“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 in 1518.

Although it may first appear to be 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. The Rolling Stone Magazine stated in an interview that

part of her felt like the pandemic was her being punished for any prescience in her work, and for wanting to rest for a while.

In the very same interview, Welch talked about how dancing is important to her, saying,

I need the movement to move it out of myself. If I sit in the sadness, it doesn’t go away.

This directly relates to the chorus of “Free”, the song right before “Choreomania”, where the singer literally says that dancing sets her free. Ergo, “Choreomania” and Dance Fever. The last line in “Free” says,

I am free

Which creates a direct link to the beginning of the first line in “Choreomania”.

And I am freaking out

When listening to “Free” and “Choreomania” in direct succession, this homophone creates a nearly seamless transition between the two songs and reminds the listener of the dark side of Welch’s Dance Fever.