Okay, Im not a Mandy Fan, but I found it really awesome she said some of the things she said in this interview. Here it is.
4 Evr Moore
Unsympathetic producers, uninspired albums, disappointing sales: Button-cute singer-actress Mandy Moore is putting all that behind her on the riskiest — and most rewarding — album of her career. “I just feel…free,” she tells Blender
By Oliver Jones
Blender, November 2003
Mandy Moore is either a crappy bowler, incredibly sleepy or both. While her form is flawless — she takes graceful strides to the line and pulls her arm back in a perfect arch — when she releases, her lime-green ball pops off her fingers with a duck snort and angles straight into the gutter.
With her second roll, she abandons the pretense of a windup and just pushes the thing forward. She turns, smiles, does a pirouette and kicks a triumphant leg in the air. Her satisfaction is tempered somewhat when she glances at the scoreboard at Hollywood’s Lucky Strike lanes and sees that she’s trailing two truly pitiful bowlers (full disclosure: Blender and our photographer), but she shrugs it off.
“It’s like my mind and body have turned to mush,” she says, laughing and shaking her head before burying her face in her hands.
That Moore can face impending defeat without sacrificing so much as a dollop of grace and good humor should be no surprise to anyone who has followed her music career. Since breaking on the scene four years ago in the great Orlando, Florida, teen-pop explosion that spawned Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, the 19-year-old Moore has been the rare pop princess who values poise over perkiness. While this has been a boon to her acting career — Hollywood is still shaking its collective head at the unexpected success of her 2002 Christian-themed weepie, A Walk to Remember — it hasn’t translated into much tangible music success.
She has notched only two chart-toppers: a limp bit of juvenilia called “Candy” (“I’d like to refund everyone who bought that album [So Real] their $15.99,” Moore declares. “We should have a gigantic nationwide bonfire!”) and the marginally more listenable “I Wanna Be With You.” Meanwhile, the album she had the most personally invested in, a sophisticated dance-pop record called simply Mandy Moore, failed to inspire much devotion when it was released two years ago.
“It’s bummed me out, definitely,” she says. “Especially with the last record, which I am still really proud of. I was trying to branch out and do something different than the whole bubblegum thing. And it was kind of like no one wanted that from me.”
To learn more about Mandy and her unorthodox new album, pick up the November issue of Blender, on newsstands now.
http://www.blender.com/articles/article_504.html
“I’d like to refund everyone who bought that album their $15.99” MANDY MOORE 
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