"Crazy Christmas" by Santa Clones was featured on Just Dance 2 and Just Dance 3 as a downloadable track and 舞力全开:活力派 but became unavailable following the shutdown of the Wii Shop Channel on January 30, 2019, the shutdown of the game on February 17, 2020, and the removal of the routine from the Xbox 360 Marketplace on August 20, 2023. The song remains playable on Just Dance Now, Just Dance Unlimited, and 舞力无限. It was also planned to be on Just Dance: Summer Party[3] and Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of but was scrapped for unknown reasons.
The song is a mix of three classic Christmas songs - Jingle Bells, O Christmas Tree, and We Wish You A Merry Christmas.
Appearance of the Dancer[]
The coach is Santa Claus, who has a red Christmas hat with white fluffy lining in the end and bushy white beard, he appears in five attire. His glove is dark green and has red outline. He transitions via a bubbly effect.
C1[]
C1 is Santa in his regular attire of a red robe with white fluffy lining and teal boots.
C2[]
C2 appears as if Santa was on the beach, with a green Hawaiian button up shirt with fruit on it, green and yellow sandals and red shorts. this variation also gained his green sunglasses. Also thus is the only variation to have red glove.
C3[]
C3 (the main one) has Santa appear like he is in a rock band, dressed in a wrapping paper wife beater with red ripped jeans and teal boots with red laces. This variation also replace his hat with a red top hat with white stripe in the end, and has what looks like white string ribbon.
C4[]
C4 is almost similar to his first one, except the addition of red overalls with visible pockets, and a green tie. In one part, Santa has Christmas gift depicted with red outline.
C5[]
C5 is a Santa as a cowboy, complete with a green fedora gun pocket and spurred boots with a silhouette of a Christmas tree.
In the remake, he looks more realistic.
Background[]
Original[]
The background is in a snowy forest, with snowy trees, cyan mountains, and Santa's sleighs. This background also has an ice effect on the screen. When Santa is in his second outfit, there are some surfboards standing up from the ground, some palm trees, some trees now has ornaments, and some black and red cooler with a sign in the front that read "Frizz". When he is in his third outfit, there are giant amplified speakers and giant guitars. When in his fourth outfit, there is a sign features a billboard features a reindeer and a trumpet underneath, a teal electric pole, and skyscrapers. When his is in his fifth outfit, there are red cacti as well as wild west inspired signs. In the last part, Santa returns to the first background variation.
Just Dance 3[]
In this version, the Ice effect on the screen is slightly more bluer and the background was slightly more 3D
Remake[]
In the remake, the ground no longer has snowy surface and the sky seems to indicate that it is sunset.
Gold Moves[]
There are 3 Gold Moves in this routine:
Gold Moves 1 and 3: Raise your arms swiftly above your head to form a "V".
Gold Move 2: While kneeling, make a circle with your right arm as if you are playing an air guitar.
Appearances in Mashups[]
Crazy Christmas appears in the following Mashups:
- Aserejé (The Ketchup Song)
- Bailando (Let's Rock!)
- Copacabana
- Ghost In The Keys (Swag)
- Ghostbusters
- I’m An Albatraoz (Merry Go Round)
- Livin’ la Vida Loca
- Moskau
- Pound The Alarm
- She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)
- Take On Me
- Teacher (Costume Party)
- The Final Countdown
- What Makes You Beautiful
Captions[]
Crazy Christmas appears in Puppet/Party Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to his dance moves:
- Christmas Lasso
- Christmas Seagull
- Fighting Santa
- Flying Santa
- Gifts
- Hard Rock Santa
- Old Country
- Pony Express
- Presents
- Santa’s Ballet
Dance Quests[]
Crazy Christmas appears in the following Dance Quest maps:
- Special New Year
Appearances in Playlists[]
Crazy Christmas is featured in the following playlists:
Just Dance Now[]
- All Songs A-E
- Christmas Snowdown (2022)
- Christmas Snowdown (2023)
- Groovy Xmas!
