‘I’m Not Making Music For Seven-Year-Olds’ [WATCH]

Actress and singer Hilary Duff is responding to criticism over explicit lyrics in her new song “Roommates,” telling detractors she is not creating music for children, as reported by Fox News.

Duff, 38, addressed the backlash during an appearance on the podcast “Call Her Daddy,” where she discussed reactions to the track, which includes references to porn and masturbation.

The former “Lizzie McGuire” star said she was surprised by some of the commentary surrounding the headline-making lyric.

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“I think that probably my initial reaction was like, ‘Oh, they just haven’t, like, evolved yet.’ And I don’t care at all,” Duff said. “One of the craziest comments that I saw was like, ‘And do you do that in front of your children?’”

“And I was like, ‘No, what? Are you OK?’”

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Duff said she also encountered criticism questioning whether her children sing the song.

“Do your kids sing that?” she recalled reading.

“And I’m like, I’m not making music for my kids,” Duff told host Alexandra Cooper.

“I’m not making music for 7-year-olds. I’m making music for myself. I’m making music for people like myself.”

According to Duff, “Roommates” was intentionally designed to spark conversation.

“Like, it’s a plea and, like, I think that’s relatable to women,” she said, explaining that the song explores the feeling of becoming “basically roommates” with a romantic partner during a lull in a relationship.

Duff said she took “lyrical liberties” while writing the track and emphasized that it was “meant to be polarizing,” rather than raunchy, as some online critics have suggested.

“It was important for me that the song felt, like, very polarizing because that’s how it feels in a moment of a lull in a relationship where you’re just, like, ‘I need to sort this out. I need to get through this. I can’t keep feeling this way.’”

The song appears on Duff’s sixth studio album, “Luck… Or Something,” which she created alongside her husband, Matthew Koma. Koma, also 38, is known for songwriting credits including “Clarity,” “Spectrum,” and “Find You.”

Duff spoke about working closely with Koma during a recent conversation with Dakota Fanning for Interview magazine.

“I wasn’t interested in making a record with anyone else,” Duff said.

“I was like, ‘It has to just be me and you.’ The most honest stuff came from that because he has a front row to my life and everything I’ve experienced, the really difficult times and the really easy good times that made me who I am.”

Duff rose to fame in the early 2000s through roles on the Disney Channel, including “Lizzie McGuire,” and starred in projects such as “Cadet Kelly.”

After releasing her album “Dignity” in 2007, she did not release another studio album until “Breathe In. Breathe Out.” in 2015.

Following the birth of her first child in 2012 with ex-husband Mike Comrie, Duff shifted her focus toward indie film and television work.

She later welcomed three more children with Koma and spent several years centered on family life before returning to music.

Her latest project marks a new chapter in her pop career, one she says reflects her own experiences rather than expectations tied to her Disney-era audience.

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