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. If you want to get involved in the world of tech, why not apply for the Vodafone Graduate Programme?

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. 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. 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. 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.It served as their debut single and the lead single from their self-titled debut studio album (1998). 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. 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 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.

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