"Tout ce que j'avais en tête, c'étaient The Wiggles [Ndlt : un groupe de musique pour enfants] !" Dido révèle les risques du syndrome de la page blanche après avoir donné naissance à son fils
Malgré une carrière qui s'est étendue sur 15 ans, et le fait d'être l'heureux artisan d'un best of, Dido révèle qu'elle a souffert du syndrome de la page blanche après avoir eu son premier enfant.
L'auteur et interprète britannique explique qu'après la naissance de Stanley, âgé de deux ans, tout ce qu'elle entendait en boucle dans sa tête, c'étaient des jingles pour enfants.
Dans un entretien exclusif avec le Daily Express Online, Dido explique que même son époux, Rohan Gavin, a commencé à douter de ce que l'avenir réservait à l'interprète de 'White Flag'.
A propos du temps écoulé entre ses troisième et quatrième albums, Dido, 41 ans, déclare : "On a toujours l'impression de faire de la musique, et puis, en un clin d'œil, quatre ans ont passé."
"Bien sûr, j'ai eu un enfant, et je faisais différentes choses, mais quand Stanley est arrivé, je n'ai pratiquement rien fait pendant un an. Je passais du temps avec lui."
"Je ne pouvais rien écrire, de toute façon. Tout ce que j'entendais dans ma tête, c'était le jingle de The Wiggles."
"Je me rappelle de mon mari me disant : 'Je ne vois pas comment tu pourrais écrire une nouvelle chanson à l'avenir.'"
"On chante des comptines toute la journée, et quand on s'assoit au piano, on ne peut pas s'en défaire."
Elle poursuit : "C'est bizarre, maintenant, de jongler entre la maternité et ma carrière. C'est comme garder un équilibre entre deux choses diamétralement opposées."
"Avant le festival de Reading [Dido a fait une apparition pendant le concert d'Eminem], comme je devais passer tard, j'ai passé une super journée avec Stanley, je lui ai fait à manger, on a joué, puis je suis montée en voiture et puis sur scène."
"C'est éprouvant, mais c'est ce qui est bien : tout à un sens maintenant."
"Des années auparavant, j'aurais pu faire le plus grand concert de ma vie, avec le public qui chante en chœur, et ç'aurait été la chose la plus incroyable au monde, mais on ne le ressent pas forcément."
"Mais avec Stanley à mes côtés, je le ressens. C'est difficile à expliquer sans avoir l'air idiot, mais il a changé ma manière de voir la vie."
"Les petits détails ont une très grande importance maintenant. Et ça me rend beaucoup plus efficace en ce qui concerne le temps."
"J'avais l'habitude de trainer, assise dans le studio, pendant des jours entiers, pour réfléchir à une idée, sans que ça me mène quelque part plus vite ou plus efficacement.
La lauréate d'un Brit Award ajoute : "Je lui ai montré la vidéo de Reading, et il ne se rend pas vraiment compte de ce qu'il se passe, il dit simplement : 'Maman chante !' Et, pour moi, ça donne tout son sens à la vie."
Une autre raison qui a forcé Dido à lutter pour coucher ses idées sur la papier est qu'elle était, en gros, trop étourdie de bonheur.
Elle révèle que son inspiration pour écrire requiert normalement une situation "conflictuelle", mais elle ne pouvait tout simplement pas ressentir ça après avoir eu son fils.
Dido explique : "Les paroles ne peuvent pas être simplement gaies, ou simplement tristes. Si elles n'étaient que tristes, ce serait tellement épouvantable."
"J'ai vraiment remarqué ça quand Stanley est arrivé, étant donné que mes sentiments pour lui ne sont absolument pas conflictuels. Je l'aime, tout simplement."
"C'est le sentiment le plus pur, mais on ne veut pas écrire sur ça, il n'y a aucune part sombre."
"Une chanson à besoin d'obscurité et de lumière, de solitude, et elle doit peut-être même posséder un sentiment de d'isolement."
"Mais on ne se sent plus jamais seul lorsqu'on a un enfant ; j'ai totalement reconsidéré ma manière d'écrire."
"Je peux parfois utiliser l'émotion de l'histoire d'une tierce personne, puisque je peux ressentir très profondément les choses que d'autres ressentent. Si j'aime quelqu'un, et que cette personne souffre, je le ressens."
