El píérfil Mash Up Tracks tiene como proyecto hacer mezclas con canciones, tomando de unas la música y de otras las voces para crear una nueva canción o remezcla de ambas. En esta ocasión ha realizado una mezcla entre dos canciones de Dido y Roxette, Listen To Your Heart (voces) y Here With me (música). Este es el resultado:
Esta mañana Dido ha revelado a travíés de las redes sociales cual será la portada de su próximo disco recopilatorio que saldrá a la venta el próximo 25 de Noviembre.
Esta mañana Intermon Oxfam de Gran Bretaña ha desvelado el top 3 de los artistas cuyos cd's más se donan para la mencionada ONG. Dido está en el primer puesto seguida de Oasis en segundo lugar y Robbie Williams en el tercer puesto.
El pasado mes Dido actuó en la ceremonia de los premios Nansen Refugee Award en Ginebra. Este vídeo hace un resumen de la noche y muestra un pequeño fragmento de la actuación de Dido:
White house on the beachMy steps down to the sandThe plane takes off and weWe are jerks when it landsWaiting in a roomWhere the windows won’t openGot coffee with no mudAnd my heart still ain’t brokenStill ain’t brokenStill ain’t brokenAnd the music stopsAnd the beat goes onAnd the music stopsBut I’m dancing onI won’t be home until I’ve walkedEvery street in New YorkAnd I’ll walk on without your loveWithout your loveDancing on til I’m aloneThere’s no need to returnWithout your love, until I have walkedEvery street in New YorkBoat goesFrom one island to the nextAn old man drinkin beerWomen on the benchAnd the music stopsAnd the beat goes onAnd the music stopsBut I’m dancing onI won’t be home until I’ve walkedEvery street in New YorkAnd I’ll walk on without your loveWithout your loveDancing on til I’m aloneThere’s no need to returnWithout your love, until I have walkedEvery street in New YorkGlory when my plane takes offDon’t know me when I’m homeSay your prayers with your fingers crossedForget to call before I goIf I had to phone tonightTo say I made you sadAnd though I’ve fallen in your call and palmI won’t be home until I’ve walkedEvery street in New YorkAnd I’ll walk on without your loveWithout your loveDancing on til I’m aloneThere’s no need to returnWithout your love, until I have walkedEvery street in New York
Dido ha estado grabando una entrevista para promocionar el disco 'Greatest Hits', en la que contará algo de cada canción. De momento solo tenemos esta foto.
Esta noche se celebrará la 33º gala de la ONG Children In Need, en la cual entre otros artistas, aparecerá Dido para tocar Thank You, como parte de la promoción por la salida del álbum recopilatorio Greatest Hits. El programa se emitirá esta tarde en la BBC 1 a las 7:30pm (hora de UK) o en la BBC2 a las 10pm (hora de UK).
En la siguiente audio-entrevista Dido habla sobre lo implicada que ha estado en la preparación del recopilatorio Greatest Hits, cómo su cuñada fue quien la ayudó a componer NYC, sobre los programas de cocina en televisión y sobre todo la mención a que cuando Sony contactó con ella para realizar el Greatest Hits, ya había empezado a trabajar en un nuevo y futuro disco.
