Pound The Alarm

"Pound The Alarm" by is featured on, , and.

Classic
The Classic routine features four female dancers with outfits inspired from the Pound the Alarm music video.

P1
P1 has puffy brown hair. She wears an orange feather headdress (similar to Apache (Jump On It)), an orange loose sleeveless tank top, red shorts, orange fishnet tights, and orange heeled sandals with black straps.

P2
P2 has long black hair and a yellow and red festival crown. She wears a purple and yellow legless jumpsuit with purple feathers on the shoulders (similar to Super Bass) and long purple boots. She also has triangular purple makeup over her eyes.

P3
P3 has long, free-flowing brown hair. She wears a red tube-top with multiple cut frills at the end, black pants with red and yellow designs at the end and red frilled boots. She also has a red, white and black triangular festival crown, yellow face paint, and frills on her arms similar to the ones on her tube-top.

P4
P4 wears a flamboyant outfit. She has brown hair braided into cornrows. She wears a pink bikini top with cut-out designs on the upper chest, pink skinny pants with yellow and blue squares on the sides and a blue design on the front, pink and blue wings, and blue boots. She has pink and blue face makeup and has pink and blue bangles on her left arm.

When the chorus of the song begins and during certain moves, their skin turns black, and their hair turns white. Outfit color schemes also change, with P1 turning blue, P2 turning red, P3 turning purple, and P4 turning lime green.

Extreme
The dancer is a man with a green mohawk, a pair of yellow and red horns, a black beard and a red stripe on his face, green and red necklaces ,a triangular red strip with some smaller strips on his chest, green shoulder pads, two orange bands on his arms, green short pants with an orange triangular decoration on them, and tribal bracelets on his ankles. He is barefoot.

During specific parts of the song, his skin turns black, his green parts turn blue and his red parts turn yellow.

Classic
The routine starts in a maroon room with a flower in the right and confetti. When Nicki starts to sing, a red and black path with triangles is seen, and the flower starts to glow.

Before the pre-chorus, the background turns black, and there's a blue spotlight with a pink circle. After GM1 is performed, the background returns to the same as the beginning.

During the chorus, the background returns to the second shape it was, but there is smoke in the background, lights are moving. When Nicki does not sing, the pink circle glows.

Extreme
The background is the normal background of Extreme routines. In this routine, the squares are in different colors like - green, yellow, blue, purple, and pink.

When ' Music makes me high ' is sung, the squares turn black with orange outlines.

At some parts of the song, the coach's shadow is seen in the squares.

Classic
There are 5 Gold Moves in the Classic routine:

Gold Moves 1 and 3: Do the move before the gold move and end it with your hands pointing to the floor.

Gold Moves 2, 4, and 5: Put your hand up with your palms pointing to the air.

Extreme
There are 4 Gold Moves in the Extreme routine:

Gold Moves 1, 2, and 3: Point with your fists to the floor.

Gold Move 4: Cross your wrists above your head. This is the final move of the routine.

Mashup
Pound The Alarm has a Mashup that can only be unlocked in July.

Dancers

 * On the Floor
 * #thatPOWER (Extreme)
 * On The Floor
 * California Gurls
 * Idealistic
 * Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Alternate)
 * Firework
 * #thatPOWER (Extreme)
 * Hey Boy Hey Girl
 * Crazy Christmas 
 * On the Floor
 * California Gurls
 * Idealistic
 * Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Alternate)
 * Firework
 * #thatPOWER (Extreme)
 * Hey Boy Hey Girl
 * Crazy Christmas 
 * Never Gonna Give You Up
 * Funhouse
 * I Kissed a Girl
 * #thatPOWER (Extreme)
 * Hey Boy Hey Girl
 * Crazy Christmas

Battle
Pound the Alarm has a Battle against Kiss You. For the battle, click here.

Appearances in Mashups
Pound The Alarm is featured in the following Mashups:

Classic

 * Rabiosa (Bring Your Friends)
 * You're On My Mind (Quatro)

Extreme

 * Fun

Captions
The extreme version of Pound The Alarm appears in Party Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to his dance moves.
 * Mystic Dance

Dance Quests
Pound The Alarm appears in the following Dance Quest maps:
 * Ring

General

 *  is the third song by Nicki Minaj in the series.
 *  is the third song by Nicki Minaj to have a battle routine.
 * "" and "b**ch" are censored.

Classic

 * In the Classic routine, before the music starts, a shortened version of the melody from the beginning of the music video appears.
 * P2's color scheme is incorrect on the menu square and coach selection screen of the Classic routine, as the eye makeup and feathers are pink instead of purple.
 * In the menu square, it can also be seen that the coach's suit is blue and yellow instead of black and purple and the red stripes on the boots are red instead of purple. In the coach selection screen, the purple part of the suit is purple with blue accents.
 * P2 and P3 switch color schemes in the chorus.
 * When P1 is in her neon state, she is seen in completely inverted colors.
 * P3's avatar can be unlocked in by reaching Level 4000 on the World Dance Floor.
 * At the launch of, the Classic routine was not synced properly, with the video being approximately one line ahead of the music. This was later fixed.
 * However, this is also present on the preview. It has not been fixed.
 * In the files, there is a move that is named poundthealarm_powerrangers.msm, which is a reference to .

Extreme

 * The Extreme routine is the first alternate routine in the series to be downloadable content.
 * When the Extreme Routine was announced on YouTube, it was not announced as a downloadable routine. This was fixed later.
 * During the line "I just want you tonight", the dancer's feet appears to have a black hole in them.
 * In the eShop, the title for the Extreme routine ends with the word "test".
 * As seen in a tutorial video for downloading routine on on the Wii U, the Extreme routine was going to have a different menu square.
 * Another beta square was also found on the PAL version's instruction manual for downloading routines.
 * The pose on the second Beta square is used as an album coach on.
 * In, on the Xbox Smartglass app, the routine selection menu of Pound The Alarm shows an unedited version of the Extreme coach in the square.

Battle

 * See Kiss You VS. Pound The Alarm

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