Pound The Alarm

"Pound The Alarm" by Nicki Minaj is featured on Just Dance 2014, Just Dance Now and Just Dance Unlimited.

Classic
The Classic routine features four female dancers, who all turn black-skinned during the chorus:

P1

 * She wears a Trinidadian style festival outfit
 * An orange feather headdress similar to Apache (Jump On It)
 * A sleeveless orange loose tank top
 * Orange shorts
 * Leggings
 * Black strap orange heeled sandals
 * Puffy brown hair

P2

 * Wears a purple and yellow legless jumpsuit
 * Feathers on the shoulders, similar to Super Bass
 * Purple triangle make-up over her eyes
 * Long purple boots
 * Long black hair in the back
 * Festival crown

P3

 * A red tube-top, with multiple cut frills at the end
 * Black pants with red-and-yellow designs
 * Red frilled boots, and a triangular red headdress
 * She has long brown hair free-flowing

P4

 * Wears a more flamboyant festival outfit
 * Pink skinny pants with yellow and blue squares on the sides
 * A blue design on the front
 * Pink bikini top with cut out designs on the upper chest
 * Pink and blue wings on the back
 * Braided cornrows, ank pink and blue face make-up
 * Blue boots
 * Pink and blue arm bangles on the left arm

When the chorus of the song begins and during certain moves, they turn pitch black, and their hair turns white. Outfit color schemes also change, with P1 turning blue, P2 turning red, P3 turning purple, and P4 green and yellow. The outfits themselves are inspired from the Pound The Alarm music video, with some festive Carnival elements added.

Extreme
A man with the following features: During the EDM part, his skin turns black, his green parts turn blue and his red parts turn yellow.
 * Green Mohawk
 * A pair of yellow and red horns
 * Black beard and a red stripe on his face
 * Some green and red necklaces
 * A triangular red strip with some smaller strips on his chest
 * Green shoulder pads
 * Two orange bands on his arms
 * Red glove
 * Green short pants with an orange triangular decoration on them
 * Tribal bracelets on his ankles
 * Barefeet

Classic
The dance takes place in a fiesta with a confetti shower. During the chorus, the background turns dark blue and the dancers stand on a shining, sparkling circle.

Extreme
The normal Extreme background for Just Dance 2014. It mostly flashes gold.

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 before  Pound the alarm  is sung.

Extreme
There are 4 Gold Moves in the Extreme routine: Gold Moves 1, 2 and 3: Point with your fists to the floor before  Pound the alarm  is sung.

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

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

Dancers

 * On the Floor
 * #thatPOWER (Extreme)
 * 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 Mashup:
 * Rabiosa (Bring Your Friends)
 * You're On My Mind (Quatro)

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

Trivia

 * The dancers appear to be wearing Trinidadian festival costumes similar to those in the music video of this song.
 * Coincidentally, Nicki Minaj is of Trinidadian nationality.
 * The Extreme routine is the first Alternate in the series to be a DLC.
 * It's speculated that perhaps the P4 dancer is the main dancer of the song, because she's the only dancer used in promotional pictures of the song choreography and she is different than the other dancers. She has her hair styled while the others have their hair down, and she has a mask that covers her whole face.
 * After the second chorus, during the bridge, it's visibly possible to see the dancers breathing heavily. It's obvious/suggested the moves they performed during the chorus tired them out.
 * When the Extreme Routine was announced on YouTube, it wasn't announced as a DLC.
 * This was fixed later.
 * Some of the moves from Classic routine take inspiration from the ones in the music video.
 * This is the third song by Nicki Minaj song in the series. It was preceded by Beauty And A Beat and Super Bass. It is followed by Starships, Bang Bang and Hey Mama.
 * In the Classic routine, before the music starts, a shortened version of the melody from the beginning of the music video appears.
 * The menu icon shows P2's jumpsuit to be blue and yellow instead of purple and yellow.
 * P2 and P3 switch color schemes in the chorus.
 * When P1 is in the neon version, she is seen in completely opposite colors.
 * "Skeezer" and "b***h" are censored.
 * This is the second Nicki Minaj song in the series to have a male dancer to one of the modes. The first time was Beauty And A Beat, which is by Justin Bieber and also features Nicki.
 * This is also the first Nicki Minaj song in the series which is a Dance Crew; it is followed by Bang Bang (as a featured artist).
 * This is the third Nicki Minaj song to have a battle against another song (in this case Kiss You), after Super Bass (which goes against Love You Like A Love Song) and Beauty And A Beat (which goes against Call Me Maybe) both of which are in Just Dance 4.
 * In the battle routine, P1's glove is purple instead of sky blue.
 * For reaching Level 4000 on the World Dance Floor in Just Dance 2015, P3's avatar is unlocked.
 * This song breaks the trend that Nicki Minaj has - it is the first of her songs to not have a Hard rating, although the Extreme version of the song has a Hardest rating. This would be carried onto Bang Bang, which has no difficulty rating.
 * The Classic routine reuses a move from Super Bass.
 * If you look closely in the extreme choreography in the line "I just want you tonight", you'll see that the dancer's feet have a black hole into them (like the "armpits hair" in We R Who We R).
 * If you view the Extreme routine in the eShop, the title will end with the word "test".
 * At launch, the Classic routine as available on Just Dance Unlimited was not synced properly, with the video being slightly, approximately 1 line in the song, ahead of the music. However, This was later fixed.
 * As seen in a tutorial video for downloading DLCs on Just Dance 2014 for your Wii U, the extreme version was going to have a different square.undefined
 * Another beta square was also found on the PAL version's instruction manual for downloading DLC.
 * If one views the routine selection menu of the song in Just Dance 2014 on their Xbox Smartglass app, they will notice that the app will show an unedited version of the Extreme coach in the square.