"Drop the Mambo" by Diva Carmina is featured on Just Dance 2016, Just Dance Now, Just Dance 2017 as a Ubisoft Club exclusive, Just Dance Unlimited, and 舞力无限. It was also featured on 舞力全开:活力派 before the shutdown of the game.
Appearance of the Dancer
The dancer is a female tropical tango dancer. She wears a heavily fruit-designed outfit in yellow, orange and pink. It consists of a large headdress that is made of various fruits, a bra top with short, feathery sleeves, a skirt with an orange and magenta paper fan, peach pink tights, and dark peach pink platform heels.
Background
The background starts with everything being in black and white, with crackling effects as if it were a old movie, before having its color restored in time with the music. The scene contains an archway formed by two pink palm trees that will flash in time with the music. with a pineapple emblem at the top. The archway is surrounded by piles of fruit, various grasses/ferns, and regular green palm trees, with the backdrop consisting of floral patterns. When the pre-chorus starts, the canter of the archway will become a screen that displays the dancer in various poses. When the chorus starts, the entire scene will become a neon light show, with the archway now in front of a line of purple, flashing pineapples. The fruit pile will strobe with different colors, and the trees are now outlined with ever-changing colors. the backdrop will become black, and have a rainbow of lights cycling through. When the bridge starts, the scene will become black and white again, much like the beginning of the song. During the final chorus, the background will now have the addition of many fireworks setting off. The song ends with a big firework explosion going off behind the dancer as she strikes a pose.
Mashup
Drop the Mambo has a Mashup with the theme Don’t Touch, which can be unlocked for 1000 Mojo Coins (or 20 Mojo Coins for all old-gen consoles). It features dancers with the "fabulous" factor.
Dancers
- Bad Romance (Official Choreo)
- Born This Way (Nerd Version)
- You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
- Gentleman
- Sexy And I Know It
- Bad Romance (Official Choreo)
- Gentleman
- Born This Way (Nerd Version) [GM1]
- You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
- Gentleman
- Sexy And I Know It
- Bad Romance (Official Choreo)
- Gentleman
- Born This Way (Nerd Version) [GM2]
- Gentleman
- You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
- I Gotta Feeling [GM3]
- Born This Way (Nerd Version)
- I Gotta Feeling
- Sexy And I Know It
- You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
- Born This Way (Nerd Version)
- Gentleman
Gold Moves
Classic
There are 4 Gold Moves in the Classic routine:
Gold Moves 1, 2, and 4: Shake your hands while extending your arms slowly and lower your head backwards, as if you are singing.
Gold Move 3: Throw your hands back and stomp your right foot twice.
Mashup
There are 3 Gold Moves in the Mashup:
Gold Moves 1 and 2: Bend over and scoop your arms. (Born This Way (Nerd Version))
Gold Move 3: Shake your hips while your arms are out in front of you. (I Gotta Feeling)
Appearances in Mashups
Drop the Mambo is featured in the following Mashups:
- All About That Bass (Divas)
- Boys (Summertime Love) (Best of Just Dance 2016)
- Hangover (BaBaBa) (High Energy)
- Teacher (Costume Party)
- Want To Want Me
Captions
Drop the Mambo appears in Party Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to its dance moves:
- Mambo Club
- Mambo Walk
Dance Quests
Drop the Mambo appears in the following Dance Quest map:
- Ice Cream
Appearances in Playlists
Drop the Mambo is featured in the following playlists:
Just Dance 2020
Just Dance Now
Just Dance Unlimited
Trivia
General
- Drop the Mambo is the only song by Ubisoft to be included in Ubisoft Music’s Spotify playlist "Just Dance New Year’s Playlist".[2]
- The track available on Tom Salta’s website slightly differs from the one used in-game.
- The song was used in a recruitment ad for Ubisoft Shanghai’s Just Dance team.[3]
Classic
- Drop the Mambo is the first known case of a coach portrayed by a dancer of the opposite gender.
- As stated in the Behind the Track interview, the dancer was originally planned to be portrayed by an actual female dancer, but Mehdi Kerkouche’s energy while coaching the dancer in question made the developers in-charge of the routine change their minds and have him as the dancer instead.
- In a Just Dance Class video where Mehdi teaches the moves in the chorus, it is revealed that the coach is named "Rita". Thus, Rita is the sixth coach with a name that is not taken from a video game or a film: she is preceded by "Jewelry Robin" and "Inspector Thomas Dance", "Frost Princess", "Magma Princess", and "Cat".
- The menu icon and coach selection screen for this song show that the dancer does not have makeup on. However, the coach has makeup on in the actual routine.
- The same thing happened with P2 in Born This Way’s menu icon.
- Drop the Mambo was played during the Grand Final of the Just Dance World Cup 2015.[4]
- When the caption "Mambo Walk" is chosen in Party Master Modes, the preview that appears on the right corner of the screen shows the coach without her chroma key.
- From January 16, 2017, to January 19, 2017, there was a bug where Drop the Mambo would not appear on the Just Dance 2016 tracklist if the console was online.[5]
- In Just Dance Now, the routine starts as soon as the loading screen fades away.
- On January 28, 2016, Drop the Mambo was free on Just Dance Now in celebration of Mardi Gras. However, it went back to being a VIP/Just Dance 2016 song pack exclusive on February 8, 2016.
- In the Nintendo Switch version of Just Dance 2017, Drop the Mambo can only be played through Just Dance Unlimited, because that console is not compatible with Ubisoft Club.
- The coach reappears in Sugar with slightly different makeup.
- A sticker of the palm trees in the background can be unlocked in Just Dance 2020 by dancing to Taki Taki three times.
Gallery
Game Files
In-Game Screenshots
(2017 update, computer)
(2017 update, phone)
(2020 update, computer)
(2020 update, phone)
Promotional Images
Beta Elements
Others
Videos
Official Audio
Gameplays
Classic
Mashup
Others
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFvwMj6qocw
- ↑ https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0m3WuhVnm4O0Sni3IUAuo0
- ↑ https://v.youku.com/pad_show/id_XMTI5NzczNTgwNA==.html?spm=a2hzp.8253869.0.0&source=https%3A%2F%2Fi.youku.com%2Fi%2FUMTQ1NDQ4Njg3Mg%3D%3D%2Fvideos%3Fspm%3Da2hzp.8253869.0.0%26order%3D1%26page%3D3%26last_item%3D%26last_pn%3D2%26last_vid%3D345831575
- ↑ http://www.justdanceworldcup.com/en/news/tracklist-and-prizes/Vh5stx4AALsEUcdg
- ↑ File:DropTheMamboRIP.png
- ↑ https://mobile.twitter.com/justdancegame/status/1517192446039535619
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