Dido – Safe Trip Home

by Michael Weaver Jr.

Dido

Safe Trip Home

Official Site:  http://www.didomusic.com/us/home/

Official MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/dido

Safe Trip Home is the third album from the 2008 ASCAP UK Songwriter of the Year, Dido. Dido started on this album in October of 2005 and released it on November 18, 2008. There are eleven tracks on the album, and if you are a die-hard fan, you will be happy to know that there are four bonus tracks available.

Safe Trip Home has gone gold in six different countries. It peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard 200, number 7 on the US Top Internet Albums, number 6 on the US Top Digital Albums and number 14 on the US Billboard Comprehensive Albums. It was also number 50 in Q Magazine’s 50 Best Albums of the Year 2008.

The first time I heard Dido was when she was featured in Eminem’s “Stan” with lines from her hit song, “Thank You.” Both songs are two of my favorites. With that said, I just wasn’t impressed with Safe Trip Home and I never wanted an album to come to an end like I did with this one.

One of my complaints is that the songs are just way too long. In fact, “Northern Skies” is actually eight minutes and fifty-seven seconds long. Almost nine minutes for a song is just ridiculous. “Grafton Street” finishes at five minutes and fifty seven seconds long, which I also think is too long for a song. In my opinion, the longest a song should last is three minutes and that’s pushing it. However, Dido obviously disagrees with me as the shortest amount of time on this album is three minutes and seventeen seconds long.

Another complaint I have is that most of the songs sounded the same to me and they sounded so depressing. To my ears, there was no originality on this album and that is a major disappointment. If you are depressed then I wholeheartedly would suggest that you stay away from this album. I’m not trying to be funny here. I really do wonder what was going though Dido’s mind when she was creating this album because the songs just seem to be on the deep end of sadness.

All-in-all, I wasn’t too happy with the album and I would not recommend it to anyone except maybe die-hard Dido fans.

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