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IT’S UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED that C’est La Vie by B*Witched is a bona fide bop. The kind that gets people so excited that they break their wrists at their own weddings.

And now music industry bible Billboard is giving the song its due.

The magazine has just published a list of the 100 greatest girl group songs of all-time. Sitting pretty at number one is Be My Baby by The Ronettes followed by TLC’s Creep and The Shirelles’ Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

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Tucked away at number 97, however, is C’est La Vie, which the magazine praises for its “effervescent bubblegum melodies” and “nod to adolescent sexual experimentation.

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If you couldn’t tell from the Irish jig breakdown toward the end of their debut single, B*Witched hailed from the Emerald Isle — but the lyrics to their lone crossover hit, which slyly nod to adolescent sexual experimentation, are universal. They were also subtle enough to fly under the radar of most censors, who were tricked by the absurdly effervescent bubblegum melodies into thinking the lyrics were equally pure.

The song was released in 1998 and went to number one in Ireland and the UK. It peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and went Gold having sold 700,000 copies.

Not bad for four Irish teenagers, eh?

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