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But despite this, Dido believes that if she were to have started her career on a program like The X Factor or The Voice, she would have struggled to make the cut.Speaking exclusively to omg! ahead of the release of her Greatest Hits collection, the 41-year-old singer/songwriter admitted she couldn’t see herself doing well on a TV talent show.She told us: “I think I would have floundered on one of those shows! I’m glad I never went there. “Get to the dancing bit and I’d have been out!â€This isn’t, however, to say that she is against the format of creating stars on television - with Dido herself even appearing as a guest mentor on series two of The Voice earlier this year.Dido as a guest mentor on The Voice. Copyright [Wenn]“It was really fun, I really enjoyed it. I was just there for a day. They all were great, really good singers I was super impressed. They only get given the song in the morning it’s really hardcore,†she said.“I love that sort of thing, I love listening to other people sing. “There are so many different ways to hear someone and I don’t think any of them are better or worse."Good songs and a good voice will get out there. “If someone moves you and they’re singing a beautiful song I don’t really care how it got there.â€Dido’s collaboration with Eminem on the critically acclaimed and commercially successful 1999 hit ‘Stan’ was arguably her big break.The track used a sampler from her second single ‘Thank-You’ with both songs appearing on the Greatest Hits collection.With Thank-You being released after ‘Stan’, Dido admits that there were times when people would get confused as to why she was performing what they thought was an Eminem track.She said: “I think the funniest thing was when I had to sing ‘Thank You’ at a friend’s wedding and this guy came up to me and said ‘why are you singing Eminem song at a wedding?’ and I was like ‘you know what? Oh whatever!’â€Regardless of this, Dido is adamant that the collaboration still means a lot to her. “I was so proud of it. For me music is music and if it’s taken out of context and used in a brilliant way then I love it just as much,†she explained.“Stan brings back as many amazing memories as does Thank You. They’re just very different ones!“When I listen to Stan I so clearly remember making the video – getting to meet Dr Dre and Eminem – they were my heroes. But then Thank-You reminds me of weddings…and not being stuck in the boot of a car!â€With a career spanning 15 years, Dido had the huge task on her hands of putting together her Greatest Hits collection, something she found to be a therapeutic process in the end.“It was really nostalgic. I got really into it. It’s fun for me when I listen to it from beginning to end – it’s this crazy fifteen year diary in an hour,†she said“I actually wanted to do a remix album for a while so it was a perfect time to put the remix album in there because they meant a lot to me from over the years. There’s a sort of mixture of nostalgia and then new stuff.â€And as for her favourite track? “White Flag just will never get old for me because I was just so proud of having written than song and it had such an amazing reaction. It brings back so many memories – I still love singing it,†she admitted.
Best-of albums can be simple victory laps, but they're also a great time for personal reflection. For British adult-pop singer Dido, her upcoming "Greatest Hits" compilation has provided a perfect opportunity to reminisce on the fourteen years since releasing her deubt album, "No Angel." That album produced the Top 5 hit "Thank You," which peaked at No. 3 and was famously sampled on Eminem's tour de force single "Stan."Speaking to Billboard on an afternoon she spent digging through old photographs, Dido answered questions regarding the career that produced "Thank You," performing with Marshall Mathers, and the remix collection included on the deluxe edition of "Greatest Hits," due out Nov. 25 on RCA Records.Billboard: So with digging through all these old pictures and videos, it sounds like there's been a lot of reminiscing going on.Dido: Yeah! i think November is looking-back month for me. It's been fun, though. I haven't really looked back that much until now, and it was actually amazing listening to the "Greatest Hits" album as a whole. It's kind of a crazy diary of my last fifteen years compressed into an hour. The thing for me about music is it really does being back a true memory and a true emotion, when sometimes memories can get muddled with other things. But something about writing a song -- you remember where you were, what you were wearing, what you were doing, who was there. You remember everything. Listening to these songs again, I really remember things clearly. It's pretty crazy.Did you ever think you would have a greatest hits album?No! (Laughs) It was a bit of a surprise. I was in the middle of making a record and my friend came and said, "Do you want to do a greatest hits?" And I was like, "Really?" It probably always seems crazy to do a greatest hits. I had so much fun putting it together... it's like a proper celebration of the last 15 years. It's not something you think will happen.How did you go about selecting the tracks to go on the album?It wasn't a struggle. I struggled more with the remix album, because there were so many remixes that I loved. It was hard to fit them all on. And I wanted to include some that people had never heard. There were