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Thank You Dido – Song Overview
Thank You Dido is a song written and performed by English singer-songwriter Dido. The song made its first appearance in 1998 on the soundtrack of the movie Sliding Doors. It was later included on Dido’s 1999 debut album, No Angel, and was released in September 2000 to mainstream success. It was also sampled in the 2000 single “Stan” by Eminem, which helped propel “Thank You” and No Angel to mainstream success.
Entering the Billboard Hot 100 at number 80 in January 2001, “Thank You” peaked at number three in April 2001. It held that spot for three weeks and became Dido’s first and only top-10 single in the United States. Additionally, the song reached number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary, Adult Pop Songs, and Hot Dance Club Songs charts. In the United Kingdom, “Thank You” also reached number three, becoming the singer’s third top-five single in the United Kingdom.
Dido wrote the song about the down times of depression and about how she lost her house. It remains Dido’s biggest hit single in the United States to date, and her only one to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. “Thank You” was one of the biggest sleeper hits of the year, debuting in January and remaining on the chart until the end of September. It spent 40 weeks on the chart, and in November Billboard published that “Thank You” finished as the seventh biggest song of the year.
The song’s verses are written in the key of G♯ minor whilst the chorus is in B Major, with a tempo of 80 beats per minute in common time. It follows a chord progression of G♯m – Emaj7 – F♯ – B – F♯/A♯, and Dido’s vocals span from F♯3 to B4 in the song.
Dido wrote “Thank You” after meeting her boyfriend, a lawyer named Bob Page, in 1995 and falling for him hard. Her tea has gone cold and the rain has clouded her window, but seeing his picture on her wall reminds her that it’s not so bad.
In this song, she thanks Page for giving her the “best day of her life,” which is when they met in a club and had their first encounter. Page sparked a creative fire in Dido, who also wrote the song “Here With Me” about him. They got engaged in 2001, but broke up a year later, inspiring another Dido song: “White Flag.”
Dido wrote this song with Paul Herman, who worked on it with her at her apartment in London. Herman, a songwriter whose songs have also been recorded by Corinne Bailey Rae and Emelie Sande, worked on three other tracks from the album as well. They met through Dido’s brother, Rollo Armstrong, who had a band called Faithless that Herman played with.
Dido wrote the lyric in the bathtub, and says that when she performs the song, she mentally returns to the tub with the soggy piece of paper in her hand.
Thank You Dido – Music Video
In the music video, Dido has not paid her bills, and the government comes to tear down her house. The police put an eviction notice on her door and movers start moving her belongings out. Dido, who seems oblivious to the fact that her house has been barricaded, is seen simply singing the song.
During the first chorus of the song, Dido has a cup of tea whilst movers pile her belongings by an outside wall, and a mover steps on flowers in her front yard. In the end, she is escorted out of her home, her home is demolished, she leaves behind most of her belongings, and walks away with just her shoulder bag, an umbrella, and a hair dryer.
The end of the video implies that her house is actually being torn down for redevelopment, as her home is sandwiched between two large skyscrapers. The video was directed by Dave Meyers, and was released in January 2001. VEVO released an acoustic version of the song in December 2012, and a live concert version was released in August 2016.
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