“Women, I’d wish to make a toast on the behalf of males: right here’s to the lads we love, right here’s to the lads who love us, right here’s to the lads we love who don’t love us…fuck the lads, let’s drink to us!”
In honor of Worldwide Males’s Day, I current to you all: Willa Ford‘s 2003 opus with rapper Girl Could, “F**ok The Males (A Toast To Males).”
Co-crafted with Toby Gad (of John Legend‘s “All of Me” and Beyoncé‘s “If I Had been a Boy,” amongst many others), the rowdy center finger of a banger aimed on the most inferior gender was despatched out as the primary style of the since-shelved sophomore album Sexysexobsessive (extra on that later), impressed by a sorority chant she as soon as heard some ladies do whereas elevating their glasses at a celebration.
“It was a no brainer. I needed to do a tune about it,” the then-22-year-old Unhealthy Lady of Pop™ instructed Rolling Stone on the time. “It’s a couple of bunch of chicks dancing and getting it on in a no-boys-allowed state of affairs.”
Within the two years post-“I Wanna Be Unhealthy,” whereas engaged on the Willa Was Right here follow-up, Willa stated she spent her downtime in her NYC resort room taking part in guitar and frequenting punk rock karaoke night time within the LES, like all rock chick would.
She additionally boldly claimed she “was a part of the revolution, so far as altering the best way individuals consider pop music” and “wished it to be horny and fierce and be OK to say the phrase ‘fuck.’ I simply wanted a while to get out of it and work out what the fuck was occurring.” (Fuck sure, she was!)
The racy tune may slot in someplace between essentially the most cocky, empowering and raucous components of Christina Aguilera‘s Stripped (and/or Bionic, in truth), Britney‘s In The Zone and Fergie‘s The Dutchess, and is filled with unimaginable declarations, particularly as she hits that dancehall-inspired bridge: “Fuck ’em all ’trigger males don’t don’t have anything however dicks on us / Fuck ’em all ’trigger they smooth then beg us to strap on us / Get your large “O,” no love making, let him know his bitch was faking.” Simply…chef’s kiss.
A 12 months later in 2004, whereas speaking shit with the Orlando Weekly about calling Paris Hilton “a c-nt” in Blender (“I simply sort of like learn it after which I laughed”), dragging Britney (“she was imply to me earlier than I used to be anyone”) and referring to herself as a “f-g hag” (the early ’00s!), Willa revealed that “A Toast to Males” was “supposed to simply be this membership factor, and it ended up occurring radio…and took off.”
Properly, sure! Form of! The tune went to No. 11 on the Billboard Sizzling Dance Singles Gross sales, acquired a full remix EP (out there on streaming!), and was featured in Barbershop 2: Again in Enterprise.
Just a few fragments of what would have been Sexysexobsessive have since made their approach onto the Web, together with the legitimately sizzling title monitor “Attractive Intercourse Obsessive”, “Rock Tonight,” “Again Again Again” and arguably essentially the most insane and experimental providing, “Who I Am (Who Am I),” an ahead-of-its-time questioning of gender roles and sexuality, which feels like a Y2K pop girlie protecting Björk‘s “Hyperballad” and/or “Jóga,” who she was certainly listening to on the time, in response to the Orlando Weekly.
Including to the overall chaos of Willa’s profession, German pop singer Sandra later recorded “Who I Am” herself for her 2009 album. However then once more, Willa additionally recorded “Not Such an Harmless Lady” effectively earlier than Victoria Beckham made her solo debut and punished us with the identical tune. Simply one other instance of being forward of her time!
You may need learn some reasonably pointed headlines about Willa again in 2017, after she lamented throughout an interview with Billboard that her “I Wanna Be Unhealthy” follow-up single “Did ‘Ya Perceive That” dropped on 9/11, seemingly suggesting the September 11 assaults contributed to her music profession’s swift demise.
She later hit again on the inflammatory headlines, saying she did not blame 9/11, and her phrases have been “meant to be an inspirational piece about how the universe despatched me in a brand new and completely different course.” (As for “A Toast to Males” co-star Girl Could, her personal scrapped album Could Day hit the Web this previous summer time, 21 years later.)
After ditching music (for now), Willa later did Dancing With The Stars in 2006 paired with Maksim Chmerkovskiy, stole the present because the character Chelsea within the Friday the thirteenth reboot in 2009, and was at one level forged and instantly dropped from the film Murderer’s Fury for allegedly “being a nightmare to be round” who “made the shoot a very unhappy place to be,” in response to producer Fabio Soldani. She is now an inside designer.
Fuck the lads, let’s drink to Willa!
