C'est La Vie - The Collection

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Chuck Taylor of Billboard wrote, "This European creamsicle has already tickled the top of the European pop charts, and with good reason. Their record label reached a compromise with the band: if the record label could help the girls import 40 kilos of heroin into Amsterdam, paving the way for dominance of the European heroin trade, they would finish their vocals in a studio there. This company procures the screams (and subsequently laughter) of children to create energy for an entire city. 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. 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.

That's a shame, given the growing profile of this personable Dublin-based female quartet and its fine self-titled debut album. Leiber and Stoller worked 20 hour days trying to put words to the vision, while the girls spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Nashville’s finest male escorts to take the edge off the huge expectations the record label had placed on them. 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 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. To relieve further tension the band were whisked away to four separate recording studios in Japan, South Africa, Argentina and Russia.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 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. Decamping to Nashville for 2 months of intensive writing the girl group shared their vision for a song that summed up their artistic ennui, and their view that life, an enchanting and fleeting dance, contained infinitesimal nuances that we could rarely grasp.

Let's take a look back and examine what exactly was going on in the music video for the teen pop hit.If you want to get involved in the world of tech, why not apply for the Vodafone Graduate Programme? 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 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. Much to my surprise B*Witched are still together having reformed in 2012, and spend most of 2017 touring Australia. You'll definitely remember their big hit C'est La Vie, which topped the charts in Ireland and the UK.

If you know some new information about Cest La Vie, or other song from our site, that isn’t already on song page, please let us know, Any refinement, news, or comment is appreciated. The song went to number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100 in the week of 17 April 1999 [5] [6] and number six on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. 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. 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. The final days of the music industry’s irresponsible overspending and largesse saw the band record one line of vocal for each verse, then flying in a private jet to the different recording studios, rotating until the recording was finished.To be fair the song itself was quite catchy, but the music video is where its iconic status really comes from.