Dido, dont le best of sort le 25 novembre, confesse qu'elle a été surprise lorsque Sony l'a approchée pour le disque.
Mais lorsqu'elle a commencé à le mettre en place, ainsi que les remixes, elle s'est beaucoup impliquée dans le processus.
Elle raconte : "J'ai fini par réunir tous ces souvenirs, des photos, des anciens passes, des paroles originales, de rangements que j'avais oubliés. C'est devenu un incroyable journal intime."
"Les chansons rappellent des souvenirs tellement nets et vrais, comparés à la version confuse et floue dont on croit se souvenir."
"Alors quand j'écoute [un titre], je me souviens précisément où je me trouvais et ce que j'éprouvais lorsque j'ai écrit une chanson. C'était une variation de sentiments très émouvants."
"C'est sans aucun doute une célébration de ces 15 dernières années. J'aime réécouter, je ne me dis jamais que j'aurais dû changer telle chose ou telle autre."
"J'étais sur la route, en tournée, pendant tellement longtemps, et on s'habitue à jouer des titres en live d'une certaine manière. De sorte que, lorsqu'on réécoute un titre, on avait oublié ce que donnait la version enregistrée, et j'adore ça."
Traduction de Dido France. Reproduction interdite.
jeudi 7 novembre 2013
Express - 7 novembre 2013
'All I could hear was The Wiggles!' Dido reveals perils of writer's block after having son
DESPITE having a career that spans 15 years, and now being the proud artist of her Greatest Hits album, Dido revealed she hit writer's block after having her first child.
The British singer/songwriter said that following the birth of two-year-old Stanley, all she could hear in her head playing on loop were children's jingles.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Express Online, Dido explained that even husband Rohan Gavin began to question what the future held for the White Flag songbird.
Reflecting on the gap between her third and fourth albums, Dido, 41, said: "You always think you're making music, then suddenly four years has passed.
"Obviously I had a baby, and I was doing various things, then after Stanley came along I didn't do anything pretty much for the first year. I just hung out with him.
"I couldn't write anything anyway, all I could hear in my head was the jingle to The Wiggles.
"I remember my husband saying to me, 'I don't know how you're ever going to write another song again.'
"You find yourself singing these nursery rhymes all day, then you're sitting at the piano, and you can't clear them out."
She continued: "It's strange now, juggling motherhood and my career. It's like balancing two completely different entities.
"Before Reading Festival [Dido made a guest appearance during Eminem's set], I was on late, so had a lovely day with Stanley, made his dinner, played, got in a car, then went onstage.
"You do have to flip, but that is what's so lovely, everything means something now.
"Years ago, I might have been doing the biggest gig ever and everyone's singing along, and it's the most amazing thing in the world, but you don't necessarily feel it.
"Whereas with Stanley around, I feel it. It's hard to explain and sounds really naff, but he's changed the way I look at life.
"The little things mean so much now. And it also makes me really efficient with time.
"I used to sit around in the studio for days and days, just meandering on an idea, and it didn't necessarily get me anywhere any faster or better."
The BRIT-winner added: "I showed him the footage of Reading, and he doesn't really know what's going on, he just goes, 'Mummy, singing!' And that for me makes it all make sense."
Another reason Dido struggled to get her ideas down on paper was because she was, essentially, too giddy with happiness.
She revealed that being inspired to write songs usually requires a situation that's "conflicted", but she simply couldn't feel this way after having her son.
Dido said: "Lyrics can't just be happy, or just be sad. If it was just sad, it would be so miserable.
"I really noticed this when Stanley came along, as I just don't feel conflicted about him in anyway. I just love him.
"It's the purest feeling, but you don't want to write about it, there's no darkness to it.
"What a track needs is dark and light, loneliness, and maybe a solitary feeling within it.
"But you never feel lonely again when you have a child, I've definitely reassessed how I write.
"Sometimes I can use emotion from someone else's story, as I feel things quite deeply that others do. If I love someone and they're hurt, I feel it."
Dido, who is to release her Greatest Hits compilation on November 25, confessed she was surprised when Sony approached her about the record.
But as she began to piece it together, as well as the remixes, she became heavily involved in the process.
