Gloria Gaynor ride the success of "I Will Survive", touring the country and the world over and performing her signature song on dozens of TV shows. A few successful remixes of the song during the 1990s and 2000s along with new versions of the song by Lonnie Gordon, Diana Ross, Chantay Savage, rock group Cake and others as well as constant recurrent airplay on nearly all Soft AC and Rhythmic format radio stations have helped to keep the song in the mainstream. Said Gaynor of her biggest hit in a 2012 interview: "It feels great to have such a song like that
Emotion: Side B B"s release on August 26, 2016, expressing her gratitude and wishing to reciprocate her fans' support. "Side B" received a limited physical release on September 9, 2016, with autographed copies, and it arrived on vinyl on December 16, 2016. Though no singles were issued to promote the EP directly, "First Time" was previously released as a promotional single for "Emotion Remixed +". It charted at number 71 on the "Billboard" Japan Hot 100. The country received an exclusive reissue of the EP on September 13, 2017, entitled "Cut to the Feeling: Emotion Side B +" with revised artwork, featuring the