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\n\tLet\u2019s go back to the beginning\u2026 back when Hilary Duff<\/a> didn\u2019t know just how much her bubblegum-pop smash Metamorphosis<\/em><\/a> would mean to teen fans when she released it in 2003. She admitted as much last month in an Instagram post celebrating the album\u2019s 22nd anniversary. \u201cI was embarking on something I had no idea would make such an impact on people\u2019s lives, and mine\u2026 It sure as hell also landed on people at the right moment in time,\u201d she wrote<\/a>. \u201cAlthough these are distant memories for me, thank you for showing up the way that you did.\u201d Now, with the news<\/a> that Duff has signed to Atlantic Records, and is set to release new music for the first time since 2015\u2019s wildly underrated Breathe In, Breathe Out<\/em>, those fans are embracing the multi-hyphenate\u2019s return with the same passion.<\/p>\n \n\tA quick scroll through the post comments shows literally everyone from major corporations like Starbucks and Barbie to musicians like Julia Michaels and Dinah Jane celebrating the singer \u2014 and excited for a comeback. Some fans even left heartfelt comments detailing how much Duff\u2019s music meant to them. \u201cYou raised me while my parents were failing at it lol and that ALBUM, was ABSOLUTE LIFE FOR ME as a depressed teenager. Thank you,\u201d read one. Journalist Tori Kravitz wrote, \u201cYou were the first artist who made me a FAN of music. The first concert I ever went to. Today I am a professional music journalist and publicist. So thank you for sparking this in me.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThis excitement translated into streaming, too. Just a couple days after Duff shared the news, fans couldn\u2019t get enough of Duff\u2019s catalog, from the soaring pop rock of her 2004 self-titled LP to the dark-tinged dance pop of 2007\u2019s Dignity<\/em>. As Rolling Stone<\/em> reported<\/a>, Spotify saw massive streaming growth across the singer\u2019s four studio albums: U.S. streams on Spotify jumped nearly 80 percent, while first-time listeners rose by 75 percent.<\/p>\n \n\tUnsurprisingly, millennials were the largest group of listeners behind all those streams. Duff\u2019s return is what a millennial\u2019s dreams are made of, after all. Her sugary, Matrix-produced romps evoke the era of flip phones and Limited Too, when the singer\u2019s music soundtracked both MTV\u2019s My Super Sweet 16<\/em> and Laguna Beach<\/em>. Each song is like a capsule to a simpler time, filled with the kind of relentless optimism only Duff could deliver. In this day and age, who wouldn\u2019t want to escape to the past for a little bit?<\/p>\n