"Buttons" by The Pussycat Dolls featuring Snoop Dogg is featured on Just Dance 2022, where the routine can be played with an internet connection, except in Korea, where it is unavailable.[2] It is also featured on Just Dance Now (for players who subscribed before April 9, 2024). It was also featured on 舞力无限, but was removed. The song can be also found in the files of Just Dance+.
The song has an alternate routine titled "Night Version", which can be unlocked by playing the Classic routine three times, but it also requires an internet connection.
Appearance of the Dancers[]
The dancers are a trio of women who resemble members of The Pussycat Dolls. They wear sultry outfits with golden accessories. They all have dark brown painted eyebrows, dark brown Ancient Egyptian-style eyeliners, and golden lips. They are accompanied with a dark violet circular chair, where they use it as a prop in some of their moves. They all have golden faded outlines, which turns red during the chorus. During the bridge, including Snoop Dogg’s part, their skin turn black.
P1[]
P1 is Topaz, who resembles Ashley Roberts. She has golden blonde hair with dark roots. She wears a black bra with straps that wraps on her back, with two straps wrapping forward to her black tied skirt, which shows more of her right leg. At the center of her bra is an oval-shaped cut with golden embellishments surrounding a smaller hole, with a small hanging golden chain attached by the sides. Her skirt has four rows of golden hanging circular tassels, going from top to bottom, while the two hanging straps in the right side has hanging circular tassels at the end of the fabric. She also wears dark brown fishnet leggings with shiny golden specks and dark brown leather stiletto high heels with three straps made with golden buckles and golden specks.
She wears a golden circlet around her forehead, with the side and back covered by her hair. The circlet is also attached with numerous, golden loose necklaces by the side of her circlet, which goes down to her neck. On her arms are black bands with golden loose chain embellishments, a golden bangle in her right wrist and gloves with different designs. Her left glove is black, decorated with golden specks, covers to her elbow and leaves her fingers open. Her right glove covers her hand and is colored pink.
P2[]
P2 is Onyx, who resembles Nicole Scherzinger. She has black hair, with a tied mid-section that loops back to her hair, several tied strands on her back and few free-flowing strands on her shoulders. She wears a dark brown sleeveless bodysuit that only covers her right leg, which has fishnet textures on her neck and cleavage region, abdomen and right leg that are decorated with golden specks, and solid fabric color and section on her breasts and pelvic region. The bra-styled section has two rows of golden hanging circular tassels, on the top and bottom edges of the fabric, and she has a black leather strap on her waist, which has a golden square-shaped buckle and three three-layered golden loose chains hanging at the bottom edges of the belt, forming U-shaped arches. She wears dark brown clothed knee-high stiletto heels with golden metallic edges.
She wears a golden decorative half-mask, which covers and wraps on her forehead and around her eyes, while she wears golden hanging earrings on her ears, and thick, golden necklace on her neck with details such as triangles, thin connected chains, and small hanging tassels. Above her elbows are golden bangles with a golden fabric tied behind the bangles. Lastly, she wears golden bangles on her wrist with different designs, where the left bangle has loose chains attached and her right bangle cover much of her wrist, with the mid-section open. Her glove is purple.
P3[]
P3 is Ruby, who resembles Jessica Sutta. She has dark brown hair tied to a high ponytail with a golden hair bangle and golden highlights. She wears a black leotard with a thin V-shaped cleavage-styled section having fishnet texture and golden specks. Her collar has golden hanging circular tassels, and her waist has a leather-textured section, which is covered in golden buttons in various sizes and designs. Split from her waist are two black circular straps that wrapped around her thighs, which has golden hanging circular and string tassels attached to them. She wears a pair of black knee-length lace-tied peep-toe stiletto heels, with the midsection of her heels revealing her skin.
She wears a golden string headdress made of beads, and a large circular disk in the front, which covers her head. She also wears three golden bangles on her arms, a golden bangle with the midsection open in her left wrist, and a golden circular ring in her left ring finger. Her glove is red.
Background[]
The map takes place on the stage known as The Genie's Fantasy. It starts with a title screen where a spotlight shines on the word "BUTTONS", written in a lowercase golden Indic-inspired font and imposed over closed red curtains. The curtains part and an inner set of drapes fall to reveal a golden disc-shaped stage with a dark purple chair in the middle which the dancers use as a prop, this place is called The genie's fantasy. A spotlight shines upon the chair. Around the stage is another set of curtains that hang from the ceiling and conceal panels behind them carved with intricate flower patterns. During the chorus, lightning from behind cast silhouettes of the dancers on the curtains. On the verses, only a light behind the coaches shines through the flower patterned panels, along with some floor lights on the edges of the stage.
During the rap breakdown, the lights dim and the curtains are raised above the stage. The panels are fully visible and lights start shining through them. In the final chorus, the panels turn around to show a solid back, onto which the dancers’ shadows continue to project. When the song ends, all the lights go off aside from the central spotlight.
Gold Moves[]
There are 3 Gold Moves in this routine:
Gold Moves 1 and 2:
- P2: Lean back with your left knee and arm on the ground with your right hand on your forehead.
- P3: While sitting in the chair, place your left hand on your left knee and place your right hand on your right shoulder.
- P1: With your left arm on the chair, place your right hand in the air.
Gold Move 3: Put your arms together and slowly raise them up. P1 does this by kneeling while facing the left, P2 does this while sitting on the chair, and P3 does this by standing and facing the right.
Release History[]
This section details the release and removal history of Buttons.
| Game | Date Added | Date Removed |
|---|---|---|
| Just Dance 2022 | November 3, 2021 | N/A |
| 舞力无限 | November 4, 2021 | August 2, 2024 |
| Just Dance Now | October 28, 2022 | April 9, 2024, or the end of the next billing period |
Appearances in Playlists[]
Buttons is featured in the following playlists:
舞力全开[]
Just Dance Now[]
Trivia[]
General[]
- Buttons is the third song by The Pussycat Dolls in the series.
