Starships

"Starships" by is featured on, , and.

Classic
The dancer is a woman that wears a purple dress with yellow sleeves. There are stripes on one sleeve and dots on the other. On her waist, she has a big blue ribbon. She has pink-and-blue hair with pink, blue, and orange flowers on it. She also has black high-heels, and blue socks that have the appearance of liquid flowing on them. Her makeup is extremely visible. Her glove has a ribbon on it that has a similar color to the glove itself. She closely resembles Nicki Minaj.

Charleston
The dancers are a couple dressed in a 20s British style.

P1
P1, a woman, wears a gray dress, a red headband, a pink necklace, maroon heels, and short pink hair.

P2
P2, a man, wears a pink shirt, a red tie, maroon striped coat, short red pants, pink shoes, and short red hair.

Classic
The level takes place inside the mouth of what seems to be a monster. The background is a blue sky with clouds and unrealistic (almost cartoony) metallic-looking rainbows with the colors (in-order) yellow, orange, pink, purple and darker purple. The dancer is standing on a flying pink candy-resembling platform that, like the rainbows, looks metallic-looking. When the chorus starts and "Starships" is sung the platform flies upwards to a pink sky with hot air balloons and blimps. When it reaches the top there is a background similar to the one at the bottom. It then floats down again and the process repeats itself once. After it repeats itself, the platform flies towards the screen and out of a monster's mouth. When "We're higher than a ..." is sung and the dancer moves far away from the monster. The background turns into a passage with multiple flashing and colorful lights; most likely trying to be like in the music video. After the line has been sung thrice, the dancer will once again end up on the platform and go back into the mouth and back to the normal blue sky. All of this repeats but when the bridge of the song begins the platform will instead fly into outer space after the background with many colors. It then flies up extremely fast passing the blue sky and the red one; it is also extremely fast when the platform comes down. The last verse is just like the others.

Charleston
The background appears to be a stage with spotlights and a silver platform behind it. It looks nearly identical to Happy 's Sing Along background.

Classic
There are 4 Gold Moves in the Classic routine: Gold Moves 1, 3 and 4: Bend your knees and pull your arms downwards and then spin your head in a clockwise direction. Gold Move 2: Put your hands on your chin like a "Y" while leaning downwards.

Charleston
There are 3 Gold Moves in the Charleston routine: Gold Move 1 (P1): Slap P2's rear end sending him flying towards the right. Gold Moves 1 and 2 (P2): Put your left hand on your chest while pointing towards the right diagonally. Gold Move 2 (P1): Put your hands up because P2 catches P1 with an invisible lasso. Gold Move 3 (Both): P1: Put your hands on your hips. P2: Put your left hand on your left hip and put your right hand up. This is the final move of the Charleston routine.

Sweat Mashup
The Sweat Mashup only has one Gold Move.
 * Gold Move: Flap your hands up and down. (Ghostbusters (Sweat))

Sweat Mashup
Starships has a Sweat Mashup on Just Dance 2014 that can be unlocked for 5 Mojocoins.

Dancers

 * Starships
 * Disco Ball Head Dancer
 * Party Rock Anthem
 * Follow The Leader (Sweat)
 * Limbo (Sweat)
 * Dun N’ Dusted
 * Fame
 * Boomsday
 * I Was Made For Lovin’ You (Sweat)
 * Where Have You Been (Extreme)
 * Hey Boy Hey Girl
 * Disco Ball Head Dancer
 * Party Rock Anthem
 * Follow The Leader (Sweat)
 * Limbo (Sweat)
 * Dun N’ Dusted
 * Fame
 * Boomsday
 * I Was Made For Lovin’ You (Sweat)
 * Where Have You Been (Extreme)
 * Hey Boy Hey Girl
 * Limbo (Sweat)
 * Ghostbusters (Sweat) [GM]
 * Boomsday
 * I Was Made For Lovin’ You (Sweat)
 * Where Have You Been (Extreme)
 * Hey Boy Hey Girl
 * Starships

Party Master Mode
Starships has a Party Master Mode. Here are the captions that appear in order of appearance:

(Captions in bold indicate a Song Switch.)


 * Starships
 * Nice Guy Serenade/Talking To Me?/Telepathic Transmission/Hot Boy
 * 70's/Fitness Fun/Wind Up Pony/Dancefloor/Super Woodpecker
 * Watch It!/Punching Mill/Hard Rock Santa/Monster Claw
 * Russian Plane/Rubber Leg/Follow The Leader (Glitch found only on the Wii U)/Gentleman
 * Zombie Walk/Hammer Time/Over You/Peace And Love
 * Energetic Girl/African Punch/Half Time/Medalion Man
 * Elbow Stomp/Earthquake/Circular Punch/Robot Dance
 * Move Like A Star☆/Cyber Punch/Double Punch/Exorcism
 * Pom Pom Swing/Rolling Clap/Pretencious/Cyber Man
 * Pin-Up Kick/Nice To Meet You/Love Boat/She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)
 * Nice Guy Serenade/Talking To Me?/Telepathic Transmission/Hot Boy
 * 70's/Fitness Fun/Wind Up Pony/Dancefloor/Super Woodpecker
 * Watch It!/Punching Mill/Hard Rock Santa/Monster Claw
 * Russian Plane/Rubber Leg/Troublemaker/Where Have You Been
 * Zombie Walk/Hammer Time/Over You/Peace And Love
 * Energetic Girl/African Punch/Half Time/Medalion Man
 * Elbow Stomp/Earthquake/Circular Punch/Robot Dance
 * Move Like A Star☆/Cyber Punch/Double Punch/Exorcism
 * Pom Pom Swing/Rolling Clap/Pretencious/Cyber Man
 * African Swim/Princess/Emotion Overdose/Dream Doll
 * Where Are You?/Let Me Pass/Silent Fall/Party Lights
 * Russian Plane/Rubber Leg/Flashdance ... What a Feeling/I Will Survive
 * Elbow Stomp/Earthquake/Circular Punch/Robot Dance
 * Move Like A Star☆/Cyber Punch/Groovy Jerk/Exorcism
 * Pom Pom Swing/Rolling Clap/Pretencious/Cyber Man
 * Starships

