Does anyone else get the feeling that the setting of this video is meant to take place on a Saturday morning around 10:00am? It really has that kind of vibe.
I know that Mandy Moore is not a fan of her own early work, but she truly has no reason to be ashamed of this song. The late 90s/early 00s nostalgia present here that so many in the comment section look back on fondly proves that.
@ Got me weak in the Nayayays....So babay cum for may, baby show me who you are. Baby, cum for may, like sugar to my heart. face-orange-biting-nails C'mon, give it to me....
I remember watching this music video when it came out and being floored at how perfect that outfit was. It really is such a great representation of the times lol
I'm 32 and feel like I've wasted my life. I haven't done anything since graduating besides work and buy a house. Has me questioning what the point of it all even is... bust your ass so that one day you don't have to.. but by that time you're old and life's already over. I'll actually probably be able to retire by 45.. but still, pretty much ancient at that point. Where did all the time go... The years start coming and they don't stop coming.
*”Hey it’s Carson Daly, you’re watching TRL and we are about to name the number 6 video on our countdown! It’s Mandy Moore with Candy, up two spots since yesterday so you guys must be loving Mandy’s candy **_(fake laughs)_** Dont touch that dial, it’s Total Request..LIVE, only on MTV!”*
Liz T i watched the countdown religiously everyday after school! i’ll never forget one time my bus was sent on a detour bc of a huge car accident x it made us 15 mins later than usual x my first thought was i’m gonna miss the #10 video plus the intro for today’s studio guest, dammit!!! LOL
The nostalgia is real. As a middle-aged millennial, this song made me finally understand why boomers sometimes tear up when they hear songs from their childhood.
For real this song is so 90s and takes me back to a way simpler and happier time in my Life..Music was Great TV was Great Economy was Great Life was Great..Millennials we are the most Nostalgic and Depressed Generation and it’s because we had the rug pulled from under our feet so abruptly..I have Hope still..there’s always a way to make things work if we are willing to fight for it
@Karl M yea 9/11 fucked up alot of things..its up to us though man..as humans we have the power to create and build, if we are willing to come together and fight for our Happiness we can do it..keep Hope alive Keep that Creativity alive
@Karl M 2013/2014 tbh - unless you don't like Nicki Minaj. I found her to be entertaining. After her I went *yawn* at hit songs. For me personally, peak music was late 90s/early 2000s. There's something classic about the pop bands that kept being cranked out like uh - candy XDDDD.
@Karl M I legit had to look up the definition of nu metal on the wiki XD (There are so many subgenres of metal I get them mixed up, as I've listened to various types). I agree with your statement wholly. Linkin Park's first album got me through junior high school hell (i feel the first two albums were nu metal before they went into another direction). Also Godsmack's song "Whatever" *chef's kiss* That is an A+ song.
@@papmasterOST I watched it recently and still love it but her acting has improved 1000000% 😆 not that her acting was bad in the movie though, it's such a great movie
@@bobleguyomg remember she got flack bc she said God in this song like a couple of times and they made a whole big deal out of her being this sweet little Christian-Britney the is she still a “virgin” stage-Christina getting dragged for liking Carson Daily I mean-the media treated these girls so GROSS and they were only 17 or 16. Mandy I THINK was the youngest.
When this video came out in Fall 1999, I was 14 years old and just starting freshman year of high school. Now, I'm 32 and seeing this video/ hearing this song takes me back. It gives me the chills just thinking how great the 1990s were, especially the late 90s. This style will never come back, at least not in the same way, but I'm glad we have TH-cam now to relive the memories over and over again.
I'm a 1985 too. You articulated my emotions so well. Like before 9/11 was awesome. I had so much hope for the future. But now all I see is so much anger. I too just want to go back to my childhood and live those teenage years again :)
This really encapsulates what it was like growing up in the late 90s. Everything was carefree and bubbly. We as a nation hit a peak in every way possible.
I’ll be 32 in July and I still love this song from my childhood! The 90s and early 2000s were the best times! Oh what a time to be growing up in a bubbly, carefree era!
Damn bro, i just turned 32 last April & I remember having a big crushes on Mandy Moore, Britney Spears, Aaliyah, Spice Girls, All Saints, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes from TLC, Christina Aguilera, Tina Arena & many more, just too many to mention 😂 & I’m not afraid to tell the World that i be jamming to they’re song all day everyday if i feel like to.
lol, everyone thinks their era was the best. IMO the most likely scenario? childhood were the best years. nostalgia -- for a lot of people. i hear the same words from people older than us and a decade younger than us (we're in our 30s) -- "oh the 70s were the best" "the 80s were the simpler times" "oh the 2010s were the best" I think lot of it is when we had very little responsibility and not much to stress us out compared to when we're adults. all that being said -- love this song :D
I remember watching this video on MTV when I was 16. My first thought was, "This is the most beautiful person ever born." Mandy will always be my #1 celebrity cush, followed by Selma Hayeck.
It's no joke.Post production wasn't so processed like it is in pop music today and not auto-tuned like crazy.And the instrumental in post production wasn't so processed.Music was also more original.
Yeah it's not 90's style but late 90's early 2000's style. And I miss the late 90's year 2000 life..music was a bit cheesy but ok..better than current mainstream music but life wise I would love to have that era back.
