How many people can honestly say they heard of Dido before hearing her voice on Eminem’s smash hit “Stan”? I can. I knew of her from her brother Rollo’s band Faithless (boo yah – nerd powers) and couldn’t wait to get her album after hearing her single “Here With Me” when I used to watch Roswell on television (back when Katherine Heigl was still universally bad ass) on the WB. Those were the days.
Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong , professionally known as Dido, originally released No Angel in 1999, it found a mass audience in 2001, and according to her official web site it went on to achieve sales in excess of over sixteen million copies worldwide.
The success of No Angel was spurred on by Eminem sampling Dido’s track, “Thank You” on “Stan”, a track from his The Marshall Mathers LP album, released in 2000. The Marshall Mathers LP reached #1 on the US and Canadian charts, and Dido appeared in the music video for “Stan”, which was the third single from the album, playing the fictional character Stan’s long-suffering girlfriend. While the song only reached #51 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA, it went to #1 in the UK and Australia and was an international hit. “Stan” was nominated for a Grammy award for the track (Dido did not sing with Eminem at the ceremony; Elton John sang Dido’s section).
Track listing
- “Here with Me” (Dido Armstrong, Pascal Gabriel, Paul Statham) – 4:14
- “Hunter” (D. Armstrong, Rollo Armstrong) – 3:57
- “Don’t Think of Me” (D. Armstrong, R. Armstrong, Paul Herman, Pauline Taylor) – 4:32
- “My Lover’s Gone” (D. Armstrong, Jamie Catto) – 4:27
- “All You Want” – 3:53
- “Thank You” – 3:38
- “Honestly OK” – 4:37
- “Slide” – 4:53
- “Isobel” – 3:54
- “I’m No Angel” – 3:55
- “My Life” – 3:09
- “Take My Hand (Bonus Track)” – 6:42
