Mandy Moore Discusses 'Amanda Leigh,' Mike Viola, and More on Fuse TV!
In a chat with Fuse TV, Mandy Moore sat down for an insightful look at her hit 2009 album, Amanda Leigh. Discussing a well-known collaboration with musician/producer Mike Viola, Mandy assessed her creative process, and weighed the characteristics of her latest record against her fifth studio release, Wild Hope.
In the October interview, Mandy details her first interaction with her soon-to-be musical partner. "I met Mike Viola through our mutual friend, Inara George," recalls Mandy. "I immediately hit it off with him, and just innately knew that we were going to make this record together."
Assessing the songwriting, Mandy is candid as she summarizes the inspiration behind Amanda Leigh. "As a writer I'm still stuck in the idea of writing for selfish reasons," admits Mandy. "[I write] to garner a little bit more understanding about situations, or people, or things that have happened in my life." "More than anything," she adds, "I'd say the overwhelming theme is the idea of home and trying to understand what home is now, and finding possibly a new definition in my life."
Comparing her latest release to that of Wild Hope, Mandy points to a considerably shorter production period for Amanda Leigh. "The album itself was written in such a compact amount of time...and I subsequently recorded it immediately afterwards, [so] it very much felt like its own little project," says Mandy. "WIld Hope was written sporadically over three or four years. I found myself having to work a little bit harder in that situation to relate to those songs because I wasn't necessarily in that same frame of mind."
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