Nuestro querido juancrek nos trajo hace poco un temita de Gloria Gaynor, una de las discotequeras que más me gustaban en mi época. Y puesto que me lo ha recordado, la tenía completamente olvidada…traemos un videito que es la maravillosa versión de la película Las aventuras de Priscilla…I will survive. Una buena película de carretera de Stephan Elliott de 1993 …
Yo era un crio en la época…tenía 14 años y fué el tema del año, y aunque mis escuchas en esa época eran otras: Veneno, Tabletom, Triana, Pata Negra, Pink Floyd, Brian Eno,… y odiaba ir a discotecas (sólo he ido una vez en mi vida y estando de vacaciones en Chipiona, la playa de Sevilla) también me gustaba cualquier buena música, y esta lo era, y lo sigue siendo.
La wikipedia habla de I will survive así:
«I Will Survive» is a song first performed by Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris.
The song’s lyrics describe a narrator who finds personal strength while recovering from a break-up; it has often been used as an anthem of female empowerment, (The song features a very similar sound to that of the «The Final Bell» from the Rocky soundtrack.), a gay anthem, and HIV/AIDS awareness – and is a firm favourite on the karaoke circuit. It is one of the most famous disco songs of all time, and easily Gaynor’s biggest hit; it received massive airplay in 1979, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100, also reaching number one in the UK the next day. 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.
The song was originally released as the B-side to a Gaynor song called «Substitute», a track thought to have more potential for mainstream success by her record label. Disc jockeys began flipping the single over and eventually copies of the record were pressed with «I Will Survive» as the A-side («Substitute» managed to peak at number 107 on Billboard’s Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart).
Por último, tenéis una versión de doña Gloria…
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xv6lHwWwO3w[/youtube]