Born This Way

"Born This Way" by Lady Gaga is featured on Just Dance 2016 and Just Dance Now.

Classic
The routine is performed by a trio consisting of a two women and a man.

Lead Dancer (P2)
P2 is a woman with long red hair. She wears half a navy blue blazer which covers a pink top, as well as half a black bra over a black lace shirt, a pair of black one-legged long pants, and navy blue heels, one of which has a leg strap. Her outfit is androgynous, being based to be half masculine and half feminine.

Backup Dancers (P1/P3)
The backup dancers both wear black diamond encrusted masks and black suits with matching shoes. P1’s (the male's) suit has red accents, and P3’s (the female's) suit has white accents.

Nerd Version
A nerdy boy with the following features: In the chorus, his sweater turns turquoise and his pants turn purple.
 * Brown bobbed hair
 * Orange sunglasses
 * Yellow and orange striped sweater
 * Brown high-waisted pants with a brown belt
 * Orange socks
 * Brown shoes

Classic
The background takes place in a circular warehouse. The walls have black curved bars, around are some light up squares and shining lights. The floors have a white circular lace design. The background is shown to start off as royal blue, and transitions to red. Numerous clones of the backup dancers are shown during the routine. At the chorus, the ceiling curves down with the wall and flashes white on the bars. The middle circle is a fiery orange and the walls rotate accordingly. The background turns black and flashes the dancers in the three circles.

Nerd Version
The alternate background takes place in a large library. During the first and second verses, the bookshelves and wooden floors are brown, the floors having a blue and white tile line. There are large arch windows shining daylight. The books on the bookshelf flash different colors throughout the routine. During the choruses, and for the rest of the routine after the second chorus, the library darkens, with multiple colored panels and the windows shining pink.

Classic
There are 4 Gold Moves in the Classic routine:

Gold Move 1: (P2) Raise your arms over your head and back down. (P1 and P3) Bend to the side and lift your arms up and over your head.

Gold Move 2: (P2) Slowly raise your arms. (P1 and P3) Tilt down to the lead dancer.

Gold Moves 3 and 4: Pat your thigh and quickly raise your arms up.

Nerd Version
There are 7 Gold Moves in the Nerd Version routine:

Gold Moves 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7: Bend over and scoop your arms.

Gold Move 3: Punch to the left.

Mashup
There are 8 Gold Moves for P2, and 4 Gold Moves each for P1 and P3: Gold Moves 1, 4, 7 (P2): Move your arms from right to left and raise back your right leg.

Gold Moves 2, 5, 8 (P2); Gold Moves 1, 2, 4 (P1/P3): This is done once at a time. First P1, and then P2 and P3 together: P1: Push your arms to the left, P2: Point to P3. P3: Make a "What?" pose looking to P2.

Gold Move 3 (P2): Point to P1 and P3 grabbing their hands.

Gold Move 6 (P2); Gold Move 3 (P1/P3): This is done once at a time. First P1, then P3 and finally P2. P1: Open your arms, crossing legs. P3: Same as P1, but without crossing legs. P2: Face right, raise your right arm and raise your left leg.

Mashup
Born This Way has a Trio Mashup with the theme Triplets which can be unlocked for 1000 Mojo Coins (or 20 Mojo Coins for all old-gen consoles). It features trios whose dancers are similar in appearance.

Dancers

 * Don't Worry Be Happy
 * Boys (Summertime Love)
 * Epic Sirtaki
 * Uptown Funk (Tuxedo version)
 * The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) [GM1-P2]
 * Let's Groove
 * The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)
 * Let's Groove [GM2-P2] [GM1-P1/3]
 * Uptown Funk (Tuxedo version)
 * Don't Worry Be Happy
 * Boys (Summertime Love) [GM3-P2]
 * Epic Sirtaki
 * Uptown Funk (Tuxedo version)
 * The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) [GM4-P2]
 * Let's Groove
 * The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)
 * Let's Groove [GM5-P2] [GM2-P1/3]
 * Epic Sirtaki
 * Uptown Funk (Tuxedo version) [GM6-P2] [GM3-P1/3]
 * Boys (Summertime Love)
 * The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)
 * Let's Groove
 * The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) [GM7-P2]
 * Let's Groove
 * The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)
 * Let's Groove [GM8-P2] [GM4-P1/3]
 * The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)
 * Don't Worry Be Happy

