Dido has just dropped the music video for her new song, "No Freedom," the lead and second single from English singer-songwriter's latest fourth studio album, "Girl Who Got Away," which is a return to the more pensive balladry that marked her earliest works as she described it to Billboard magazine as "a more optimistic album," than her previous release, "Safe Trip Home," in part due to her reflections on becoming a new mother.
The 41-year-old British songstress has joined the ever-growing list of artists hoping for a big comeback in 2013, and we simply cannot believe how direly we missed her soothing, hypnotic sonic sensibilities! At 41, she looks exactly the same as she ever did: blonde, beautiful, fresh faced and smiling with a delight that beams out across the room. Her voice, too, is immediately familiar, that soft, pure tone, very precise diction and little, folky catch in her throat as she floats up to falsetto notes. "If only for today, I want to be, the girl who got away," she sings.
Dido penned her melancholy but catchy new single, "No Freedom" with San Francisco songwriter Rick Nowels, and with its pleasantly folky midtempo melody and sleepy vocal, it is rather lovely, and will no doubt appeal to fans of her breakthrough 1999 album, "No Angel." This gentle pop ballad is affected people on the frontline and built around the hook, and repeated chorus line of "No love without freedom. No freedom without love," which struck a chord in war torn countries such as Syria. Dido told BBC News that after its release, she was getting many "letters from people who are in the middle of a war."
She added: "The whole thing sounds quite unreal to me. Is that going to make you fight properly? 'Maybe you want something else. Like AC/DC?' There's even videos now from Syria. It's pretty amazing, I certainly wasn't writing about that. But when you write an intensely personal lyric, the thing that often surprises you is that it's about most things for other people." Dido's vocal stylingz always have such a calming effect on us, yet you can really tell - with her latest material specially - how she's really striking out past her comfort zone and experimenting with her sound! Enjoy the Ethan Lader-directed new clip after jump.
The 41-year-old British songstress has joined the ever-growing list of artists hoping for a big comeback in 2013, and we simply cannot believe how direly we missed her soothing, hypnotic sonic sensibilities! At 41, she looks exactly the same as she ever did: blonde, beautiful, fresh faced and smiling with a delight that beams out across the room. Her voice, too, is immediately familiar, that soft, pure tone, very precise diction and little, folky catch in her throat as she floats up to falsetto notes. "If only for today, I want to be, the girl who got away," she sings.
Dido penned her melancholy but catchy new single, "No Freedom" with San Francisco songwriter Rick Nowels, and with its pleasantly folky midtempo melody and sleepy vocal, it is rather lovely, and will no doubt appeal to fans of her breakthrough 1999 album, "No Angel." This gentle pop ballad is affected people on the frontline and built around the hook, and repeated chorus line of "No love without freedom. No freedom without love," which struck a chord in war torn countries such as Syria. Dido told BBC News that after its release, she was getting many "letters from people who are in the middle of a war."
She added: "The whole thing sounds quite unreal to me. Is that going to make you fight properly? 'Maybe you want something else. Like AC/DC?' There's even videos now from Syria. It's pretty amazing, I certainly wasn't writing about that. But when you write an intensely personal lyric, the thing that often surprises you is that it's about most things for other people." Dido's vocal stylingz always have such a calming effect on us, yet you can really tell - with her latest material specially - how she's really striking out past her comfort zone and experimenting with her sound! Enjoy the Ethan Lader-directed new clip after jump.
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