As we go on, we bear in mind
All of the occasions we, had collectively
And as our lives change, come no matter
We are going to nonetheless be associates ceaselessly…
Should you graduated from major or highschool in the 2000s, there’s a excessive chance this tune was taking part in as you tearfully hugged your classmates goodbye.
In truth, it would not be an overstatement to say the tune has most likely made hundreds of thousands of schoolkids cry within the 24 years because it was launched.
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The voice behind the generation-defining pop hit belonged to American singer Vitamin C, or, as she’s identified off-stage, Colleen Fitzpatrick.
On the flip of the millennium, her sentimental commencement ballad (and that… luminous hairdo) launched her to stardom, however she’d been performing for lots longer.
Fitzpatrick is one thing of a triple risk, with performing, singing and dancing expertise up her sleeve.
In truth, when you’ve ever seen the 1988 film model of Hairspray, you’ll have seen these talents in motion.
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Fitzpatrick performed imply woman Amber Von Tussle within the film, with music royalty Debbie Harry and Sonny Bono taking part in her mother and father.
The film marked her on-screen debut, however her time within the highlight did not finish there.
After just a few film roles, Fitzpatrick launched her rock band Eve’s Plum in 1991.
The group launched two albums and an EP, and whereas they weren’t massively profitable, two of their tracks made it onto film soundtracks – The Subsequent Karate Child and Larger Studying.
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The band broke up in 1998.
That very same yr, Fitzpatrick rebranded as Vitamin C and went solo, quickly changing into a 2000s music icon in her personal proper.
Her debut album Vitamin C was launched in 1999.
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The debut single Smile charted nicely – reaching gold certification within the US – and appeared within the promos for TV sequence together with Chilly Ft and Beverly Hills, 90210.
Nevertheless, it was the third single off the album, Commencement (Pals Eternally), that nicely and really put her on the map globally.
Commencement was launched in March 2000, and was acquired notably nicely right here in Australia, peaking at #2 on the ARIA charts and in the end licensed platinum.
The tune, accompanied by a music video set in a highschool, immediately cemented itself within the ‘college commencement anthem’ canon of its period – alongside Inexperienced Day’s Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).
It has continued to characteristic in graduations ever since.
In truth, in 2020, Vitamin C contributed her vocals to a brand new model of the tune devoted to college students who’d graduated towards the backdrop of the rise of COVID-19, referred to as Commencement 2020 (Worst Yr Ever).
The singer recorded up to date lyrics for the brand new model, reflecting the realities of ending college in a pandemic, donating her look price to charity.
Vitamin C launched a second album, Extra, in 2001.
Once more, we Aussies actually received into it, with single The Itch hitting quantity 6 and changing into licensed platinum right here however probably not charting as nicely elsewhere, together with the US.
Within the ensuing years, the singer (pictured in 2008) launched extra tracks, a pair being included on film soundtracks, and even created her personal manufacturing firm in 2006 and labored with the likes of Miley Cyrus.
In 2012, Fitzpatrick stepped out of the highlight and moved into the company area, changing into Nickelodeon’s VP of Music.
Since 2019, she has labored as a Netflix government heading up “music artistic manufacturing, spectacle and occasions” for the streaming large.
It feels like an excellent position for the previous pop star; as she admits in an interview on the Netflix web site, “I didn’t love being well-known.”
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