Mashups are routines that consist of choreography from both previous Just Dance titles and those from the current game integrated into a single routine, first appeared in Just Dance 3. Until its latest appearance in Just Dance 2017, the feature underwent a lot of updates. Mashups were planned to be in Just Dance 2018 but were removed for unknown reasons[2]. Mashups did not return in Just Dance 2019.
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Dance Mashups are routines that consist of dancers from previous Just Dance titles and the current game is all joined into one single routine, but not every dancer. There are two types of Mashups: regular and sweat. The original dancer from the song usually appears at the beginning and end of the routine, sometimes even during the middle of the song, if the song is Solo. Before Just Dance 2015, if the Classic routine was a Duet or Dance Crew, a random Solo dancer takes the Duets/Dance Crew’s place; or sometimes nothing replaced the dancers. This was changed in Just Dance 2015, with the reintroduction of Duet Mashups, which were only in Just Dance 3 before, and the introduction of Dance Crew Mashups. Also, Just Dance 2015 introduced themed Mashups, in which the dancer selection would be determined by a specific category, such as Pink Hair.
Just Dance 3
Just Dance 3 is the first game to have this mode. Here, there are three kinds of Mashups: Mashup, Duet Mashup and Sweat Mashup. Mashups and Duet Mashups have a kaleidoscopic background that can have different shapes and colors. Sweat Mashups have a gym as a background.
Songs with Mashups in this game are:
- Apache (Jump On It)
- Are You Gonna Go My Way (Sweat Mashup)
- Baby One More Time
- Baby Zouk (Duet Mashup)
- Barbra Streisand
- Da Funk (Sweat Mashup)
- Dynamite
- I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’
- Jamaican Dance
- Jump (For My Love) (Sweat Mashup)
- No Limit
- Party Rock Anthem
- Promiscuous (Duet Mashup)
- Pump It (Xbox 360 Ubisoft Club exclusive/Wii and PS3 Mojo Unlockable)
- She's Got Me Dancing
- Take On Me
- What You Waiting For? (Sweat Mashup)
Just Dance 4
Just Dance 4 is the second game to have this mode. Sweat Mashups and Duet Mashups were removed. The background is now a place with lots of lights and smoke. There are Wii U and PS3 exclusive Mashups. Another similar mode has been added, called Puppet Master Mode, where players use the Wii U gamepad to choose dancers in real time, similar to a Mashup. None of the Mashups in Just Dance 4 have Gold Moves.
Songs with Mashups in this game are:
- Beauty And A Beat (Ubisoft Club exclusive/Wii Mojo unlockable)
- Beware of the Boys (Mundian To Bach Ke)
- Call Me Maybe
- Disturbia
- Good Feeling (Ubisoft Club exclusive/Wii Mojo unlockable)
- Moves Like Jagger
- Oh No!
- Oops!.. .I Did It Again
- Rock n' Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain)
- Rock Lobster
- What Makes You Beautiful
- You're the First, the Last, My Everything
PS3 & Wii U Exclusive Mashups
- (I've Had) The Time Of My Life
- Crucified
- Jailhouse Rock
- Livin' La Vida Loca
- Love You Like A Love Song
- Maneater
- Mas Que Nada
- Run the Show
- So What
- Super Bass
- Tribal Dance
- Wild Wild West
Wii U Exclusive Mashups
- Ain't No Other Man
- Aserejé (The Ketchup Song)
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You
- Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)
- I Like It
- Mr. Saxobeat
- Never Gonna Give You Up
- The Final Countdown
- We No Speak Americano
Just Dance 2014
The background for all Mashups in Just Dance 2014 is very bright. There are dancers from previous games in the background and the center of the "wheel" is a dome that represents half disco ball. The ground is full of slots where the current dancer dances on. Gold Moves have returned but only on certain Mashups.
Just Dance 2014 would only allow a small variety of dancers in the Mashups.
