jeudi 14 novembre 2013

Yahoo omg! UK - 14 novembre 2013

Dido: I would have floundered on The X Factor or The Voice, I'm glad I never went there – EXCLUSIVE

She's sold over 40 million albums worldwide.

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!"

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.

"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."

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!'"

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!"

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."

And as for her favourite track?

"'White Flag' just will never get old for me because I was just so proud of having written that song and it had such an amazing reaction. It brings back so many memories – I still love singing it," she admitted.

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jeudi 7 novembre 2013

Express - 7 novembre 2013 [Traduction]

"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.

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."

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