Retro Video of the Week: "I Will Survive" by Cake

The latest COVID-19-related installment of Retro Video of the Week takes us to 1996.  A glorious year by all accounts, 1996 was the year alt-rockers Cake released their second studio album, Fashion Nugget.  The album contained their two biggest hits to that point, "The Distance" (which is also a social-distancing-appropriate song), and their monotone cover of Gloria Gaynor's disco classic "I Will Survive."  The song is a testament to being scared, petrified even, of being alone.  Over and over again, you run through the scenarios in your head of how good it all used to be.  Going to bars, eating food outside the confines of your dwelling, going to concerts, hugging, going to parties, high fiving, not wearing a mask to go to a grocery store, touching a stranger's genitals (only with their express consent, of course).  You start by longing for those things and thinking there's no way you'll make it a week, much less a month or two.  And then one day (or thirty days later), you're like, Fuck it, man, I don't need that shit.  I can just watch Tiger King, get booze delivered, stream concerts, high five strangers on my Peloton, eat every meal on my couch, refuse to wear any pants without elastic waistbands, stop shaving everywhere, and explore the bounds of my comfort zone on PornHub.  And as long as I know how to Zoom, I know I'll be alive.