When I Grow Up

"When I Grow Up" by The Pussycat Dolls 'is featured on Just Dance 2'.''

Grown-Up
The song starts with a grown-up celebrity lady. She's wearing an aqua and purple dress. Her hair and sunglasses appears to be aqua too, and she's wearing a purple hat, one purple glove (the other is hot pink) as well as light blue high-heels. She's standing "on" The Red Carpet and around her there are paparazzis, palm trees, railings and it might be glowing lights from a city.

Teen
Every time "When I grow up" is sung the lady "turns" into a teen/kid in her room who wishes to become famous when she grows up. She's in fact wearing the same accessories as her adult-form but instead of a dress and high-heels, she's wearing an orange t-shirt with matching shorts, plain white shoes with purple socks. A feather boa has been added, and her hair and glasses are orange like her clothes. Her room is displayed as very orange, a window with curtains can be seen, a bed, an armchair/sofa with lots of cuddly toys, a bed with a dolphin on it and a clothes-hanger. Also, a Raving Rabbid appears on the couch as one of the stuffed animals.

Alternate Dances/Contest Winners
There was a contest held which let fans choreograph their own dances to "When I Grow Up". Three winners got their dances recorded (the winners were dancing themselves) and added into the game as Alternate routines.

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Contest Winner 1
The first winner was         Sam        from       France     . He is wearing:


 * A yellow   cap


 * A green hoodie


 * Blue pants


 * White and green sneakers.

Contest Winner 2
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 * A hot pink <span id="cke_bm_78E" style="display: none;">  dress


 * A light blue jacket with short sleves


 * A very dark purple belt


 * Since her hair is Blonde the special effects make her hair white in-game. The same thing happened to her shoes which, apparently, are very light pink.

Contest Winner 3
The third winner was  Liana Veda from the U.S. She is wearing the following:


 * A hot pink tank top and warmers


 * A dark purple short skirt


 * Orange leggings


 * Dark shoes.


 * Her hair and hat are purple.

Classic
The Classic routine has a total of 3 Gold Moves:

Gold Move 1: Put your hands in the air. Gold Move 2: Do a dramatic faint position. Gold Move 3: Pull up your hands a little and rotate the upper part of the body.

Sam
The routine by Sam has 4 Gold Moves: All: Open your legs and your arms and raise them up (similar to Fame).

Mandy
The routine by Mandy has 2 Gold Moves: All: Slide your right arm in a semicircle and slide your left hand on it.

Liana
The routine by Liana has 2 Gold Moves: Gold Move 1: akin to Sam's Gold Moves, but standing on the left side. Gold Move 2: put your right arm up while bending your right leg.

Appearances in Mashups
When I Grow Up is featured in the following Mashups:
 * Ain't No Other Man
 * You're the First, the Last, My Everything
 * Wild Wild West

Captions
When I Grow Up appears in Puppet/Party Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to her dance moves:
 * Cutie Pie
 * Pick And Choose
 * Posh
 * Posh Pose

Trivia

 * This is The Pussycat Dolls' first song on the series; it is followed by Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) on the Best Buy Edition of the same game.
 * Along with Holiday, S.O.S and Song 2, this is one of the first four songs to feature a transforming dancer. She is also the first dancer to completely transform for a significant amount of time.
 * The beta version of the song had a different colour scheme. It can still be seen in the Just Dance 2 bubble.
 * The teenager closely resembles Eye of the Tiger.
 * This is the first song in the series to have alternate routines.
 * When I Grow Up originally had a different choreography.
 * You can find information about it here.
 * For the contest winners, when they start recording with outfits on, in the real world, it has a different color scheme. This was probably done to make it look more colorful.
 * As of its release date, this song had the most alternate routines. It was later beaten by Where Have You Been.
 * This is the first song to have alternate versions. The second was seen a game later and has become a common feature in every subsequent sequel.
 * The silhouette of the chorus dancer appears in the Multiplayer menu of Just Dance Wii, even though the song is not playable in that game.
 * Perhaps it was supposed to be there at one point.
 * The Alternate choreography by the third contest winner uses a move from Bad Romance Alternate. It's very possible Bad Romance didn't recycle any move, but When I Grow Up did it from the music video for Bad Romance.
 * Summer reuses the move from alternate routine by the third contest winner.
 * The alternates are the only routines with score but no stars in the game; this happens later in Tutorial Mode of Just Dance Wii 2.
 * The back of the PAL cover of the game mistakenly says the song is covered by The Hit Crew.
 * The avatar is supposed to be wearing sunglasses like its coach, but instead it is wearing glasses.
 * You Make Me Feel... reuses a move from the 3rd contest winner.

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