Willa Ford is a one-hit wonder, and it's all 9/11's fault, she claims.
The singer released "I Wanna Be Bad" in May 2001 and found success. She felt that she was on her way to stardom, but then, a few months later, she released her second single and it failed to chart of gain any traction.

What happened?
"That's the question I get on the daily, literally," she told Billboard. "It was the perfect storm. 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."
A lot of other artists also released music that day, including Jay-Z, Bob Dylan and Mariah Carey.
Willa said it sounds "silly" to blame poor sales on a terrorist attack, but she feels her logic is correct because "they slate things" on radio, so it "fell to the wayside. I didn't think it was a big deal because we were making a new album anyway."
To hear her tell it, "I ended up in no man's land."

When she came out, Willa was billed as an alternative to the then-squeaky clean images of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson and Mandy Moore.
"I felt like this pop machine had taken me and put me in the wash cycle and I had been spinning out of control. I wanted some time to refocus myself. I started re-evaluating what I was doing," she said. "I was a classical opera singer with musical theory—a real, legit musician. I loved what I was doing—I wrote the songs, but I felt like the authenticity wasn't there. I knew that it wasn't going to have the staying power that I wanted it to have. I really took a step back because I felt like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing at the time. I know that sounds crazy, but it was the perfect storm, and I walked away. It's really hard when you walk away to go back to it."