@Karl M It's sad and that's definitely true. EDM can be cool, but I love just hearing real acoustic instruments and musicians. The music from some of the greatest bands are so good that you don't even need lyrics. As a songwriter myself, the sales are sadly coming from that trend and I'm trying to keep up with the trend, but put my own spin on it with some more musicality.
@Karl M No way in the world I could forget the true Hip Hop in all of it's lyricism. I can't believe awards shows will call the mumble rap and other rap Hip Hop and categorize it as such. The Talib Kwelis, Commons, Busta Rhymes, Tribe Called Quests, and more kept it going in the 90s, but Hip Hop has been dead for some time. Everybody's flow sounds the same now and there's no originality across the board with rap and pop music
Theres really something melancholy about listening to a song that came out when you were young and had the whole world ahead of you, but now you are 40 and the lyrics hit you more than they ever did. Its like...if i had only listened to them 28 years ago.
Maloree it's because she says in her biography she saw the writing on the wall concerning the exploitive nature of the music industry and didn't want to be part of it! She also stated it was either this song "candy" or the recording of the entire album that allowed her to come to this epiphany or understanding that she was by nature fueling the teen depression rate as a result of the music industry's influence on young teens! She also went on to explain that after realizing this; she herself slipped into a bought of depression and that's why for years you never heard from her again!
If you had that Walkman/portable cd player, you were the shit. You probably got it at Sam goody after saving your allowance for months on end. Thinking the cheap batteries would work just as well(they didn't). And the "anti skip" feature. Ugh the nostalgia.
I had my cd player in my picket for one solitary day of school. MIStake. that day I invented this new kind of mosey so I could still walk to class, cause 10 seconds antiskip juust iisnt enoough..
That is the Bernt custom. 99 body kit. Wish they would have showcased the car more (than the scooter) Innocent? (the character Mandy plays) precocious more like. sweet tune though
Record companies stopped making this commercial Pop and R&B by 2010. They decided that they had "lost the war" against illegal digital streaming music. They shut down specialist divisions in Pop, Soul and R&B and Rap and Hip-Hop, in fact most styles of music except Country. This meant that new acts were not handled with unique teams of A&Rs, executives, songwriters, producers, stylists and media training and PR. They even stopped organizing tours and TV concerts to promote new talent on children's cable TV channels and weekend network TV. Now record companies sign acts only if they have their own established popularity from social media and some talent. They will then either be hands off with them or too hands on with their career.
Who would have thought 20 years later Mandy would be our favorite mother in television on This is Us. Imagine still crushing on a middle aged Mandy, lol, that's me!
The 90s feels!!! It makes me feel, smell, and see everything from when I was younger watching 90s music channels, sometimes wishing I was the black person in these videos because no other black people around me liked pop
I was that same black guy lol. Growing up in Detroit, everyone around me was listening to nothing but rap. And there I was, jamming to Mandy, NSYNC, and S Club 7
Haven’t heard this song for more than a decade… just came here after hearing it again in rebel wilson’s movie senior year… the nostalgic feeling is real.
Yep.Looking back in retrospect, the nostalgia feels great, but there's a small inkling of regret.Feel like I took it for granted.A decade I'm burdened to lament forever.
I knew..I knew this was the last period of my life when I didn't have to care..all I had to do was get good grades, and everything else was taken care of. No money problems, didn't care about the cops or getting in trouble with them, truly carefree.
@@LBrooks_037 yes but its so late 90s that its almost 2000s lol the aesthetics and the style started to visibly shift from the 90s to the 2000s at this point so its also very 2000s
Omg I loved this song!! Still do!! I swear this reminds me of middle school days watching TRL!! Back when Mandy, Christina, Britney and Jessica were the Pop Queens! Miss those days!!
I was 20 when this came out. I was heavily into my rap, hip hop at the time. But when I heard this song, I went out and bought the single. Because fuck it. Its awesome.
I remember when this came out, as a teenage girl of about the same age. It's awesome how far she's come and all she's done. I love her in "This is Us" which I watch most nights. She has such a great smile too!
+Yel Vall Lmao, I am your age right now as you was when this song was released! I love 80's, 90's and 00's music! Much better than the mainstream 10's music, even tho some less popular artists have great music in this decade, only you have to find them! :D
Happy 40th birthday, Mandy. You are a truly wonderful person and a talented phenomenon with a beautiful voice. Congratulations on reaching the milestone. I may be the youngest fan as I'm 19, but it doesn't matter. I'm missing you like candy 🍭🥰♥️✨️
I get this song stuck in my head at least once a month and can’t get it out until I come here to listen to it. I miss this era. It hurts to know how much time has passed.
The James Corden interview brought me here. Mandy talked about her lack of dance ability. The editing was awesome because they literally did the fast cuts which was popular at the time!~!
Me too!! Hey, did you have cable and watch Nickelodeon growing up? Do you remember Hoku Ho - Another Dumb Blonde and a movie called Snow Day? Randomly crossed my mind recently.
Take me back to Hit Clips, TRL, music videos being played all day, playing outside, and no social media 😭😭😭. Mandy is that girl. Put respect on my queen 👑
Wow… here’s to the 90s, this song says so much about how we were then. So much more enthusiasm, freedom, and overall happiness it was to live in USA then. I miss it so much.
Whenever I hear or see the word, "candy," these days, I still think of this song. I was in my 40s when this song came out and am in my 60s now. I loved this tune back then, and I still dig it today.
