Kevin Bacon performs song from his classic 80s film weeks after 'banning' it
Kevin Bacon recently declared he would not be getting 'footloose' any time soon, only to belt the classic 80s song a month later.
The American actor banned the lead track to the 1984 film after being asked to dance 'like a monkey' too many times.
Footloose saw him play Ren McCormack – a Chicago teenager who tries to overturn a ban on dancing in a small Utah town.
Kenny Loggins sang the track, which became an international hit, while the music video featured Kevin, 66, and his dance moves.
He previously revealed that it is his 'nightmare' that Footloose might begin to play while he's unsuspectingly enjoying his life.
Despite his protesting, Kevin not only played the song but sang it himself while at Stagecoach Festival in California over the weekend.
The Bacon Band performed Footloose with Kevin on vocals and tambourine and his brother Michael on guitar.
Fans were shocked to hear the track sung so soon after the Tremors actor begged for a break from it.
While at SXSW Festival in March, Kevin told the crowd: 'My worst nightmare is to be at a wedding and the DJ puts on Footloose. They always start out being about the bride, and then there's alcohol involved.
'And by about 10:30, the song comes on, and suddenly the wedding becomes about me getting out and dancing. People will literally form a circle around me and clap their hands like I'm a trained monkey.'
He's even gone to the extent of approaching DJs early at events like weddings and parties to try to politely stop the tune from rearing its head.
He confessed that he has 'no one to blame' but himself, as he 'wanted' the fame and global recognition.
Footloose was a major success, becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 1984, and while it wasn't his first role, it became Kevin's best known.
'It was definitely my dream to have all those things,' he told the audience at SXSW.
'But until you really have that, you don't really realise there's something kind of strange about it – it was just so the opposite of how I wanted to view myself.'
His feelings aren't from a dislike of the film or the song, which he said he loves and is '100% proud of.
After 40 years of being asked to dance on command, we can imagine it gets old. More Trending
This isn't the first time the actor has expressed frustration at the Footloose expectations, as he confessed to Metro last year he 'doesn't know' what the dance actually is.
Kevin remarked he has become slightly irritated by people asking him to perform it – a precursor to his banning
He said: 'When people say, 'Do the Footloose dance,' I don't know what the Footloose dance is. I was on a red carpet recently – a couple of people [asked me] 'Will you do the Footloose dance?' And I'm like, 'No!'
'I'll do that when I choose to do it.'
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