Lykke Li has shared a cover of Gloria Gaynor’s iconic 1978 disco hit ‘I Will Survive’. Listen to Li’s stripped-back, piano-led rendition of the track below.
“i wasn’t going to put this one out but then so many of you asked for it after seeing it…” the singer-songwriter wrote in an Instagram post. “this is something i made for another thing in the heatwave, quarantine, alone at the piano at night with the crickets singing. believe it or not i actually don’t know anything about technology so this was the first time i ever opened garage-band, it’s even the first i ever fully accompany myself on the piano, i can’t really play piano, i usually just write on it but if there’s something this quarantine has done is to bring me back to where i started. singing, playing, for joy, for therapy, for survival. my songs, other songs i love.”
She continued: “i know so many people are suffering right now and there’s been so much loss. loss of life, loss of family, loss of love, loss of work, loss of hope, loss of dreams, loss of air! i feel you all and i feel for you all. and i really hope we can all survive this together.”
Lykke Li’s most recent album, so sad so sexy, was released in June of 2018. She followed it up a year later with the still sad still sexy EP.
