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Mandy Moore has come a long way since her debut single "Candy," but it doesn't mean that it's still not one of my all-time favorite songs and videos (no irony, guys). From the old-school wraparound headphones to the user-friendly choreography to the fact that Mandy Moore is seriously like, the prettiest person on the planet, the 1999 video remains lodged in my memory and my iPod. Haters, step aside.

And now, thankfully, the geniuses over at "Pop Up Video" have given Mandy's classic their famous bubbly treatment! In the "Candy" Pop Up, we learn that Mandy wasn't actually driving that so 2000s green Volkswagon Beetle, she had never French-kissed a boy, and it was over 90 degrees the day they shot the parking lot dancing scene. We also learn that this song never gets old. Again, haters, you know where to go. (Although I seriously doubt anyone could even contemplating hating Mandy Moore.)

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1.) Kelly Rowland is taking notes from BFF Beyoncé -- she's popping out new music videos like a machine! Her new "Down For Whatever" recently dropped and, per usual, girl looks stunning. (That Grape Juice)

2.) James Franco looks quite dapper in Gucci's new "Made To Measure" ad campaign. The actor rocks suits NBD, while mannequins around the world fear for their jobs. (MTV Style)

3.) Justin Bieber's been wooing us with his holiday album Under the Mistletoe so much lately that we keep forgetting that he's got new, non-Christmas work on the way, too. The Biebs dishes about his Believe record that's slated to drop in 2012. (Hollywood Life)

4.) Want to know if Beyoncé's having a boy or girl? Join the club! It looks like Bey and Grandma Knowles are keeping it hush-hush until the baby's born. But how are we supposed to know what color onesies to get when we crash the baby shower? (Us Weekly)

5.) Kelly Clarkson's new studio album Stronger hits next week, but she's going back to her live performance roots for VH1's "Unplugged." (Entertainment Weekly)

6.) Flashback alert: Adorable "Then and Now" pictures of Hilary Duff and other famous sitcom kids like Leonardo DiCaprio and Lisa Bonet all grown up make the rest us feel incredibly old. (The Fab Life)

7.) Get the scoop on Patrick Stump's very imminent solo album Soul Punk in a video interview with the singer. (Arjan Writes)

8.) Mandy Moore is the ultimate Renaissance woman, y'all. She sings, she helps the fight against Malaria, and she'll soon be dominating laugh tracks on a new sitcom. (MTV News)

9.) Looks like Jay-Z's already starting to think like a dad. The rapper plays a cartoon business tycoon on an animated kids show about economics. (Pop Dust)

10.) Nothing says "Is Halloween here yet?" more than some creepy pictures of scaredy cats reacting to horror films. (BuzzFeed)

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Just the other day we were thinking about how we haven't heard from Mandy Moore in like, a long time. But then yay, we found her! Mandy popped up in New York for the UN's Social Good Summit conference recently, and as usual, she was being adorable WHILE also being a good humanitarian.

Turns out the "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day Of The Week" singer has been on the other side of the world (NDB) on the mission to help stop malaria in Africa. At the conference, Mandy sported a "BUZZKILL" T-shirt and a look of concern while discussing her time volunteering in Cameroon, a small African country where malaria is an epidemic among children. To help promote awareness, she's been delivering bug netting to protect families from the deadly mosquitoes that transmit the disease. She's even been installing the nets in the homes herself! That deserves a nickname: "Handy-Mandy." (We didn't get a degree for nothing!)

We love stars with hearts of gold, and Mandy totally fits the bill: She's pretty, talented, the nicest person EVER, and she looks good in orange. You're forever our girl, Mandy.

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Mandy Moore is perfect. Here's why: She initially blossomed as a pop singer during the same time as Britney, Christina and Jessica Simpson. And while her music was good (the Wade Robson remix of "Candy" is an iPod staple), it never necessarily made a dent the way Britney and Christina did. So Mandy, in moving on from her moderately successful bubblegum pop career followed her own path, so to speak, eventually releasing an album called Coverage, in which she covered classic songs by singer/songwriters (i.e. Joni Mitchell, Carole King) and groups you would never expect to hear Mandy sing (i.e. XTC, Blondie), but she did because she's very smart and has excellent taste (and is also married to Ryan Adams, who is awesome). Also, if you meant to buy any album today, it should be her Amanda Leigh album. Simply gorgeous. She also revved up her acting career by carving out a niche as an equally talented actress, finding enormous success in movies like A Walk To Remember and -- most recently -- Tangled.

BUT Mandy Moore is also perfect because she loves kittens, evidenced by her appearance at the animal health care awareness program launch for the ASPCA in New York City on Wednesday. Literally, she can do anything she wants. It's almost unfair that one person should be so blessed with both looks and talent, but whateverrrr. Mandy has earned it (as would anyone who managed to crawl out of her teenybopper superstardom unscathed and better for it).

