That, to me, feels like magic. Baltin: I love the new material. It feels very contemporary but undeniably you.
When did you know you wanted this to be an album? Dido: That's so nice to hear because not many people have heard it. Well, barely anyone has. But that's really lovely because I just have no idea if people are gonna like it. So few people have heard it and it's been made in such a small way, with my brother. How this album came about is I had my child and just wanted to hang out with him and that was a really natural progression.
And then I was sort of writing with various people cause I always do. Then I just sort of woke up one morning and was like, "I would love to make a record, but I only really want to make it if it's with Rollo, my brother. And I don't want to make one if it isn't. And that, to me, is why this whole thing started. I wanted to feel that again and that's what this album is. It's basically me and my brother hanging out and making music. Dido: My dark album was the third album. I wrote that when my dad died and that was actually why I didn't tour the third album cause I realized when it came to it I couldn't really sing the songs live because it was so raw at the time.
So this album is very different. I never wanted to write a song about having a kid. But I had a few ideas in my head and I almost felt like, "Get it out of your system, write a song about what you feel having a kid and then put it in the bin. And that sums up the whole record.
Suddenly the floodgates opened and I wrote all the rest of the songs. That was the song that started it and that wasn't even really meant to be a song anybody ever heard. Everyone fell in love with it. Baltin: It's funny what you say about the third album. Are there songs from the catalog you are excited to revisit with your new perspective on life?
Dido: I'm way past 40 laughs. It's funny, I'm still not living by the beach and that is still what I want. I'm still quite not living that life. When I do actually listen to those songs and sing them again sometimes I'm like, "They're still really relevant to my life now.
And it's a whole different world. And even just making music this time around I feel different. In a way it's more relaxed, it's very sort of natural and easy. The songs, some of them feel very young and I love that because it takes me back 20 years or so. But some of them still feel sort of relevant, like "Life For Rent," for example.
Dido: It's the way you feel things and if you write honestly about the way you feel things that probably doesn't change much. I was on tour for like nine years straight in the end. And I remember songs changing while the tour was going on. So one song that might've been more of a distant thing for me, then one day I'd be singing it and I'd think, "Oh my god, this is really hitting home. So, for me, my songwriting has always come from the same place, which is I don't write songs unless there's light and dark in it.
There's no song of mine that's out and out happy and no song that's out and out sad really. For me songwriting is about finding those little moments of conflict in life, whatever they are. It was for a few thousand pounds, which was not a huge deal to them but it was massive to me. It sat on the table by my bed and every time I looked at it I panicked. I had anxiety attacks, I got really down. I felt that cheque represented pressure and that it would turn my music into something different.
Growing up, music had been my special place, a private place for me, my brother, my dad. I literally got myself into a complete state because of that cheque. Given her wealth now, how does she cope? Instead she has bought freedom, which has allowed her to hold off writing a new album for six years. And then to be able to talk to your son and your husband about it for years afterwards.
He will travel with her, to share the experience. As she prepares to leave, she tells a final story about the only man who managed to persuade her to get on a stage in the past decade — her unlikely friend Eminem. I left in the morning, got in my car and drove to Reading. I parked, walked on stage just as he was about to start Stan and began singing.
The crowd went absolutely wild and it was this bizarre but brilliant experience. As soon as the song finished, I walked back off stage, got in my car and drove home, played with Stanley, put him to bed and got on with my life. Dido tours the UK from May, didomusic. No comments have so far been submitted. Why not be the first to send us your thoughts, or debate this issue live on our message boards. It performed well in both the U. Dido would release several more albums in the years after the height of her success, but her career was not the same as it was before.
The last time a song of hers charted in the U. Then in , she came out of a year hiatus to tour again. So what has she been up to since? She is the youngest of two children, and has an older brother named Rowland known as Rollo. As a child she was given the nickname Dido, after the queen of Carthage, per Stuff.
That name would stick and eventually become her chosen stage name. And it was likely an inevitable choice because apparently, Dido isn't really fond of her given name and criticizes her folks for finalizing it for her. It's one of the most irritating things that my parents did to me.
I'm still irritated by it. Florian is a German man's name. That's just mean. To give your child a whole lot of odd names. They were all so embarrassing," she said to The Guardian in Her interest in music began when she was young, as she attended a performing arts school called the Guildhall School of Music.
There, she learned how to play instruments, particularly the piano and violin. But she then discovered her singing talents and wanted to sing. In the late '90s, she started singing with several bands before landing with her brother's band. Rollo had his own music career as producer with the group Faithless.
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