some Timbaland remixes that no one had ever heard before and then there were some new remixes, like a Mantronix mix of "Go Dreaming," a mix of "Blackbird" by Moguai. I wanted go get all that on. On the main album, I kept it simple. I basically picked singles and songs I love and kept it in chronological order. Then I added a few collaborations to really represent the whole era.Do you ever wonder how your son Stanley will be introduced to your music?He sees me singing and I think he just thinks that's what mommies do (laughs). They all do it! He's only two so he's not going to grasp it yet. I sing to him every night -- I've always sung him to sleep. Then a few nights ago, he just turned around and said, "Turn it off!" I was like, "Oh dear." My singing career might be over with Stanley.This summer, you performed "Stan" onstage with Eminem at Leeds Fest. What's it like performing that with him after all these years?It was brilliant, a lot of fun. The crowd reaction was amazing. A real buzz. It was a really fun thing to do.I read that Eminem considered working with you again for "The Marshall Mathers LP 2," but decided against it. Was there any dialogue there?Someone just told me about that. No, never mentioned.A lot of your lyrics are very personal -- revisiting these songs for "Greatest Hits," are there any songs you look at in a different way? Any "What was I thinking?" moments?I always know where I was and what I was thinking when I was writing the songs. Things will become more or less relevant to your life... Just remembering how strongly I felt when I wrote "White Flag." Sometimes it still stirs up a bit of the old emotion. There's a song called "Everything To Lose" that I did for a film and I wrote it before Stanley came along. When I listened to it after he was born, it was really relevant. I definitely get transported back to the moment I was in when I wrote the song.What about the compilation's never-before-heard track, "NYC"? When did you compose that one?I wrote that with Greg Kurstin the same time I wrote (2013's) "End of Night," "Happy New Year, and "Let's Runaway," and saved it because I didn't finish it. And I actually thought this was the perfect album for it to go on, because it references lyrically when I first started and first came to America. I came over to New York with a point to prove to my brother (producer Rollo Armstrong) who basically said, "You can't do this." I was walking the streets of New York thinking, "I'm not going home until something happens, and I won't go home until I've walked every street in this town." I thought this was the perfect album to put it on, as opposed to the next record.What were your impressions of New York the first time you were there?It was so overwhelming the first time. I'm a city girl -- I live in London and always have. I'm totally fine being in the city, but I remember being there -- it was near Christmas -- and I had a slightly dodgy cab experience. The cab driver stopped in Times Square and started hitting another driver with a crowbar. I don't know what they were fighting about. It was Christmas, and I waited an hour and a half for this cab. I wasn't going to let it go! I tried to stop them from fighting, like, "Maybe don't kill the guy." Then he got back in the cab and we got to where we were going. He didn't charge me, which was good!I love New York. My band is all from New York, and we've played together for over 10 years, so it all started there. All my big moments happened in New York. I first heard about "Stan" when I was in a hotel in New York. I remember getting the letter, getting the CD, and putting it on my little CD player, and just being completely blown away.So you got a letter asking for your permission to use "Thank You"?Yeah, I just got a letter saying, "We heard your track. We love it. We'd like to use it for this track 'Stan.' Can you take a listen? I hope you like it and can we use your song?" It was completely out of the blue. I put it on like, "I wonder what he could have done." You just don't know. And I was a big Eminem fan, so it was pretty cool. And then I heard it. I remember because I had some friends staying in the same hotel. They were literally running down the hall, like "You gotta listen to this; it's just brilliant!" Here's the tracklist from "Greatest Hits," due Nov. 25 via RCA:1. Here With Me2. Thank You3. Hunter4. White Flag5. Life For Rent6. Don’t Leave Home7. Sand In My Shoes8. Don’t Believe In Love9. Quiet Times10. Grafton Street11. Everything To Lose12. Let Us Move On Feat. Kendrick Lamar13. No Freedom14. End Of Night15. One Step Too Far (Radio Edit) - Faithless Featuring Dido16. Stan - Eminem Featuring Dido17. If I Rise - Dido and A. R. Rahman18. NYC *"Greatest Hits: Deluxe Edition" features a second disc with the following remixes:1. Here With Me (Chillin' With The Family Mix)2. Thank You (Deep Dish Radio Edit)3. Hunter (M J Cole Remix)4. White Flag (Timbaland Remix) *5. Life For Rent (Skinny 4 Rent Mix)6. Sand In My Shoes (Above & Beyond Radio Edit)7. Don’t Leave Home (Gabriel & Dresden Radio Mix)8. Don’t Believe In Love (Dennis Ferrer’s Objektivity Radio Mix)9. No Freedom (DJ Cobra Mix)10. End Of Night (Cedric Gervais Remix)11. Go Dreaming (Mantronix Remix)12. Blackbird (Moguai Remix)13. Northern Skies (Rollo Remix)* previously unreleasedRead more at http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5793064/dido-reminisces-on-greatest-hits-teaming-with-eminem-for-stan#FqDFWmfQdFasYqMi.99