Yep and also among the famale names mandy this name means lovely and treasure lady so this is the reason mandy moore is very endearing female singer❤️💖 mandy moore is one of my favorite female singer all time
I am so glad someone else sang to their mirror!! Once my older sister caught me singing M2M to my mirror when I was 13 and she has maintained I am mentally challenged ever since (seriously lol)
I loved this song so much after hearing it on my local heritage Top 40 radio station and watching this video on MTV when I was in starting college that I went to Sam Goody and bought the CD single.
For some reason, maybe the way the intro is filmed, I get that distinct pre 9/11 US feeling, like 1999 was the height of American peace, prosperity, and optimism. It makes me deeply miss that time period, even though I hated this song back then.
That's EXACTLY what I felt when it started. I thought, "Ahh, the pre-9/11 days." 1998/1999 was an awesome time style-wise. I just loved the whole Buffy dark lightness of it all. I don't know how to describe it. I think I'll call it pop-goth.
I remember one of my best frienda got this on a blank audio tape for me when I was about 19 in 1998 . jt was on Side A . Such a great song, I wonder what hapened to her. I miss this fun type of music
The 90's and early 2000's will remain iconic for me.
Lol! Holy moly!
90s was awesome😊
Yes we're legendary 😌 😌
Me too ( & I am 49), The TRL Years were some of the Best (of) Times !! Forever !!
Check Robyn, OUR Swedish treasure. This is a ripp of...
Does anyone else get the feeling that the setting of this video is meant to take place on a Saturday morning around 10:00am? It really has that kind of vibe.
yep i feel the saturday morning vide
well said
Lmfaooooooooo 🤣 g'dam early birds haha
Yeah i feel it too in time of 90s vibe
Yup, on any Saturday from the pre-coronavirus world.
Years ago, i too, was weak in the KNAAAAYYYAAYYYSSS
Seconds ago you were reeeetawwdddaaaddd
😂😂
@@Jeremiah-ml5ke
I think you might have sunk to her level... perhaps lower.
@@matthewdonoghue321 just a joke, Cupcake
@@Jeremiah-ml5ke
Me to, snowflake
I know that Mandy Moore is not a fan of her own early work, but she truly has no reason to be ashamed of this song.
The late 90s/early 00s nostalgia present here that so many in the comment section look back on fondly proves that.
💯
I had this CD. It's actually pretty good, despite her being so hard on herself. What You Want (Girl of Your Fantasy) has a banging bass line.
I think the way they sexualized her at 14 might be a reason. They were really pushing the "be sexy"
@@brittneycarter5855 We are on the same page -- they should have waited until she was at least 15. Maybe even a little older.
@ Got me weak in the Nayayays....So babay cum for may, baby show me who you are. Baby, cum for may, like sugar to my heart. face-orange-biting-nails C'mon, give it to me....
That outfit with the yellow top, teal skirt, discman, and sticky outy hair is the epitome of the late 90s/early 2000's to me.
I remember watching this music video when it came out and being floored at how perfect that outfit was. It really is such a great representation of the times lol
Aaah I just said the same thing! Every cool girl looked like this.
Those good old times 😅😅😅😅
And the brightness
I use to have that same discman lol
I'm 45, love heavy metal, and not ashamed to say I like this song.
Legacy Animation Studios im 28 , love french rap, and i love it too
Me neither. I just listened Donna Summer's Heaven Knows.
@@momoduouedoued2123 salut tu fais quoi ici hahaha
me too!
Legacy Animation Studios early 2000s you mean... lol..
I'm 40, I'm on nostalgic pop songs binge 😂. I wish I could turn back time
Agreed 👍 the nostalgic memories are beautiful but painful at the same time. Time went far too fast.
Me too 😔😭 I wish we could turn back time.
I hate the present times, extreme heat 🔥🔥🥵🥵🔥🔥 across most of Europe. 😔
I'm 32 and feel like I've wasted my life. I haven't done anything since graduating besides work and buy a house. Has me questioning what the point of it all even is... bust your ass so that one day you don't have to.. but by that time you're old and life's already over. I'll actually probably be able to retire by 45.. but still, pretty much ancient at that point. Where did all the time go... The years start coming and they don't stop coming.
@@sonderevokingbuns 45 isn't ancient! My god my 50s are the best time of my life as i finally don't have to worry about money.
@@channelingusllcix3512Oop I just turned 17 😭 y’all old people are scaring me😭😭
Happy 40th birthday Mandy
April 3 40th brithday
hits hard LOL.
Happy belated 40th Birthday 🎂 to Mandy Moore
0:50
Wow I'm getting old. Even the really young artists of the early 2000s are entering their 40s 😳
@@handsomeXid gladly die to go back.
Im 31 tho. But yeah. Life really did end around 2012. Mayans were right
*”Hey it’s Carson Daly, you’re watching TRL and we are about to name the number 6 video on our countdown! It’s Mandy Moore with Candy, up two spots since yesterday so you guys must be loving Mandy’s candy **_(fake laughs)_** Dont touch that dial, it’s Total Request..LIVE, only on MTV!”*
I used to always watch total request live...with Carson daily! When pop music was actually good.
You NAILED that! I literally can't like it enough lol 😜❤🤘
Liz T i watched the countdown religiously everyday after school! i’ll never forget one time my bus was sent on a detour bc of a huge car accident x it made us 15 mins later than usual x my first thought was i’m gonna miss the #10 video plus the intro for today’s studio guest, dammit!!! LOL
Melianna whenever i watched The Voice with Carson hosting i could only hear him introducing the countdown videos! hilarious! 😂😂😅
Dude, reading your comment brought back a rush of memories! Miss those days
The nostalgia is real. As a middle-aged millennial, this song made me finally understand why boomers sometimes tear up when they hear songs from their childhood.
