Hilary Duff - The Concert - The Girl Can Rock

This is a nice DVD, but not quite what I was expecting. I am a big Hilary Duff fan, and I was hoping for an awesome live concert, complete with live concert sound. Quite to the contrary, this concert is more like a big multi-song music video. I'm not going to go into the details of what's on the DVD... several other reviewers have already done that in great detail. However, I would like to offer some comments that may influence your thoughts about purchasing this DVD. For those of you who already own the DVD, you may want to watch it again to see if you notice some of things I mention below.First, this DVD is apparently a merged combination of two different concerts. Hilary and her band have different sets of outfits for the two concerts, but they are spliced together every few seconds. The result is a repeatedly jarring perspective change that feels quite surreal. The psychological effect is somewhat like watching two television channels at the same time using picture-in-picture. As I watch the DVD, I find myself unable to commit to one concert or the other because it flips back and forth so frequently.I believe a concert video should give me the feeling of being inside the arena, drawing me close to the performers as the night goes on. Instead, this video's fast-paced scene-switching pushes me back, chipping away at my sense of reality. I could not get the feeling that I was actually there in the concert, because "there" was an abstraction that simultaneously represented two different locations!I am also a bit annoyed because I find one of Hilary's outfits to be more attractive than the other. If the DVD had stuck to showing just one concert, I could have become accustomed to either outfit... but not both at once! (That's just my personal irritation. I'm sure others won't mind.)Last but not least, the concert's audio is suspect. Many people complain that Hilary's voice is dubbed. I agree. Furthermore, I am almost completely certain that the band is dubbed as well! I have done audio recording in studio and live environments for years, and I've heard the audio of many live concerts. The audio on this DVD has a pristine quality to it, but it's a little too clean. It doesn't have enough mistakes - or at least curiosities - in it to be truly live.I speak as though it ought to be a raw, live recording. But actually, it is common practice to overdub the audio on "live" recordings. Certain tracks may be left as-is to keep a stable foundation (for example, keyboard and bass), but the drums, guitars, and other instruments sometimes get edited for clarity. My personal opinion is that Hilary's band performed each song "live" in an arena with no audience, while being carefully recorded to get good sound quality. This would produce a clean, live-sounding audio track that could be layered convincingly over any concert video footage.For anyone who challenges my assertion about the band being dubbed just as much as Hilary's vocal, I would ask you to listen carefully and watch the instrumentalists. You may catch some "hand-syncing" going on (a play on the term, "lip-syncing"). Furthermore, even if the concerts were recorded live, which one are we hearing? There are two concerts going on throughout this DVD, and the audio can't be from both at once. Small variations in tempo and dynamics would cause them to clash.In any case, the band sounds fabulous. So does Hilary. Somebody worked very hard in the editing room to make the audio sound as good as possible. Maybe too good. Some of us would rather hear the mistakes and the raw energy of live, unedited sound. Nonetheless, I personally find this DVD's audio to be quite enjoyable to listen to.I give the DVD 4 stars. If not for the visually disorienting concept of being in two concerts at once, it would have earned 5 stars.

This DVD is excellent. Hilary Duff puts on a good, entertaining show for her fans. The band is good and the music sounds good. Hilary's voice is just fine. Most notably, the concert is simply a lot of good, wholesome fun. It's a welcome break at times from "serious" or angry or controversial stuff. Hilary obviously enjoys performing for her fans and has fun on stage. She interacts well with the band members; they appear as part of a friendly team. She acknowledges her fans. The rest of the DVD, the stuff besides the concert, is also very good. There is a clip of Hilary on a show with Ryan Seacrest, clips of making videos, clips of Hilary out and about, including surfing and shopping, and footage of behind the scenes at the concerts, including interviews of band members. Throughout, Hilary comes off as a very pleasant and likeable person. Not like some other performers who are jerks, or drunks, or pervs, etc. A must-have for Hilary fans and a worthwhile view for everyone else too.

