Talk:I Will Survive

Musical influence
This song might have been based on a Portuguese hit from 1976 called "Lisboa menina e moça", composed by Paulo de Carvalho! Check it out ;D — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.180.5.19 (talk) 23:21, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

I Will Survive
Try Limewire to see who all sang this song: Yes Aretha & Donna DID-- as did Tina & Patti. then there were complete remakes like Cake. My question is this: I hear a piece of the Rocky Soundtrack in the background and bridge of the song. Specifically, from The Final Bell. Does anyone else here this and does anyone know if it is purposeful or just a close sound? (hawk4551)
 * Check Limewire? You gotta be kidding.  Limewire has a billion morons who don't know anything about anything labelling their songs; hardly a reputable source.

Limewire as a source-- You may be right not to trust the label but if you actually download the songs, you will hear that it is NOT the orginal score-- or NOT Gloria Gaynor's voice. (hawk 4551)

Any comment or insight to what sounds like the use of the Final Bell in the song (from the movie Rocky)? (Hawk4551)

I know what you're talking about, Hawk4551. It's the orchestral interlude between the first chorus and the next verse, and then it's heard again as a countermelody over the chorus during the fade-out. I don't think it's a deliberate tribute to The Final Bell (a fine piece of music in its own right), but it's definitely in a similar vein (albeit faster, per the overall tempo of the song).Mcgroth (talk) 22:37, 17 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Very, very similar. Rocky was on HBO last night and I couldn't help noticing how remarkably similar the instrumental melody on "I Will Survive" (1978) is to "The Final Bell" (1976).  In fact, that's why I came here, to see if anyone else noticed the similarity. Captain Quirk (talk) 15:55, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Same here, Captain Quirk- I noticed it (while watching the closing credits to "The Martian") and came here; I wondered if there was a co-credit or more to the story. Joe Suggs (talk) 13:35, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Parodies
A parody of the song was made by Luke Smith for Counter-Strike. Should that be added that to the parodies section?

There's already a line for him (added after this comment?). I've also added one for Natural Selection. this the song of ma life men i will survive i will survive —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.206.45.138 (talk) 10:15, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Anthem?
I see no juxtification for this sentence: "it has often been used as an anthem of female empowerment, a gay anthem, and HIV/AIDS awareness", hence a put a "citation needed".Popopp 19:50, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Juxtification? And, of course, citations are always nice, but why is there any doubt in this case? --85.179.202.50 (talk) 17:06, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/03_march/24/survive.shtml --85.176.246.81 (talk) 18:43, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

In France
In France this song represents the anthem of the France national football team. The football players used to sing this song during the football world cup 1998 and today the song became the symbol of their victory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.13.48.15 (talk) 11:43, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Music Video section
Looks like it could use some fixing (and good grammar, yikes). --Rab2148 (talk) 04:05, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism
Or at the very least a poor attempt at humour. I have removed the following text from the intro

"In the 1980s in Ireland it was a surefire track on the disco floor to precipitate the circling of handbags and wanton bad dancing by guileless Irish young female student nurses, students and country women in general."

unless someone can find a reference for the above it shouldn't be in the article. WarrenGavin (talk) 21:33, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

The text states "I Will Survive" became the worldwide hit for Clout in 1978". Someone is confused or just having a 'joke'. Therefore I have changed 'Clout' to 'Gaynor'. Metafis (talk) 22:17, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

George Carlin
How is it relevant what George Carlin thought of the song? 75.82.201.0 (talk) 21:45, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Actual length of 1978 album version ?
Wherever I check, I can see that the song was NOT 8:01 on "Love Tracks" - did I miss a train ??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.216.95.4 (talk) 20:47, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

Regarding Cake
Please add a source to the affirmative that claims that the Cake's version was her least favorite version. Despite this is widely known by the community, there could be any trustworthy source to the claim. Also, I don't know if this is trivia or mentioning worthy, but there is a cameo appearance from the character of "The Distance" music video from the same band, as he runs past John McCrea. Hope someone actually reads this, some day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.97.192.129 (talk) 01:43, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Other References in Pop Culture
There have to be other references/occurrences in pop culture to such an iconic song than the ones currently listed. One right off the top of my head is Jim Carrey's rendition of the song (pronouncing it as "I Will Sur-VEEVE") in character as Andy Kaufman in the 1999 film Man on the Moon. It's the final scene of the movie and a pretty memorable one at that.Mcgroth (talk) 22:43, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

It was also used in the 2008 film Meet the Spartans.2001:14BB:150:49BE:8064:C093:B4A1:FAC5 (talk) 14:49, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

sexist song
The song should be banned since it is so utterly anti-male sexist. 93.219.141.160 (talk) 09:20, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Release date
The currently listed release date of October 23, 1978 can't be right, as the single was already on Billboard's R&B chart by the Oct. 14 issue. The August 26 issue has an ad for the record. The copyright registration for the single lists a publication date of August 23. These publication dates aren't exactly the same as the public release dates; I believe it's when the record was shipped to distributors. I'm going to change the date to simply August 1978. PatConolly (talk) 03:56, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

And I see my change has been reverted back to the uncited October 23 date. Oh well, I try to make things more accurate for others, but I'm not going to engage in a war of flipping these dates back and forth - at least my data for my personal collection has the more accurate date. I should note, by the way, that in the Oct 14 issue of Billboard the song listed on the Soul chart was not "I Will Survive" but the flip side "Substitute". Of course both sides of a single are released at the same time. PatConolly (talk) 02:12, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Selena
Why is there no mentioning of Selena covering this song (God rest her soul)? —- 2601:18C:500:5DA0:D48D:45FA:8FCC:727C (talk) 15:29, 19 September 2021 (UTC)