Wild Hope (2007) "I feel bad that people wasted their money on such trite, blah pop music," the former Top 40 marionette Mandy Moore said of her back… Mandy Moore Pop
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Wild Hope (2007)

Mandy Moore
Reviewed by Jonathan Bernstein | Jun 15, 2007
MOORE, NOT MERRIER A more sensitive, thrown-for-a-loop-by-love Mandy surfaces on Wild Hope
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MOORE, NOT MERRIER A more sensitive, thrown-for-a-loop-by-love Mandy surfaces on Wild Hope

Details Release Date: Jun 19, 2007; Lead Performance: Mandy Moore; Genre: Pop

''I feel bad that people wasted their money on such trite, blah pop music,'' the former Top 40 marionette Mandy Moore said of her back catalog in a recent interview. Don't get excited: She's not offering a refund. Instead, she's enlisted such sensitive singer-songwriters as Rachael Yamagata and Chantal Kreviazuk to co-pen Wild Hope. The results are surprisingly unsappy, with the country-rock-influenced ''Latest Mistake'' and ''Nothing That You Are'' shining brightest among the CD's abundance of bruised-by-bad-guys laments. B DOWNLOAD THIS: Latest Mistake

Originally posted Jun 15, 2007 Published in issue #940 Jun 22, 2007 Order article reprints