THIS IS MANDY MOORE

The year was 1999, and a 15-year-old singer named Mandy Moore was debuting the music video for her first single, ‘Candy’. In it she drove a lime green Volkswagen Beetle past perfectly manicured Los Angeles lawns while singing that she missed a cute boy … like candy. It was the kind of dangerously catchy bubblegum pop song that would soon land the future This Is Us actress on the cover of celebrity and music magazines and earn her the title ‘pop princess’ alongside the likes of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.

But over the past 20 years, she’s had time, her first in 11 years. It’s a deeply personal project for Moore, one that dives into what it was like to find success before she was old enough to vote. Moore’s music career dates back to a basketball game where a girl roughly her age sang the national anthem. Watching from the stands, Moore, around 11, had what she calls a “light bulb moment”.