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"Dido" is pronounced ...?

Can the pronunciation of "Dido" be added? I think DIE-doe but I don't know... and if IPA is used, I still won't know, ha ha :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.174.107.130 (talk) 19:42, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Totally biased

This article was written and edited by a die hard fan I like Dido, but I can also understand the valid UK Guardian newspaper criticism of her tendency to "twee and bland aural wallpaper" Criticism balances the article, by removing the criticism the article is just pointless So I've put it back --Nighthawkx15 09:52, 3 October 2006 (UTC)Hawk[reply]

I removed all the talk at the top of the page as was all resolved 2003-2005(Changing from Dido Armstrong to Dido (Singer), a small POV issue and changing from Greek to Roman Mythology). Hope thats ok. Please delete this paragraph when you think neccessary. Woodgreener 20:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, Why don't we have Dido Armstrong as the title of the article? The full given name can be bracketed rather than Dido(Singer)? Is Bono written as Bono(singer)? NO! (I just checked it). Please enlighten me-I have come a little later to this article than I should have perhaps-there must be some really great reasons for it...I propose we change the title to Dido Armstrong. Discussion? Kind regards --Read-write-services 00:26, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You

"She is perhaps best known for her 2001 hit song "Thank You", which was used by the rapper Eminem as the basis for one of his own hit singles, "Stan". "

"Thank you" is rather older than 2001. It was re-released after the success of "Stan". I'm not sure when it was originally released but it is certainly on the soundtrack of the film Sliding Doors from 1998. Can some get a date on the original release?

According to allmusic, Sliding Doors is the first published recording of Thank You. It was then released on her 1999 No Angel. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 16:38, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

2006 anything for her??Maoririder 20:26, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia section

Can we have a show of hands over whether to retain the trivia section? Much of it strikes me as complete bollocks, e.g. * She grew up without television; * Dido admits to have played 'Monopoly' on her own as a child; * Dido's album Life For Rent contains a hidden track "Closer" that follows the final song "See the Sun" after a two minute pause; * Dido's album "Life For Rent" is copy protected using the Copy Control system. This means that along with many other Sony BMG titles it will not play on many computers and CD players; * Dido is a huge Arsenal fan, Ray Parlour is one of her favorite players ...etc etc. I personally think this (and similar sections elsewhere) are amateurish and silly, and severely degrades the encyclopaedic quality of the article (and it does look suspiciously liek it may have been lifted from another site verbatum), but i don't want to ditch it without consensus. Chime in below with comments if you have an opinion. Cheers, Badgerpatrol 01:43, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I say junk it all. Apart from anything else, what does "After her appearance in the Live 8 show in London, a trivia was inserted during break; "Dido was named after an African Queen" actually mean?!?!?!?! ChrisTheDude 09:12, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rumour - Dido maybe noble

Maybe it's also possible that Dido could be noble because one part of her name is de Bounevialle which means "from Bounevialle". so it can be that she is also a relative of french nobles. *g* But in the moment it's only a rumour.

If we are to go by that then I'm noble too (descended from Kings of Connacht, Deheurbharth, England, etc) which would come as a great suprise both to me and those who know me. There's a difference between being a noble and being of noble descent. Fergananim 14:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your opinion and off course there is a difference of being a descent from a noble or being noble. I did mean that she could be of noble descent, off course. When she is noble we would already know,or not?

Who's Bob?

She dedicates her first album "... most of all, to BOB." Anyone know who he is, or was?Fergananim 14:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bob Page is a lawyer who she had a 7 year long relationship with. Spam 15:00, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lucky guy, that Bob.

Is that true? Damn.

== Is she only in her thirties? == An article on some new skin reatment to reduce ageing listed her as 49 (in 2002). Can we clarify her age. Antares33712 14:25, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Dido is in her 30's. 34, I believe.

35 as of Christmas Day 2006. Andyroost 19:28, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Back to basics

Could somebody start again and write a really good, authoritative article? There is a dearth of published material about Dido and so there is a real opportunity here. What do others think?

i think... no Woodgreener 20:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dispute?

It appears that none of the questions currently on this talk page apply to the article itself, and none of the conjecture here is in the article... so I'm removing the dispute template from the top. If some one feels the content is still disputed they can re-add the disclaimer and explain why. - BalthCat 04:08, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Utterly wrong the valid and totally impartial criticism of Dido's music backed up by valid Links has been removed.

The input on this site is now biased and unimpartial --Nighthawkx15 22:50, 14 September 2006 (UTC)Nighthawkx15[reply]

You may want to elaborate. - BalthCat 02:29, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The information on the second paragraph regarding the Odds & Ends CD is absolutely inaccurate. Odds & Ends was NOT Dido's 'demo tape' and was issued AFTER the 1999 release of No Angel, but there are many more inaccuracies in that paragraph, and I propose it simply be deleted. Where do you draw the line in a biographical article anyway? This sort of music-biz related information is just geek-stuff and really bogs down the article. ........

