Gloria Gaynor Samuel L. Jackson, Charles Barkley, and Spike Lee sang "I Will Survive". In 2016, Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" was selected for induction into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. On May 6, 2017, Gloria Gaynor performed with her band at the Library of Congress' celebration of disco music at Bibliodiscotheque, a disco dance party in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson building. Due to the devastation wreaked by hurricane Harvey on the state of Texas in August 2017, Gaynor rewrote the lyrics to "I Will Survive," changing the title to "Texas Will Survive," and posted video of
Emotion: Side B Jepsen's decision to release "Side B" in the aftermath of "Emotion"'s campaign fumble was observed upon. Writing for "Exclaim!", Jill Krajewski quipped: "[...] if the rollout of "Emotion" was overthinking it, "Side B" finds Jepsen coming to a sweet realization: Don't think it over." She praised EP for its high "single potential" and ponders if the songs were blueprints to "Run Away with Me", "the" megahit of its parent album, "And yet, in their raw state, they show Jepsen at her most powerful and unfettered [...]" In a more mixed review, the 405's Mark Matousek states that "Side B" is