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“Choreomania” was one of the first songs written for Dance Fever, and could be seen as the record’s title track, since it was named after a dancing plague that took place in Europe during the 16th century, more precisely, 1518.
Although it might look like this is a COVID-19 related track, it was actually written before the pandemic hit, as Florence Welch detailed in an interview with The Independent.
"The weirdest thing about that song is that it was written before Covid. I started writing it in 2019 and, very strangely in the prescient ways that songs do, the ones that seem the most pandemic-y were written before the pandemic. And that happens to me quite a lot."
However, the pandemic naturally found its way to the song. During the dancing plague, people took to streets in uncontrollable bouts of dancing, which was thought to be a sort of catharsis. Florence felt a similar feeling during the periods of lockdown; that dancing would release her from the anxiety of never touring again.
This directly relates to the chorus of “Free”, where the singer literally says that dancing sets her free. Ergo, “Choreomania” and Dance Fever.
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