C'est La Vie - The Collection

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In a perfect world, this dancey helping of youth-oriented pop would have no problem conquering the States with its giddy melody and squeaky-clean teenage vocals, but sadly, top 40 has again entered one of those periods during which it shuns most any uptempo track that might be considered plain and simple fun. Both Leiber and Stoller claimed the lyrics to be their Mona Lisa, even surpassing their iconic Stand By Me but they fought intensely with the band during initial recordings when the band ad-libbed “I fight like me da as well”. The boy is freed from the tree and the girls hose him with water and begin performing an Irish reel before lying back down in the field where they began. Chuck Taylor of Billboard wrote, "This European creamsicle has already tickled the top of the European pop charts, and with good reason. If you want to get involved in the world of tech, why not apply for the Vodafone Graduate Programme?

Weeks later, while high on LSD the group completed the vocals, with the particularly potent trip providing the inspiration for the song’s much celebrated video. Let's take a look back and examine what exactly was going on in the music video for the teen pop hit.C'est la Vie" debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart on 31 May 1998 and remained at the top the following week. The song features many cheeky double entendres; the band commented in 2013 that "it went over children's heads, but the parents got the innuendos. The accompanying music video for the song features the four girls dancing around a lush green field full of bright flowers with a puppy as they playfully tease a teenage boy. To relieve further tension the band were whisked away to four separate recording studios in Japan, South Africa, Argentina and Russia. Much to my surprise B*Witched are still together having reformed in 2012, and spend most of 2017 touring Australia.

This company procures the screams (and subsequently laughter) of children to create energy for an entire city. A dog is introduced into the clip next to one of the girls and the quartet then begin dancing and singing to a teenage boy in a treehouse. WHAT is often referred to as ‘Ireland’s Greatest Song’ C’est La Vie, sung by girl group B*Witched is fondly remembered by almost all of the country, but very little is known about the troubled writing and recording of the quintessential pop song of our times, that is, until now. We had tried to distract the girls with more prostitutes, but they had grown tired of the music industry when they realised how much money they could make from selling heroin,” Richie Stern, the band’s manager at the time revealed.It's catchy as all get-out, has a chorus that lingers like poison ivy, and adds unlimited spoonfuls of zip spin after spin. It served as their debut single and the lead single from their self-titled debut studio album (1998). Use "Find Lyrics" box on our site, try to use different artist or (and) song title(ex: Cest La Vie) word forms. Written by band members Edele Lynch, Keavy Lynch, Lindsay Armaou, and Sinéad O'Carroll, Ray "Madman" Hedges, Martin Brannigan and Tracy Ackerman, it was released by Epic and Glowworm Records on 25 May 1998.

The girls then tie the boy to a tree and the dog chases toward him before he is bombarded with lipstick kiss marks all over his face. That's a shame, given the growing profile of this personable Dublin-based female quartet and its fine self-titled debut album. In any case, open-minded programmers who have had success with Britney Spears or Cleopatra should certainly give this a meaningful spin and let their audiences have a chance to catch on to the magic of this fearless track. To be fair the song itself was quite catchy, but the music video is where its iconic status really comes from.C’est La Vie went on to sell 47 million copies in Ireland alone on its first day of release and the song went on to win a Grammy for Best Use Of An Irish Dancing Breakdown Section In A Video. The chorus was then recorded in Vietnam, but the band became distracted by the local drug trade and became embroiled in a turf war with the leading supplier of heroin in the area. Management had to break up a particularly violent fight, which saw Stoller lose a leg and an eye after he protested that the line went against the overtly pacifist ideals of the song.