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 (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