For real this song is so 90s and takes me back to a way simpler and happier time in my Life..Music was Great TV was Great Economy was Great Life was Great..Millennials we are the most Nostalgic and Depressed Generation and it’s because we had the rug pulled from under our feet so abruptly..I have Hope still..there’s always a way to make things work if we are willing to fight for it
@Karl M yea 9/11 fucked up alot of things..its up to us though man..as humans we have the power to create and build, if we are willing to come together and fight for our Happiness we can do it..keep Hope alive Keep that Creativity alive
@Karl M 2013/2014 tbh - unless you don't like Nicki Minaj. I found her to be entertaining. After her I went *yawn* at hit songs. For me personally, peak music was late 90s/early 2000s. There's something classic about the pop bands that kept being cranked out like uh - candy XDDDD.
@Karl M I legit had to look up the definition of nu metal on the wiki XD (There are so many subgenres of metal I get them mixed up, as I've listened to various types). I agree with your statement wholly. Linkin Park's first album got me through junior high school hell (i feel the first two albums were nu metal before they went into another direction). Also Godsmack's song "Whatever" *chef's kiss* That is an A+ song.
@Karl M Rage-atm started nu metal. Korn perfected it.
The fact that she went on to be both a Disney villain and Disney princess PLUS Emmy winner is just fantastic. Love Mandy.
A Walk to Remember is My favorite from her
@@papmasterOST I watched it recently and still love it but her acting has improved 1000000% 😆 not that her acting was bad in the movie though, it's such a great movie
@@kaitlynlindsay4143 it's hard not to cry to that movie..tbh
@@papmasterOST Its hard not to Cry XD , one of the songs from the movie XD
@@jaredporikos2197 it's weird I just lost someone so close to me beginning of this month..😭
It's August 2024, let's see how many legends are listening to this incredible song ❤
Legendz Only 😎
Me❤❤❤❤
BABY Mandy, during that brief "You should try sounding like Britney" phase. Half a lifetime before "This is Us" 🤘🤓
Remembered this song this morning. 💖💖💖
@@bobleguyomg remember she got flack bc she said God in this song like a couple of times and they made a whole big deal out of her being this sweet little Christian-Britney the is she still a “virgin” stage-Christina getting dragged for liking Carson Daily I mean-the media treated these girls so GROSS and they were only 17 or 16. Mandy I THINK was the youngest.
I’m 40 years old and this song still sounds as good as the first day I heard it. I miss the 90’s
35 and same here sir
I'm in my earlies 20's and I play this and I feel like a 90's teenager, and tbh, I prefer this to Bad Bunny.
Almost 40 and yes it feels like back then
Eric Brandbenburg 36 years old and same here
If you’re 40, you shouldn’t be listening to this, let alone watching the video 🤔
When this video came out in Fall 1999, I was 14 years old and just starting freshman year of high school. Now, I'm 32 and seeing this video/ hearing this song takes me back. It gives me the chills just thinking how great the 1990s were, especially the late 90s. This style will never come back, at least not in the same way, but I'm glad we have TH-cam now to relive the memories over and over again.
Born 1985, same reason I’m here too
Me too, was 14 years old back then. It's pure nostalgia for me! Greets from Germany!
Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock I love your name!!!! I love Friends and specially Phoebe
I'll be 32 this year. I just want my childhood back. 😖😭
I'm a 1985 too. You articulated my emotions so well. Like before 9/11 was awesome. I had so much hope for the future.
But now all I see is so much anger. I too just want to go back to my childhood and live those teenage years again :)
This really encapsulates what it was like growing up in the late 90s. Everything was carefree and bubbly. We as a nation hit a peak in every way possible.
It was the peak of empire.
Actually, the peak was in the 1950s and 1960s.
After that, the decline began.
Blame the welfare state, egalitarianism, and altruism.
9/11 is when they ended it
@@SuperTrojan64 Yes the UD government decided that was the beginning of the end
I'm scared at how worse it's actually going to get.
This era of pop was simply the best.
1000%
I’ll be 32 in July and I still love this song from my childhood! The 90s and early 2000s were the best times! Oh what a time to be growing up in a bubbly, carefree era!
Damn bro, i just turned 32 last April & I remember having a big crushes on Mandy Moore, Britney Spears, Aaliyah, Spice Girls, All Saints, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes from TLC, Christina Aguilera, Tina Arena & many more, just too many to mention 😂 & I’m not afraid to tell the World that i be jamming to they’re song all day everyday if i feel like to.
32 in July as well. Love the 90s/00s.
9/11 and the war on terror were carefree?
lol, everyone thinks their era was the best. IMO the most likely scenario? childhood were the best years. nostalgia -- for a lot of people. i hear the same words from people older than us and a decade younger than us (we're in our 30s) -- "oh the 70s were the best" "the 80s were the simpler times" "oh the 2010s were the best" I think lot of it is when we had very little responsibility and not much to stress us out compared to when we're adults. all that being said -- love this song :D
I turned 32 in March lmao. What a time to be alive back then
20 years later... she’s FINALLY nominated for an Emmy!!!