Party Master Mode
Born This Way has a Party Master Mode on the Wii U. Here are the captions in order of appearance: (captions in bold indicate a Song Switch)
 * Born This Way (Nerd Version)
 * Bollywood Arms/Cyber Bumps/Crab Dance/Stop
 * Grab Them All/Loosing My Mind/Put Your Hands Up/Maximum Hype
 * Jumpy Walk/Summer Steps/On My Horse/Party In My Head
 * Little Bunny/Italian Slide/Shiny Spin/I'm Modern
 * Spinning Braid/I Can Clap/All About That Bass/Want To Want Me
 * Vintage Dancefloor/Candy Cosplay/Party Panda Rules/Yo Yo Yo
 * Mambo Walk/Sliding Air Guitar/Put Your Hands Up/Chest Shake
 * Fitness Exercises/Beautiful Butterfly/Mumbai Princess/African Beat
 * Pew Pew/Que Calor/Side Switches/Sharp Dressed Punches
 * Bollywood Arms/Cyber Bumps/Crab Dance/Gentle Walk
 * At My Feet/Loosing My Mind/Put Your Hands Up/Maximum Hype
 * Jumpy Walk/Green bondage/Teacher/Want To Want Me
 * Little Bunny/Italian Slide/Shiny Spin/To The Sky
 * Look at my braid/I Can Clap/Balerina Training/Too Hot
 * Happy housewife/Candy Cosplay/Party Panda Rules/I am so good I can jump
 * Heart Beat/Stay Away/Teacher/Uptown Funk
 * American Girl/Wild Braid/No No No/Long Walk
 * 80's Fitness/Grab Them All/Fireworks/Waking Up
 * Merry-go-round/Super Dash/Fire Dance/One Leek Please
 * Dancing Freak/Rasta Robot/Balerina Win/Alive And Fabulous
 * Reach The Stars/Look At That/All About That Bass/Uptown Funk
 * Pretentious Girl/Loose Hips/Shiny spinning-top/Throw Down
 * Santa Rocks/Elbow Dance/Russian Tilt/School Out
 * Tchoo Tchoo/SuperTwist/These Cool Steps/Mad Driver
 * Crowd Pleaser/Air Carress/Fitness Clap/Brazilian Lasso
 * Born This Way (Nerd Version)

Dance Quests
Born This Way appears in the following Dance Quest maps.

Original

 * Boombox

Alternate
Does not appear in a Dance Quest

Appearances in Mashups
Born This Way is featured in the following Mashups:

Nerd Version

 * Chiwawa (Nerds)
 * Drop the Mambo (Don't Touch)
 * Irish Meadow Dance

Trivia

 * This is the fourth song by Lady Gaga in the series, after Just Dance, Applause, and Bad Romance.
 * This is the second song to have Male/Female/Female dancers, the first was I Kissed a Girl’s On Stage mode.
 * This is, however, the first Male/Female/Female trio to be used in Classic Mode.
 * Born This Way was the first track on Just Dance 2016 to be revealed via Instagram. undefined
 * The starting lines such as, "It doesn't matter if you love him", and the concluding lines such as, "Same DNA, but born this way" have been removed from the track used in-game.
 * P3 slightly resembles Heavy Cross.
 * However, the dancers aren't the same because of height. Heavy Cross is taller than this dancer.
 * The background is very ancient. According to the behind the scenes video, the outfits and the background were inspired by Cabaret Codes.
 * P2  does a pose which is similar to what Lady Gaga did in her music video for Applause.
 * In a teaser picture leaked on various social networks, it is shown that P2 has lipstick on one end of her lips and eye makeup on her right eye. She also has a suit on one end of her body and an outfit that looks similar to Lady Gaga's on the other side.
 * The routine uses some of the official choreography from the music video.
 * Bad Romance's classic mode also uses moves from the music video.
 * Coincidentally, the songs are both by the same artist.


 * The routine reuses moves from the following songs:
 * Tribal Dance
 * Crazy Little Thing
 * Soul Searchin'
 * I Luh Ya Papi
 * Dance My Generation
 * This is the second Lady Gaga's song to be a trio, after Bad Romance. This does not count Just Dance’s On-Stage mode.
 * There is an Italian line in this song: Mi amore vole fe yah. It is in ancient Italian and it means My love wants faith, yeah.
 * This is the second time when there is a non-English part in Lady Gaga's song, the first time was Bad Romance where she sang a few lines in French.
 * The suit was inspired by the music video. The only difference is that the suit in the video is black and white. However, in the game, it is blue and grey. Also, Gaga was wearing the suit on both sides of her body while the dancer used in game is wearing it on one side of her body.
 * This is the third time in which a song by Lady Gaga used in Just Dance takes inspiration from its respective music video. This comes after the official choreographies of Applause and Bad Romance.
 * Similar to Hey Mama, the unplayable backup dancers in the background are performed by the same respective person according to the behind the scenes footage.
 * In the On The Set: Costumes video, it's revealed that the dancers have the teams' favorite costumes.
 * During the bridge, the background features a girl with short pink hair who may be the beta dancer for this routine. She looks similar to the feminine side of the lead dancer.
 * P2 was teased through a silhouette posted on Facebook.
 * In the square, P2 appears to be missing her make-up.
 * This is also the case for Drop the Mambo.
 * The Nerd Version is one of the few with seven Gold Moves in the series, along with Let's Groove, You Can't Hurry Love and Kiss Datte Hidarikiki.
 * Despite the fact the song's Mashup includes trios, the dance mode is a trio itself but does not appear in the mashup. Instead, Don't Worry Be Happy takes its place for beginning and end.
 * In the Just Dance Now menu, Born This Way and Hey Mama were accidentally placed before Bad Romance for a short period of time. It has been fixed later.
 * In the Behind-the-Scenes footage of Boom Clap, the backup dancers' outfits from this song can be seen; this suggests that the production of Just Dance 2016 was started before finishing Just Dance 2015.

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