"Dance with Me"

August 28, 2000

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CO-MsQwiz: If you could tour with anyone, who would it be and why?

Debelah: I would have to say probably 98 Degrees. I think that they have a very soulful pop sound, and I think that a concert with the two of us, and another opening act would really complement each other, and really represent pop 'R and B' today.

Florence: Have you ever acted?

Debelah: Yes, I have. And I took acting in high school.

Frack714: Hey Debelah! I'd just like to say I wish you all the luck in the world! I am on your online street team, and I do everything I can to promote you! Anyways, I'm sitting here listening to "Dance with Me" and I was just wondering, what is the inspiration behind the song?

Debelah: Thank you! No chicken grease here, I'm vegetarian. The inspiration behind "Dance with Me" was probably wanting to write something that would make people happy and want to dance. It was written during a very tough time, when I didn't have a record deal. As well as the rest of the album. And so the focus became music that would make people happy and dance.

DCgirl2000: Hiya Debelah. I love your single by the way. Anyway I know you are only just starting out in America but do you have plans to come to England soon? If you do please can you do a mall tour over here so I can meet you?

Debelah: Aww, I would love to! I've actually been to England before, and I thought it was absolutely charming. They are scheduling an international release, I think in October, so by the end of the year I could be coming to Europe.

Gillian: What song has had the most meaning for you? And why?

Debelah: Hmmm.Probably "What Would You Do." It's a ballad on the album. It talks about a person who wants to tell the person that they are in love with that they can stop loving them if they really wanted to, because this person hasn't been treating them very nice. I think it's a more realistic point of view when it comes to breaking up, because it's about that period of time when we are really thinking about it, and I think people think about breaking up more than they actually break up.

Thomas: What has been the biggest challenge in your career?

Debelah: I've had two big challenges. One would be when I was dropped from Atlantic records in 1994, I gained 90 pounds, so losing that was so difficult. And then the second biggest challenge, they are really kind of equal, was being on a record label that would let me sing and write the kind of music I wanted to, which was pop music, because so many people wanted me to do a hip-hop album.

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