I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)

For years I've thought that the lyrics of this song would make a great audition piece, so this was the first video I recorded. There's so much emotion in the text, which reads like a monologue (don't most pop songs? - except duets, which sometimes read like dialogues, with the exception of the frankly godawful "When You're Gone" by Bryan Adams and Mel C, what's the point of duetting if you're both singing the same lines at the same time). Back to topic: the character in this song takes us from vulnerability to strength, from victimhood to empowerment. Gloria Gaynor delivered it beautifully on the original recording, but as it's nearly always the case with pop songs - and even more in the case of disco - the depth of the text gets lost in the music, often shouted out with abandon at wedding discos and hen nights.

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