Heidi Montag is again within the song sport.
The Hills alum, 37, dropped a brand new unmarried on Friday, December 8, that was once firstly supposed to be a follow-up to her 2010 debut album, Superficial. The observe, titled “Bad Boy,” marks the start of Montag’s go back to pop.
“‘Bad Boy’ has always been one of my favorite songs, so I’m excited to put it out,” Montag informed Paper mag in an interview revealed on Friday, including that she didn’t await Superficial to be a “one and done album.”
“We always thought we would continue on a music journey, and maybe ‘Bad Boy’ would be on the next album,” she persisted. “It’s just… life didn’t really pan out the way we were anticipating.”
Superficial didn’t obtain the essential acclaim Montag had was hoping, however previous this 12 months, her song noticed an surprising resurgence. After her tune “I’ll Do It” was once used as runway song right through Paris Type Week in January 2023, the observe exploded on TikTok and remains to be a extensively used sound at the app.
“I was just so grateful for that,” Montag mentioned of the Type Week second. “Then TikTok just really picked up the sound, I think pretty quickly or simultaneously to that. It’s taken on a whole world of its own. China has over, like, I think 20 million streams a day or more.”
In accordance with the hype round “I’ll Do It,” the singer launched two remixed variations of the tune in Would possibly 2023. After “Bad Boy,” Montag informed Paper she plans to drop different songs from “the vault” of unreleased songs.
Montag famous that during hindsight, she appears like Superficial wasn’t a hit as a result of her public symbol on the time of its free up. On The Hills, Montag shared her revel in present process drastic cosmetic surgery, for which she won an onslaught of grievance.
The sequence additionally painted her as a villain right through her ongoing feud with costar Lauren Conrad.
“It was such a disappointment to me at that time, when I had my surgeries overshadow everything, and the ending of The Hills,” she mirrored. “It was just a really hard and harsh ending of a lot of things at the time. When Superficial didn’t hit the charts like I thought it was going to, at that moment, it was just overshadowed by so many things. As the years went on, I’m like man, the album was just so good. If it was anyone else, it would have just been a number one hit.”
Since her days on The Hills, Montag has gave the impression within the MTV sequence’ reboot The Hills: New Beginnings, which aired at the community from 2019 to 2021. She and husband Spencer Pratt, whom she met whilst filming The Hills in 2006, tied the knot in 2009 and welcomed sons Gunner Ryker in 2017 and 2022, respectively.