Actually, Odds and Ends, was released by Nettwerk Records as a promotional item, in Canada before No Angel was released.

Odds and Ends was never released as a real 'promo' item, purely an in-house thing. All of the handful of copies in circulation seem to have come directly from Nettwerk's own offices (in LA as well as Canada), rather than radio stations etc. There is also a US 2-cd promo of it along with NO ANGEL. Before or after isn't particularly in contention, I'm just saying it wasn't four years beforehand! I have some recordings from c1995, and believe me they aren't in the mostly completed shape that the O&E songs are in, apart from River Run Me Dry.

Trivia

  • The video for "White Flag," the lead single from Life For Rent, features actor David Boreanaz, star of American TV vampire series Angel.
  • Dido actually finished a Law Degree at a London University before choosing to focus on her music full-time.
  • The right-wing British National Party quoted lyrics from 'White Flag' and 'This Land Is Mine' on their website, quoting the lyrics as a nationalistic white supremic statement, until they were forced not to, as Dido did not want to be associated with the group.
Only Reference I can find to this is in "The Sun" (For american readers a print run of that "newspaper" was once requested by the navy for sailors to wipe their bums with.) And if either of the songs is applicable to a nation (get real!) surely it's more welcoming of newcomers than hostile towards them. Presumably we're talking about poor excuses for englishmen chanting the lines "There Will Be No White Flag Above This Door", and "Just So Long, as you know, This Land Is Mine" utterly out of context.194.129.249.111 15:40, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dido and Rollo both grew up without a television in their house, as their mother did not believe in it.
  • Dido got her start in music with her stolen recorder when she was 5.
  • Dido's second album Life For Rent contains a hidden track, "Closer," which follows the final song, "See the Sun," after a two minute pause.
  • The search string "dido" was under Top 10 keywords in Google Germany during autumn 2003. Google Zeitgeist


I put the Trivia here if somebody needs it. --Spam 23:37, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How related is related, By the time you get out to...say...sixth cousin you're related to pretty much everyone. (Unless you're welsh that is)194.129.249.111 15:40, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Third Album

How come there's hardly any, or nearly no information about Dido's third album and it's going to be released in less than two months? Andyroost 23:19, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

-- Best info I can find suggests the album is not released until the third quarter so the likely reason is simply that the album release date is much further away. PatrickDunfordNZ 13:18, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be sliding back and back and back... Was once posted as being before end of 2006, I've got a feeling that the Brixton Acedemy DVD was released as a prelude to a third album... and that was 2005! If she ever gets bored of music she'd make a great manager in British Industry;-) (Only kidding, in your own time!:-) 194.129.249.111 19:46, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
And now before the end of 2008... Scruffy brit (talk) 06:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistency?

Here's a line that is rather perplexing -

"In 2006 , Dido began recording demo tracks, put together on a collection entitled Odds & Ends, and sent out by Nettwerk management, who had signed her after being brought to their attention through her collaborations with Faithless (Dido co-wrote and provided vocals for album tracks, such as "Flowerstand Man" and "Hem Of His Garment") the UK dance act spearheaded by her brother, Rollo Armstrong."

Now, not the whole line is as such, only the mention of the year 2006, since that's obviously a long time after she made any type of breakthrough, international or otherwise. The question being, is someone mistaken with the year? Was it perhaps intended to be somewhere in the earl 1990's? --75.35.82.128 03:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]


- 2006 is completely the wrong year. If that is still in the article. it just shows there has been a lot of vandalism that hasn't been picked up. PatrickDunfordNZ 05:59, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Change of name

