Willa Ford's 'I Wanna Be Bad' almost didn't happen

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00:00when i want to be bad was cut was it kind of obvious that that was going to be the first

00:03single i made that song so the guys that wrote uh somebody take your pain away um i wanted to go in

00:08the studio with them and write because i loved the sound josh and brian were their names and we went

00:12in kns and we wrote that song i was so angry because i was with mca records at the time

00:17and the label was like we need you to be more this we need you to be more that and so like

00:22we need like these happy bubbly pop songs and i was like i'm gonna i'm just gonna like write a

00:27song called i want to be bad just as a joke that was literally how that song started and so i wrote

00:32that song and then they had that song for they held me so i would have been out before a lot of girls

00:37i think i was there for like a year jason flom at atlantic records heard the song from my attorney

00:43and he's like i'm buying her out of her deal that's how it happened they had that song banked

00:48no video i signed with love atlantic and made a music video by the way none of us had any idea if

00:54i could even be on camera well the video was amazing you can be on camera i was like i don't

01:00know what i'm doing but just turn it on let's go and um and then we had the video and the label was

01:04like uh yeah this is a go for us yeah yep so that's how it happened yeah so that song was in the can

01:10and mca records verbatim said what if we changed it to i want to be glad you're lying i am not plugins

01:17i want to be glad on my life i'm just gonna say it was a british a and r guy i don't even remember

01:23who but i and i was like i am we are done here i'm shutting down

01:27you