Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" has never appealed much to me. I don't own a copy of it, and I don't let it play out on the radio. Nevertheless, I understand why other listeners like it. When you're on the receiving end of a painful breakup, what song feels more empowering than "I Will Survive?" Being reminded, with such resolve, that life will go on and likely get better for you has to make even the most dejected sad sack perk up and want to seize the day.
Maybe I'd like it more in a plaintive jazz or blues arrangement, though.
