Out of all the celebrity couples out there, I spend the most time contemplating Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams’ relationship. Not that I spend that much time contemplating any celebrity relationships, really, besides theirs. There is something so endearing and yet baffling about that pairing to me, I just can’t leave it alone.
Today, in the car, A. and I were listening to “Dear Chicago.” Just as Ryan Adams was singing the line, “I think the thing you said was true: I’m going to die alone and sad,” I interrupted.
“Don’t you think it’s kind of funny that he used to be so depressed and drunk and strung out all the time, and now, not only is he off the drugs, but he’s married . . . and not only is he married, but it’s to Mandy Moore?”
“I guess,” A. said.
“I bet he gets embarrassed playing his songs at concerts sometimes ’cause they can be so maudlin and raw, and he just can’t relate to his old alcoholic self.”
“Probably.”
“I bet he and Mandy sit around listening to his records sometimes, at home, and she makes fun of how much he likes to sing about being miserable and getting drunk, and then he makes her watch the video for ‘Candy’ over and over and reminds her that she has no room to judge.”
“Probably.”
“You want to know what my favorite thing about Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams’ being a couple is?”
“What?” he asked.
“That if you combine their names to get a celebrity couple nickname, like Brangelina . . . they’re Randy Madams.”
(He finally laughed.)
6 Comments
June 24, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Hilarious. I love the RA/MM pairing, but mainly just because I love Ryan. Mandy’s nice, I’m glad he’s happy, but I do find this odd to think about. Great observation.
June 25, 2009 at 8:32 am
Did you see that I went to her ’secret’ concert sponsored by Gain laundry detergent? She sang Candy and made fun of it, told the audience she had been drinking Gain backstage, and was extremely self-depricating. I don’t like my Mandy Moore snarky and too in on the joke – I think he’s rubbing off on her!
June 26, 2009 at 2:02 am
hahaha! funny conversation! men are like that, what we can do.
btw. I know Mandy Moore but here in Europe they are not very popular.
Well all the best for them!
Cheers!
June 26, 2009 at 4:35 pm
thank you SO much for this, haha. i needed the laugh… & i have wondered about them for the exact same reasons, haha.
(also, “dear chicago” is one of my favorite songs ever. i need to go listen to it.)
July 8, 2009 at 5:22 pm
this is hilarious and bound to be true
August 21, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Dude… Mandy Moore is married? Where the hell have I been…