B&B: Men are ultimately trying to impress a woman – so what gets your attention?
LA: What gets my attention? It is truly hard to get my attention, but… I don’t try to be mean. In the South, you just try to be cordial to a guy. But if a guy approaches me and makes me laugh, hell, if you can make me say more than one sentence – I’ll continue the conversation. That’ll get my attention. If they can say more to get more out of me, I like to smile, I love to laugh. I’m not saying that I’m the Queen and they’re the Joker, but just be humorous.

B&B: Have you ever met a man who had all of your turn-ons but couldn’t keep you happy?
LA: Yes. He had all my turn-on’s but he was the first person to make me go out of my character. He was kind of promiscuous. He wasn’t the guy that I usually go for. I had never had another woman come up to me and all that. He had all the characteristics, but he had a different understanding of his faith. He felt a certain view on religion and it differed from mines. If a dude is not right with God or themselves, then they’re not going to be right for me. He had two flaws and those flaws overweighed everything else.

B&B: Last question for you, Ms. Artis. The hot song of the moment is Plies – Shawty featuring T-Pain. Have you ever had a similar experience?
LA: From my understanding of the song… honestly, the only part that I could really relate to is the hook. Most dudes now, they don’t really want a girl[friend]. They want a representative of that. They don’t want the actual-factual. The only thing that I can think of that was so true was the line where he [Plies] said, “I exposed to real and now she ain’t lame/remember when she used to run from it, now she likes pain.” That was my quote for a long time. It takes a real dude to expose certain females to things. A woman takes down that wall and become exposed to it and appreciates the difference.