Life For Rent
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| Life For Rent | ||
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| Missing image Dido_lifeforrent.jpg Album cover | ||
| Album by Dido | ||
| Released | September, 2003 | |
| Recorded | ??? | |
| Genre | Easy listening | |
| Length | 85 mins ?? secs | |
| Record label | Cheeky Records | |
| Producer | Rollo | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Allmusic.com | 4 stars out of 5 | link (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A5ukvikmsbb69) |
| The Guardian | 3 stars out of 5 | September 2003 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0%2C11712%2C1049504%2C00.html) |
| Dido Chronology | ||
| No Angel (1999) | Life For Rent (2003) | |
Life For Rent, Dido's second album, was released September 30th, 2003. "White Flag" was the first track from the album to be played on the radio. It has been listed on the Billboard Hot 100 since September 18, 2003, becoming arguably Dido's biggest American hit to date. The track "Stoned" was remixed and issued as an American club single at around the same time as "White Flag" was climbing the pop and adult contemporary charts. "Stoned" became a club hit, though it failed to catch on with dance radio.
The third and fourth singles, "Life For Rent" and "Don't Leave Home", respectively, did not fare as well as "White Flag" in America.
Life For Rent was nominated for Best British Album at the 2004 Brit awards along with Daniel Bedingfield's Gotta Get Thru This, Blur's Think Tank and The Coral's Magic and Medicine, but they were all beaten by The Darkness - Permission to Land. White Flag was awarded the 2004 Ivor Novello Award in the category International Hit of the Year.
Life For Rent spent many weeks at the top of the UK album charts. The Life For Rent Tour was taken around the world in 2004.
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Track listing
- "White Flag" - 4:01
- "Stoned" - 5:55
- "Life for Rent" - 3:41
- "Mary's in India" - 3:42
- "See You When You're 40" - 5:20
- "Don't Leave Home" - 3:46
- "Who Makes You Feel" - 4:21
- "Sand in My Shoes" - 5:00
- "Do You Have a Little Time" - 3:55
- "This Land Is Mine" - 3:46
- "See the Sun" - 10:36
- Contains a hidden track after a short period of silence.
Released Singles
The following singles have been released from the album thus far:
- "White Flag" - September 2003
- "Stoned" [remix] (club-play single) - 2003
- "Life For Rent" - December 2003
- "Don't Leave Home" - April 2004
Song backgrounds
White Flag – about a past relationship. Dido "regretted writing it" to begin with because of the further problems it caused with that person but now enjoys performing the song.
Life for Rent – written to reflect how she saw her life at the time.
Mary's in India – a joke for childhood best friend Mary who now lives in India, originally not intended to be on the album.
See You When You're 40 – about a past boyfriend who "wanted to be different more than anything in the world."
Don't Leave Home – written about the difficulties of drug addiction and made as a demo during the creation of her previous album.
External link
- Dido's official website (http://www.didotv.com/)