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Life For Rent by Dido

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 White Flag 7:57 441,544
2 Stoned 5:55 155,531
2 Life for Rent (Skinny 4 Rent remix) 0:00 7
3 Life For Rent 3:41 308,886
3 Stoned (Spirit Chaser remix) 0:00 169
4 Mary's In India 3:41 147,097
5 See You When You're 40 5:20 132,594
6 Don't Leave Home 3:46 182,282
7 Who Makes You Feel 4:20 143,916
8 Sand In My Shoes 4:58 213,263
9 Do You Have A Little Time 3:55 140,751
10 This Land Is Mine 3:46 122,386
11 See The Sun 5:04 94,783
11 Closer 3:30 21,558
12 Paris 3:22 21,264
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About this album

Arista 15 tracks (59:15)
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.
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  • Klim44

    2003

    March 2012

  • EricValeev

    This album brings so many memories [5]

    March 2012

  • simpleasbreathe

    an amazing album.

    January 2012

  • Miss-Kei

    I gotta have this album! *squeals*

    December 2011

  • brendasoto

    Love this album! So calm and relaxing! I love Dido!!! *-*

    October 2011

  • ryanrayens

    her best album :D

    July 2011

  • Cherissh

    Her best album

    May 2011

  • justandrian

    "White Flag" is the best song in this album. Love it

    May 2011

  • victorvlf

    PERFEITO.

    February 2011

  • rkat

    I used to love this album so much. Still a nice listen occasionally.

    January 2011

  • ely78befree

    GREAT ALBUM! :)

    December 2010

  • vladotheimpaler

    <3

    September 2010

  • FuckinName

    nearly all the songs from this album are great. Love it.

    August 2010

  • digitalndizko

    it is obvious that Dido KNOWS love AND.. in that...i groove

    August 2010

  • Cleonina

    I love Dido... "White flag" is great song. :D

    August 2010

  • strom-z

    a very good pop album. and i totally agree it woud be even without "white flag"

    August 2010

  • Secret_m

    This album brings so many memories [4] :$

    July 2010

  • gauchoberek

    White Flag is amazing!!!

    April 2010

  • Jorgenint19

    I lOVE DIDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    April 2010

  • tinymami

    GREAT CD !!! SHE IS SO AWESOME!!

    March 2010
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