Remember when Hilary Duff tried to save pop music in 2026 and y’all let it succeed???

Remember when Hilary Duff tried to save pop music in 2026 and y’all let it succeed???

Feeling a little bit nostalgic now that the US Leg of the Lucky Me tour has ended, or at least the first leg!

Hilary Duff is that celebrity, that has never really gotten her flowers either for her acting or her singing career, she has always been successful, and she has always been well liked, but it seemed like she had never really tapped into her full potential.

While she was the blueprint for the Disney actress/tv show to pop star, I feel like others ended up having more success and being more recognized for this, like Miley or Selena. And I feel like critics and part of the general public have never really put respect on her discography. And yes, her albums were released while she and her audience were in their teenage / young adult days and some lyrics can be corny, listening to some of her old songs now, they stand the test of time I’m sorry 🤷‍♂️ even The Math, Anywhere But Here was always a favorite of mine, and I never thought I would listen to it live in 20206.

The cancellation of the revival of The Lizzie McGuire show felt like a slap in the face from Disney, and it made me think that maybe they had no confidence in her. The there was the fact that Breath In Breath Out wasn’t all that successful... And while I don’t care whether an album is successful or not, success will determine if she tours, how much she tours, and what the future will bring.
We now know that BIBO wasn’t really the album she wanted to make, and thankfully she at least got to meet Matthew Koma, and has a beautiful family thanks to it!

Then the buzz started! Mature did fairly well (it’s still growing on the Radio!), and her appearance as one of the Sally’s was so viral!. The public was ready to see her on stage! And yet, so many other comebacks fell through this past year, from JLo, to Megan Trainor, to the Pussycat Dolls, all of them pop stars that had gotten even more success on their music careers than Hilary, but she really cracked the code on this one, and it makes me SO happy to see that the public was ready for her this time, and that we all have shown up and showed out, as has she and her team done as well.

The world is crazy, and growing up is rough, but Hilary Duff has given me a glimmer of hope and light that things will get better, and that connecting with your inner child and with like minded people can heal you.

Sending much love to all of the other fans and stans! If you made it all the way here thank you and sorry for the weird post. I’m just happy I got to experience this “era” and got to share it with other fans, must’ve been luck… or something.

u/LuisEWatkins — 2 days ago

Shout out to Hilary Duff tour staff team! (Jada)

Went to the Red Rocks concert, and it was one of the best nights of my life.
I was so excited to see Hilary Duffy again.
I had just seen her in Vegas in May, but this felt very different. There were so many people dressed up and excited, the atmosphere was completely different and for some reason I had a lot of anxiety about the whole thing!

One of the things that I will keep with me forever and that made the night even more special was how nice the Tour staff was, particularly Jada. She was in charge of managing most of the access for fans? I don’t know, she was on top of everything, making sure that we were organized but also making sure we had everything we needed and we were aware of everything. I was adamant that I wanted a signed poster and she kept informing us about them. She was truly amazing, listened to everybody and made our night so much better than it already was!

Anybody else had any positive experiences with the touring staff? (I know that something happened earlier in the tour where a fan was treated poorly by some person that might’ve not even been part of the staff??)

I will remember that night forever!

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u/LuisEWatkins — 5 days ago
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Only 27 lights working! (Out of 120). Govee Permanent Lights Pro.

We’ve had them for a while now, more than a year. No main issues other than the app not selecting some lights configuration from the community.

But now all of the sudden only 27 lights are working. I just opened a case with Govee, to see what they say.

It is at the highest point of our house, so I’m trying to see if there’s any fix, or troubleshooting I can try before I have to climb that high, that’ll be super helpful.

I already unplugged the device, and checked the setting of Number of Segments, and it’s only showing me 3 green lights when it should be 12.

Thanks in advance.

u/LuisEWatkins — 14 days ago

Is Marriott’s Island down? Is it Marriott’s Global Source down?

Cannot connect to Island, and cannot log into MGS to see there are any outages. Also our new StayPMS only works through island.
My iPad seems to have access to it, maybe be sure I have a VPN on my iPad?

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u/LuisEWatkins — 19 days ago

Marriott properties that just switched to Power of M (Agilysys). Question about Marriott Rewards Redemption.

So in the past the night auditor would do the Rewards Redemption offset by using a spreadsheet, and the information they input is rooms sold, rate, etc (can't remember the specifics right now), but one of the things we would input is the number of in house Points Reservations.

We just switched to Power of M this Tuesday, and they sent us a document "Posting Additional Incremental Bonvoy Redemption on Stay PMS", this document is telling us what report to use, and is telling us to count the number of Points Reservations checking out, not the number of points reservations in house. It feels like this would give us a different result, so I was wondering if anybody had any input on how to do the Marriott Rewards Reimbursement process right with Stay PMS.

Thanks in advance.

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u/LuisEWatkins — 1 month ago