Dido sings about breaking up in "End of Night"

Dido has just released the brand new music video for her soul-bearing account of a breakup, "End of Night," the second single and third overall from English singer-songwriter's latest fourth studio album. "Girl Who Got Away." Over the span of four albums she's been committed to a singularity of vision and emotional purpose that flouts all traditional boundaries set for female artists. It's a feat in a music industry that constantly seeks to silence women from expressing 'ugly' emotions that Dido's never broken a sweat including them in each of her albums.
After a five-year absence, the 41-year-old pop veteran finally returns, and her voice sounds exactly as you remember it, soft and effortless, and her music remains quintessentially pleasant. One of the most interesting tracks, though, is herself and Greg Kurstin-produced synth pop magic, "End of Night," a cool and witty f**k off to a past lover. There is enough going on here to please old fans and just the right amount of experimentation for newer fans to appreciate. Welcome back girl!
This barbed wit of "End of Night," is a perfect example of that. It rumbles with dispassionate condescension over a lover too willfully careless to keep the beat of the emotional tango that was their relationship. Dido's voice is righteous in its arctic delivery. The self-emancipation song sees a stronger braver girl who is to face up to the reality of who her lover was and get away to celebrate the end of night. Speaking about the inspiration behind her new single "End of Night," she said: "Someone had really p***** me off, which is rare. It's about that moment of liberation when you finally realise you're not bothered anymore."
It was only a matter of time before English songstress Dido would crossover into EDM; god knows she has the vocals for it. This dynamic track might sound upbeat, but lyrically it is a rather vicious song about the breaking up of a relationship. On Twitter, Dido said "#endofnight the person i wrote this about is, well was, a friend... they have heard the song and love it and have no idea it's about them!" On Twitter @ShanLovegood_TW asked "what is your favourite part of #EndOfNight ?" Dido said "#endofnight you were ugly when the beat kicked in and ugly when it left... and the chorus! i wrote it in 2010 but i still love it. x."

Dido sings a painful heartbreak in "No Freedom"

Dido has just dropped the music video for her new song, "No Freedom," the lead and second single from English singer-songwriter's latest fourth studio album, "Girl Who Got Away," which is a return to the more pensive balladry that marked her earliest works as she described it to Billboard magazine as "a more optimistic album," than her previous release, "Safe Trip Home," in part due to her reflections on becoming a new mother.
The 41-year-old British songstress has joined the ever-growing list of artists hoping for a big comeback in 2013, and we simply cannot believe how direly we missed her soothing, hypnotic sonic sensibilities! At 41, she looks exactly the same as she ever did: blonde, beautiful, fresh faced and smiling with a delight that beams out across the room. Her voice, too, is immediately familiar, that soft, pure tone, very precise diction and little, folky catch in her throat as she floats up to falsetto notes. "If only for today, I want to be, the girl who got away," she sings.
Dido penned her melancholy but catchy new single, "No Freedom" with San Francisco songwriter Rick Nowels, and with its pleasantly folky midtempo melody and sleepy vocal, it is rather lovely, and will no doubt appeal to fans of her breakthrough 1999 album, "No Angel." This gentle pop ballad is affected people on the frontline and built around the hook, and repeated chorus line of "No love without freedom. No freedom without love," which struck a chord in war torn countries such as Syria. Dido told BBC News that after its release, she was getting many "letters from people who are in the middle of a war."
She added: "The whole thing sounds quite unreal to me. Is that going to make you fight properly? 'Maybe you want something else. Like AC/DC?' There's even videos now from Syria. It's pretty amazing, I certainly wasn't writing about that. But when you write an intensely personal lyric, the thing that often surprises you is that it's about most things for other people." Dido's vocal stylingz always have such a calming effect on us, yet you can really tell - with her latest material specially - how she's really striking out past her comfort zone and experimenting with her sound! Enjoy the Ethan Lader-directed new clip after jump.