The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.

" Paper concluded that "Moore is a far better musician than Mandy Moore's often given credit for. To date So Real has sold an estimated 2. The album also reached number 37 in Australia her highest peak in the country to date.

The parent album titled the same was released that same year to generally mixed reviews. To date the album has sold an estimated 200000 copies and failed to receive an RIAA certification. In 2010 Moore portrayed Rapunzel in the animated film Tangled in which Mandy Moore performed the song "I See the Light" to which Mandy Moore won a Grammy Best Song Written for Visual Media.