Thanks to bondgirl8357 for sending this in:<\/p>\n
In Ananda Lewis’ “Music Talk” section she talks to Dido about her work.<\/p>\n
Angel-Voiced
\nHer tender songs about wounded pride and lost love make Dido an unexpected
\ncollaberator for hip-hop bad boy Eminem. But when the controversial rapper
\nheard Dido’s melancholy ballad “Thank You,” off her 1999 CD No Angel, he
\nasked for premission to sample it in “Stan,” his chilling song about a
\nviolent stalker. With that, their unlikely partnership began. Suddenly, the
\nsweet-voiced former litertary agent from London was preforming with Eminem
\non
\nSaturday Night Live. Now that “Stan” is climbing the charts and Dido’s tune
\n“Here With Me” is gaining attention as the theme song to WB’s Roswell, her
\nalbum is approching sales of one million copies.<\/p>\nAnanda Lewis: Your namesake wsa the mythical queen Dido in Virgil’s Aeneid,
\nwho threw herself into a fire because of a broken heart. Do you relate to
\nthat kind of self-destructive romanticism?<\/p>\nDido: No. People read a lot of my songs as melancholic, but I obviously have<\/p>\n
issues because I meant a lot of it to be really positive, (yet) people come
\nup to me and say, “Wow, that’s so dark.” I’m like, “OK, whatever.”<\/p>\nAL: Why did you name your album No Angel? You’re not an angel?<\/p>\n
Dido: It’s more to do with not being afraid to amke mistakes, and the flaws
\nin human beings. That’s what the songs are about – messing up and it not
\nbeing a problem.<\/p>\nAL: You’ve been preforming a new song, “Don’t Leave Home,” that’s not on
\nyour
\nalbum, in which you sing from the point of view of a drug seducing an
\naddict. What inspired you?<\/p>\nDido: I’ve seen a lot of people destroyed by drugs and by other addictions.
\nI
\nwanted to write a song that was about that sort of deep obsession.<\/p>\nAL: Describe exactly how your collaboration with Eminem came out.<\/p>\n
Dido: He sent me a copy of his track “Stan” quite a few monthes before his
\nalbum came out, and asked to use (“Thank You”).<\/p>\nAL: Did you know who he was at the time?<\/p>\n
Dido: Oh, yeah, I was a big fan of his first album. I thought (“Stan”) was
\nsuch a great track, I was jumpin up and down. I thought, ” I’m so lucky to
\nahve such a good rapper on my song.”<\/p>\nAL: Did you ever feel uncomfortable about his lyrics, which some have called<\/p>\n
homophobic, violent, and drug-crazed?<\/p>\n
Dido: I don’t personally feel in any way offended by (them) because I just
\nsee (them) as stories about things that happen in the world. A lot of the
\ngreat entertainers are storytellers.<\/p>\nThen Roswell had a brief mention in “The Robins Report”. The article was
\ncalled “Season Review: Networks Bank on a Slow Build to Success.”<\/p>\n“…..Such WB mainstays as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 7th Heaven, and
\nDawson’s
\nCreek are also up compared with last season. In addition, cult favorite
\nRoswell has recieved a full season (despite it’s lackluster numbers); the
\nnetwork is expected to do likewise with Felicity and Gilmore Girls…..”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to bondgirl8357 for sending this in: In Ananda Lewis’ “Music Talk” section she talks to Dido about her work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[93],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell","tag-dido"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}