Willa Ford Discography
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 Willa FordWilla Was Here Release Date 2001 07 17 Label Atlantic Rating:  Perhaps it was inevitable, once Britney shot to stardom strutting in short skirts and, once she got there, she stripped to &"Satisfaction" and teased Bob Dole's dog in Pepsi ads. Perhaps it was inevitable, once Christina got what a girl wants, and then danced as a French courtesan for a tie-in to Moulin Rouge. Perhaps it was inevitable once Jessica Simpson trashed her virginal image with a spread in FHM, or when Mandy Moore had videos directed by Gregory Dark, the auteur behind such extreme-porn as Sex Freaks. Perhaps it was inevitable, but nevertheless, Willa Ford is shocking, even to jaded observers of pop culture. She's presented as a panting, wanton teen tart, a girl that is desperate to be bad. On the front cover, she looks strikingly like Nomi Malone, Elizabeth Berkley's legendary loose-cannon white-trash stripper from Paul Verhoeven's classic Showgirls. On the back, she's dressed in vulgarly short short-shorts; inside, she's posed provocatively on a motorcycle, legs invitingly askew. (Plus, the month the album hit the stores, she was on the cover of the Maxim spin-off Stuff, with enough makeup to look like a raccoon.) And that's it -- that's how you know Willa was here, that's what the album is about. Maybe the lead single, &"I Wanna Be Bad," has some post-Britney, Max Martin flair, and is pretty catchy, but that's the one time the entire cynical enterprise works. After that, things become startlingly crass in its commerciality, as each sub-Jessica Simpson dance-pop cut and syrupy ballad only enhance the sneaking suspicion that this is all about presenting middle-age record collector sex fantasies as modern pop (even the CD's label plays into this, looking like a 45 -- something that would make no sense to a teen audience, if that's indeed who this is for). Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi |
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | I Wanna Be Bad | Ford, Schwartz, Kierulf | 3:06 |
| 2 | Did Ya' Understand That | Darius, Sheppard, Gioia, Ford | 3:17 |
| 3 | Ooh Ooh | Nelson, Ford | 3:32 |
| 4 | Tired | Marvel, Ford | 3:33 |
| 5 | Joke's on You | Fusari, Moore, Ford, Breer | 3:16 |
| 6 | Tender | Kelley, Robinson | 4:18 |
| 7 | Don't You Wish | Nelson, Ford | 3:51 |
| 8 | Prince Charming | Marvel, Ford | 4:01 |
| 9 | Somebody Take the Pain Away | Lee, Stewart, Lennox, Schwartz, Kierulf | 2:53 |
| 10 | Haunted Heart | Nevil, Hirsh, Ford | 3:39 |
| 11 | Dare | DJ Skribble, Anthony Acid Project, Ford | 3:46 |
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