Singer Willa Ford Blames 9/11 For Her Career Dying Out

You guys remember Willa Ford — she was a one-hit wonder with the song “I Wanna Be Bad,” which is actually a great song:

Anyway, the song ruled the radio during the summer of 2001, just before September 11th. In a new interview with Billboard, the 36-year old singer seemed to blame 9/11 for her music career fizzling out.

“A lot of people don’t realize this, but my second single was released on September 11, 2001. Everything that happened that day froze; the world stood still, as it should have,” she said. “My second single didn’t do well because anything that launched that day kind of got canned.”

After the president of her record company sold the company, which thwarted the release of her second album, she kinda got the hint.

“I really took a step back because I felt like I wasn’t doing what I was supposed to be doing at the time,” the singer said. “I know that sounds crazy, but it was the perfect storm, and I walked away.”

But she might be eyeing a comeback: “When I look at Kylie Minogue, she did [her comeback] really right,” she said. “She did ‘Loco-Motion,’ she went away for 20 years — which is almost how long I’ve gone away — and then she comes back with this amazing dance-pop record. For me it was groundbreaking in the states.”