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During Hilary Duff’s first headlining concert in 2008, she debuted an unreleased song, “We Don’t Talk,” from her upcoming album, luck … or something, about someone in her family she yearns to reconnect with after years of not talking. Could it be about her sister, Haylie? Some fans seem to think so. Here’s everything we know about Hilary’s new song and what it could possibly be about.
In the pre-chorus, Hilary sings, “’Cause we come from the same home, the same blood / A different combination, but the same mom,” alluding that the song’s muse is about her sibling. Per the lyrics, it seems like Hilary isn’t completely sure what went wrong in the relationship: “I’m not sure when it happened / Not even sure what it was about / If I did something different / Would you feel something different?” She wonders if it was jealousy — Haylie would perform alongside Hilary growing up. She was the opener on Hilary’s Most Wanted Tour in 2004 and co-starred alongside her in the movie Material Girls. But Hilary sings that she would “sell it all to break you off the bigger half.” She does hope for some sort of truce between the sisters, ending the song with, “I’ll hear you out, you’ll hear me out on the couch / Get back to how we were as kids / And let’s break it down.”
The two haven’t been publicly photographed together since 2019, and for the past few years, fans have wondered whether they’re even talking. Haylie briefly mentioned Hilary’s 2019 wedding to Matthew Koma to the press, but some think it was unclear whether she was in attendance. “She looked so stunningly beautiful,” Haylie told Us Weekly in January 2020. “It was a really special day. It was a really, really beautiful day.” Shortly before in 2019, Haylie gave a few more details about Hilary’s wedding plans, telling Us Weekly, “She will have a wedding [because] she’s the good daughter that does, like, everything the way she’s supposed to. I’m not really helping her plan. She’s planning her own little thing.” The following year, she told People she was cooking Hilary’s favorite turkey for Thanksgiving but hasn’t really spoken much about her sister since.
As for Hilary, she keeps her relationships pretty private, and this song is the first insight into what she’s been feeling lately. “We have gone through a lot of the same things — whether that’s complicated relationships, anxiety, raising kids, divorces, trying to find yourself in adulthood, family drama,” she told Jake Shane in November 2025, on how she’s connecting to her fans as an adult. “Finally I felt safe enough and comfortable in my own family to step outside and open that part of myself up again.”
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