She said: "I ended up pulling all this memorabilia – photographs, old passes, original lyrics – out of storage I had forgotten I owned. It became this amazing diary.
"Songs bring back such clear, true memories, compared to the muddled hazy version we think we remember.
"So when I listen, I remember exactly where I was and how I was feeling when I wrote the song. It was an emotional roller coaster.
"It definitely feels like a celebration of the last 15 years. I enjoy listening back, I never think I should have changed that or that.
"I toured for so long, and you get so used to playing songs live in a certain way, that when you listen, you forget how the record sounded, which I love."
(Source)
DESPITE having a career that spans 15 years, and now being the proud artist of her Greatest Hits album, Dido revealed she hit writer's block after having her first child.
The British singer/songwriter said that following the birth of two-year-old Stanley, all she could hear in her head playing on loop were children's jingles.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Express Online, Dido explained that even husband Rohan Gavin began to question what the future held for the White Flag songbird.
Reflecting on the gap between her third and fourth albums, Dido, 41, said: "You always think you're making music, then suddenly four years has passed.
"Obviously I had a baby, and I was doing various things, then after Stanley came along I didn't do anything pretty much for the first year. I just hung out with him.
"I couldn't write anything anyway, all I could hear in my head was the jingle to The Wiggles.
"I remember my husband saying to me, 'I don't know how you're ever going to write another song again.'
"You find yourself singing these nursery rhymes all day, then you're sitting at the piano, and you can't clear them out."
She continued: "It's strange now, juggling motherhood and my career. It's like balancing two completely different entities.
"Before Reading Festival [Dido made a guest appearance during Eminem's set], I was on late, so had a lovely day with Stanley, made his dinner, played, got in a car, then went onstage.
"You do have to flip, but that is what's so lovely, everything means something now.
"Years ago, I might have been doing the biggest gig ever and everyone's singing along, and it's the most amazing thing in the world, but you don't necessarily feel it.
"Whereas with Stanley around, I feel it. It's hard to explain and sounds really naff, but he's changed the way I look at life.
"The little things mean so much now. And it also makes me really efficient with time.
"I used to sit around in the studio for days and days, just meandering on an idea, and it didn't necessarily get me anywhere any faster or better."
The BRIT-winner added: "I showed him the footage of Reading, and he doesn't really know what's going on, he just goes, 'Mummy, singing!' And that for me makes it all make sense."
Another reason Dido struggled to get her ideas down on paper was because she was, essentially, too giddy with happiness.
She revealed that being inspired to write songs usually requires a situation that's "conflicted", but she simply couldn't feel this way after having her son.
Dido said: "Lyrics can't just be happy, or just be sad. If it was just sad, it would be so miserable.
"I really noticed this when Stanley came along, as I just don't feel conflicted about him in anyway. I just love him.
"It's the purest feeling, but you don't want to write about it, there's no darkness to it.
"What a track needs is dark and light, loneliness, and maybe a solitary feeling within it.
"But you never feel lonely again when you have a child, I've definitely reassessed how I write.
"Sometimes I can use emotion from someone else's story, as I feel things quite deeply that others do. If I love someone and they're hurt, I feel it."
Dido, who is to release her Greatest Hits compilation on November 25, confessed she was surprised when Sony approached her about the record.
But as she began to piece it together, as well as the remixes, she became heavily involved in the process.
She said: "I ended up pulling all this memorabilia – photographs, old passes, original lyrics – out of storage I had forgotten I owned. It became this amazing diary.
"Songs bring back such clear, true memories, compared to the muddled hazy version we think we remember.
"So when I listen, I remember exactly where I was and how I was feeling when I wrote the song. It was an emotional roller coaster.
"It definitely feels like a celebration of the last 15 years. I enjoy listening back, I never think I should have changed that or that.
"I toured for so long, and you get so used to playing songs live in a certain way, that when you listen, you forget how the record sounded, which I love."
(Source)
mercredi 1 mai 2013
GayCalgary Magazine - mai 2013
Dido Thanks You
Singer-songwriter on 'loyal' gay following, anger issues and which song of hers she doesn't want at your wedding
Celebrity Interview by Chris Azzopardi
It would be easy to mistake Dido as being as mellow as her music – but don't.
