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Article: Dido STANds on her own with new album.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- September 30, 2003
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Byline: LARRY KATZ
Dido has discovered that success brings something besides fame and fortune: critical backlash.
"Some days I just want to put my head under a pillow and shout," the fast-talking 31-year-old singer says from London. "It's weird how I never got a bad review until I sold a million copies."
Actually, Dido sold an astonishing 12 million copies of "No Angel." Her album topped the charts in 13 countries and became the best-selling debut by a female British singer ever.
"It's just so alien to me," she says of her music's unexpected popularity. "It's beyond my grasp. It's strange because I basically make underground, slightly ...