"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.
Appearance of the Dancer[]
Original[]
The dancer is a teenage girl with poofy dark violet hair with pink streaks. She wears a sleeveless deep violet tunic with a yellow, pink, orange and white robotic face on it, orange leggings, deep indigo fluffy boots, and a pair of two fingerless gloves, one orange and one pink. At the beginning of the routine, she appears with a chalk effect.
Remake[]
In the remake, the coach is a lot more realistic and has a darker color scheme. The chalk effect is removed when she appears, and the pixels that make up her body shake instead.
Background[]
Original[]
The background resembles drawings on a gray wall. It contains a blue skeleton head with yellow teeth, a yellow cassette player in the center, 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, a few small yellow lightning bolt symbols, what appears to be a score ball, a few small white triangles, a white coffee cup with droplets coming out of it and "coffe" 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". The floor is reflective and dark and the drawings move around and are animated. At the beginning of the routine, there’s a chalk hopscotch that fades away.
Remake[]
In the remake, the background is darker and looks smaller, as if it was seen from further away than its original version. The cassette player now glows, the dog head is no longer animated, and new drawings appear, being: a banana, the words take and toch, and the word "dance" appears in a different teleportation. The cassette player now also emits orange music notes, the cassette also pulses yellow, red, purple, and blue to the beat, those colors also make a fading effect which is brighter in the outro. The drawings also move in different places.
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: Put your hands together pointing up while your legs are together.
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.
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 the next game.
- 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.[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.
- 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).
- The remake was first seen in a video uploaded after Just Dance 2014’s launch.[citation needed]
- 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).
Gallery[]
Game Files[]
In-Game Screenshots[]
Promotional Images[]
Beta Elements[]
Others[]
(US and UK)
Videos[]
Official Music Video[]
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Gameplays[]
Extractions[]