You just keep doing you, Mandy! Hold more kittens!

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If you're low on friends, one great thing you could do would be to print out one of these exclusive new Mandy Moore photos, glue it to a ruler or a mannequin and practice making small talk and casual plans and so on, with your own personal Mandy. It is a particularly good idea to use the Amanda Leigh artist's likeness because, despite what her cold-hearted single, "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day Of The Week," may lead you to believe, Mandy Moore's got one of the kindest, girl-next-door faces you'll ever stare at for hours and hours and hours and hours on end.

Hey! If you cue up her interview on "The 5," it would even be like she was talking back to you! And if you need additional musical motivation, download Mandy's new album, Amanda Leigh, or watch "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day Of The Week," after the jump!

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+ Tuesday LOLz: 75-year old CNN dinosaur Larry King was out grabbing a sandwich at an L.A. deli when he mistook Gwen Stefani for Christina Aguilera (and only realized his mistake after he asked for an autograph for his son and saw that the signature wasn't right). FAIL! (PopCrunch)

+ Katy Perry (who is reportedly back together with boyfriend Travis McCoy) is a hard-working woman with curves, and she ain't hawking shoes to pay the bills. For now, anyway. Hey -- something's gotta pay for her fashion obsession! (Star Magazine)

+ While we're on the K.P. tip, holy GOD does Ms. Perry make me want to take a cold shower after seeing her in the new issue of Complex magazine. Must. Print. These. Immediately. (Complex)

+ The Black Eyed Peas have been releasing track previews from their upcoming album The E.N.D., and the latest (which just happens to be the second off the album), "I Got A Feeling," sounds like it will be the summer anthem of 2009. (Neon Limelight)

+ Weezer lead singer Rivers Cuomo says to get ready for your very own Weezer-branded "Snuggie." Do you think he's really serious?! (The Tripwire)

+ If it's hard for you to believe that 25-year old Mandy Moore was recently married to singer Ryan Adams, then you're not the only one who's getting used to it. (People)

+ FInally, former Wilco (who Mandy Moore namechecked in a recent Buzzworthy video interview) band member Jay Bennett  passed away in his sleep this past weekend. (MTV News)

Tags Black Eyed Peas, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Jay Bennett, Katy Perry, Larry King, Mandy Moore, Rivers Cuomo, Ryan Adams, Travis McCoy, Weezer, Wilco

Watching Mandy Moore on "The 5," you can tell she is as much an actress as she is a musician. Her face is so animated that you could sit through this MTV.com interview with the sound off and still get a real good feel for what her new album's like: grown-up, sincere and ever-so-slightly self-deprecating.

Whether or not her recent marriage to new-country's punk prince, Ryan Adams, has directly affected her music, she doesn't say. But she does name-check Wilco while describing the sound she's after. Her debut Amanda Leigh single, "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day Of The Week" isn't exactly "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under," but it's definitely got a twang to it.

Manning that twang is producer Mike Viola, the guy who actually wrote and sang "That Thing You Do." Introduced by Mandy's buddy Inara George (The Bird And The Bee), the two hit it off immediately and quickly had an album on their hands. But why don't I let Mandy tell the rest. She says it all so... clearly. Only thing that's sorely lacking from this interview is her Ultimate Fighting fetish, but that's why you've got Google!

Check out Mandy Moore's new interview below, and watch her new "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day Of The Week" video after the jump! Plus, stream Wilco's new album, Wilco (The Album), on mtvU!

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Tags Inara George, Mandy Moore, Ryan Adams, The 5, The Bird And The Bee, Wilco

Alex Greenwald -- Phantom Planet frontman, Mark Ronson collaborator, and former model -- used to be so freaking hot it was almost impossible to look at him without thinking "nasty thoughts," as Janet Jackson once said. But not long ago, a paparazzi photo popped up in which the once-smokin' Alex looked like a straight-up hobo. Still, who'd he have hanging on his arm? British supermodel and Met Ball belle Agyness Deyn.

While we've got no problem with some slight shagginess, Alex Greenwald has seen better days, and his unkempt hair looks gnarlier than ever. (A tip: lather, rinse, repeat... repeat... repeat...) Still, Alex bagged a supermodel, so maybe the joke's on us.

Anyway, the shaggy/smoldering combo of Alex Greenwald and Agyness Deyn reminded us of some more hot chicks and the mangy men they love. So check out more of Buzzworthy's favorite guys who look like they live in boxcars and the beautiful babes who love them anyway.

