Let's take a look back and examine what exactly was going on in the music video for the teen pop hit. 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”.

To be fair the song itself was quite catchy, but the music video is where its iconic status really comes from. 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.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.

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. 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. 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.To relieve further tension the band were whisked away to four separate recording studios in Japan, South Africa, Argentina and Russia. C’est La Vie was released as a single on the 25th of May in 1998 but seeds were sown 12 months earlier as the girl group made up of Sinead, Keavy, Edele and Lindsay were paired with a songwriting team by their label. 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.

It's catchy as all get-out, has a chorus that lingers like poison ivy, and adds unlimited spoonfuls of zip spin after spin. Much to my surprise B*Witched are still together having reformed in 2012, and spend most of 2017 touring Australia. The music video for the song was directed by Alison Murray, who later also directed the UK video for " Rollercoaster". 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.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. This company procures the screams (and subsequently laughter) of children to create energy for an entire city. Use "Find Lyrics" box on our site, try to use different artist or (and) song title(ex: Cest La Vie) word forms.

Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the song was a huge success for the band after it reached number one on the charts in various countries around the world, including the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand. It served as their debut single and the lead single from their self-titled debut studio album (1998). 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 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. You'll definitely remember their big hit C'est La Vie, which topped the charts in Ireland and the UK. 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.