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Life For Rent - Dido
  • Band Name: Dido
  • Record Label: Arista
  • Release Date: Sep 30, 2003
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Metascore
69 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 34 Ratings

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  • Summary: The British singer sticks to the successful formula established on her 1999 debut "No Angel" for this sophomore effort.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. PopMatters
    90
    This record seems to outweigh the previous album in terms of quality and depth.
  2. Blender
    80
    The emotional terrain is much more treacherous here, and more rewarding for it. [Oct 2003, p.114]
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  3. Launch.com
    60
    Life For Rent breaks no new ground, and while the publicity machine proffers a failed Dido romance as its inspiration, the album retains her debut's style yet without its wonderfully miserable substance.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 19
  3. Negative: 2 out of 19
  1. LucianoR.
    10
    Very nice! Girls use to enjoy ;-)
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  2. LuisG
    10
    .... Life For Rent is soft and song after song a continuany of love , breakup and hope....theres no bouncing off the walls ...just down to earth simple lyrics " alot of words and pleanty of meaning" although it may not garner much airplay its best that way..the rare album you can hear again and again and never quite quit....truly a delight....KEY TRACKS : See The Sun, see you when your 40, dont leave home… Expand
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  3. Tom
    3
    Dullsville. Bland. Uninteresting to the extreme. It should sell like hotcakes, then.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes

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