Dido
Life for Rent
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
| 1 |
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White Flag full track | 4:01 | 286,608 | ||
| 2 |
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Stoned full track | 5:53 | 111,833 | ||
| 3 |
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Life for Rent full track | 3:40 | 205,787 | ||
| 4 |
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Mary's in India full track | 3:40 | 94,442 | ||
| 5 |
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See You When You're 40 full track | 5:18 | 96,859 | ||
| 6 |
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Don't Leave Home full track | 3:45 | 126,116 | ||
| 7 |
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Who Makes You Feel full track | 4:19 | 102,250 | ||
| 8 |
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Sand in My Shoes full track | 5:00 | 150,261 | ||
| 9 |
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Do You Have a Little Time full track | 3:55 | 100,666 | ||
| 10 |
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This Land Is Mine full track | 3:45 | 89,004 | ||
| 11 |
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See the Sun full track | 5:03 | 67,867 | ||
| 11 |
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Closer full track | 3:28 | 13,856 | ||
| 12 |
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Paris full track | 3:22 | 15,423 | ||
| 2 | Life for Rent (Skinny 4 Rent remix) | 0:00 | 4 | |||
| 3 | Stoned (Spirit Chaser remix) | 0:00 | 24 |
About this album
Life for Rent is the second album by Dido, released in 2003.
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.
Reception
Critical
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’s Permission to Land. “White Flag” was awarded the 2004 Ivor Novello Award in the category “International Hit of the Year”.
Commercial
Life for Rent spent ten weeks at the top of the UK albums chart.[1] It remained in the chart for 52 weeks.[2] The Life for Rent Tour was taken around the world in 2004.
In Australia the album debuted at number one on the ARIA albums chart, was one of the biggest selling albums of 2003 and went on to be certified six times platinum for sales of over 420,000. With this, Dido was able to match the huge success of her previous effort, No Angel.
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.
Reception
Critical
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’s Permission to Land. “White Flag” was awarded the 2004 Ivor Novello Award in the category “International Hit of the Year”.
Commercial
Life for Rent spent ten weeks at the top of the UK albums chart.[1] It remained in the chart for 52 weeks.[2] The Life for Rent Tour was taken around the world in 2004.
In Australia the album debuted at number one on the ARIA albums chart, was one of the biggest selling albums of 2003 and went on to be certified six times platinum for sales of over 420,000. With this, Dido was able to match the huge success of her previous effort, No Angel.
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Shouts
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cliquott wrote:
Masterpiece
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JacintaHurst wrote:
Best album so FAR!!!....Great tracks,,,White flag....Marys in india....See you when youre 40...life for rent ...and more...transports me FAR away..whenever i hear her..
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sa_ill wrote:
I loved this album. Dont know why so many people hate it. Its a relaxing one. Mary's in India and See you When you're 40 are the best
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RuanDiego wrote:
the best of Dido
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RoaId wrote:
Weak, you don't mean it :O no sure u dont, cos u can't :D cause it's a masterpiece :D This album has taken a solid no. 1 place in my childhood memories :O imo it's her best :]
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r00dris wrote:
This was her weakest full-lenght in my opinion. Still good though.
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pepsiiii wrote:
love this album, so relaxing :]
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lfml_1 wrote:
http://www.lastfm.es/music/Dido/Life+for+Rent/+images
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Mathias_705 wrote:
Isn't the text on the album cover suppose to be in red letters? Looks a bit weird...
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sanzbruxinha wrote:
favorita dido
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higginst wrote:
my favourite dido album.
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Briel2 wrote:
white flag and life for rent, is so perfect
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Guymeister wrote:
good shit.
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Guymeister wrote:
good shit.
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Guymeister wrote:
good shit.
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Unknown_boy_Pt wrote:
see the sun *o*
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duarduo wrote:
her masterpiece, to me.
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Patricxxx wrote:
Wow
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malvenia wrote:
love her sound...
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manontropo wrote:
Y me lleva.. y me lleva...
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Recent Activity
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