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because i like her.
dido writes about love (don't we all?), but keeps the eye-rolling at a minimum. 'stoned' is typically dido:
When you're stoned, baby, I am drunknot many adult contemporary pop stars directly reference the wacky weed these days. she definitely has an edge. clearly, she's obsessed with being in love, as many women are. but she doesn't write about falling in love, being in love, or missing her lover in the traditional sense. leave that to the sarah mclachlins and john mayors of the world. she writes about being unfulfilled, in the "i'll never be happy, so fuck you" sense. and i like her little nods to nihilism with phrases like 'what's the point', and 'love seems a little desolate'.
We make love seems a little desolate
It's hard sometimes not to look away
And think what's the point when I'm having to hold this fire down
I think I'll explode if I can't feel this free now
there are other little things that make dido endearing: like a true brit, she complains in the language of navies and empires. dido will let you know, young man, that this land is hers, that she'll go down with this ship, that her other lover is lost at sea, presumably drowned. she's said in concert that she wrote 'take my hand' as a teen to try to get boys into bed with her. she was too young, apparently, to realize that she's hot.