Are u white ur money yes. Camelot.
Miss 90’s clothes 😞 the style, the attitude... man they were the best
Me too brother men
Damian Espinosa did you have a good 90’s decade down in your Mejico where you’re from? 👨🏾🇲🇽
Rightly put...90s all the way...till I die...
Thats early 2000s
Back when things were more carefree, people had more of a sense of humor and nobody was offended by anything and everything
I remember watching this video on MTV when I was 16. My first thought was, "This is the most beautiful person ever born." Mandy will always be my #1 celebrity cush, followed by Selma Hayeck.
Damn it me too
Hot damn
She was 16 also
I was 17 when this came out and I agree. Absolutely beautiful.
I was born in 86' and I thought Mandy was so cool in this video. I wanted her hair and her car. I miss the 90's!
Amy F same here but born in 87, I thought her hair was really-really cool 😝
I think it's the early 00'
NitsanDvsh Song was released in August 99. End of the 90s decade.
Amy F I was born in '87. ☺
same!
They don’t make music like this anymore.. Honestly, there’s just something about 90s music, I can’t explain but I just love it!
It's no joke.Post production wasn't so processed like it is in pop music today and not auto-tuned like crazy.And the instrumental in post production wasn't so processed.Music was also more original.
My sound is something like the late 90's and early 2000's. People criticize me a lot for being "outdated"
Yeah it's not 90's style but late 90's early 2000's style. And I miss the late 90's year 2000 life..music was a bit cheesy but ok..better than current mainstream music but life wise I would love to have that era back.
@Karl M It's sad and that's definitely true. EDM can be cool, but I love just hearing real acoustic instruments and musicians. The music from some of the greatest bands are so good that you don't even need lyrics. As a songwriter myself, the sales are sadly coming from that trend and I'm trying to keep up with the trend, but put my own spin on it with some more musicality.
@Karl M No way in the world I could forget the true Hip Hop in all of it's lyricism. I can't believe awards shows will call the mumble rap and other rap Hip Hop and categorize it as such. The Talib Kwelis, Commons, Busta Rhymes, Tribe Called Quests, and more kept it going in the 90s, but Hip Hop has been dead for some time.
Everybody's flow sounds the same now and there's no originality across the board with rap and pop music
When I was a kid I thought she looked so grown and now watching this I’m like “THATS A CHILD!!”
She was only 13!
@Karl M dude I’m sorry I have dyslexia and reversed the year. I was thinking ‘86.
@Karl M strikes again! haha! :D
Right!
Same 😩
This brought memories late 1990's and early 2000's in high school days for me
I miss 1999 so much!!! That was such an amazing year.
It was a great year to be a teen!
Absolutely! I was 14 at the time.
sii es verdad que lindo!!!
Okay we get it, you were 90's kids..nobody cares lol
Troll detected!
Here in 2020 and I am reeeeallly missing these 90's days.We had no idea how good we had it.
This video came out in the year 2000.
@Karl M that was harsh. lol
@Karl M hahaha
We really didn't know. Man I miss the 90s now
@Karl M hehe nice one
That moment in the bridge where she rhymes "candy" and "Mandy" is a pure pop fix.
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This was a genius move! 🤩 This song was made for her!
Never realized this lol
What is the time frame bc I don’t hear it.
@@kitaboo2245: 3:03 - 3:10
Theres really something melancholy about listening to a song that came out when you were young and had the whole world ahead of you, but now you are 40 and the lyrics hit you more than they ever did. Its like...if i had only listened to them 28 years ago.
Are you referring to someone who hates God and their house burned down like Mandy Moore’s did?
Wait till your 64
@mrwilliamwonder Hopefully I make it that long. Men tend to die early in my family.
@@thanosdoomjuggernaut2846 Mandy got really religious after this
I’m so proud of her for turning out normal. 💜
vTHExUNKNOWENv yep lol
Fe I have no idea what to tell you about it all out for you guys have a good day today so I have to be here for the ☀ is shining armor is it
What do you call...normal??
Yeah, she probably would have turned out like Britney.
Maloree it's because she says in her biography she saw the writing on the wall concerning the exploitive nature of the music industry and didn't want to be part of it!
She also stated it was either this song "candy" or the recording of the entire album that allowed her to come to this epiphany or understanding that she was by nature fueling the teen depression rate as a result of the music industry's influence on young teens!
She also went on to explain that after realizing this; she herself slipped into a bought of depression and that's why for years you never heard from her again!
She always gave off that girl next door vibe 🌻
That was definitely her appeal. So young and innocent lookin but sexy as well.
@@RichardB-my5fpshe was 15 in this you pedo
38 years old just reminiscing on teenage favs ❤Mandy was one of my favs
Hahaha ❤❤❤❤
I'm also 38 and also reminiscing 😄
38 here too I remember when this first came out lol
38 here as well ahahaha still singing this tune
31 but yes 😂😂 still bopping to this
She is soooo pretty!
She looks like a baby giraffe learning how to walk when she’s dancing lol 😂 I’m 34 and this was it back in the day ! 😘
Karl M didn't you mean to say Sannndaayayaaaya
@@ourtime-downhere6931 😂😂😂
ourtime-downhere 😂😂😂😂
Hahaha we're the same age 😁
🤣🤣🤣 true!
"mey" is the most 90s thing
😂😂😂
I read this as she said "meyeyeyey" 😂😂
Give it to mey
@00:22, I noticed something seems like TV antenna on the roof of her window
Not 90s.
