Willa Ford says her career stalled after her 2001 hit “I Wanna Be Bad” because of 9/11.
“I Wanna Be Bad,” which featured Royce da 5’9″, peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts, but her second single, “Did Ya’ Understand That,” failed to even chart.
“It was the perfect storm,” Ford said in an interview with Billboard, published Thursday. “A lot of people don’t realize this, but my second single was released on Sept. 11, 2001. Everything that happened that day froze; the world stood still, as it should have. My second single didn’t do well because anything that launched that day kind of got canned.”