May 30, 2000
I Wanna Be With You
All told, further convincing proof that you should never put your daughter on the stage.
1 / 10
Now here's a challenge. Try discussing 'new teen sensation' Mandy Moore for five minutes without mentioning Britney Spears. You won't manage it, guaranteed.
See, Mandy Moore is the latest pretty, teenage record company cash-in on Britney's success. Not often noted for their outstanding originality, this is essentially how record company bosses work: see something doing well, copy it. That's why we had 20 Take Thats, several Oasis' and, now, a parade of mini-Britneys. God help us all.
As pouting, blonde 16-year- old girls go, Mandy Moore is a perfectly adequate candidate for the job. She's modelled for Tommy Hilfiger and Neutrogena, has her own MTV show in the US and, obviously, looks like she's never had an impure thought in her life. So far so good... but oops! Those clever Svengalis forgot to give Mandy any tunes! Even her debut single, 'Candy' (cue the disturbingly childlike "I'm missing you like candy"), is plain irritating, missing all of Britney's humour and pop pizzazz, while the rest here are generally nauseating first-love ballads that even Celine Dion would balk at.
All told, further convincing proof that you should never put your daughter on the stage.
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