- Since their previous appearance was eleven games prior with Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) and When I Grow Up in Just Dance 2, The Pussycat Dolls held the record for the longest absence between their appearances in the series until the record was broken by Kylie Minogue and The Beach Boys in Just Dance 2023 Edition.
- Buttons is the third song by Snoop Dogg in the main series.
- Including Drop It Like It’s Hot (The Hip Hop Dance Experience), it is his fourth appearance in the entire franchise.
- Buttons is the second song in the main series not to be available for selected countries (in this case, Korea), after Tel Aviv which was unavailable in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
- Among all the Just Dance 2022 maps that require an Internet connection, Buttons and its alternate routine are the only routines in Just Dance 2022 to have an unlockable avatar.
- Buttons is mentioned in the ESRB rating summary of Just Dance 2022, which references the lines "Loosen up my buttons babe...But I can’t seem to get you/Over here to help take this off".[3]
- In the YouTube preview posted on the Just Dance US channel, Snoop Dogg is not mentioned at all, and The Pussycat Dolls are credited without the article.
- Despite not requiring a Just Dance Unlimited subscription, both versions of Buttons were removed from Just Dance 2022 as part of the Just Dance Unlimited song purge on August 1, 2024.
- They were returned to Just Dance 2022 the next day on August 2, after it was confirmed they were removed in error.[4]
Routine[]
- Buttons is the second routine to use a chair as a prop, after Rich Girl (With a Chair). However, unlike in Rich Girl (With a Chair), the prop is not used for the entire routine.
- Buttons and You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) are the fifth and sixth Classic routines where a prop is only used for a short period, after You Can’t Hurry Love, Flying Get, Holding Out for a Hero, Kool Kontact, What Is Love and Let’s Party.
- Buttons and Sua Cara are the seventh and eighth routines where a Gold Move occurs after the song ends, after Animals (Mashup), YOUTH, Mama Mia, Soy Yo, Dance Monkey, and Ice Cream.
- On the menu square, Topaz and Onyx’s positions are swapped.
- The menu square represents a point during the verses in which Topaz is in the center; however, in the actual routine, Onyx is on the right side and Ruby is on the left side, which is contradictory to what the map square depicts.
- During the intro, parts of Topaz’s heels can be seen briefly on a top after the curtains fall.
- A glitch affects Onyx’s heels, making them lose details and randomly turn black.
- In an Instagram reel posted on September 16, 2021 by @justdancegame_us that showed Ruby’s costume behind the scenes, Judas’ costumes could be seen, despite the song not being confirmed for inclusion in Just Dance 2022 at the time.[5]
- This mistake was mentioned by the official Just Dance Twitter account in a thread on June 27, 2022.[6]
- In the preview, there is a mistake involving a pictogram for Ruby: the pictogram has its right hand on its chin, but the coach uses her left hand instead.[7]
- This was fixed in the final build of Just Dance 2022.
- The promotional gameplay picture for Chacarron mistakenly uses a pictogram from Buttons.
- There was a glitch in Just Dance 2022 affecting the avatars, which prevented them from being displayed in the avatar selection menu after unlocking them. However, the "NEW" notification would still appear.
- This issue was fixed on an unknown date, approximately a week after the routine was released in the game.
- On the Korean version of Just Dance 2022, the avatars can still be seen on the avatar section of the Dancer Card, but cannot be unlocked.
- Additionally, the song title is replaced by a placeholder song tag, which reads "[var:SONG]".
- Buttons was featured in the 2022 version of the Just Dance Now playlist "Jack-O-Dancin’" in spite of the map not being Halloween-themed.
- In Just Dance+ promotional material, a cover for the song is present despite not being in the service yet.[8]
- The coaches return as the dancers of Don’t Cha.
Gallery[]
Game Files[]
(pre-Just Dance+)
(Just Dance+ files)
舞力全开 score card cover
(Pre-Just Dance 2024 Edition)
(Just Dance 2024 Edition)
In-Game Screenshots[]
Promotional Images[]
![Gameplay teaser (Twitter)[9]](/wiki/File:Buttons_gameplay_teaser_twitter.gif "Buttons gameplay teaser twitter.gif (8.85 MB)")
!["Starter Pack" promotional image[10]](/wiki/File:Buttons_starter_promo.jpg "Buttons starter promo.jpg (175 KB)")
Behind the Scenes[]
![Behind the scenes (P3), with Judas’ costumes in the background[5]](/wiki/File:Buttons_p3_bts.png "Buttons p3 bts.png (405 KB)")
![Concept art 4[11]](/wiki/File:Buttons_conceptart.jpg "Buttons conceptart.jpg (154 KB)")
Others[]
Videos[]
Official Music Video[]
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Gameplays[]
Extraction[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 File:Buttons-performers.png
- ↑ File:Buttons - Gameplay Teaser (UK) (Archive)
- ↑ https://www.esrb.org/ratings/37962/Just+Dance+2022/ (Archive)
- ↑ https://x.com/justdancegame/status/1819344403879661981
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://www.instagram.com/reel/CT43T5UK34F/ (Archive)
- ↑ https://twitter.com/justdancegame/status/1541451302907138048
- ↑ File:Buttons picto error.jpg
- ↑ File:PremiumShopFreeTrialBackground.png
- ↑ https://twitter.com/justdancegame/status/1438231145334902785
- ↑ https://twitter.com/justdancegame/status/1526608493846876160
- ↑ https://twitter.com/justdancegame/status/1517518610289283072
