Did anyone else see this last night?

Was a good programme last night, I thought Dido came over really well in the interview, very down to earth and joking too - especially about her name ;) :D Never really seen her interviewed before!
She then goes on to do an acoustic version of her new song "Life for Rent" and it was flipping superb - she can't half sing live, which is getting a rarity these days!!!

While I still can't listen to the full album in one go, just thought she came over well and can really sing!

Damn! I wish I'd seen that, she's a really nice lass who can sing live and write her own songs. Why can't all pop acts be like her??

Gorgeous too :D

LOL, where's unclebuck when you need a put-down..?

:D

I thought she came across as being one of Osram's dimmer bulbs, tbh. Pretty, charming, and reasonably talented, but NASA won't be on the phone to her at any point in the near future.

Good show IMHO.

She's done a few shows with just her and an acoustic guitar. I really think she should do an unplugged album as she sounds great without a band/electronics.

I can't help but feel that her level of talent doesn't quite match her massive success I mean, some people worship her. She's nice an all but I guess her popularity is based on a niche for good inoffensive sing-a-long songs that have broad appeal.
Can't help but feel she's been a bit lucky though.
Good luck to her all the same.

She is awful, crap songs, crap voice and only got where she is because eminem was dumb enough to have her warbling on his record- and that wasn't any good either. She's made a stack of cash out of a very small amount of talent so fair play to her on that score. Her music is the worst kind of middle of the road trash though.

Nacro

Can't help thinking you're beeing a teensy bit OTT there, though I admit that I have a problem with the constant multitracking of her voice. And a lot of the songs sound exactly the same - pitch, chord changes etc are all the same.

she has a Lamborghini though.

She has a good voice, can sing live and has a distinctive sound to her music. Don't quite know how she can be labelled "crap". I personally don't like Eminem, so haven't heard her feature on his music. I liked the theme song to Roswell High...

She's gorgous, can sing and drives a lambo:eek::eek:

what more do you want:D:D

She doesn't have a good voice, music is middle of the road dross but if you like it, you are seemingly in the majority as loads of mugs seem to have bought her stuff. Music is a matter of personal taste- I think she's utter, utter dross.

i think her stuff is great. really good to chill too. 1st album was better than the second though i think, maybe i need to give the second more time. sand in my shoes is good. i like that.

I wouldn't say No!...... then again I doubt she'd say yes!

Still I think She's got a great voice and good looks too.

:D

Ditto!!!

Ditto again!!

BB:)

I thought she came across really well.. yes okay not perhaps the sharpest tool in the box but it is not exactly a easy situation.
I think that nerves made he look less itellignet than she really is.. in my fantisy she is more intelligent :)

Very impressed with her live singing, not a huge fan but do have he previous album..

Very much a babe..

JGM :)

I haven't actually bought any of her albums. So I'm not one of the mugs as you put it, so politely.(;)) I just think that she's one of a rare breed of artist(e)s these days who have a natural talent for music.

The fact that she's attractive and modest to go with it, are bonuses.

and she's a gooner!

had she not been used by eminem you would never have heard of her...ever.

and i for one would be much happier if no-one had ever heard of her. the only benefit i can think of is that someone gave me one of her albums which i promptly gave to one of the in-laws for xmas last year. result.

other than that, if she wants to sit on my err, lap, then that's fine.

she can't sing but i don't mind a bit of squealing.

You probably would as her first album was produced by that black bloke who couldn't get no sleep (group name eludes me).

[Edited by civictyper - 11/25/2003 1:43:24 PM]

LOL and here cometh all of Scoobynets music experts and talent spotters/critics :rolleyes:

What a load of sh!te you lot talk :p

her brother you mean? one half of faithless, or is it one third?

well that hardly makes us unique, does it b2z?

:)

Her brother is that Rollo chap from Faithless..

He produced loads of ace dance hits in the 90s like OT Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down, that remix of that Donna Summer track I Feel Love, and of course all of the Faithless stuff too.. bit of a dude really..

She's a babe though.. and I think most of us would !!

Nah, sorry, she only has 2 notes, that doesn't equate to being able to sing in my book. And as others have said, all her songs sound the same, the lyrics are highly derivative and the whole thing is devoid of expression or emotional involvement of any kind.

McCulture of the highest order.

MOR, all-songs-are-boring-and-sound-the-same.

Her voice goes right through me.

Only The Darkness make me change radio channels quicker at the moment.

Faithless, that's the one :)

Not really into them but being connected helps. A lot.

I reckon she would have been discovered easily IMHO. She is a bit middle-of-the-road but she writes her own stuff and can hold a tune pretty well.

Argh !! That's the point !! When did it come to be that you could make a load of money as a singer when you can only hold a tune "pretty well" ?

Anyway, pet hate thing, I'll go and do somehting else before I get all angry about talentless famous people.

Not that I'm trying to defend Dido, but she got a recording deal on the back of singing on Faithless stuff which she wrote with her brother.

And she's already had some minor success in the US before Eminem ever came along. Clearly that helped her, as does the fact that she's a looker. Personally I don't like the lyrics (all a bit Bridget Jones for me), the production (as I said, multitracking a voice on every track is annoying) or the melody, but good luck to her. Despite this, she's a lot more to my taste (even musically) than almost anything in the charts, and streets ahead of that appalling travesty of non-talent, Alex Parks.