White Flag (song) White Flag (song) "White Flag" is a song by English singer-songwriter Dido, released as the lead single from her second studio album "Life for Rent" on 1 September 2003. The song is considered one of her signature songs, and helped "Life for Rent" sell over ten million copies worldwide. The song was nominated for the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 46th Grammy Awards, but lost to Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful". It won the Best British Single at the 2004 Brit Awards. The song ranked on Blender's list "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born" at number 317. The
White Flag (band) third of which were later included on their "S Is For Space – 25th Anniversary De Luxe Edition"). The band's name is itself a play on the name of iconic hardcore band Black Flag and is meant as a parody on punk rock elitism. Similarly, the punk rock names of band members were chosen to resemble those of Jello Biafra, Mike Ness, and Pat Smear, each an icon of the California punk scene in their own right. In a 1983 "Flipside" interview, guitarist Pat Fear noted: "People give us a lot of shit for being called 'White Flag' and that