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And Who Can Blame Her? We Found Out
Why She Wants To "F**k The Men"
You may know her as the girl who
wants to be bad, but truth be told,
Willa Ford is just like everybody
else. On this winter morning, she's
like a lot of other people and home
sick with the flu. Though she's at
the tail end of it, she's about to
start another fever with the release
of her new album, Sexysexobsessive.
The first single, "A Toast To
Men (Fuck The Men)," which borrows
its infectious hook from a classic
sorority chant, is making an impact
in dance clubs and on radio stations.
And any rocker gal who sings about
fucking men, well, that's a chick
we'd switch for in a heartbeat.
INSTINCT: We love the title of your
new album. How did that come about?
WILLA FORD: Sexysexobsessive is actually
one of the songs on the album. It
doesn't sound anything like the last
album-it's kind of Depeche Mode meets
Madonna meets Willa Ford. I wrote
that song about the world's obsession
about sex. It's funny to me how we're
completely controlled by sex. It's
kinda tongue-in-cheek about me, about
the crazy sex creature that everybody
thinks Willa Ford is.
But you're here to tell us that you're
not?
It depends. Depends on what day you
catch me on.
Well, obviously not today, on a flu
day.
Yeah. Today's not a good day. No
guy's getting lucky today, I tell
ya. That's for sure.
However, on the day that he does,
watch out.
Yeah, exactly. As long as he's straight.
Well, I don't care. As long as he
pretends to be straight for me, I
don't give a crap. Trust me, I've
had boyfriends where the verdict is
still out. I'm like, "You guys,
he HAS to be straight!" And my
friends are like, "Uh, no, he
doesn't." And I'm like, "Oh
yeah, you're right."
It doesn't sound like you have the
best gaydar.
Ohmigod, my gaydar is completely
off. I'm one of those chicks whose
friends say, "Oh, she has no
clue she's been hitting on a guy who's
completely gay." I'm that girl.
I'm blind to all of that.
I've never really thought that somebody's
completely gay. Does that make sense?
I always thought somebody, well, they
can't be completely gay. I never look
at people differently, like they're
not in my grasp.
So every guy should be at least slightly
available at one point or another.
Every guy is available, I don't care
what he says. I mean, it's just one
night, for god's sake.
Yeah, we gotta agree, 'cause on the
flip side we've said the same thing:
"C'mon, you can't be completely
straight. It's just one night, for
god's sake."
One of the new songs on the album,
"Who I Am," you wrote from
the point of view of someone who's
gay. You say you have a lot of gay
friends. Do you hang with them a lot
in Tampa?
They're more in New York. When I
hang with them, I kinda become one
of them. Sometimes hanging out with
them I see how gays can feel like
outcasts some of the time. It feels
strange to me, so I wrote a song about
it.
What ways were you feeling an outcast?
Was it from being called the anti-Britney
and not being put in the same category
as all the other young female singers?
No, I've always felt like an outcast,
since I was little. It was a lot of
being so focused on something at such
a young age that people didn't understand.
I didn't wanna be in the cheerleading
group, I didn't wanna go out at night,
I wanted to be performing. It made
me weird to the other kids.
What's a typical day of hanging out
with your gay friends in NYC?
We go to SoHo and walk their dogs.
We go to the park, we race remote-control
cars. [Laughs] I can't believe I'm
telling you this. And then we go shop
some. Sometimes we go do this punk
rock karaoke stuff.
Punk rock karaoke?
They're more kind of rocker guys
anyway, going to dive bars…
How do you feel about your songs
being remixed? I've read you're very
protective of your sound and how you
come across musically.When you cross
over to the dance floor scene, you
give up a lot of that control.
Exactly. I'm not a huge fan of that
process, but unfortunately I don't
have a lot of time to go back into
the studio to sit there and do the
remixes. Something's gotta give. I'm
really weird, I don't usually like
a lot of the remixes done of my work.
It's not the kind of music I listen
to. I listen to more rock-Björk,
Radiohead. I try not to listen to
the radio much. But sometimes I have
to, just to find out what's going
on in the world.
Tell us a bit about the first single,
"A Toast To Men (Fuck The Men)."
Do you get resistance from radio,
what with the F-word in the title,
even when it's bleeped out?
Well, I didn't think it was gonna
be the first single. But radio hasn't
had any kind of issue with it. Thank
god for all the rappers who've already
gone there.
What do you think about some of the
other young, female singers out there?
Well, to each their own. I'm not
a fan of any of them. It's not because
I hate them or anything, I just don't
listen to their music. I'm more into
rock or other things. But sometimes,
whenever some of them go on stage,
they come across as comic-book characters.
It's so over the top, it should be
a drag show, what with the big costumes
and the lip-syncing. A Britney or
Xtina concert is like a drag show,
isn't it-except there are no taped-upped
penises.
Right! As far as we know!
From what we saw in the "Toast
To Men" video, the guys who were
stripping, there was nothing taped
up there.
No, no, they weren't taped. [She
sighs] They were ALL hangin'. It's
kinda gross, actually. I'm not really
into the man-in-the-banana-hammock
look. There's something unattractive
about it.
If male strippers don't turn your
head, what does?
I like a funny guy with a cute face.
I won't lie: I mean, he can't be ugly.
I like him to be cute. I kinda like
taller guys. He's gotta have a good
personality, really funny, and be
really funky in his own way. But I'm
attracted to real conservative guys
as well, as long as they're not conservative
through and through. I don't like
them to try to "protect"
me. He's gotta be really crazy.
Our Editor in Chief is into gay Republicans
for some reason.
Gay Republicans?!
We know. You wouldn't think they
existed, but apparently, they do.
Ohmigod. That's hysterical.
They even have their own name: Log
Cabin Republicans. We think there
are maybe four or five of them. Oh
well, he doesn't have many to go through.
Well, knowing Parker, he's probably
gone through 'em all.
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