In My Pocket
On her surprisingly sophisticated-sounding sophomore disc, teen dream Mandy Moore takes more than a few cues from Christina Aguilera. She opens with "In My Pocket," a thumping, Middle Eastern-inspired dance track suggesting that Moore is as willing to barter for affection as the Pepsi queen was on "Genie in a Bottle." While Aguilera sang "If you wanna be with me/Baby, there's a price to pay," Moore makes it clear that she'd rather buy than sell, with lines like "Tell me how much for your love?" Miss Mandy, however, hasn't lost all of her wholesome virtues. The wide-eyed blonde is still saccharine sweet on the lush, drum-'n'-bass-accented ballad "Saturate Me" and the cutesy mid-tempo tunes "Crush" and "You Remind Me." Lest we forgot, the junior torch song "17" gently reminds us that Moore is "only 17."