"D.A.N.C.E." by Justice is featured on Just Dance 2. The song was also featured on Just Dance Unlimited and 舞力无限, but was removed on August 1 and 2, 2024, respectively. It can also be found in the Just Dance Now files.
Appearance of the Dancer[]
Original[]
The dancer is a woman with poofy dark violet hair styled in dreadlocks with pink streaks. She wears a sleeveless deep violet tunic with yellow, pink, orange and white shapes on it and a pair of two fingerless gloves, her left one being orange and her right one being pink. She also wears orange leggings with purple fluffy boots. She has a pink outline.
Remake[]
In the remake, she is more realistic and has a darker color scheme. Her face is also now more visible.
Background[]
Original[]
The routine takes place in a room with a grey wall with several animated drawings on it. The drawings consist of a blue skeleton head with yellow teeth, a mixtape, a lollipop, a bust-like drawing of Crazy in Love with blue skin and longer hair, a sketch of TiK ToK whose head is covered by the aforementioned skeleton head, an animated dog head, a few waves with a few curved lines coming out of them, two pairs of cherries, pink stars, blue stars, what appears to be a score ball, a few small white triangles, a white coffee cup with droplets coming out of it and "coffe" (sic) written in very dark brown, a banana, a paw hand with a fingerless glove on it, and the words: "Just", "DANCE", "The Girls", and "good". In the middle of the wall is a large yellow cassette player that pulses to the beat of the song and has small yellow lightning bolt symbols coming out of it. Each time there is audio feedback, white radio waves appear across the wall.
At the beginning of the routine, the yellow cassette player is the only drawing present on the wall. The dancer appears on-screen via a chalk drawing effect with a hopscotch below her as the drawings begin to appear and the hopscotch vanishes for the rest of the routine. At the end of the routine, the drawings vanish from the wall.
Remake[]
In the remake, the background is farther from the screen. The cassette player now glows and now also vibrates at certain points during the song. It now also has many red orange music notes emanating from it. The dog head is no longer animated and there are new drawings on the wall, consisting of a banana, the words "take" and "toch", and the word "dance" appears in a different position. The drawings are also differently animated and the walls now flash different colors at some points in the routine, ranging from yellow to orange to pink. The white radio waves are now replaced with yellow sound waves that remains for the entirety of the intro of the song and the dancer now appears by a wiping effect. During the intro, the background is darker.
Gold Moves[]
Original/Beta remake[]
There are 4 Gold Moves in the initial routine and the beta remake, all of which are the same:
All Gold Moves: Raise your arms and put your hands together while looking up.
Remake[]
There are 2 Gold Moves in the remake:
Gold Move 1: Put your right leg to the side, put your right arm on your head, and put your left arm aside your body with your elbow bent at a 90° angle.
Gold Move 2: While facing the left, shake your right arm and leg up and down.
Release History[]
This section details the release and removal history of D.A.N.C.E.
| Game | Date Added | Date Removed |
|---|---|---|
| Just Dance Unlimited | June 30, 2022 | August 1, 2024 |
| 舞力无限 | August 5, 2022 | August 2, 2024 |
Appearances in Mashups[]
D.A.N.C.E. appears in the following Mashups:
- Blame It on the Boogie
- Call Me Maybe
- Da Funk
- Flashdance... What A Feeling
- I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’
- I Will Survive
- Mas Que Nada
- Miss Understood
- Prince Ali
- Rich Girl
- She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)
- She’s Got Me Dancing
- Troublemaker
- Wild
Captions[]
D.A.N.C.E. appears in Puppet/Party Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to her dance moves:
- Elbow Stomp
- Happy Dance
- Hopscotch Jump
- Hopscotch Kata
- Jackpot
- Kick Ball Change
- Skipping Rope
- Strong Step
- Super Power
- Teenage Hops
Trivia[]
General[]
- The song references ABC, Black Or White, and Workin’ Day and Night.
- The music video also references Video Killed the Radio Star, which would be later featured on Just Dance 3.
- On Just Dance 2, the last line of lyrics ("move is a mystery...") fades off abruptly right before it is sung.
- This is fixed in the remake. The ellipsis from the lyric has also been removed.[2]
Routine[]
- The word "Coffee" in the background is misspelled as "Coffe" (without the last "e").
- According to the old Just Dance Now servers; the pictograms, Gold Moves and score tracking files were retained from Just Dance 2.[3]
- Additionally, there are unused menu assets for the remake, in which the coach has a slightly darker color scheme and a more visible face.
- Eventually upon release of Just Dance Unlimited, the score tracking files, pictograms and Gold Moves were completely updated.
- The song description in the Just Dance Unlimited files read "2016" in the "JDVersion" string, implying that changes had already been planned upon the launch of Just Dance Unlimited.
- All of the moves in the routine (except the jump rope move at the beginning) have been seen in the dancer’s Mashup appearances.
- The word "Toch" in the background is a reference to Thomas Rollus-Toch, the art director on the first three games.
- In the old Just Dance Now servers, there is a different pictogram for the Gold Move, which tells players to open their arms and then put them up, instead of just putting them up.[4]
- The background re-appears in Rock Lobster.
- In all Just Dance 2014 Mashups and Party Master Modes, the Gold Move is removed.
- The waves are recycled from Sway (Quién Será).
- In the remake, the dog head in the background is not animated, unlike every other drawing.
- The Just Dance 2022 preview gameplay uses the pictograms from the Just Dance Now files instead of the newer ones.
- Besides, the frame rate has been dropped to 15 FPS.
- The Just Dance Unlimited album coach has the white fade at the bottom that is seen in all the Just Dance 2014 and Just Dance 2015 album coaches.
- The wig is reused in What You Waiting For?.
- The routine can be spotted in the background of Can’t Stop the Feeling! (Danceverse Prince Version).
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Videos[]
Official Music Video[]
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