Kenny Loggins’ song Footloose is as synonymous with Kevin Bacon as it is with the movie. Therefore, it makes sense that when a DJ sees the actor at a wedding, they put it on the rotation. And Bacon hates it. However, it is not why you think he does.
“The reason is, I mean, it sounds like it, it sounds sort of obnoxious because the movie was so great for me and we played in the band. And I’ve played the song, you know, a million times. And the star at the wedding is the bride and the groom,” he told Drew Barrymore on her talk show today. “So if you go to a wedding, it always starts, this is, so many times it starts out cool, and then, you know, the drinking starts. And at about 10 o’clock, the, the DJ plays that song. People kind of form a circle around me and start clapping like I’m a trained monkey. I mean, and expect me to, you know, do a thing and I just, my feeling is I’m not the I’m not the focus here like the, you know, it’s, it’s gotta be about those two people so that’s why I tend to not want to hear it at a wedding.”
That makes perfect sense. I love that he has remained so humble, even though every actor is Six Degrees away from him, including me!
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