This song feels like a hug from an old friend. ❤
she was fifteen when this song was released!! it's so young
Wow haven’t watched this in awhile, Mandy Moore is a baby here. Miss this era of pop.
Late 90’s/early 2000’s bubblegum pop was the best.
No, it wasn't 😂
I agree
@@puper84 I agree it wasn't and I'm a 90's boy
Ooohhh, you better believe it.
Yoshi _the_Green it was sis
I love the fashion in the last 90's and early 00's
Ceci me too! It's kinda coming back though right now the chokers crop tops jelly shoes two bun hairstyles
The girls at 1:10 are a perfect example. Love it.
It's terrible
Ceci I liked it too. I was a teen :) best time to be a teenager XD fashion and music wise
I was a teen during that period
She has that total 90's/ early 2000's swag like no other
One of my faves❤😊 the house is beautiful. The all American dream.
If you had that Walkman/portable cd player, you were the shit. You probably got it at Sam goody after saving your allowance for months on end. Thinking the cheap batteries would work just as well(they didn't). And the "anti skip" feature. Ugh the nostalgia.
Jessica Jennifer omg Sam Goody!!!! ugh take me back i don’t like it here!!!
Yeah, "anti-skip." Go run with that thing, or walk fast.
I had my cd player in my picket for one solitary day of school. MIStake. that day I invented this new kind of mosey so I could still walk to class, cause 10 seconds antiskip juust iisnt enoough..
I had a white Sony CD player my dad bought me. Loved that thing. I had Mandy's headphones with it, those were super popular.
TangibleNought I had Mandy’s headphones too and a silver cd handheld with an LED screen ughhhghhhhgghh I miss those times
There are people out there who only know Mandy Moore as an actress and thats crazy.
Me. I just found out she was a singer. I'm absolutely shocked. I thought I knew a lot about the 90's. I guess not.
What do you expect? She’s recently been doing more films and less successful music.
This was her biggest song and it never got very popular.... she's did more in acting
Umm she's actually sang in This is Us as well as in the movies she's been in like A Walk To Remember and Saved.
@@terenarosa4790 She's mostly the 2000's so your still good. Lol.
That laffy taffy green beetle just sent me over the edge! ❤😂 Good old 2000's. Fresh innocent music!
That is the Bernt custom. 99 body kit. Wish they would have showcased the car more (than the scooter) Innocent? (the character Mandy plays) precocious more like. sweet tune though
I used to have that car back in the early 2000”s haha
This! The vibes are just really nostalgic
I wish they still made cars that looked good
Record companies stopped making this commercial Pop and R&B by 2010. They decided that they had "lost the war" against illegal digital streaming music. They shut down specialist divisions in Pop, Soul and R&B and Rap and Hip-Hop, in fact most styles of music except Country. This meant that new acts were not handled with unique teams of A&Rs, executives, songwriters, producers, stylists and media training and PR.
They even stopped organizing tours and TV concerts to promote new talent on children's cable TV channels and weekend network TV.
Now record companies sign acts only if they have their own established popularity from social media and some talent. They will then either be hands off with them or too hands on with their career.
This just caused me to fall down a good 10-min rabbit hole of listening to Mandy Moore’s “Candy” era and reliving my pre-teen years. 💜
Bonjour Rachael
Who would have thought 20 years later Mandy would be our favorite mother in television on This is Us. Imagine still crushing on a middle aged Mandy, lol, that's me!
This is us, man. This is us...
I’m more familiar with her role as Rapunzel in Tangled
shes 37 omg thats not middle aged. thats just an adult
@@EM-ri5dj 30-59 is middle aged
The 90s feels!!! It makes me feel, smell, and see everything from when I was younger watching 90s music channels, sometimes wishing I was the black person in these videos because no other black people around me liked pop
Oh I have a feeling we would've gotten along real good. I loved the late 90s-early 2000s pop!
best comment lmao
I was that same black guy lol. Growing up in Detroit, everyone around me was listening to nothing but rap. And there I was, jamming to Mandy, NSYNC, and S Club 7
Robbie Goddammit, why is it that black people like us never seem to live around one another growing up?
Dilbert Doe .... Yeah, I didn't wanna do that, but hey.. whatever floats your turd boat.
Haven’t heard this song for more than a decade… just came here after hearing it again in rebel wilson’s movie senior year… the nostalgic feeling is real.
SAME!!! i´m here just for remember my best time
Same
I miss those days I was 18 in 2002 life has flew by
Me too
Same
I'm 40 this year,, still feel the vibes of this songs.. This ERA really marvelous...
the 90s when we were happy and we didn't know
Yep.Looking back in retrospect, the nostalgia feels great, but there's a small inkling of regret.Feel like I took it for granted.A decade I'm burdened to lament forever.
Mandy my sweet candy
True words!
TheRealMissLorena this 2000 we were still happy
I knew..I knew this was the last period of my life when I didn't have to care..all I had to do was get good grades, and everything else was taken care of. No money problems, didn't care about the cops or getting in trouble with them, truly carefree.
I don't why Mandy would ever apologize for this song.
It's so early 2000s ICONIC
She was bit shy did like dressing up all the time she just wanted to be her but she free spirit. She is just sweet like this song.
It was released in the end of the 90s
@@LBrooks_037 yes but its so late 90s that its almost 2000s lol the aesthetics and the style started to visibly shift from the 90s to the 2000s at this point so its also very 2000s
Exactly!
