So all things considered, she is totally not entertaining the idea of getting back with the addressee. And that leads us to the title. The singer is letting her ex know, in her frustration, that she will be quite okay without him. In fact it is one of the greatest hits ever to come out of the short-lived disco genre. In addition to that it made it onto the music charts of more than a dozen regions and sold in excess of 14,, copies globally.
And as you may have guessed, it is this song which holds that distinction. And it has been ranked in a similar or an even higher regard by the likes of the following:.
The tune has also proven effective enough to be covered by a number of other artists to notable chart success. This includes the likes of Aretha Franklin and the also-legendary Diana Ross, who released her own rendition in This version charted internationally, including performing quite well on the UK Singles Chart.
Owing to this, it has empowered Gloria Gaynor to stay in the spotlight throughout all this time. I turned the TV on, and there it was: a song I had written for a movie theme titled 'Generation' was playing right then the song was performed by Rare Earth. I remember jumping up and down on the bed saying, 'I'm going to make it. I'm going to be a songwriter. I will survive! Gloria Gaynor herself once said: "I love the empowering effect, I love the encouraging effect.
It's a timeless lyric that addresses a timeless concern. When they wrote 'I Will Survive', they didn't have anyone to sing it. They agreed that the next diva that found them would get the song. This ended up being Gloria Gaynor, whose record company called Perren looking for production on a song called 'Substitute', a song originally by the Righteous Brothers. Gaynor then agreed to record 'I Will Survive' as the B-side.
Although everyone who worked on the song knew it was superior to the A-side, the president of Gaynor's record company specifically wanted 'Substitute', and released it as the A-side as planned. Polydor eventually released the single with the sides flipped, and 'I Will Survive' became an international hit, reaching number one in both the UK and US. And NSFW. Stripped down to almost incoherence, every song reveals its primal heart.
Somehow, though, only a few years later, the late, great Joe Cocker saw a spark of soul in this song and made a gospel-tinged, blues-shouter version for the ages. Mad Dogs and Englishmen, indeed. A reader gets the new series going with a classic:. Bing Crosby did a version. An orchestral version was used for the opening credits of Dr.
Strangelove to serenade the mating ritual of mid-flight refueling. I love all kinds of music, but I particularly love covers. But my favorite type of cover is when something completely new is done with the song. But my favorite cover is by Sonic Youth, who turn the song into the creepy tale of a stalker. Embedded above. Let me know at hello theatlantic. Update from our reader above:. Not only that, but my favorite track from my favorite album of his. And I just want to give a shout out to my oldest, Aaron, who is the one who turned me onto Greg Gillis.
Back in December , when I was interning at The Atlantic , I freelanced a piece for Campus Progress about Gillis and the copyright threats he had to contend with:. In early , the Pittsburgh native met a powerful ally: his congressman, Rep. Mike Doyle D-PA.
Luckily for Gillis, Doyle is the vice chairman of the Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee and a progressive on copyright issues. Since then, the unlikely duo has garnered a great deal of media attention, including profiles in Newsweek and Rolling Stone online. Around 3 a. Talk about strange coincidences. According to these sorts of arguments, people who never go to college stay reasonable, normal, or—depending on how you look at it—asleep.
In , when it was released, the song spawned a new microeconomy of commentary denouncing it as a distillation of rape culture , or fretting over whether enjoying its jaunty hook was defensible.
In the video, directed by the veteran Diane Martel, three models dressed in transparent thongs peacock and pose with a baffling array of props a lamb, a banjo, a bicycle, a four-foot-long replica of a syringe while Thicke, the producer and one of the co-writers Pharrell Williams, and the rapper T. Our fears about what other people think of us are overblown and rarely worth fretting over.
Click here to listen to his new podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life. Social media has opened up our heads so that just about any trespasser can wander in. If you tweet whatever crosses your mind about a celebrity, it could quite possibly reach the phone in her hand as she sits on her couch in her house.
We are wired to care about what others think of us. My best friend had gone through a tough divorce and was remarrying. I was thrilled for him. As a bonus, the wedding would take place in New Orleans, where my friend lives. New Orleans is a miraculous place, and my favorite city to visit in America. The notion of a trip there shone out of the fog and dreariness of this whole era of history. At least it seems that way, judging by the number of reporters calling me to ask about the sex lives of conjoined twins since the TLC reality show Abby and Brittany went on the air several weeks ago.
But not as conflicted as we singletons seem to feel about them having sex. Typically, people who are close to conjoined twins come to adjust and see them as different but normal; they seem fairly untroubled by the idea of conjoined twins pursuing sex and romance.
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