To relieve further tension the band were whisked away to four separate recording studios in Japan, South Africa, Argentina and Russia. 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. That's a shame, given the growing profile of this personable Dublin-based female quartet and its fine self-titled debut album. 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. 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.

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. 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. This company procures the screams (and subsequently laughter) of children to create energy for an entire city. if you know song lyric, that isn’t already on moodpoint lyrics directory, please use "Add Lyrics" to submit it. 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.It served as their debut single and the lead single from their self-titled debut studio album (1998). The music video for the song was directed by Alison Murray, who later also directed the UK video for " Rollercoaster". 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.

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

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