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If you haven't heard of Jive Jones, you've likely *head* Jive Jones's work. The slinky, rappy, provocative singer has his own solo CD out on Comlumbia Records, but he's best known as the songwriter/producer behind Mandy Moore's sweet and tasty breakthrough hit "Candy." We couldn't resist asking Jive for his take on Mandy. "She is like a 20-year-old in a 15-year-old's body!" he laughed. "And she's very playful. She is just a ball of energy like me. She'd be up till three in the morning, bouncing off the walls in the studio. We worked together incredibly well together." But he saved his biggest awe for explaining how he felt when he first heard his "Candy" blaring from the radio! "It was really weird, almost like it wasn't me," he gasped. "It was like I didn't write it, didn't produce it...it was really great!"