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"Barbie Girl" by Aqua (covered by Countdown Dee’s Hit Explosion in-game[1]) was featured on Just Dance 2 as a downloadable track but became unavailable for purchase following the shutdown of the Wii Shop Channel on January 30, 2019. The song remains playable on Just Dance: Summer Party, Just Dance: Best Of, Just Dance: Greatest Hits, Just Dance Now (for players who subscribed before April 9, 2024), and Just Dance+. The song was also featured on Just Dance Unlimited and 舞力无限, but was removed on August 1 and 2, 2024, respectively.

This song was also created with an early routine prior to the finalized one.

Appearance of the Dancers[]

Classic[]

The dancers are a duet of female and male dolls. They have red outlines.

P1[]

P1 is a female doll named Dolly, who resembles a 50’s Barbie doll. She has orange hair in a ponytail with a pink bow in her hair, a pink choker with a bright cyan heart, and a hot pink strapless dress with orange and red spots on it. The lining of the dress' ruffles and collars are orange. The waist area of her dress is also orange and has a cyan bow on it. Finally, she wears pink stockings with orange high heels. Her high heels also have cyan bows attached to them. She wears a turquoise blue glove with an orange ruffle.

P2[]

P2 is a male doll named Dan, who resembles a Ken doll. He has orange hair, a bright cyan coat with a orange zip, orange collars, and a pink napkin in his left breast pocket. He also wears a pink undershirt, pink belt, white shorts with orange laces and linings, and an orange hem. He finally wears knee-length blue stockings and white sneakers with blue laces and lamps. He wears a rose glove.

Remake[]

In the remake, both coaches now look more realistic and have a plastic texture. Dan’s glove colour is now in a lighter shade. They also both have blue outlines.

Background[]

Original[]

The routine takes place in a room with a grey wall and a white trim piece with an electrical plug on it. The dancers stand in front of a pink backdrop taped to the wall showing a three-storey dollhouse. There is a pool in front of the dollhouse, a white fence placed on its left side, and there are also two hills behind the dollhouse with a white sign reading "HOLYTECH" placed on the second hill. There are also some white lollipop-shaped trees around the dollhouse. Outside of the backdrop, there are two inflatable palm trees on each side of the dancer, a plastic dolphin attached to a stick, and a blue-and-white striped beach ball. The palm trees and the plastic dolphin sway to the beat of the song and the beach ball bounces every two beats during the song.

At the beginning of the routine, the dancers arrive in a box labelled "Dolly and Dan". When the second part of the first chorus begins, the Holytech sign begins lighting up to the beat and stars appear, turning on and off to the beat. At the end of the routine, the box comes back to pick the dancers up and away.

Just Dance: Summer Party[]

In Just Dance: Summer Party, the inflatable palm trees have slightly bouncier movements.

Just Dance: Greatest Hits (Wii)[]

In the Wii version of Just Dance: Greatest Hits, there are more stars in the backdrop.

Just Dance: Greatest Hits (Xbox 360)[]

In the Xbox 360 version of Just Dance: Greatest Hits, the electrical cord has been removed from the wall. Additionally, the Holytech sign now only lights up during the chorus, and the windows on the top storey of the dollhouse also light up to the beat during the chorus.

Remake[]

In the remake, the box that appears at the beginning and end of the routine is removed, and the dancers now appear via a fade-in/fade-out effect. The Holytech sign has been removed as well and the stars now appear at the beginning of the routine. The stars now flicker randomly and do not light up to the beat. At the beginning of the routine, the inflatable palm trees are seen deflated before being inflated. The beach ball does not bounce until the second part of the first chorus. All the windows on the dollhouse also now light up instead of the first two windows only lighting up.

Gold Moves[]

There are 3 Gold Moves for each coach in this routine:

All Gold Moves: Turn towards your partner and touch their shoulders. P2 does this before P1.

Release History[]

This section details the release and removal history of Barbie Girl.

Game Date Added Date Removed
Just Dance 2 (DLC) October 12, 2010 January 30, 2019 (store closure)
Just Dance Unlimited March 14, 2019 August 1, 2024
Just Dance Now April 3, 2019 April 9, 2024, or the end of the next billing period
舞力无限 June 17, 2022 August 2, 2024
Just Dance+ October 17, 2023 N/A

Appearances in Mashups[]

Barbie Girl appears in the following Mashup:

Appearances in Playlists[]

Barbie Girl is featured in the following playlists:

Just Dance: Greatest Hits[]

Just Dance Now[]

Trivia[]

General[]

  • Barbie Girl was the first returning song to be added to Just Dance Unlimited during a season event.
  • Aqua are mistakenly credited in the localization files of Just Dance 2.[citation needed] This implies that the original version was intended to be used instead of the in-game cover.
  • The following mistakes and changes are present in the lyrics:
    • "Dolly" is misspelled as "Dollie" in all the games prior to the remake.
    • Before the remake, several punctuation marks (like commas) were added in several lines.
    • Prior to the remake, one line reads "Ooh ooh ooh" every time it is sung. In the remake, the line is changed to "Ooh whoah ooh!".
    • On the Xbox 360 version of Just Dance: Greatest Hits one of the song’s lyrics is written as "Feel the glamor/And pain". In its other appearances, that lyric is written as "Feel the glamor/In pink".
    • "Life is your creation" is misinterpreted as "That is your creation" in the remake.
  • In the Just Dance 2019 notification about Season 2: Crazy Carnival, Aqua are credited instead of Countdown Dee’s Hit Explosion.

Routine[]

  • Dolly and Dan are the first two coaches in the entire series to be given names.
  • A Solo routine was originally created for the song, but it was changed to a Duet for unknown reasons.[4]
    • Despite this, a silhouette of the dancer can be seen in the icon for the Medley mode, suggesting that the song was meant to be part of the base game rather than DLC.[5]
    • Two pictograms from the unused Solo routine are still visibile in promotional material for the final one.[6]
  • In promotional material for Just Dance 2, the coaches’ positions are swapped.
  • In the Just Dance 2 menu icon, the coaches’ gloves are missing.
    • This was fixed in the routine's later appearances.
  • In Just Dance 2, all of the score bubbles are purple instead of grey.
  • In Just Dance 2 and Just Dance: Summer Party, the background is comparatively more animated.
  • In the trailer of Just Dance: Summer Party, the coaches appear in front of Crying Blood’s background.
  • From Just Dance 2 to Just Dance: Greatest Hits, the circles on Dolly’s dress tend to disappear and reappear constantly throughout the routine.[7]
  • In one pictogram in Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of, the arrows and shake symbols are cropped badly, and Dan’s shake symbol has not been recolored to match the pictogram color.
  • An unused pictogram for the Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of version of the routine can be found in the old Just Dance Now servers.
  • In the old Just Dance Now servers, the routine reused the pictograms from Just Dance: Greatest Hits with minor edits.
  • On the menu assets for the remake, the coaches do not have the plastic texture seen in the gameplay.
  • The album coach in Just Dance Unlimited uses the white fade effect from Just Dance 2014 and Just Dance 2015.

Gallery[]

Game Files[]

In-Game Screenshots[]

Promotional Images[]

Beta Elements[]

Behind the Scenes[]

Others[]

Videos[]

Official Music Video/Audio[]

Gameplays[]

Extractions[]

References[]

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