Appearances in Mashups
Starships appears in the following Mashups:
 * DADDY (K-Pop)
 * Flashdance ... What a Feeling
 * Gentleman
 * Ghostbusters
 * I Love It (Best of JD 2014)
 * Just a Gigolo
 * Moskau
 * Papaoutai (Ultra Violet)

Classic

 * Pine Cone

Appearances in Playlists
 appears in the following playlists:

Just Dance Now

 * All Songs S-Z
 * Easy Peasy Party
 * Hall of Fame
 * Solo
 * Beats from the Far East

Just Dance Unlimited

 * Beats from the Far East
 * S-Z
 * Princess
 * Princess

Captions
Starships appears in Party Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to her dance moves.
 * Cheery Jump
 * Cute Kicks
 * Girly Walk
 * Like A Flower
 * Losing My Mind (sometimes misspelled as Loosing My Mind)
 * Kawaii Up (sometimes misspelled as Kawai Up)
 * Modeling
 * Model Walk
 * Overpowered Mill
 * Rolling For You
 * Running Weird
 * Smart Lolita

Trivia

 * This is the fourth song by Nicki Minaj song in the series, after Super Bass, Beauty And A Beat (as a featured artist) and Pound The Alarm. It is followed by Bang Bang (second time as a featured artist), Hey Mama (third time as a featured artist), Side to Side (fourth time as a featured artist), Kissing Strangers (fifth time as a featured artist) and Swish Swish (sixth time as a featured artist).
 * The official clean version is used, so the words "B***hes," "S**ts," "Motherf**ker" and "F**k" are censored. Unlike the official clean music video, "Motherf**ker" is completely censored.
 * In the E3 trailer, Ubisoft used the explicit version, meaning that "motherf**ker" can still be heard.
 * "B**ches" is still almost audible.
 * On Just Dance 2014, the lyric highlighting gets ahead of itself multiple times in all modes.  This is fixed on Just Dance Unlimited and mostly fixed on Just Dance Now.
 * This was originally going to be a DLC for along with Candy, but both were taken out and put in  for more excitement.
 * If this song was put in Just Dance 4 as a DLC, Nicki Minaj would've been the fifth artist with three songs in the same game along with Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Sia and Pitbull.
 * Nicki Minaj later had this achievement in Just Dance 2018.
 * The resolution goes down during the flashing lights background on YouTube videos because the colored background can cause people with epilepsy to have seizures. To raise it, it has to be 480p or higher.
 * The resolution does not go down in the game and on mobile phone though.
 * Not many dance moves of the alternate choreography give points due to the fact that they use only their legs a lot. This goes for both motion controller and camera consoles.
 * This song's classic coach won in the Most Stylish Female Coach category on the first Just Dance Awards.
 * While doing Gold Move 2, if you get it, the YEAH! it will look more faded than the others.
 * If you look very closely, the classic coach bears a striking resemblance to Nicki Minaj especially when the chorus of the song is danced.
 * During the Party Master Mode, if the player who holds the gamepad switches to another song (Follow The Leader is one of them), the routine can unexpectedly stop.
 * The Party Master has a possible total of 13 Gold Moves, thus making the routine the one with the highest number of Gold Moves.
 * The Classic coach appears as a cameo in Blurred Lines's background.
 * The Classic coach also appears on the PAL cover of the game, at the right.
 * However, her hair is combed neater, the colors have swapped sides and the flower crown only covers the left of her head.
 * The abduction effect at the start and the end is recycled from Crazy Little Thing.
 * The sound effects are removed in Just Dance Unlimited.
 * Ever since the game was first released, an image of the gameplay for the Classic routine used to appear on with the captions "Follow the dancer as if he's your reflection in a mirror" and "Grab your phone and dance!"; however, that routine was not released at the time.
 * In the July 2017 update, it was replaced by Birthday.
 * The Classic coach makes a cameo appearance in the background of Uptown Funk in the second verse.
 * In, the Charleston version has some edits that make some parts brighter.
 * This is one of the songs to have a Dancemas Ornament.
 * The Charleston Version of Starships, along with the Line Dance of Jailhouse Rock, are the only Alternate routines in  that are labeled with their own names instead of "ALTERNATE".
 * A girl cosplaying this coach appears on a promotional video for.
 * The background for the Classic routine reappears in the Panda Version of Don't Stop Me Now and in Don't Worry.
 * If one plays as P2 in the Charleston Version and performs their move while P1 performs Gold Move 2, they will still get a "YEAH", even if their move is not counted as a Gold Move.
 * The Classic background forms a planet to reappear in  as an unlockable sticker.
 * Starships is featured in the Just Dance Unlimited playlist "Beats from the Far East", which actually contains songs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.