{"id":373477,"date":"2025-11-12T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/373477\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:10:27","slug":"hilary-duffs-fans-are-convinced-new-song-takes-swipe-at-leonardo-dicaprios-age-gap-romances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/373477\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff\u2019s fans are convinced new song takes swipe at Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s age-gap romances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 jEZjIj\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 jEZjIj\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 jEZjIj\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sc-1uza6dc-1 gunhQQ\">Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/hilary-duff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hilary Duff<\/a> fans and internet sleuths believe her new song, \u201cMature,\u201d takes a subtle dig at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/age-gap-relationship-romance-calculator-leonardo-dicaprio-b2521479.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leonardo DiCaprio and infamous age-gap relationships.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/disney-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney<\/a> Channel star, 38,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/news\/hilary-duff-mature-new-song-b2861040.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> delighted fans with the release of her first song in a decade. <\/a>The pop-rock track reflects on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/hilary-duff-body-image-paparazzi-b2082223.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">past relationship<\/a> with a partner known for dating younger women \u2014\u00a0and listeners are convinced it\u2019s laced with thinly veiled references to DiCaprio, newly 51, who has a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/love-sex\/leonardo-dicaprio-girlfriend-age-chart-dating-timeline-b2278716.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> history of dating women<\/a> decades younger. <\/p>\n<p>Featuring lyrics like, \u201cShe\u2019s me, I\u2019m her in a different font \/ Just a few years younger, a new haircut \/ Very Leo of you with your Scorpio touch,\u201d listeners have interpreted the latter line as a tongue-in-cheek nod to DiCaprio, who often goes by Leo and also happens to be a Scorpio. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing down on her on your vintage rug \/ Bet she\u2019s so impressed by your Basquiat \/ And she thinks you\u2019re deep in the ways you\u2019re not,\u201d Duff goes on to sing. <\/p>\n<p>Many eagle-eyed fans have connected the \u201cBasquiat\u201d mention to DiCaprio\u2019s controversial ownership of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/art\/news\/a-generation-on-why-dropout-junkie-basquiat-remains-the-hottest-dead-young-artist-in-town-8204206.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting<\/a>, titled \u201cRed Man One.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Hilary-Duff-and-Leonardo-DiCaprio.png\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Hilary Duff appears to take a subtle swipe at Leonardo DiCaprio in her new song, 'Mature'\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\"\/><\/p>\n<p>open image in gallery<\/p>\n<p>Hilary Duff appears to take a subtle swipe at Leonardo DiCaprio in her new song, &#8216;Mature&#8217; (Getty)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/newFile.jpg\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Hilary Duff is married to her second husband, singer-songwriter Matthew Koma\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\"\/><\/p>\n<p>open image in gallery<\/p>\n<p>Hilary Duff is married to her second husband, singer-songwriter Matthew Koma (Getty Images for Vanity Fair)<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014, the Oscar-winning Revenant actor was gifted some of Basquiat\u2019s artwork from disgraced Malaysian financier Jho Low, who is still wanted by authorities for his alleged role in a multibillion-dollar corruption scheme. DiCaprio eventually voluntarily surrendered the artwork in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The seeming references don\u2019t stop there. Duff later croons: \u201cHid my car at Carbon Beach so I wasn\u2019t seen at yours \/ You knew better of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, theTitanic star purchased a $1.6 million beach home in Malibu, California, which, coincidentally, had direct access to Carbon Beach, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/leonardo-dicaprio-purchases-malibu-home\">Architectural Digest<\/a>. He sold it in 2021 for $10.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Some fans have even dug into Duff\u2019s back catalogue, pointing to her 2007 song, \u201cDanger,\u201d which includes the lyrics: \u201cWere you born in \u201874? Are you the kind of guy that I should ignore?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, DiCaprio was born in 1974. <\/p>\n<p>The Independent has contacted Duff\u2019s and DiCaprio\u2019s representatives for comment. <\/p>\n<p>DiCaprio is currently in a relationship with 27-year-old Italian model Vittoria Ceretti. He was previously in a five-year relationship with actor and model Camila Morrone. They split in 2022, a month after she turned 25.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Duff also has a history of dating older men. When she was just 16, she dated Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden, now 46, when he was 25. At 29, she dated celebrity trainer Jason Walsh in 2016, who was 13 years her senior. <\/p>\n<p>Discussing the inspiration behind \u201cMature\u201d with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/hilary-duff-interview-mature-single\">Vogue<\/a>, Duff explained, \u201cIt is definitely about a brief experience that I had in my \u2014 a long, long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it is not totally autobiographical,\u201d she clarified. \u201cI took a few artistic liberties just to make the song work structurally, but the gist is the gist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cI was looking back on this relationship and thinking about whether this guy had a habit of dating younger women or whether I was \u2018special.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":373478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,975,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-373477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115535952914550788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}