"Jamais Lâcher" by Michou is featured on Just Dance 2023 Edition as a French exclusive.
Appearance of the Dancer[]
The coach is styled and named after Michou, the singer of the song. He is a man with short dirty blonde dyed hair with dark-colored roots. He has a red glove and a faded outline that changes colors depending on his outfit.
C1[]
During the verses, Michou is presented in his C1 form. He wears a light yellow buttoned-up shirt and pants, decorated with green leaves and red, magenta and light golden brown flowers. He also wears a pair of black ankle-length socks, and a pair of yellow shoes with black laces and white soles. He also wears sunglasses with cyan translucent lenses. His outline is cyan.
C2[]
During the pre-choruses, Michou is presented in his C2 form. He wears a dye-colored outfit in purple, magenta, blue, and cyan colors, which consists of a bucket hat, a loose shirt, and a pair of shorts. His shirt and shorts are decorated with pop culture based images such as ringed planets, burgers, top hats, and fantastical creatures. He also wears a pair of ankle-length indigo socks, and a pair of yellow shoes with green accents, white laces and white soles. He also wears two loose golden chained necklaces, and a golden bangle and a thin golden chain bracelet on his right wrist. Unlike with his other costumes, his hair is dark brown. His outline is purple.
C3[]
During the choruses, Michou is presented in his C3 form. He wears a light orange hoodie with stylized drawings as well as an image of a white dog, a cyan undershirt peeking underneath his hoodie, golden orange cargo pants, a pair of white socks, and a pair of light orange shoes with cyan accents, white laces and white soles. He also wears golden chained necklaces and thin golden chained bracelets on his right wrist. His outline is golden brown.
Background[]
The routine begins with a cutscene of Michou dancing to If You Wanna Party in his house, with Yuki sitting on the couch, observing their owner. As If You Wanna Party reaches the first pre-chorus, a portal spontaneously generates and takes up the screen, to Michou's confusion. As he reaches to touch the portal, he is pulled into it, leaving his dog behind. As the song begins, Michou is now transported into the routine's background, looking around in a bit of wonder before he starts dancing.
The routine takes place in the ruins of a circular building within a wide valley in a blue sky with faint clouds, with a mountain range far in the distance. Far in the mountain range is a large curved light blue translucent glass that shows a different location, where it features what appears to be some land with mountains and a body of water. The ruins feature white plastered walls with plant growth, with few white ring-shaped lights hanging by the sides. There are also white orbs with inner lights placed in the walls in varying size, with some of them suspended by the walls and having plant growth. The floor is light gray and with a gradient, and features white flat circles on its surface.
During the verses, orange translucent glass in elongated ovals or circles emerge from the floor and float upwards. As the verses progress, more orange translucent glass emerges from the floor, with some of them stopping mid-float to morph into other shapes such as rhombuses, curved rectangles, elongated ovals, and circles. Throughout the verses, the flat circles pulse thick outlines in white.
During the pre-choruses, the background adopts a dark blue and purple color scheme, with the background darkened as if it is at night time. The walls, orbs and circles are now colored purple, and the white lights emit white sparkling particles. The glass far in the background begins to have diagonal bar-shaped segments that slide past or towards the glass. Bare sections of the glass remove its properties, with the segments inheriting it instead.
During the choruses, the background lightens up and adopts a light blue and light orange gradient color scheme. The walls are now light orange, and the floor has light chunks of dirt on its surface. It also has plant growth growing within the orbs, translucent curtains in two different curved openings, and a desert-like region far behind the curved and circular holes. The lights flash yellow color and appear per beat. The translucent morphing glass also appears in the background, as well as numerous fully opaque orange orbs floating in the background in varying sizes. Occasionally, there is also an orange teddy bear and a sitting dog on top of a large orb floating upwards in the background.
As the routine slowly reaches to the end, the sky slightly lightens and the orbs appear further in the background.
Gold Moves[]
There is 1 Gold Move in this routine:
Gold Move: Facing to the left, move your arms down in a curve with your index fingers out.
Trivia[]
- The preview gameplay of Jamais Lâcher is the fifth one since Just Dance and Just Dance 2’s to feature the beginning of the routine, after those of Another One Bites the Dust (Stunt Version), God Is a Woman (Goddess Version), Walking on Sunshine, and Woman (All-Mother Version).
- It is also the first preview since Just Dance 2’s to only feature one player.
- Jamais Lâcher is currently the only regional-exclusive map of Just Dance 2023 Edition not to be available worldwide.
- During World Tour, it was replaced by Think About Things.
- It is the first regional-exclusive map with this distinction since EZ Do Dance on Just Dance 2020.
- It is the first new regional-exclusive map with unique choreography with this distinction since Papaoutai (African Dance Version) on Just Dance 2015.
- On the menu assets, the coach’s hair is light blonde instead of dirty blonde.
- The snippet of If You Wanna Party in the opening cutscene uses the pictogram bar from the Just Dance 2023 Edition previews instead of the one seen in the final game build.
- Michou’s dog, Yuki, appears in the opening cutscene.
- Some background elements from the background are inspired from the music video for the song.
- In the music video, Michou performs the dance moves from the chorus along with a crowd, which includes French Just Dance YouTubers Dancepool and TheFairyDina.[1]