"I Just Want to Celebrate" is the Motown Records hit you never thought would echo across the decades. Its seismic funk-rock groove is an enduring signifier of the song's moment of creation - of all the chart singles recorded in 1971, it might be the ‘71-iest - but its lust for life crackles with renewed energy and urgency in a post-COVID America reeling from gun violence, mental health crises, opioid addiction and environmental catastrophe. "I Just Want to Celebrate" remains resonant because it was right all along: survival is nothing to sneeze at, and in a world as chaotic and uncaring as this one, simply making it through another day deserves an anthem all its own.
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