Those are songs that might feel really dated to me, but a whole new life is born when you play them with the band. Anything from a Walk to Remember is always sweet. It’s always fun to play “Candy.” People are excited to hear it, but it’s a new version: a little bluesier and obviously a bit more organic because there are no synthesizers and drum machines and whatnot. Having said that, she was game to spill the behind-the-scenes tea from her much-memed 2003 Vanity Fair cover shoot with Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, and the Olsen twins - and reveal which was the better boy band to tour with: NSYNC or the Backstreet Boys. Maybe one day!” she says rather excitedly. “I just don’t think I’ve ever been interesting enough to have crazy rumors written about me. (In our interview, she apologized more than once for not being able to refund anyone who bought her first - and, ironically, best-selling - album, 1999’s So Real.) But she also doesn’t mind being known as the self-proclaimed “boring” pop star of the early aughts. At 38 years old, Moore has a sense of humor regarding her early discography. Moore is also psyched to play some of the hits from her early teen pop-star days, including her sticky sweet debut single “Candy,” which dropped four months before the turn of the new millennium. “I’m like, Oh, what’s the best third-wave coffee in Austin ? I’m looking up the Eater maps in different cities. We’re just like, What healthy snacks can we find on the road?” she says. “It’s basically a tour of Whole Foods around the country. “We’re all married and have kids and are just happy to be playing two hours every night.” To be fair, drinking to excess has never been Moore’s touring style she’s always been more interested in turning her cross-country musical adventures into multistate smorgasbords. 2.) “Obviously, no one’s going out and getting wasted,” she says. (She also recently announced she’s pregnant with baby No. And it’s a full-on family affair: Her husband and collaborator, Dawes front man Taylor Goldsmith, her brother-in-law, Dawes’ drummer Griffin Goldsmith, and her 16-month-old son, Gus, will all be joining her on the road. Yet on June 10, she kicks off her first headlining stint in more than a decade. Moore may have felt the same way about her touring days. I get the feeling that this will probably never happen again.” “I’m trying to stay present and acknowledge and appreciate all of it. “It’s a real mixture of feelings,” she says over Zoom, describing the waves of excitement and sadness that have come in the aftermath of these career milestones. Over the span of just two weeks in May, Mandy Moore released her seventh studio album, In Real Life, and said good-bye to her long-running family weepie This Is Us. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo by Andrew H.
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