http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/h...676909.stm

Singer Dido went to university in Los Angeles to take music classes while making her new album, she has revealed.

"I just wanted to use my brain," she said, adding her fellow students did not recognise her initially.

"No-one noticed. It's great, no one ever does," she said. "I don't go out of my way to be noticed, but I wasn't wearing a fake beard or anything."

She took evening classes while making Safe Trip Home, her first album for five years, which is out next month.

She also studied English at the University of California in Los Angeles, where she was living while making the record.

"I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras," she told BBC News.

"I would go off a couple of evenings a week and come back to the studio completely fired and with my brain in a completely different place.

"It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it."

Asked whether her fellow classmates eventually realised who she was, she replied: "Yeah but, you know, no-one cares."

'More misunderstood'

Dido is one of the best-selling artists of the past 10 years, with her first two albums selling more than 20 million copies around the world.

She is not the first music superstar to return to music classes in recent months.

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea recently signed up to study at the University of Southern California to develop his knowledge of "the math and academics" of musical structure.

And Snow Patrol said they "learned to play their instruments a lot better" after taking extra tuition while making their new album.

Dido, who attended London's Guildhall School of Music from the age of six, became a star after Eminem sampled her song Thank You on his hit Stan in 2000.

She says her new single, Don't Believe in Love, is fast becoming one of the "more misunderstood" songs of her career.

The song appears to be about a heartless woman's desire for her man to get up and go home before she awakes after a night of passion.

"I want it to mean whatever anyone wants it to mean," she said.

HamsterHuey said:

And I still don't get it. Her voice does not bore me; it grates me. Whenever I hear her I get the wrong kind of shiffers.

A Dido thread...wow! How the mighty have fallen...































just kidding!
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HamsterHuey said:

I didn't know Dido was so successful.

Shawnt25 said:

It's marketed as Girlie music here in Europe.

HamsterHuey said:

i have the same with Justin Timberfake

Dewrede said:

You are just pushing your luck. Make your own hate thread, cupcake.

Dido! Can't wait for her new album!

Oh, wait. Is this a hate thread?

Sander said:

Faker. And yes, we hate Dido.

Singing lessons would have been more useful.

Mong said:

Maybe she should do a duet with Kanye West.

HamsterHuey said:

She has such a beautiful voice. Enhanced with an orchestra that would make a brilliant combo! Could be the album of the year! Go Dido!

^ i like her too

HamsterHuey said:

Sander said:

You and Dew make me nauseous.

Hating on JT and then loving THIS kinda of shite? It kinda figures....

i'm not saying she's great but it's far better
than those overcommercialized timbaland shite beats that all sound the same
[Edited 10/28/08 6:49am]

I never understood why people knock Dido.

Although I don't like all of her songs, I think she was a refreshing change from many of the female crap stars out at the time.

Her music is as earnest and honest as Sarah Mclaughlin, but doesn't make me want to slit my wrists like Sarah's music does.

Come to think of it the only song I like from Sarah's is that stupid song featured in Broke Down Palace, and I only like the cheesy techno mix



Bottom line: ANYTHING is better than Paula Cole.
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wow, that's the gayest thing I've ever typed ^^^

Sander said:

go review my mix, bitch!!!

There is this one song she did with Faithless, I forgot the title.....Faithless did a remix of it, that song is good....


for the rest, I fuckin' loathe Dido!

Imago said:

you hardly know yourself.....

Justin Timberlake sucks at least as much monkey-ass as Terence Trent d'Arby!!!



just lettin' it all out, bitches!

abierman said:

abierman said:

The DJ guy of Faithless is her brother.

HamsterHuey said:

REALLY?????

abierman said:

Ermmm, yeah.

HamsterHuey said:

holy fuckin' moly..... .....WHERE do you get inside-scoop like that?????

abierman said:

Lemme check.




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Sylvie van der Vaart told me.

HamsterHuey said:

I fookin' love Sylvie!