticat and Chronicle]