Revision as of 19:26, 3 March 2007 by 76.190.1.13 posted a change to the artist's name that cannot be verified. Revision as of 19:27, 3 March 2007 by 76.190.1.13 perpetuated this change in other parts of the document. Like all reputable material, references are required for such changes. (I find it strange that Wikipedia still allows accountless editing from anonymous people) PatrickDunfordNZ 05:41, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- in accordance with my above comments I have placed the tag on the top of this page. There has been repeated vandalism of the subject's name on the article page. No verification has been provided for any of the numerous name changes, including the currently displayed name, which at the time of writing this can be seen at this URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Dido_%28singer%29&oldid=115008012 At this time, I do not wish to make the correction as I do not have an authoritative source to verify the correct form of name with. PatrickDunfordNZ 13:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is no evidence that her surname is Grant. Her father, William Armstrong, was a well-known figure in the publihsing world and her brother Rollo uses the name Armstrong. She was known as Dido Armstrong at school. I have amneded and inserted some reliable references. BONNUIT 04:59, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have read that her birth name is Florian Cloud De Bounevialle Armstrong and that Dido is actually a nickname (used by her family as well) that she has had since she was a young child. Does anybody have a source for whether Dido is her actual birth name? —MJBurrage • TALK • 23:26, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just found her in the UK birth registry available on line, and Dido is not birth name, I have edited the article to reflect that. (see the note in the article for a link to the source) —MJBurrage • TALK • 00:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You say that's an online resource, do you have a link? 194.129.249.111 20:11, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Dido is not a "Stage" name. She has been asked a number od times and it is her real name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.84.92.191 (talk) 16:48, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We have provided a reliable source that shows you are mistaken. --Yamla (talk) 17:45, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Another person who knows that Dido is her real name... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.50.144.41 (talk) 21:00, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In every printed source I've seen, including interviews, her "full" name has been given as either "Dido Armstrong" or "Dido Flourian De Bounevialle Armstrong". And I trust dead-tree groupthink (Which will have been waved under lawyers, agents etc.) more than I trust wikipedia groupthink. I've googled "UK birth registry", few of the links are in the .gov.uk domain. (I.E. They aren't official!) and none of the .gov.uk results offer a search of Births. Please give a link to your reliable source, because at the moment it's looking more like complete bollocks! Scruffy brit (talk) 06:17, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Photograph and article name change proposed

Hi there, Could someone please find a public domain photograph of Dido for this article? It is very uninteresting to have the article blank apart from some text. Also, I propose a name change for this article to Dido Armstrong with the disambiguation page updated with links incorporating Dido, Dido Armstrong and Florian Cloud de Bounevialle as redirects to this article-how does everyone feel about this? What I'd really like is a personal go ahead from Dido herself *hint hint* regards.

Oh, P.S. Dear Dido, you can respond right here or via my talk page. haha.--Read-write-services 23:38, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Today user:Crumbsucker reverted the article back to Dido (Singer) from Dido Armstrong-I wuld love to have this discussed and some idea of editors/readers ideas on the re-revert of this back to Dido Armstrong. Please state support or disagree so we can iron this out suitably-by consensus. i would love to hear good reasons for ad against so that we get a real understanding of what would be best in this instance. Thank you.--Read-write-services 04:34, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Still waiting...--Read-write-services 23:09, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any reason to believe that she is "billing" herself as Dido Armstrong now? I've only ever heard her referred to as "Dido", in which case "Dido (singer)" is the correct article name. --Yamla 23:19, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh yes to answer your question to "Is there any reason to believe that she is "billing" herself as Dido Armstrong now?" look at the liner notes on all of her compositions-"Written by Dido Armstrong" (Reference: Dido-Life for Rent)-Also, " Dido Armstrong published by warner chappell music ltd.". Actually, I think that that tends to add a little more weight to the discussion for revert. Kind regards.--Read-write-services 23:35, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since it is necessary to distinguish her from the Queen of Carthage, there is a choice between "Dido (singer)" [or "Dido (Something else)"] and Dido Armstrong, which, as noted above, is the name she uses as a songwriter. So I'd vote for Dido Armstrong. IXIA 06:37, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. As there has been no real negative response or valid reason not to change the title back to Dido Armstrong, I have done it. Cheers!--Read-write-services 00:13, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Once again contined edits to her real name within the article are annoying can anyone PLEASE locate her REAL name?--Read-write-services (talk) 00:12, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The current photograph is hideous! IXIA (talk) 22:35, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Citation needed for claim that Dido was a thief

Theft is a criminal offence. If true, we must have references or risk violating BLP. Spevw (talk) 23:27, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved, reference added by someone else. Thank you. Spevw (talk) 00:27, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In any case, the age of criminal responsibility is ten. IXIA (talk) 22:37, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Changing her accent

Does anyone know at what point Dido changed her accent? Her toff accent suddenly sounded 'street', it is a considerable difference even to the untrained ear. In early interviews Dido speaks with a champagne Chiswick cadence but later she waxes lyrical with an Acton affected articulation. With such a privileged background could it be that her affected speech is an attempt to sound more like the 'oiks' that buy her records? Surely this faux-urban voice she put on needs a mention in her trivia section?

(errr.... who wrote the above?) Hmmm, I'd noticed the change in diction in "Life For Rent" however many people's accents are sliding towards forms of Estuary English and so the change might not have been entirely intentional. (And, whoever you are, that's 'Products of the State Education System' rather than 'oiks' thank you very much!;-)

Scruffy brit (talk) 06:19, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

O'Malley ?

Can you please take out the "O'Malley" of the artists name. The source web page doesn't even mention this name.

  • Thank you*

N00bh4ck3r (talk) 17:50, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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