Song Styles
Posted On August 28, 2017
/ Written by Lindsey Duncan
The Red Shoes - Kate Bush
The song references a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a pair of enchanted shoes that force the wearer to dance endlessly. This particular version seems to imply a cure that, while not part of the original fairy tale, is a very common trope: to escape the red shoes, one must give them to someone else, passing the curse along.