Ryan Adams: Alt-country musician Ryan Adams won the heart of pop-folk singer Mandy Moore, who's had high-profile romances with tennis hunk Andy Roddick as well as Wilmer Valderrama and Zach Braff, while Ryan dated pretty Parker Posey. But it was ultra-shaggy Ryan who swept Mandy off her feet: Ryan and Mandy got married just last month. Hopefully the groom, uh, groomed for the big day.

Alex DeLeon: Okay, Alex DeLeon -- who's been linked to the radiant Demi Lovato -- used to be way more polished, but when he came to MTV for The Cab's Buzzworthy interview in March 2009, his broken-ended hair, fuzzy facial hair and leather accessories kinda made him look like he was running from the law. Bring back unquestionably hot Alex!

Ben Gibbard: Indie superstar Ben Gibbard's sensitive vocals are the perfect match for Zooey Deschanel. Zooey, dubbed "the rich man's Katy Perry" -- oh snap! -- by one site, has had leading roles in a slew of movies like Elf, where she showed off her vocal cords and her adorablility. Even though the oft-unshaven Ben's been featured on UglyMales.com (to the objection of many commenters, to be fair), he and Zooey matched up not only musically, but they're also engaged. Aww! Indie romance!

Joe Trohman: It's clear that Pete Wentz-ian man-glam is not Joe Trohman's style. But there are other ways to stand out besides looking like a homeless man who wandered off the street and onto the stage. His disheveled, mountain-man look has still been described as "wonderfully hobo-esque meets Jesus." True! We're not saying Joe's not hot. We just miss his From Under The Cork Tree-era/ "Dance Dance" short hair. Still, he nabbed a super-cute girl and put a ring on dat; he and Marie (above) are engaged.

+ More hobo guys and hot girls after the jump.

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Tags Agyness Deyn, Alex DeLeon, Alex Greenwald, Ben Gibbard, Cisco-Adler, Death Cab For Cutie, Demi Lovato, Devendra Banhart, Fall Out Boy, Joe Trohman, Mandy Moore, Phantom Planet, Ryan Adams, The Cab, The Postal Service, Zooey Deschanel

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+ Our cube mate swears he saw Mandy Moore on the street today (trust me, I was miffed that I missed it), but these ultra-hot photos of her somehow suffice. (Details)

+ Turns out Miley Cyrus likes chicken, and it's not what you're thinking. (Just Jared Jr.)

+ In other Miley news, it's "apology not accepted" for her dad Billy Ray Cyrus after what Jamie Foxx said about Miley a few days ago. (Us Magazine)

+ We can't tell if this new report about Leona Lewis being a diva is true or just nasty.  What do you think? (Allie Is Wired)

+ Attention all pop tartlets who can't carry a tune: take a note from the Kelly Clarkson tip sheet, 'cause girl can SING! Check this vid of Kelly nailing the National Anthem today at the new Yankee stadium. (MJsBigBlog)

+ Shakira never had a problem stripping down to nearly nothing -- now she's doing it for a good cause. (Blogamole)

Tags Billy Ray Cyrus, Jamie Foxx, Kelly Clarkson, Leona Lewis, Mandy Moore, Miley Cyrus, Shakira

What BETTER way to relieve the numbing sensation brought on by ANOTHER BORRRRRING meeting than to return to my desk to find a mysterious black envelope on my chair with a most unexpected Twilighty surprise inside! (No, there weren't worms inside, though once Tracey John got a box of those.) As an unofficial sugar expert AND Twilight fan, you could imagine my excitement to find not one, not two, but ALL THREE boxes of Twilight "Forbidden Fruits" Conversation Hearts inside! THANK YOU, fine (random!) PR people who sent these my way. My entire desk now smells like a fruity candy store, and I'm torn between opening box 1, which features the entire Twilight cast, box 2, which features scary, ghosty Robert Pattinson, or box 3, which features pretty Kristen Stewart. (But no Taylor Lautner. Boo! I'd eat... er... those... in a hot second. I'M REFERRING TO CANDY, PEOPLE!)

Twilight Conversation Heart flavors include Orange Obsession, Tempting Apple, Secret Strawberry, and Passion Fruit, the hearts have Twilight-tastic messages like "Lamb" and "Bite Me," (get it?), and the boxes have Twilight trivia on the back, but it's super-basic remedial Twilight stuff, like for people who clearly haven't even read the book jacket. ("Both Bella and Edward are juniors at Forks High School." DURHHHHHHHHHH!)

Now, do I make a box of super-tempting Twilight Conversation Hearts my unhealthy albeit pop-culturally delicious lunch? Or do I leave them unopened, lest Aro or James or someone scary lurks inside?

... And, because it's ALWAYS worth watching, let's revisit Mandy Moore's "Candy" video, shall we? (I know Mandy's moved on, but I haven't...)

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