Thanks to the thumping, Britney-like
hit "I Wanna Be Bad," Willa Ford has made the transition from one of
the most hated figures in pop music to one of its fastest rising stars. (erm,
since when?) A child
prodigy (wtf??!! did
'Willa' write this?) as a
singer, the 20-year-old Ford — whose real name is Amanda Williford — first
claimed fame as the girlfriend of Backstreet Boys cutie Nick Carter. (now
claims fame as his ex)
For that she was vilified by jealous fans, (don't
get me started again on this 'jealous fans' crap)
who (revealed the truth)
spread rumors about her mistreating Carter physically and emotionally. At one
point before their breakup last October, there were more nearly four dozen
anti-Willa chat groups operating on Yahoo! (excellent!)
"I think I'm a really good survivor case for kids and people out there
who go through things,"
(go through things?
like what? Using your famous boyfriend to get yourself a record deal?
Insulting everyone you don't like? what is it exactly she's been though?
- she doesn't know anything about surviving or hard times) says
Ford, who first met Carter at a high-school football game in her home town
near Tampa, Fla. "The closest thing I could compare it to, which is
really weird, is an interracial relationship; we were like two kids from
different sides of the street, trying to be together, but the families — in
our case, his family — wouldn't let us. That was the most painful part, the
fact I was being rejected by people who were supposed to love me — so
painful it's not even fair. You want these people to love you, and they fake
it and make you think they do, but they turn their back on you. At one point,
I was a very depressed person, to the point where I actually took medicine. I
was falling apart in my own way, but I was hiding it from everybody. The
hardest thing I've ever gone through was getting out of it." (what?
she's talking a load of beeeeep!!! I'm sorry but this is nothing to do
with race, or being from different classes or as she puts it 'sides of the
street'. Basically the Carter family didn't like her because of her bad
personality, and out of their love for Nick they probably advised him to keep
away from her, they could see she was rude, abusive and manipulative, not the
type of girl he could 'bring home to his family' Of course her family
didn't object to the match - what's to object to? They couldn't believe their
luck!)
Ford credits focusing on her own music career with pulling her out of that
depression. After a stormy tenure with MCA, she wound up switching to
Lava/Atlantic, which has "I Wanna Be Bad" blasting on radios across
the country to build anticipation for her debut album, Willa Was Here, which
hits stores on July 17. She's also signed a deal to be the spokesperson for
the Pantene Pro-Voice competition. And despite comparisons to every other pop
diva of the day, Ford says she's most driven to establish herself as an
individual in a sea of wannabes — even if that means wanting to be a little
bit bad with ya, baby.
"There's many talented girls out there, all talented in different
aspects," she says. "But they'll never beat me at my own game —
being real. That's my game. That's where I'm at. You know, 'Tomorrow on Hard
Copy, Willa does a keg stand.' Yeah, that's me. With other girls, there'd be
serious damage control, but, no, I'm a real person out there." (huh?)
Source, 'Daily News'