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How does it feel to have moved away from the pop star rat race?
I feel like I kinda did that a little bit with Coverage, the last record. But this means more because this is my own music now, so I'm obviously more personally invested. I'm just excited for people to hear new music from me, because it's been so long.
It must be liberating to sing your own songs, too.
It's night and day, in comparison to singing somebody else's words onstage. It's a very different experience. I just enjoy this so much more, I enjoy actually having been a part of the process from start to finish.
Do you miss all the "pop star" grooming?
To be honest, I never felt like I was groomed. I was just sort of shoved in a studio with people I wasn't necessarily a fan of and kind of told what to sing and how to sing it. I would show up at the studio and the track would be completely finished and all I had to do was sing on it. It was a bit of a bummer, because you have to conform whatever you have to sing to what the band's already played.
We heard there were bears stalking the recording studio while you were holed up in the woods.
Oh yeah, I had two bear sightings. I remember asking someone the night before I decided to go on a hike if I was going to run into a bear. They assured me that people went on hikes all the time and took walks around the property and no one's run into one. So of course, I go on a hike at 7 in the morning, and what do I see in front of me? Two bears. Two baby cubs.
That's not a good thing.
Yeah, because you know mom's around there somewhere. I literally didn't know I could run that fast! I saw mom and the babies maybe two weeks after that. They were right in the middle of the road, and I had to stop and wait for a couple minutes before they decided to pass.
That could have been a classic pop star demise.
Oh yeah — going out in style.
There were ghosts, as well, up there in the woods?
Apparently the family that owned the place back in the '20s haunts the property and there are eight separate ghosts. The matriarch of the family was in my section, and apparently she doesn't like clean clothes drying in a certain area. Any time I put my clothes to air dry on top of the washer and dryer, I would come back and they would be thrown off — not like they slid off, but like they were tossed on the floor, away from the washer and dryer.
Creepy.
And the detergent and the laundry sheets, when I would put them up there to try to hold my clothes in place, they were thrown, too.
Did it escalate from there?
Well, I would come home and all my lights would be on, or I would come home and I would have left lights on and they were all off and the TV upstairs was on … just weird stuff like that.
What jerks!
No … like an idiot I walked around the house when I first got there and was like, "Hi, I'm Mandy. I'm here doing a record. I'm not here to move in on your space. I'm doing something positive and creative. Just let me be, and I'll let you be." I think they really respected me.
Do you think they gravitated more to the music or the lyrics?
I think maybe the music. That probably means more to them now than lyrics.
Because the lyrical content is too mature for spirits who throw thongs on the floor and leave the TV on?
Yeah, it's probably not the upbeat poppy stuff they're looking for. They want something upbeat. They don't want to hear about heartbreak.
How's it working with [producer] John Alagia?
I love him. He was my first choice to do this record, being friends with [John] Mayer and Rachel [Yamagata] and knowing the experiences they had with him. We just get each other, and he's the most organized scatterbrained person I've ever met. He gets so hyper focused on stuff, and I think that's the secret to his success.
You chose surprising cowriting partners for Wild Hope. How did that come about?
I think I eventually separated from Warner Bros. because they didn't understand why I wanted to write with someone like Lori McKenna. Well, I'm just a huge fan of her music, as well as the Weepies and Rachel [Yamagata]. Why doesn't everybody know their music and give it the attention that it deserves? That was also a reason for writing with some of these people.
Mandy Moore In "Blender" Magazine
Source: Blender
How does it feel to have moved away from the pop star rat race?
I feel like I kinda did that a little bit with Coverage, the last record. But this means more because this is my own music now, so I'm obviously more personally invested. I'm just excited for people to hear new music from me, because it's been so long.
It must be liberating to sing your own songs, too.
It's night and day, in comparison to singing somebody else's words onstage. It's a very different experience. I just enjoy this so much more, I enjoy actually having been a part of the process from start to finish.
Do you miss all the "pop star" grooming?
To be honest, I never felt like I was groomed. I was just sort of shoved in a studio with people I wasn't necessarily a fan of and kind of told what to sing and how to sing it. I would show up at the studio and the track would be completely finished and all I had to do was sing on it. It was a bit of a bummer, because you have to conform whatever you have to sing to what the band's already played.
We heard there were bears stalking the recording studio while you were holed up in the woods.
Oh yeah, I had two bear sightings. I remember asking someone the night before I decided to go on a hike if I was going to run into a bear. They assured me that people went on hikes all the time and took walks around the property and no one's run into one. So of course, I go on a hike at 7 in the morning, and what do I see in front of me? Two bears. Two baby cubs.
That's not a good thing.
Yeah, because you know mom's around there somewhere. I literally didn't know I could run that fast! I saw mom and the babies maybe two weeks after that. They were right in the middle of the road, and I had to stop and wait for a couple minutes before they decided to pass.
That could have been a classic pop star demise.
Oh yeah — going out in style.
There were ghosts, as well, up there in the woods?
Apparently the family that owned the place back in the '20s haunts the property and there are eight separate ghosts. The matriarch of the family was in my section, and apparently she doesn't like clean clothes drying in a certain area. Any time I put my clothes to air dry on top of the washer and dryer, I would come back and they would be thrown off — not like they slid off, but like they were tossed on the floor, away from the washer and dryer.
Creepy.
And the detergent and the laundry sheets, when I would put them up there to try to hold my clothes in place, they were thrown, too.
Did it escalate from there?
Well, I would come home and all my lights would be on, or I would come home and I would have left lights on and they were all off and the TV upstairs was on … just weird stuff like that.
What jerks!
No … like an idiot I walked around the house when I first got there and was like, "Hi, I'm Mandy. I'm here doing a record. I'm not here to move in on your space. I'm doing something positive and creative. Just let me be, and I'll let you be." I think they really respected me.
Do you think they gravitated more to the music or the lyrics?
I think maybe the music. That probably means more to them now than lyrics.
Because the lyrical content is too mature for spirits who throw thongs on the floor and leave the TV on?
Yeah, it's probably not the upbeat poppy stuff they're looking for. They want something upbeat. They don't want to hear about heartbreak.
How's it working with [producer] John Alagia?
I love him. He was my first choice to do this record, being friends with [John] Mayer and Rachel [Yamagata] and knowing the experiences they had with him. We just get each other, and he's the most organized scatterbrained person I've ever met. He gets so hyper focused on stuff, and I think that's the secret to his success.
You chose surprising cowriting partners for Wild Hope. How did that come about?
I think I eventually separated from Warner Bros. because they didn't understand why I wanted to write with someone like Lori McKenna. Well, I'm just a huge fan of her music, as well as the Weepies and Rachel [Yamagata]. Why doesn't everybody know their music and give it the attention that it deserves? That was also a reason for writing with some of these people.
Source: Blender
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