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The Dublin, Ireland, foursome B*witched consists of identical twins Keavy and Edele Lynch, both 19, Sinead O'Carroll, 20, and Lindsay Armaou, 18. You know them because of their first Stateside hit, ''C'est La Vie,'' which is No. 17 on Billboard's Hot 100.
FOR THE LOVE OF SPICE Even if they balk at being called the baby Spice Girls, they still give props to the prefab foursome. ''I really admire them, because they went for it,'' says Armaou. ''They've opened a very big door for girl bands.'' The girls admit they mourned Geri ''Ginger Spice'' Halliwell's departure from the group last year. ''When we first heard, it was really sad, like, 'Oh nooo! Why'd she do that?''' recalls Armaou. ''But obviously she had her reasons.''
WHY THEY'RE MAGICALLY DELICIOUS Think green. ''Irish music runs through our whole sound,'' says Lynch. ''We have pop music, then rock, then ballads, some indie, and even some drum and bass. But it's the Irish music which makes us very bewitching.'' Plus they aren't afraid to dance a jig or two. The lassies taught Regis Philbin some ''Riverdance''-style dance steps on a recent episode of ''Live With Regis and Kathie Lee,'' and fans who see them live can expect to see more fancy footwork. ''For a girl band it's really strange how much we dance onstage,'' says Armaou.
FORGET YOUR TROUBLES, C'MON, GET HAPPY The foursome leave the political grousing about their homeland to the likes of U2. ''You hear about it on the news, but where we live, it doesn't really affect us whatever,'' says Armaou. ''A lot of people are afraid to think of Ireland any other way, but hopefully through our music we'll be able to show people that it's a great place,'' says Lynch.
DISCO FEVER They aren't too cool to get starstruck over... the Bee Gees? ''The celebrities we've enjoyed meeting most were Celine Dion and the Bee Gees at the Top of the Pops in England,'' recalls Lynch. ''It was nice to see superstars who could be so nice and down to earth."
THEY CAN ACTUALLY PLAY... SORT OF While the girls all claim some aptitude with instruments, they didn't pluck a string for this album -- and they don't expect to on their next one. ''The instruments are not a major part of B*witched as yet, anyway,'' says Armaou. ''It just comes in handy when we're writing songs. We'd like to incorporate them into our live shows, but we don't want to get trapped behind instruments on stage. We dance too much!''
(Read part one of EW Online's interview with B*witched)
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