[Closed] What the flip happened to Dido?

I'm not sure what marketing I'm susceptible to and I would guess most folks don't either

TJ, to the forum please !!!

Or maybe people who aren't so up themselves as most of the music journos seem to be bought it because they liked it?

Luckily we don't have any of those deplorable people here, only with-it cats who are up to date with the most fashionably avant-garde beat combos.

One man's bland is another man's phaal.

If marketing is producing sounds that I find pleasurable then I'm a sucker for it. I'm chubby, don't have bose or an iplayer but I can cook, and I loved that No Angel album, and I despise music snobbery.

Luckily we don't have any of those deplorable people here, only with-it cats who are up to date with the most fashionably avant-garde beat combos.

Who'd a thunk it. STW is a hipster's hangout.

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*peeps over the parapet*

Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Cripes - I only asked what happened to Dido. I didn't think I was pulling the pin out of a popular culture grenade.

But hey - that's STW.

boxfish - I like your addage.

Just imagine the amount of money in royalties that the usual crap bands are going to make come Friday. They've got a couple of weeks where, as another athlete bursts into fits of tears on receiving their medal, the BBC producer says....

"Annnnnnnnnnnd...... cue Snow Patrol"

Maybe be i am being too cynical but most people are too stupid to know they are being marketed to.

Hmm.. so what, though? Pleasure is pleasure. And marketing soon wears off. I've got popular CDs (including No Angel*) and obscure ones. Some I like after listening for a while, some I get tired of pretty quickly.

I don't know if I was marketed at, I don't know if it had an effect, but I still bought the CDs I thought would be good. With ultimately a poor hit rate.

After quite a bit of playing I concluded that only one song on it was good all round. I liked the music on the hits but the words and crap singing started to annoy me a bit.

The Dodo died, Di died, Dando died, Dido went into hiding.

Apparently, after Di died, and Dodi died, Dido was petrified that she'd be next. Went in to hiding in Basingstoke. Works in a hippy part time.

Organic. That is spooky! Both typing same (awful) gag at the same time!

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[i]Works in a hippy part time[/i]?
Am I being stupid, but i don't understand this bit.

chippy?

[i]Works in a hippy part time?[/i]

Either it's some sort of 'zen' thing or there's a missing 'c' at the beginning of the word.

Apparently, after Di died, and Dodi died, Dido was petrified that she'd be next. Went in to hiding in Basingstoke. Works in a hippy part time.

And Dando!

Jill Dando is known as Jan Dildo round these parts..

Works in a hippy part time?

Either it's some sort of 'zen' thing or there's a missing 'c' at the beginning of the word

Thank heaven for pedantic unts like you then.

Jill Dildo works too if you are familiar with the coloquial term for female (ahem) pleasuring.

[i]In 2010, "Everything to Lose", was featured on the Sex and the City 2 soundtrack. The song was written by Dido in her country house where she is recording her fourth album, which will have an electronic approach[/i]

Working title: 'Dido Does Dubstep' (apparently)

Dido fans tend to be those that would claim to like "all music". Their definition of "all music" ranges from Beyonce to The Killers, rather than Cradle of Filth to The Tsars

You can spraf on about art as much as you like, but art by its very nature is open to review as soon as its put out there. The likes of Dido, Adele, David Gray, Duffy, they were never pushing any boundaries of art or music in the sense that it is something to explore, they simply came out copying well established and succesful artists who came before them.

Let's be honest however novel and original you think the hip hop inspired, 5/5 beat, nose flute from the Wahhh-Wahhh tribe of deepest darkest Stratocasterongolia is*. It's no more original than Dido. Seeing as some neolithic Caveman banged 2 rocks together in a 4/4 beat and found he got laid more has infuenced them both.

*it'll be big with hipsters at the end of this year, the middle classes will make it uncool next year and by 2014 we'll be listeing to whale music again.

Dido fans tend to be those that would claim to like "all music". Their definition of "all music" ranges from Beyonce to The Killers, rather than Cradle of Filth to The Tsars

No one likes Cradle of Filth, just teenage girls from the late 90's who wantet to appear different and wear black makeup.

There are 57 songs on all the Radio 1 playlists at the moment. That's less than 4 hours worth.

To be fair, you'd end up brain dead if you listened to radio 1 for 4 hours. And if you actually expressed the desire to listen to radio 1 for 4 hours, then we can take it as read that brain death was your starting point

Binners sounds old.

2 hours of it could be the Essential Mix and none of that is playlisted..

Old, bald, fat and cantankerous to be precise.

There are 57 songs on all the Radio 1 playlists at the moment. That's less than 4 hours worth.

To be fair you'd end up brain dead if you listened to radio 1 for 4 hours. And if you actually expressed the desire to listen to radio 1 for 4 hours, then we can take it as read that brain death was your starting point

So lets say about 10 minutes per record by the time they've done some talking, interviews, news etc. That pads the 4 hours out to 9.5 hours. Seeing as Moyles plays almost nothing upto 10, and Zane starts at 7 that's less than 9.5 hours........

