Despite its somewhat polite, trip-hoppy surface, Dido Armstrongs music frequently rests on a melancholy that can only be called courageous in the current pop world. Few singer-songwriters with 12 million record sales behind them would offer a single such as Life for Rents "White Flag," which is in part an apology for the "mess and destruction" the narrator has left with her lover.
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