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MANDY MOORE IS GEARING UP for her May 26th release, ‘Amanda Leigh.’ She sat down with Musictoob to dish on Leigh, bubble-gum pop, and Mandy’s residence in a timewarp (You won’t catch her on Twitter!)
Mandy is sorry. She’s simply not so into pop music these days. “I’m so out of it. I don’t have my finger on the pulse, in terms of music that’s super popular right now; I think I have to start paying attention a little bit more.”
Upon hearing that she may not be missing much at the moment, Mandy replies: “No no no no! [laugh] You know what? Who am I to say anything about anyone?” adding, “I guarantee 10 years ago when I first came out, you know, people probably thought of the entire bunch, of all of my contemporaries, I was the one that was most disposable. I would be first to second that claim.”
Well, some soul-searching, a glittering new alt-folk-country record, and one engagement to Ryan Adams later, and it’s clear Mandy’s found the way she wants to live. It involves basement recording in the home of a man called “Ducky” and hiding secrets in her lyrics. Oh yes, and not using Twitter.
Asked if she used Twitter, Moore replied “No, not personally. I keep hearing about it. Is it the new Facebook?”
And Facebook itself? “No, I don’t. I’ve been stuck in my own little bubble listening to the Beach Boys and Paul McCartney.”
MANDY “STRUGGLES” WITH THE PERSONAL STUFF
Hot on the heels of her 2007 Wild Hope, which drew speculation far and wide for lyrics that seemed to chronicle the tumult in Mandy’s love life, particularly a bad breakup with Scrubs star Zach Braff, Mandy’s a bit more private this time around. With lyrics like “Is this the only way for us to communicate / I put it in a song,” we need to know, is it all about fiancée Ryan Adams?
“Oh, you know, I actually struggle a lot with this,” Mandy told us. “I think with the last record, such a big deal was made out of specific songs or who they were or weren’t about or what situations they were or weren’t about…I think as a writer my job is to write and as an audience it’s your job to sort of dictate what the music means to you.” Meaning, as in 2007, she’s not telling.
But with lyrics like “I stay on track / you’re all over the map / come back to New York,” a little connect-the-dots isn’t hard to do.
“I would never want to take away that experience of demystifying what songs are about or who they’re about,” Mandy said. “That’s not part of my job. I can’t reveal that.” — the last two phrases spoken in a both sweet and terrifying whisper only Mandy could pull off.
The new album, Amanda Leigh, will be released May 26, 2009.
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