The Very Strange Allure Of Joel Madden

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So, we hear from Radar that Hilary Duff has written an album full of dis tracks to her slightly-less-preposterous-than-Uncle-Joey-from-Full-House-but-just-slightly ex-BF Joel Madden, whose appeal to the Rachel Zoe set we can only describe as his mastery of the art of total what-the-fuckness. You know those guys you kinda love because you mistake the fact that they're like, total indie rock geeks but not skinny or even approaching "hip", and they make all their money off fantasy sports, and occasionally rock, like, ascots, for some unspecified form of individuality when really they are just always drunk? Well, we sort of think it's that, with a little bit of the "I've never fucked a guy with so litttle non-tattooed skin before!"

But Hillary Duff clearly thought it was Love, according to Radar:

The album's first song, "Stranger," is addressed to [Madden].. "You treat me like a queen when we go out/ Wanna show everyone what our love's about/All wrapped up in me whenever there's a crowd/ But when no one's around there's no kindness in your eyes," she laments. She adds "When I think of all the time we wasted, I could cry."

Asked whether the songs on Dignity(Ed.—no shit! that's the title!) were written specifically about the love triangle, Duff's spokeswoman replied, "Some are, yes. But she has gone through a lot, including a very frightening pair of Russian stalkers."

Hey, one girl's frightening stalkers — another's masters of what the fuckness!

Sound and Fury: Hilary Duff Settles Scores — In Song! [Radar]

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