I Wanna Be with You (album)
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| Studio album by Mandy Moore | ||||
| Released | May 9, 2000 | |||
| Recorded | 1999–2000 | |||
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| Length | 47:08 | |||
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I Wanna Be with You is the second studio album from pop singer Mandy Moore. It was released in May 2000 through Epic Records when she was sixteen years old, six months after her debut album.
The album contained several new songs and a few remixes from her previous album So Real. It peaked at number twenty-one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and reached gold status in the U.S. Some criticized the album as merely a remix album containing little new material. The title track, "I Wanna Be with You", was the only single to chart and reached number twenty-four on the Hot 100 in the U.S., Moore's highest peak to date. Epic re-released the single "Walk Me Home", but it again failed to make an impact on the charts. The album has sold over 805,000 copies in the United States.
I Wanna Be with You was the international version of Moore's debut album So Real (which was only released in a few countries), including songs from that album—some in their original versions, some remixed—along with new tracks recorded for this release.
Because Moore's debut album So Real was only released in the United States, Epic Records decided to market her to an international audience with a different version including newly recorded material and remixes of several of the previous album's tracks. In April 2000, it was announced that Moore's second studio album would be titled I Wanna Be with You. This album includes modified and re-recorded versions of songs that did not make the final selection of the debut album. I Wanna Be with You maintains the same genres of the last album: teen pop, dance-pop and bubblegum pop.
The opening track, "I Wanna Be with You" is a string-heavy pop song with slight R&B influenced beats. The song is written in the key of E♭ major and is set in the time signature of common time. It is moderately paced with a tempo of 76 beats per minute. The song also follows the sequence of E♭maj7–A♭–E♭7–A♭maj7 as its chord progression. Moore's vocals in the song spans from the note of A♭3 to D♭5. The version used in the film Center Stage has more poppy beats. "Everything My Heart Desires" is a dance-pop song, the song was written by K. Dahlgaard, M. Jay and J. Pederson. "Want You Back" is a romantic teen pop song that draws influences from bubblegum pop, with a length of three minutes and eighteen seconds. The song is composed in the key of B♭ major and is set in time signature of common time with a moderately slow tempo of 96 beats per minute. "The Way to My Heart" was produced by Peter Mansson. The song is a teen pop and dance-pop song that lasts for three minutes with thirty-nine seconds, is composed in the key of D major and is set in time signature of common time, with a moderately slow tempo of 88 beats per minute. "So Real" (Wade Robson remix), is a remix version of "So Real" was also the third single released from the record overall, the second in Australia. In its lyrics, Moore sings that what she feels about a guy is "so, so real". The song was written by Tony Battaglia, Shaun Fisher and produced by The Wasabees. "Lock Me in Your Heart" is a mid-tempo track where Moore asks her boy to "lock me in your heart and throw away the key".
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