Agreed though Ferne cotton and Greg James* make me reach into the glovebox for for a CD. Ironicaly for STW I think there's both David Gray and Nickleback in there..............

*Scott Mills I find ammusing though, hate me

What is the purpose of art and music? to educate, to entertain, to challenge, etc. Different people, different reasons.

I can't remember Didos musical efforts educating, entertaining or challenging anyone, she did make dull music for simpltons, which either made me want to Smash up the device playing it, or block up my ears with Araldite (whichever was quickest)...

Does that make her work [I]'Art'[/I] or [I]'Shite'[/I]?? - for those that need it spelling out That's a Rhetorical question and the answer is not [I]'Art'[/I]...

She's probably coining it in yankland now; where just about anyone seems able to carve out a lucrative niche by simply having once had some association with musical performance of some sort, she'll be a judge on some tossy tallent show sooner or later no doubt...

she is reasonably fit and very rich though definitively worth complimenting her on her music so she may perform fellatio on me.

I'm rather upset that Dido has provoked this much of a reponse, to be honest.

Dido the Queen of Carthage?

I quite liked some of her stuff. There, i said it. At uni was the go to album when taking a girl home.

Old, bald, fat and cantankerous to be precise.

You forgot always to blame and cuddly x

I am deeply amused that a thread about dido has run for so long and includes punching children in the face for being off key. Splendid, splendid work all.

2 hours of it could be the Essential Mix and none of that is playlisted..

When I was writing my first novella I had nothing but a pen, paper, desk and FM clock radio.

What would Hemingway have listened to?

This thread has been awesome. Whilst not a great fan of Dido (or radio 1) I met her before she was famous at an ex friends party. The ex friend (who shall remain nameless)pointed to a girl standing alone on the other side of the room saying "thats Dido" when I talked to her she told me her real name which was sadly too triple barrelled and unusual to remember. What was apparent however from talking to her was that she was treated badly by all those around her and who frequently made jokes at her expense. Her supposed circle of friends (some of whom were in a group called Faithless) used to make her get the tea and then use the studio when they had finished. The girl that I met that night was clever, witty and passionate and i really admire her for sticking it to them by becoming more successful and doing her own thing. I have wondered where she is now but I dont think she was ever motivated by money or success and I sincerely hope thats shes happy some place being creative. Music is such a personal thing and for me radio 1 weakens the soul by force feeding shite to the masses who then go and download and eat the same shite. But again each to their own, everybodys different and other cliches.
I eat maggots worms and woodlice i'm as tough as nuts!

Like tim333's post. I wish no ill-will on Dido, there are plenty of 'artists' out there who, without the help of certain...
mass-entertainment 'moguls', wouldn't stand a cat in hell's chance of selling any albums other than a few dozen CD-R's to friends and family, and who find this out the hard way when their fledgling career spirals rapidly around the bowl and disappears without trace.
My music collection runs, quite literally, from Abba to Zappa, (well, ZZTop, actually, but that loses the alliteration!), and takes in The Carpenters, Neil Diamond and Glen Campbell on the way, but has no Coldplay, Snow Patrol, or countless other favourites of Radio2.
Radio 1 honestly makes me lose the will to live, there should be provision under the Geneva Convention, or the Human Rights Act where being forced to listen to Radio 1 comes under 'cruel and inhuman punishment'.
Sadly, though, there are a great many excellent bands and musicians who will never enjoy the sort of success that less 'deserving', for want of a better word, acts or artists do, and that's a tragedy.
I've been sniped at for putting up a big list of people I like, on 'suggest some new music' threads, purely because no-one had heard of them. Well, surely that's the point, they are only obscure, because they haven't had the exposure they deserve.
Of course, like the NME years ago, and the hipster in the strip ^^, for some it's the very nature of the obscurity that's attractive; the merest hint of getting popular = sellout!
Anyone looking for something new and interesting, that won't frighten the horses, I can recommend Saint Saviour, Sharks Took The Rest, and Paper Aeroplanes, none of whom are like Dido.
Or David Grey.

I went to see Faithless live in 97 and they played that song twice even then. Dido did way better without them and shes probably growing a family and living off the royalties

Radio 1 honestly makes me lose the will to live, there should be provision under the Geneva Convention, or the Human Rights Act where being forced to listen to Radio 1 comes under 'cruel and inhuman punishment'.

[b]Anyone looking for something new and interesting[/b], that won't frighten the horses, I can recommend Saint Saviour, Sharks Took The Rest, and Paper Aeroplanes, none of whom are like Dido.
Or David Grey.

I could punch children in the face even if they were pitch perfect....do I get a prize?

I have wondered where she is now but I dont think she was ever motivated by money or success and I sincerely hope thats shes happy some place being creative.

PS no-one asked who your friend was ;(

Having worked in a record shop when No Angel came out, i can vouch for the chubby men (and women) buying that along with David Grays White Ladder....music for people who don't buy, or indeed have any interest in, music.

Rorschach - About 12-15 months inside probably. A good slap should work just as well. Male fans of the rolling stones used to jump on to the stage and kick Mick Jagger!

konabunny - the 'ex' friend was a total dick but his mum was cool I'm glad nobody asked.