- Hot Moves and Hot Cocoa
Just Dance 2016[]
Trivia[]
General[]
- Crazy Christmas is the first song by Santa Clones in the Just Dance series.
- It is also their only original song, as the other two songs they are credited for (Last Christmas and Jingle Bells) are covers.
- Crazy Christmas is the first Christmas-themed song in the entire Just Dance franchise.
- In the game credits, the sampled songs are displayed with altered titles, most of which are wordplays based on the musical genre they are inspired by. The titles are, in order of appearance, “Jingle Bells 2", “O Christmas Surf”, “We Wish You An Indie Christmas”, “We Wish U A Merry Skaristmas”, and “Country Bells”.[4]
- Jingle Bells would later be sampled in XMas Tree.
- Crazy Christmas is one of the five Just Dance 2 songs that did not appear on Just Dance: Summer Party, along with Come On Eileen, It's Not Unusual, Should I Stay Or Should I Go, and Spice Up Your Life.
- Among them, Crazy Christmas, It’s Not Unusual and Come On Eileen are the only three songs to return in later games.
- A Community Remix for Crazy Christmas was planned to be released in Just Dance Now, but it was ultimately canceled for unknown reasons.
- If the Community Remix had not been canceled, Crazy Christmas would have become the second song with an exclusive Community Remix on Just Dance Now (after Sexy And I Know It), and also the first song from Just Dance 2 with a Community Remix.
Routine[]
- Santa Claus is the second one to have a yellowish skin tone, after The Bride from Just Dance to Just Dance: Greatest Hits.
- However, in the remake, his skin is pointed to a more realistic tone.
- Crazy Christmas is the only Just Dance 2 DLC from the 2010s that is not on Just Dance: Summer Party.
- Crazy Christmas was a free DLC for Just Dance 2 from December 17 to December 27.[5] It was the first temporarily free DLC in the series.
- Crazy Christmas currently holds the record for appearing in at least one Mashup in every Just Dance entry, consecutively, since Just Dance 3. All of the costumes have appeared in at least one Mashup.
- During production, the background had more details and was pointed to a blue palette.
- On Just Dance 2, if Crazy Christmas is purchased and downloaded for the first time on an SD card instead of the Wii System Memory, the map will become permanently unplayable, as the game will freeze when trying to play it.
- In Just Dance 2, some elements of the background (such as the palm trees in the second section) are layered between the score ball and the feedback icons, resulting in the latter passing through them when they appear.
- This is not the case in the Wii version of Just Dance 3, where both the score ball and the feedback icons are layered behind the affected background elements.
- In the menu icon Take On Me’s Mashup, a new artwork for C2 is displayed instead of C3 from the original square, since only C2 appears in the Mashup.
- In the Just Dance 3 menu square, the coach’s right foot is cut off.
- In Just Dance 3, Gold Move 3 has a glitch, where the "YEAH!" feedback icon is not displayed even if the move is performed correctly, and only the sound effect can be heard.[citation needed]
- The remake uses a different take of the choreography during the coach’s C5 form, where he forgets to do the last clap.
- A video preview that contains the original version of the routine instead of the remake can be found in the servers of Just Dance Unlimited.[6]
- Crazy Christmas, along with Hungarian Dance No. 5, Irish Meadow Dance, and William Tell Overture were made free from December 23 to December 31, 2016 on 舞力全开:活力派 to celebrate Christmas.[7]
Gallery[]
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Promotional Image[]
Behind the Scenes[]
Beta Elements[]
Others[]
Videos[]
Audio[]
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Gameplays[]
Extractions[]
References[]
- ↑ File:Xmas menu colors.png
- ↑ https://youtu.be/RAhxbPImH6c&t=71s
- ↑ File:Jdsp betas proof.PNG
- ↑ http://www.justdancenow.com/credits
- ↑ https://youtu.be/SqOUAnSDi6Y&t=29s
- ↑ https://jd-s3.akamaized.net/public/map/Xmas/Xmas_VideoPreview.webm/907246f888a479b6f308afc1ad5a726c.webm
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200124210905/http://justdance.163.com/news/update/2016/12/22/22135_663365.html
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