Candy [Enhanced]

Mandy Moore | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 17, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000JZ1G
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (74 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #595,466 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

"Candy" is the debut single by American pop singer Mandy Moore, which was released from her debut album, So Real. The music video, which was directed by Chris Robinson, had a cameo by the girl group PYT. This song stands as a classic example of a teen pop song from the late 1990s/early 2000s. Record labels began riding the wave of teen-oriented pop music, which would result in a huge phenomenon sweeping the globe, including young female singers such as Moore, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, and Christina Aguilera. The melody and tune of the song has a marked resemblance to the 1996 song "Do You Know (What It Takes)," which was written and composed by Max Martin and Denniz Pop and recorded, written and released by Swedish pop star Robyn.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This new kid is on top!, November 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Candy (Audio CD)

I just bought this CD single, "Candy" and I played it over and over until I had it memeorized. I loved the snippetts of her songs that will be on the new CD too. What a voice on Mandy Moore...it's as sweet as candy! Her new CD is at the top of my Christmas wish list! I can't wait!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "So-NY's Deal: 'So Real' so late, November 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Candy (Audio CD)

>"Candy" evokes Britney's "Baby, One More Time" on first listens, however the voice is fuller and more impassioned-and unlike Brintey -Mandy has some ability to enunicate what she is singing and has some range; the song does not rest soley on its pumped production, but its soulful delivery. Get it? No nasality, and some vocal inflection and touch of left-of-center rapping a la Sophie B in "Right Beside You". The song builds to a climax through its repetition because of Mandy's ability to adjust her delivery and to hit notes and sing on-key through twists and turns necessary in alternating points of inflection through the chorus and, unlike Brit whose voice remains frail to the point where every part of the "Baby, One More Time" delivery is calculatedly linear according to the producer's specifications, Mandy brings something to this song Britney or Jessica Simpson could not. Conversely, she does not feel compelled to overextend herself,and if she could, she would not be screaming one note as thought it were a Mariah Carey Marathon - as is the case in Jessica Simpson's in "I Wanna Love You Forever"- and although "Candy" does not serve her smooth and sweet voice to the level of the other album cuts which stylisically are more appropriate to showing off her pipes, she has a supple almost pleasinlgly girlish voice suited more toward quiet storm/jazz-inflected material("Lock Me In Your Heart" and "Quit Breaking My Heart") and Lisa Stansfield/Gabrielle-esque English girl soul ( "I Like It") that allow one to differentiate her style and material from the rest of the pact. "Candy" is nonetheless enjoyable and should be listened to as a debut from an artist who first needs to compete within the market she has to transcend it at radio and retail. In other words, "Candy" was a safe first single choice, and the odd thing about its charting at #41 in the U.S Hot 100 is that it goes to show she may have a hit with one of the other more fresh and unique tracks as Britney/Christina backlash unfurls that separate her from the; the entire album is ripe for the picking and the material is fresher than that of Christina's or Britney's. If Sony would have just accepted that lighting does not strike twice just because they are SONY, and could have handled that the single and album would not have appeared at #1 simultaneously, then maybe more fans would have, as I have, heard the entire body-of-work known as the album "So Real", and would know that Mandy is for and "So Real". The expected date of arrival of the album: I have heard Dec 7, 1999 or January 11, 2000...Pick it up and you will have to concede she is better than Brit and should outlast her!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mandy is the best!, September 10, 2003

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Halley (Va, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Candy (Audio CD)

This is a good single. Definately her coming out single. Now, why is Britney Spears better recognixed than Mandy? because Mandy's a better person, and Britney is evil! Sorry, Brit fans, but she's setting a bad example for little kids! Mandy's waaaaaaaay better!