She apologized because this song is a rip off of this song : th-cam.com/video/z4n6ymEMQmk/w-d-xo.html
I want to go back in 90's
Me too
Me too
play 90's video games, what i do :D
Me too!
Me too
Back when life was so simple ❤❤❤ Miss it like candy❤❤❤❤
It gets simple again when you retire
Omg I loved this song!! Still do!! I swear this reminds me of middle school days watching TRL!! Back when Mandy, Christina, Britney and Jessica were the Pop Queens! Miss those days!!
Kim Martin
sure did!!!! omg!! those were the days!
Kim Martin For real!!!
Kim Martin I don't remember, I have to see her and remember! I'm sure I'm familiar when I see her
Kim Martin
Ok now I see her!! lol I remember her!!
Kim Martin
oh ok
I was 20 when this came out. I was heavily into my rap, hip hop at the time.
But when I heard this song, I went out and bought the single.
Because fuck it. Its awesome.
ShaiyaStudios awesome comment! How does it feel to be so old now? 😂👌🏽do you have nostalgia for late 90s/early 00s things.
Yes, I have nostalgia pretty much every day. I have this song and others on my mp3 player.
ShaiyaStudios weak
ShaiyaStudios haha me too!
ShaiyaStudios I don't know why but that comment made me laugh so hard..respect bro...so true
The song, the scenery, And the fashion/style just brings me back to how times were around this time 😍😍
The 90s were the best
Late 90s early 2000 was great. I was 19 and a year out of high school when I first heard this song.good times!! 👌🏼
I remember when this came out, as a teenage girl of about the same age. It's awesome how far she's come and all she's done. I love her in "This is Us" which I watch most nights. She has such a great smile too!
Does she do Rapunzel's voice from Tangled?
I think so.. I've never seen it but heard the song she sings and like playing it for my baby
I'm really happy she's still working.
She's amazing in This Is Us.
@@smurfylee Yes, this is the same person who voiced Rapunzel from Tangled.
Senior Year brought me back here! Haha I’m in my 30s and I still blair this jam! 😎🥰 Love ya Mandy! ❤️
It was my music when I was 15, now 32 still jamming it, SOWHAAAT
+Yel ValleOCh true i am 31 and i miss this type of music because it reminds me of simpler times and our world was in a much better place.
Turned 32 a little over a month ago! 83' baby here! 😃
This was my music to. And i miss it
+Yel Vall Lmao, I am your age right now as you was when this song was released! I love 80's, 90's and 00's music! Much better than the mainstream 10's music, even tho some less popular artists have great music in this decade, only you have to find them! :D
+Yel Vall I will be 28 this year and I'm still jamming out to 90s music. We had the best music back then.
Happy 40th birthday, Mandy. You are a truly wonderful person and a talented phenomenon with a beautiful voice. Congratulations on reaching the milestone. I may be the youngest fan as I'm 19, but it doesn't matter. I'm missing you like candy 🍭🥰♥️✨️
My best friend of 23 years and I still sing this song, we loved it then, now, and forever. The early 2000s was pure magic.
This song is fro 1999
😊😊😊
1999 is closer to 2000s, so early 2000s its fine 😉
My 9-year old daughter asked my fave songs when I was young. I gave her a few and now she is addicted to this CANDY and TOXIC
Thats so cute! Im not a parent but Im a nanny/ babysitter for many families I love sharing music/ tv and films from my youth the kids always love it.
This song is weirdly soothing. Sunny green suburbia, ice cream diners, skate parks, etc. ... Love the late '90s vibe to it, too.
I get this song stuck in my head at least once a month and can’t get it out until I come here to listen to it.
I miss this era. It hurts to know how much time has passed.
With ya there.. definitely hurts, i only come here when i really need it, not too often or i'll be a wreck haha, cheers.
Just listened to “Fifteen” and love it. Had to walk down memory lane with this hit, lol. I had this on SINGLE CD!!!!
a1stbornunicorn literally though what a transformation ooh yea yeas to soul and meaning
a1stbornunicorn omg same lol
a1stbornunicorn lol same!
The James Corden interview brought me here. Mandy talked about her lack of dance ability. The editing was awesome because they literally did the fast cuts which was popular at the time!~!
Same! I came to check out her inability to dance haha
Goland454 me 2
Goland454 also talked about it on jimmy fallo
Goland454 those fast cuts helped Jessica Simpson as well.
Straying the same ground I supposedly Inquired.
2022 and I still coming back to this masterpiece
I'm listening to Mandy Moore Candy mid January 2022
Here bc I heard the song in the grocery store (H-E-B) and it brought back memories. 😂
Me too!! Hey, did you have cable and watch Nickelodeon growing up? Do you remember Hoku Ho - Another Dumb Blonde and a movie called Snow Day? Randomly crossed my mind recently.
“Masterpiece.” lol
Just got brought back to my childhood for a min lml ... True 90's baby ishh fr
My childhood 😢😢😢😢 Miss this time so badddd
Cannot believe this song is 20 years old this year.
By god I'm old as I have been a massive Mandy Moore fan since 1999.(20years).
Crazy she was only 15 when this came out! So much nostalgia.
You might be cool, but you’ll never be as cool as Mandy Moore with a CD player and big headphones!
I remember those well and had the same ones back in 2000.