I think that releasing this DVD was a very good idea beacuse you can listen to her "metamorphosis" album but also watching her how she is on stage.For example when I bought it I played it with my home theatre I was with my sister and two friends and we were pretending we were really there and we sang the songs out loud and do what Hilary says ha ha it was great!!!.But another day I sat down to see the bonus material included and I saw her rehearsal and a meeting with some fans (lucky them!!) But the point is that you can see Hilary as herself not only doing what she does better, I can see that she is a very good person, she is living the way it should be for her age enjoying going shopping, being with her sister Haylie etc..But please buy this if you loved her first album. and Hilary if you ever read this PLEASE COME TO MEXICO!!! you have a lot of fans here.

Tuve el honor de estar presente en el concierto que se ocupo para filmar este video. La verdad que trataron de dar conocer a los fans, es lo que muchos vivimos en lo que se podría decir la mejor experiencia de mi vida, el poder ver a mi artista favorito a no menos de 1 metro, fue algo maravilloso, Esta sensación la podrán vivir todos a sus casas por que este video esta bien filmado y nos deja disfrutar de la experiencia como si estuviéramos ahí. Se los recomiendo tiene adicionalmente unos videos que son muy buenos de algunos éxitos del disco Metamorphosis.

I enjoyed watching this concert a lot. I would recommend it to any Hilary Duff fan.

GREAT DVD CONCERT THE GIRL CAN ROCK ,A FRESH NEW DIRECTION WITH ALL THE ELEMENTS OF THE MASTERS LEAVING AN IMPRINT MUSIC WISE SIGNATURE OF CLUB GENDERS TO ADOPT IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF NEW GENERATIONS ADDING A NEW FLAVOR OF ORIGINALITY MAINTAINING THOSE ESSENTIALS FROM THE PIONEERS OF CREATIVITY INCORPORATING A GENDER OF MUSIC EVOLVING TO GENERATE A CRAZE THAT CHANGED MUSIC IN ITS INFANCY. AND MUSIC WAS CHANGED FOREEVER FUELING CLUBS THROU OUT THE WORLD CREATING A GLAMOROUS PART OF LIFE IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL. THE DISCO OR CLUB WAS NEVER THE SAME AND LITTLE CHANGE OR NOTHING AT ALL TOOK PLACE,DELIVERING THE SAME THUMPING SENSE THRILL TO ENJOY. THIS DVD IS EVERYTHING I EXPECTED AND MORE I MEAN THE GIRL CAN ROCK!13 JAM PACKED QUALITY WORK'S OF ENTERTAINMENT TO EVERY SENSE OF THE BODY MIND AND SOUL.BIGGINING WITH THE CONCERT THE TRILL NEVER LEAVES THE EDGE OF YOURE SPACE GIVING A GREAT DEAL OF CONSIDERATION ON A GOOD BUY I DID BY UPGRADING MY SURROUND SOUND BRINGING TO LIFE THE CONCERT IN MY SMALL CUBICLE SPACE AS IF I WERE IN THE FRONT ROW VIP. A GREAT BUY PENNY'S TO THE TRACK'S WORTH GOLD IN WIEGHT.FEATURES BESIDES THE FULL PACK ENERGY CONCERT. ADDED BONUS BEHIND THE SCENES INTERVIEW WITH THE YOUNG HILARY DUFF,CANT IMAGINE THE SUCESS AT HER LATER YEARS.

excellent product

50/50 split between 2 different shows, from the same tour obviously! And also 50/50 with Live singing and lip-syncing! Some of it is definitely lip-synced, and its really easy to tell, not because her mouth is off or anything, just because it sounds completely different to the live singing sections. Either way its an awesome live concert! I've loved Hilary Duff for a long time, im 22 now and i still love her, she is such a genuinely nice person and great to watch and a pretty good singer.10/10 DVD!

I loved this it told me a lot about Hilary duff and was so cool, but I wish it was on longer

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