Talk:Just Dance 2016/@comment-1465604-20150917002806/@comment-1465604-20150917171350

Jamie Spears is notorious for wanting to control everything about Britney, her catalogue and image. I can totally see him cooking up a policy that stated that no original version of her songs can be included in a videogame because in his twisted mind, if the videogame is bad, it might bring down Britney's rep, but if the song is obviously a cover, then there's some leeway.

It would make no sense for no game 'til now except Singstar to include original versions of Britney's songs if it was just a matter of cost, seeing as how the last time we had a Britney song (and it was a cover) was back in "Just Dance 4", a game they seemingly spared no expenses for. They licensed not one but two of the summer's greatest hits ("Call Me Maybe" and "Gangnam Style"), a song from then up-and-coming-and-already-huge band One Direction and they still had the Dance Central series to compete with back then. The game also had 50 songs, the largest on-disc song list to date (matched by JD2014). So unless Jamie Spears was asking for, I don't know, $20.000 extra for use of the original, I don't understand why they didn't just hand him the money back then but are doing it now.