"Acceptable in the 80s" by Calvin Harris is featured on Just Dance, Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of, Just Dance Unlimited, Just Dance Now, 舞力无限, and Just Dance+. The song was also featured on Just Dance 3 as a downloadable track for the Xbox 360, but became unavailable for purchase following the removal of most DLCs from the Xbox 360 Marketplace on August 20, 2023.
Appearance of the Dancer[]
The dancer is a woman named Heather. She has curly neon lime hair with a small turquoise bow. She wears large turquoise glasses, large turquoise earrings, a pair of bright turquoise fingerless gloves, a dark lime green loose off shoulder top, two white belts, dark green calf-length leggings, leg warmers, and peep toe heels. In every game after Just Dance, she has a slightly lighter color scheme. Her outline is a light shade of blue.
Background[]
Just Dance[]
The routine takes place in a room with a purple wall. The wall has a lot of pink lines and intersecting wires.
Just Dance 3/Just Dance: Greatest Hits (Xbox)[]
In Just Dance 3 and the Xbox 360 version of Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of, the background is completely different. The wall now changes forms, from the typical purple wall, pink lines to a sky blue wall, and diagonal aqua lines falling, etc.
Just Dance: Greatest Hits (Wii)/Just Dance: Best Of[]
In the Wii version of Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of, the background is more similar to the one in Just Dance. The lines are completely stationary, with faint streams of light flowing through them.
Remake[]
In the remake, the background is more similar to the Wii versions of Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of. The background is more zoomed out and forms with a weird, space-like noise; a similar noise is played at the end of the routine, when all the lines disappear quickly.
Gold Moves[]
From Just Dance 3 onward, there are 4 Gold Moves in this routine, all of which are the same:
All Gold Moves: Point forward with your right arm with your left hand on your head.
Shout-Out Lines[]
There is 1 Shout-Out Line in this routine:
Shout-Out Line: “It was acceptable in the 80’s”.
Appearances in Mashups[]
Acceptable in the 80s is featured in the following Mashups:
- Call Me Maybe
- Irish Meadow Dance (cameo)
Captions[]
Acceptable in the 80s appears in Party/Puppet Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to her dance moves:
- Clubbing
- Hands N' Hips
- Hitchhiker
- Silly Hips
- S Snap
Appearances in Playlists[]
Acceptable in the 80s is featured in the following playlists:
Just Dance 2016[]
Just Dance 2017[]
Just Dance 2018[]
Just Dance Now[]
Just Dance 2025 Edition[]
Trivia[]
General[]
- Acceptable in the 80s is the first song by Calvin Harris in the series.
- Acceptable in the 80s is the first of Calvin’s songs to not be put in consecutive games.
- The single version is used in-game, which shortens the song by 2 minutes.
- Although the official song title is "Acceptable in the 80’s", Just Dance and Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of spell it without the apostrophe, and Just Dance Unlimited and Just Dance Now spell "in" and "the" with an uppercase capital letter.
- Just Dance 3 is the only game that spells the title correctly.
- The correct spelling is also seen in the promotional video for the "Just Dance Legends" playlist.
- In Just Dance Unlimited, Acceptable in the 80s appears in the "Old But Gold 80s" playlist, even though the song was released in 2007.
Routine[]
- Acceptable in the 80s is one of the only two routines in Just Dance to have both a difficulty and effort rating of 3. The other song is Jerk It Out.
- However, in the remake, its difficulty level was lowered to Easy, and its effort was lowered to Low.
- In the routine, the coach’s bow constantly glitches to white throughout the entire song.
- A score detection file is inappropriately named "acceptable_boobs".[3]
- The routine briefly appears in Video Killed the Radio Star.
- Heather’s glove color is light blue, but in Just Dance 3 and Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of, the arrows/props for the pictograms are dark green.
- On the Just Dance 3 teaser on Ubisoft’s channel, the song appears as "Calvin Harris".[4]
- On the PAL covers of Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of, Heather’s blouse is shown to have a glitter texture, although there is no glitter on it in the actual routine.
- Acceptable in the 80s can be found in the offline game files of the Wii version of Just Dance 2016 and every following installment.[5][6][7][8]
- In Just Dance Unlimited, through Just Dance 2017, Acceptable in the 80s appears in the Just Dance 2 search section, rather than appearing in Just Dance’s.
- Heather, Dooggy Doug, and Fame are the only dancers from Just Dance to appear on the squares of Mashups.
Gallery[]
Game Files[]
In-Game Screenshots[]
Others[]
Videos[]
Official Music Video[]
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Gameplays[]
Extractions[]
References[]
- ↑ https://youtu.be/QX0CzE3FUes?t=13s
- ↑ https://youtu.be/ZpIQEryQZ28&t=53s (Archive)
- ↑ File:Acceptableb00b$.png
- ↑ File:Acceptable calvinharris proof.png
- ↑ File:Acceptable jd2016 wii files.png
- ↑ File:Acceptable jd2017 wii files.png
- ↑ File:Acceptable jd2018 wii files.png
- ↑ File:Acceptable jd2019 wii files.png
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