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. It's catchy as all get-out, has a chorus that lingers like poison ivy, and adds unlimited spoonfuls of zip spin after spin. 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.

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 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. 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. That's a shame, given the growing profile of this personable Dublin-based female quartet and its fine self-titled debut album.

Chuck Taylor of Billboard wrote, "This European creamsicle has already tickled the top of the European pop charts, and with good reason.

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.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. 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. 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. Much to my surprise B*Witched are still together having reformed in 2012, and spend most of 2017 touring Australia. 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.