In our chat, the British singer-songwriter – promoting her first album in five years, Girl Who Got Away – didn't just chat about her gay fans and the Eminem song that launched her career. We found out what turns the musically meek songstress into an angry beast. Let's just say this: Tequila makes Dido dangerous.
GC: Welcome back, Dido.
D: Thank you very much. It's nice to be back.
GC: When did you recognize you had a gay following?
D: Pretty instantly, I would say. I've always had a very loyal gay following, which I'm very thankful for.
GC: Do you have a lot of gay people in your own life?
D: Oh yeah, tons. I mean, friends, work people... everybody.
GC: Everybody?
D: (Laughs) No, not everybody, but a huge amount. I'm surrounded by very good people.
GC: Two of your biggest singles, 'Thank You' and 'Don't Leave Home,' are wedding favorites.
D: It's funny: I think 'Don't Leave Home' at a wedding is just completely weird. It surprises me that anybody has that at their wedding. It's a song about being incredibly claustrophobic. (Laughs) People are like, "I've played that at my wedding," and I'm like, "Why, if I can be honest?" I guess it's the title. 'Thank You,' though, is a perfect wedding song, and I've actually sang it at quite a few friends' weddings. But if someone asked me to play 'Don't Leave Home,' I'd just be like, "Really?"
GC: Have you ever sung at a gay wedding?
D: I haven't actually, no. I haven't really sung at many weddings. It takes quite a bit of alcohol and coaxing to get me to sing at anyone's wedding.
GC: What kind of alcohol?
D: Back then I used to drink quite a lot of tequila, but then that all went a bit wrong and I found that's just the one thing I cannot drink. So now I like to drink wine. Does that mean I'm getting old? It probably does. (Laughs) But tequila makes me get into fights.
GC: Tequila makes you fight?
D: Yeah! It used to make me weirdly aggressive – and I'm like the most unaggressive person ever. (Laughs) But tequila makes me quite angry.
GC: But, Dido, you seem so mellow.
D: It takes so much to piss me off. Someone's gotta poke at me quite a lot to get me even remotely angry, but if I have tequila, I'll just get angry at the next person who comes around.
GC: How personal is Girl Who Got Away in relation to your other three albums?
D: All my albums are pretty personal. You can't help your life filtering into your songs – or if you're me, you can't. I can't help it. I'm a very open person. I'm very honest in life and I'm very honest in my music, as well. I think I'm always going to write that way.
GC: Who is the "girl" and who/what/where is she trying to get away from?
D: Actually, my brother (Rollo Armstrong) is the "girl who got away," and he wrote most of those lyrics.
GC: There's some gender-bending going on there.
D: (Laughs) Definitely! I love that song ('Girl Who Got Away'). He sent me the lyrics and I just remember reading it thinking, "I love this song." It's about so many things: about how I used to feel, that sort of restless feeling, that feeling of maybe there's another life somewhere and that feeling of wanting to be exceptional but not quite reaching it. It's my favorite song. But then, as far as the title of the album, it's also about everyone reaching out to me (saying) that I keep disappearing, and it was quite a good comment on that. I don't think I was disappearing, but everyone else thought so.
GC: Maybe because it's been five years since you released an album. What's your life like when you're away from music?
D: I'm never really away from music. I might be away from the public eye, but I'm never away from music. I'm always making it, I'm always writing it, I'm always playing it, and then obviously it builds up into an album and I put it out and I'm back in the public's consciousness. And then I'm out of it again.
I took a bit of time between albums two and three just because I realized I'd been on the road for nine years at that point and that it was probably time to go home and clean up the mess I left, and so I took a bit of time in making the third album. But actually, this record I put together quite quickly. Then in the middle I had a baby. You know, a small event. (Laughs)
GC: How do you feel before an album drops?
D: Oh my god, I'm so excited. I've only put out three records in my life; this is only my fourth, and so this is still so fresh and exciting to me. It feels like the first time I ever put a record out. I'm really proud of this album. I feel like it's my best record. It was such a fun record to make. Me and brother just had such a brilliant time. I'm so lucky to have my brother as my producer. It's just a happy record for me.
GC: What kind of place in your life were you at when you recorded the song 'Let Us Move On'?
