White Flag (song) "The Sopranos", "Tru Calling", "Cold Case", "Winners & Losers", and films "Perfect Stranger" and "Mommy". Carly Rae Jepsen performed a cover version of the song on "Canadian Idol". "White Flag" was written and produced by Dido, Rollo Armstrong and Rick Nowels. In the song, the protagonist is unwilling to give up, even if she knows her relationship is over. "White Flag" features "multi-layered" sound, delicate piano outro, and strings. The song is written in the key of F major (the verse starts on the minor parallel) with a tempo of 90 beats per minute, and Dido's vocals range from the
White flag words". The Umayyad dynasty (661–750) used white as their symbolic color as a reminder of Muhammad's first battle at Badr, and to distinguish themselves from the Abbasids, by using white, rather than black, as their color of mourning. During the period of the Ancien Régime, starting in the early 17th century, the royal standard of France became a plain white flag as a symbol of purity, sometimes covered in fleur-de-lis when in the presence of the king or bearing the ensigns of the Order of the Holy Spirit. The white color was also used as a symbol of military command,