Mandy Moore

1	In My Pocket 3:41
2	You Remind Me 3:34
3	Saturate Me 4:02
4	One Sided Love 4:05
5	17 4:00
6	Cry 3:43
7	Crush 3:43
8	It Only Took a Minute 3:40
9	Turn The Clock Around 3:45
10	Yo-Yo 4:17
11	From Loving You 3:34
12	Split Chick 3:45
13	When I Talk To You 4:23

Barnes & Noble

On her surprisingly sophisticated-sounding sophomore disc, teen dream Mandy Moore takes more than a few cues from Christina Aguilera. She opens with "In My Pocket," a thumping, Middle Eastern-inspired dance track suggesting that Moore is as willing to barter for affection as the Pepsi queen was on "Genie in a Bottle." While Aguilera sang "If you wanna be with me/Baby, there's a price to pay," Moore makes it clear that she'd rather buy than sell, with lines like "Tell me how much for your love?" Miss Mandy, however, hasn't lost all of her wholesome virtues. The wide-eyed blonde is still saccharine sweet on the lush, drum-'n'-bass-accented ballad "Saturate Me" and the cutesy mid-tempo tunes "Crush" and "You Remind Me." Lest we forgot, the junior torch song "17" gently reminds us that Moore is "only 17." On that same song, she sweetly sings with the conviction of a Janet Jackson-in-training that she's "living in the moment, keeping my heart open." And if Moore follows the footsteps of dance-pop divas like Janet and Madonna and continues to live by those simple ideals, she'll go far. Tracy E. Hopkins

All Music Guide

Never let it be said that Mandy Moore, her label, and team of producers didn't work it. Once So Real failed to make headway, they retooled it as the "special edition" I Wanna Be With You, which wasn't a real hit, but it was a step in the right direction. Then, with her official second album, they finally got the formula right. Mandy Moore manages to pack more hooks, melody, beats, clever production flourishes, and fun into its 13 tracks than nearly all of its peers -- remarkably, it's a stronger album, through and through, than either of Britney's first two albums or Christina's record. That doesn't mean that it has singles as strong as those albums; even if the surging "In My Pocket," the faux-sitar spiked "You Remind Me," and hip-hop ballad "Saturate Me" are all fine tunes, meant to be played on the radio, they aren't as distinctive as ."..Baby One More Time" or "Genie in a Bottle." Also, although Moore isn't a bad singer, she's not particularly charismatic, and the production team isn't as gaudily, enjoyably crass as Max Martin. So, why is Mandy Moore such a good record? Because of consistency. This may not hit tremendous heights, yet everybody involved is working so hard that they've managed to come up with a record that's consistently satisfying. It doesn't stretch the teen pop formula much, just enough to give the record character, and Moore delivers the songs sturdily, never taking the forefront, but blending into the lush, layered production, so the music just rolls forth as a whole. And that whole sounds great -- immaculately crafted, precisely polished, exactly what a teen pop album should be. Of course, it would have been greater if a couple of the songs were genuine knockouts, but usually this genre sacrifices consistency for dizzying peaks and it's refreshing to hear a teen pop record that plays like a record, instead of singles-n-filler. Stephen Thomas Erlewine