D: You know how we all go around saying life is short? I remember saying once, "Life is actually really long, and not in a bad way but in a good way." When things are just really dark, when you look back on it, this will be such a small moment in your life. You know when something's so huge you can't get past it? Actually, it's not. It's just a very small part of a very big life.
GC: Your debut, No Angel, obviously had such a huge impact on your career, as did your featured spot on Eminem's 'Stan.' Did you worry about the possible repercussions of performing with one of the most controversial entertainers at the time?
D: I didn't, because when I met him he was so respectful to me and treated me so well. I saw integrity. I think he's one of the greatest storytellers around, and so no. As a real fan of his music, I have a lot of respect for him musically, and he treated me well. That, for me, was enough. I just really enjoyed working with him.
GC: You had mentioned to Playboy once that people kept asking you about your feelings on the misogyny and homophobia in his music. Working with him, did you feel sucked into that controversy?
D: I didn't really feel sucked into it, to be quite honest. I'd heard that he was making a social commentary on things and I just thought he was a great storyteller and I didn't get too sucked into it. Isn't that, I guess, why he performed with Elton John at the Grammys?
GC: Yeah, he was debunking the homophobia talk.
D: Yeah, exactly. I go on the person I see in front of me, and he was really not a misogynist to me at all. Quite the opposite. Just utterly respectful – and all the people around him were utterly respectful, as well.
GC: Many of your songs have been featured on television and in film. For you, what's a standout scene that included one of your songs?
D: Being played during "127 Hours" was really cool. While I was watching it, I was wincing and listening to my song and thinking, "This is so wrong but so good." That was a thrill being nominated for an Oscar. A dream thrill. "Sliding Doors" was the first song I had in a movie, and that moment was most exciting for me because I had never heard myself used in a film before.
GC: They used the same song, 'Thank You,' during the love scene with Ellen DeGeneres and Sharon Stone in "If These Walls Could Talk 2". Have you seen that?
D: Oh, totally!
GC: What'd you think of your song being used during a lesbian sex scene?
D: That was really cool! There have been so many good uses. It's just been brilliant, and I've been really lucky.
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Singer-songwriter on 'loyal' gay following, anger issues and which song of hers she doesn't want at your wedding
Celebrity Interview by Chris Azzopardi
It would be easy to mistake Dido as being as mellow as her music – but don't.
In our chat, the British singer-songwriter – promoting her first album in five years, Girl Who Got Away – didn't just chat about her gay fans and the Eminem song that launched her career. We found out what turns the musically meek songstress into an angry beast. Let's just say this: Tequila makes Dido dangerous.
GC: Welcome back, Dido.
D: Thank you very much. It's nice to be back.
GC: When did you recognize you had a gay following?
D: Pretty instantly, I would say. I've always had a very loyal gay following, which I'm very thankful for.
GC: Do you have a lot of gay people in your own life?
D: Oh yeah, tons. I mean, friends, work people... everybody.
GC: Everybody?
D: (Laughs) No, not everybody, but a huge amount. I'm surrounded by very good people.
GC: Two of your biggest singles, 'Thank You' and 'Don't Leave Home,' are wedding favorites.
D: It's funny: I think 'Don't Leave Home' at a wedding is just completely weird. It surprises me that anybody has that at their wedding. It's a song about being incredibly claustrophobic. (Laughs) People are like, "I've played that at my wedding," and I'm like, "Why, if I can be honest?" I guess it's the title. 'Thank You,' though, is a perfect wedding song, and I've actually sang it at quite a few friends' weddings. But if someone asked me to play 'Don't Leave Home,' I'd just be like, "Really?"
GC: Have you ever sung at a gay wedding?
D: I haven't actually, no. I haven't really sung at many weddings. It takes quite a bit of alcohol and coaxing to get me to sing at anyone's wedding.
GC: What kind of alcohol?
D: Back then I used to drink quite a lot of tequila, but then that all went a bit wrong and I found that's just the one thing I cannot drink. So now I like to drink wine. Does that mean I'm getting old? It probably does. (Laughs) But tequila makes me get into fights.
GC: Tequila makes you fight?
D: Yeah! It used to make me weirdly aggressive – and I'm like the most unaggressive person ever. (Laughs) But tequila makes me quite angry.
GC: But, Dido, you seem so mellow.
D: It takes so much to piss me off. Someone's gotta poke at me quite a lot to get me even remotely angry, but if I have tequila, I'll just get angry at the next person who comes around.
