Vitamin C
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
In the meantime, Fitzpatrick refashioned herself as a dance-pop singer and scored a deal with Elektra in 1998. Her debut album, Vitamin C, was released in late summer 1999 and it produced two decent-sized hits in Smile (which featured Jamaican dancehall toaster Lady Saw) and Me, Myself and I. Vitamin C really took off, though, with the impeccably timed release of the third single, Graduation (Friends Forever), the most blatantly teen-aimed song on the record. Graduation (Friends Forever) became a huge hit in the spring of 2000, hitting the Top Ten and helping push Vitamin C into platinum-sales territory. Fitzpatrick jumped on the marketing opportunities, licensing everything from her own doll to a shade of lipstick matching her signature orange hair. Toward the end of 2000, the second Vitamin C album, More, was issued, sporting a more age-appropriate image and subject matter. Again, it spun off a couple of decent-sized hits in The Itch and As Long as Youre Loving Me, but it didnt produce a breakaway smash on the order of Graduation, and More failed to crack the Top 100.
