Mandy Moore On Being Compared To Britney Spears Christina Aguilera: I Never Had Their ‘Success’

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“I was always third or fourth in line, in terms of being mentioned in the gaggle of gals — Britney [Spears] and Christina [Aguilera] and Jessica Simpson,” Mandy Moore tells Rolling Stone in an interview published on the day her new album, Silver Landings, came out.

However, Mandy, 35, said that not being compared equally to Britney or Christina was a blessing in disguise. “I think because I never found the degree of success that those women did, that allowed me the freedom to continue to make music that I wanted to make — but also as an actor.

I was able to find some success in that arena because I wasn’t a one-name pop star that people would watch onscreen and just go, ‘Oh, I know everything about her life.’ I was a little bit more of a.