Blake told TheBoot.com he wasn’t originally asked to record "Footloose": "They originally asked me to do another song but I told them it was 'Footloose' or nothing," he said. "That song was the only one I was interested in doing. When I asked to do it, I knew it would be polarizing, and I was right. I mean, I'm that guy, I always have been. Who better to do that song and piss people off than me?"
He says of the video, "The video is freakin' cool. We did it in Lewisburg (Tenn.) and we brought a bunch of kids into this drive-in theater. We had everybody dancing and having fun."
The movie itself -- which stars Kenny Wormald as Kevin Bacon, Julianne Hough as Lori Singer, Dennis Quaid as John Lithgow and Andie McDowell as Dianne Wiest -- has received fair to middling reviews and has a score of 5.8 out of 10 on metacritic.com.
