"Cry"
Single by Mandy Moore
from the album A Walk to Remember: Music from the Motion Picture and Mandy Moore
B-side"Someday We'll Know" (with Jon Foreman)
ReleasedNovember 4, 2001
GenrePop
Length3:43
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)James Renald
Producer(s)
Mandy Moore singles chronology
"Crush"
(2001)		 "Cry"
(2001)		 "Have a Little Faith in Me"
(2003)
Music video
"Cry" on YouTube

"Cry" is a song by American recording artist Mandy Moore, released on November 4, 2001, by Epic Records. It was written by James Renald, and co-produced by Renald and Peter Mokran.[1] The song was released as a single from the soundtrack A Walk to Remember: Music From the Motion Picture and was also the third and final single from her self-titled second studio album.[2][3]

The single's b-side, "Someday We'll Know", is a cover song that was originally performed by New Radicals. It was later included on Moore's compilation album Candy (2005).[4] The song achieved minor success in the United States, but was a big hit in Asia, especially in the Philippines were it peaked at number one on music video chart.[5]

Song information

Moore said in a Billboard interview that she carried around a copy of the song for over a year before she recorded it. "It felt like my ace in the hole. It's such a beautiful song on every level. I couldn't wait to get into the studio and sing it." She also said that James Renald, the co-writer and co-producer of the song, had to "peel" her out of the vocal booth because she "wanted to sing it over and over again."[1]

Music video

The music video of "Cry" was directed by Chris Applebaum and it was premiered in 2002.[6] Mandy Moore is singing to Shane West from Heaven while Shane watches old home movies of him and Mandy goofing off between filming their scenes. Shane uses a telescope and discovers that he can see Mandy in Heaven and Mandy looks really happy. Then Shane goes into the city and is reminded that his romance with Mandy.[7] On November 2023, the official music video of "Cry" was published on YouTube.

Track listing

CD single[2]
  1. "Cry" – 3:43
  2. "Someday We'll Know" (with Jon Foreman) – 3:42

References

  1. 1 2 "Mandy Moore's 'Cry' Heralds Soundtrack". Billboard. 16 January 2002.
  2. 1 2 Mandy Moore – Cry (CD). Epic. 2001. 673096 1. Taken from the Epic release Mandy Moore
  3. ↑ "Mandy's Bio". Mandy Moore: Official Website. Archived from the original on 27 February 2009.
  4. ↑ Mandy Moore – Candy (CD). CMG. 2005. A 93741.
  5. ↑ Villanueva, Marichu A. "GMA to attend Mandy Moore's anti-AIDS concert". Philstar.com. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  6. ↑ "Mandy Moore: Cry (Music Video 2002) ⭐ 7.4 | Music". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  7. ↑ Erin, Dazzling (2020-05-30). "Music Video Of The Day: Cry by Mandy Moore (2001, dir. by Chris Applebaum)". Through the Shattered Lens. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
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