GC: How personal is Girl Who Got Away in relation to your other three albums?
D: All my albums are pretty personal. You can't help your life filtering into your songs – or if you're me, you can't. I can't help it. I'm a very open person. I'm very honest in life and I'm very honest in my music, as well. I think I'm always going to write that way.
GC: Who is the "girl" and who/what/where is she trying to get away from?
D: Actually, my brother (Rollo Armstrong) is the "girl who got away," and he wrote most of those lyrics.
GC: There's some gender-bending going on there.
D: (Laughs) Definitely! I love that song ('Girl Who Got Away'). He sent me the lyrics and I just remember reading it thinking, "I love this song." It's about so many things: about how I used to feel, that sort of restless feeling, that feeling of maybe there's another life somewhere and that feeling of wanting to be exceptional but not quite reaching it. It's my favorite song. But then, as far as the title of the album, it's also about everyone reaching out to me (saying) that I keep disappearing, and it was quite a good comment on that. I don't think I was disappearing, but everyone else thought so.
GC: Maybe because it's been five years since you released an album. What's your life like when you're away from music?
D: I'm never really away from music. I might be away from the public eye, but I'm never away from music. I'm always making it, I'm always writing it, I'm always playing it, and then obviously it builds up into an album and I put it out and I'm back in the public's consciousness. And then I'm out of it again.
I took a bit of time between albums two and three just because I realized I'd been on the road for nine years at that point and that it was probably time to go home and clean up the mess I left, and so I took a bit of time in making the third album. But actually, this record I put together quite quickly. Then in the middle I had a baby. You know, a small event. (Laughs)
GC: How do you feel before an album drops?
D: Oh my god, I'm so excited. I've only put out three records in my life; this is only my fourth, and so this is still so fresh and exciting to me. It feels like the first time I ever put a record out. I'm really proud of this album. I feel like it's my best record. It was such a fun record to make. Me and brother just had such a brilliant time. I'm so lucky to have my brother as my producer. It's just a happy record for me.
GC: What kind of place in your life were you at when you recorded the song 'Let Us Move On'?
D: You know how we all go around saying life is short? I remember saying once, "Life is actually really long, and not in a bad way but in a good way." When things are just really dark, when you look back on it, this will be such a small moment in your life. You know when something's so huge you can't get past it? Actually, it's not. It's just a very small part of a very big life.
GC: Your debut, No Angel, obviously had such a huge impact on your career, as did your featured spot on Eminem's 'Stan.' Did you worry about the possible repercussions of performing with one of the most controversial entertainers at the time?
D: I didn't, because when I met him he was so respectful to me and treated me so well. I saw integrity. I think he's one of the greatest storytellers around, and so no. As a real fan of his music, I have a lot of respect for him musically, and he treated me well. That, for me, was enough. I just really enjoyed working with him.
GC: You had mentioned to Playboy once that people kept asking you about your feelings on the misogyny and homophobia in his music. Working with him, did you feel sucked into that controversy?
D: I didn't really feel sucked into it, to be quite honest. I'd heard that he was making a social commentary on things and I just thought he was a great storyteller and I didn't get too sucked into it. Isn't that, I guess, why he performed with Elton John at the Grammys?
GC: Yeah, he was debunking the homophobia talk.
D: Yeah, exactly. I go on the person I see in front of me, and he was really not a misogynist to me at all. Quite the opposite. Just utterly respectful – and all the people around him were utterly respectful, as well.
GC: Many of your songs have been featured on television and in film. For you, what's a standout scene that included one of your songs?
D: Being played during "127 Hours" was really cool. While I was watching it, I was wincing and listening to my song and thinking, "This is so wrong but so good." That was a thrill being nominated for an Oscar. A dream thrill. "Sliding Doors" was the first song I had in a movie, and that moment was most exciting for me because I had never heard myself used in a film before.
GC: They used the same song, 'Thank You,' during the love scene with Ellen DeGeneres and Sharon Stone in "If These Walls Could Talk 2". Have you seen that?
D: Oh, totally!
GC: What'd you think of your song being used during a lesbian sex scene?
D: That was really cool! There have been so many good uses. It's just been brilliant, and I've been really lucky.
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