In 2000 i used play game boy color
@Karl M ya men i was like 7 in that time
@Karl M back when life was simple not like today fucking i phones ruining people life
@Karl M ya that right i miss those time. Anytime i start thinking my childhood life i get this weird feeling on my stomach 😂😂
Mandy is a gem.
The violins at the very beginning are magical.
Take me back to Hit Clips, TRL, music videos being played all day, playing outside, and no social media 😭😭😭. Mandy is that girl. Put respect on my queen 👑
@Nicolette Nicotine haha of course!
I remember calling KISS FM to request this song and waiting by my radio to record it on a cassette tape.
You rule for bringing back that suppressed memory!
Oh man! What a memory.
Somewhere in a dark corner of my parents' house exists a box of old cassettes of mine. I gotta find them lol.
Looking at your profile picture, this is alarming 😟
Oh shit your frinkin old
Omg yess. Same
Wow… here’s to the 90s, this song says so much about how we were then. So much more enthusiasm, freedom, and overall happiness it was to live in USA then. I miss it so much.
20 years later, who would have known that she was going to have such a long and diverse career across multiple arts
It’s 23 ac
Wakingmehome
I really love Mandy's charming moves and her simple but lovely songs.
0:55 Oh those were the days. When we took a heavy portable CD player with us everywhere and dropped it on the floor every other day.
Just saw "A Walk To Remember". She has a beautiful voice! She is seriously under rated singer!
Whenever I hear or see the word, "candy," these days, I still think of this song. I was in my 40s when this song came out and am in my 60s now. I loved this tune back then, and I still dig it today.
I always think if aaron carter I want candy lol
Mandy and her dancers were the epitome of late 90’s fashion!
2000
She turned WAY better than all the other teenage singers from that time.
All-round artist, gorgeous with elegance and hard headed woman.
Love her.
You don't have to put others down just to lift her up
She is beautiful ❤
I think the 2000 girls were hotter than todays girls
At 9, I thought this was what being a teenager was gonna be like 😂😂😂
Life really had me fooled when I was younger. You’re sooo right. Hit the nail on the head.
STOP I'm so sad I didn't get to be a 90s middle class teen white girl
@@angelita1900 ?
Was ur teen age life close?
We were all wrong.
Omg take me back to the early 2000’s!
“You’re love’s as sweet as candy. I’ll be forever your’s. Love always, Mandy” is ICONIC
Perfect definition and feeling of July 1999
I STILL LOVE THIS ERA!!
Yass!
Yeah it’s magical 🙂
the best era
Yep and also among the famale names mandy this name means lovely and treasure lady
so this is the reason mandy moore is very endearing female singer❤️💖 mandy moore is one of my favorite female singer all time
2023 and still jamming to this ❤ brings back so many memories!
I’m listening to Mandy Moore Candy mid October 2023
Me too! October 21st, 2023! Greetings from New York.
I must be getting old I was 15 when this came out.
Smitten with Mandy !!! Cause She IS as sweet as Candy !!!
There's something sweet and innocent about this song and video.
innocent?
@@JohnSmithZen yeah, I'd say so.
@@JohnSmithZen he is probably not understanding the lyrics 😂
Virginity
Understood perfectly
I remember singing this song in front of the mirror in my room when I was 12 , love her sweet voice and the album was wonderful as well 🤘❤️🔥
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💋😘😍👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
I am so glad someone else sang to their mirror!! Once my older sister caught me singing M2M to my mirror when I was 13 and she has maintained I am mentally challenged ever since (seriously lol)
Same! 😂
Me too
I miss the days when we looked so damn forward to Friday after work so we could rent flicks from Blockbuster
Those were the days! Waited months and months to rent Austin Powers :)
Right ? Waiting for the New Releases section that costed so much yet so worth it lol and can’t forget renting games for Nintendo 64 and Sega lol
The 90s were more laid back.
I remember taking Mortal Kombat Trilogy from Blockbuster in 1997 and never bringing it back.
man this nostalgia HURTS
I loved this song so much after hearing it on my local heritage Top 40 radio station and watching this video on MTV when I was in starting college that I went to Sam Goody and bought the CD single.
For some reason, maybe the way the intro is filmed, I get that distinct pre 9/11 US feeling, like 1999 was the height of American peace, prosperity, and optimism. It makes me deeply miss that time period, even though I hated this song back then.
I got that exact feeling with the opening sequence
A perfect piece of suburban Americana in that opening shot.
That's EXACTLY what I felt when it started. I thought, "Ahh, the pre-9/11 days." 1998/1999 was an awesome time style-wise. I just loved the whole Buffy dark lightness of it all. I don't know how to describe it. I think I'll call it pop-goth.
Do you miss it like candy?
I got that same feeling. '99 was the peak of the music industry too. 14.6 billion. Times were good.
Came back for the memories and nostalgia.
90s/2000s were truely a great time to grow up.
I worry for my daughter who has to grow up in this era.
For real. This generations songs sucks
Happy Birthday to Mandy Moore today. she's 35 years old now this is my favorite old song by her
Fun fact Mandy hates this song
Oh why
Oh why
@@michelleboosinger5251 How come? That is like Ludacris hating Act the Fool.
I remember one of my best frienda got this on a blank audio tape for me when I was about 19 in 1998 . jt was on Side A . Such a great song, I wonder what hapened to her. I miss this fun type of music
The more I watch this video the more I think about how much it truly embodies my youth 100%