Slaveholders were not footloose; they had all to lose if they should carry their blacks into Kansas and should nevertheless fail to make it a slave-state.
Olivia Newton-John's video for Physical and movies like Footloose helped propel 80s legwarmers to even more popularity, but the fad largely died down by the mid-80s.
The soundtrack features lots of songs by lots of people, including one guy that would have no career if not for film soundtracks, Kenny Loggins. 9 Million copies of Footloose were danced to.
The Footloose soundtrack got a small conservative town back on its feet and on the dance floor, and it did the same thing for millions of music fans in the 80s.
The soundtrack to Footloose was a mixture of new tracks created for the film, R&B and dance tracks and metal music from the era.