The Mashups in this game are:
- #thatPOWER (Unlocked from start)
- Blame It on the Boogie (Sweat Mashup)
- Blurred Lines
- C’Mon (Sweat Mashup)
- Candy (Sweat Mashup)
- Could You Be Loved (March Mashup)
- Feel So Right
- Fine China (Ubisoft Club exclusive/Wii Mojo unlockable)
- Flashdance ... What A Feeling
- Follow The Leader (September Mashup)
- Gentleman
- Ghostbusters (February Mashup)
- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (Sweat Mashup)
- I Kissed a Girl (December Mashup)
- I Will Survive
- It’s You (Sweat Mashup)
- Just A Gigolo
- Just Dance
- Limbo (January Mashup)
- Love Boat (August Mashup)
- Miss Understood (Sweat Mashup)
- Moskau
- Pound The Alarm (July Mashup)
- Prince Ali
- Rich Girl (November Mashup)
- She Wolf (Falling to Pieces) (October Mashup)
- Starships (Sweat Mashup)
- Troublemaker (May Mashup)
- Turn Up the Love (Sweat Mashup)
- Where Have You Been (April Mashup)
- Wild
- Y.M.C.A. (June Mashup)
Just Dance 2015
Mashups and Party Master Modes re-appear once again in Just Dance 2015. Duet Mashups make their reappearance after being dormant for 2 games. The Party Master background returns from Just Dance 2014 and the Mashup background returns from Just Dance 3. A single Dance Crew Mashup (marked as a Quatro Mashup) appears as the Classic routine for You're On My Mind. All Mashups have a theme now, so they use a small variety of dancers. Monthly Unlockable Mashups appear too, but they're invisible until they get unlocked. The color of the background is different every time a Mashup is played. This is not the case for You’re On My Mind, in which the background color changes every transition. This feature would later be in every Just Dance 2016 and 2017 Mashup.
Songs with Mashups in this game are:
- 4x4 (Best of JD4)
- Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Funky) (December Mashup)
- Addicted To You (Black Light) (November Mashup)
- Bad Romance (Monsters) (October Mashup)
- Bailando (Let's Rock!)
- Best Song Ever (Fitness) (Sweat Mashup)
- Birthday (Best of Katy)
- Built For This (Robots)
- Dark Horse (Mystic Princesses)
- Fatima (World Music) (March Mashup)
- The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) (Shamans)
- Holding Out for a Hero (Cray Cray Duet) (Duet Mashup)
- I Love It (Best of JD 2014)
- It's My Birthday (Suit Up!)
- Love Is All (Sisters Duet) (Duet Mashup)
- Love Me Again (Ex-Girlfriends) (Ubisoft Club exclusive/Wii Mojo unlockable)
- Macarena (Gentleman) (February Mashup)
- Maps (Best of JD 3)
- Never Can Say Goodbye (Best of JD 2)
- Papaoutai (Ultra Violet) (PAL exclusive)
- Problem (Lovers Duet) (Duet Mashup)
- Summer (Girl Power)
- Till I Find You (Duet) (NTSC exclusive Duet Mashup)
- Walk This Way (Ladies Only)
- You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) (Funny Guys) (January Mashup)
- You're On My Mind (Quatro Mashup)
Just Dance 2016
Mashups and Party Master Modes re-appear once again in this game. Duet Mashups appear again along with Dance Crew Mashups and Trio Mashups make their appearance too. The Party Master background returns from Just Dance 2015 and the Mashup background returns from Just Dance 2015. However, the color changes from one dancer to another, a concept used in You’re On My Mind. Monthly Mashups re-appear (though they do not have to be unlocked) and there are Xbox One, PS4, and Wii/Wii U exclusive Mashups, too.
Songs with Mashups in this game are:
- Born This Way (Triplets) (Trio Mashup)
- Circus (Show-Off)
- Drop the Mambo (Don't Touch)
- Fancy (Retro Men)
- I Gotta Feeling (Hops & Jumps)
- Ievan Polkka (B.F.F.) (Duet Mashup)
- Rabiosa (Bring your Friends) (Dance Crew Mashup)
- Stadium Flow (High Energy Girls) (PAL exclusive)
- Teacher (Costume Party)
- Uptown Funk (Behind the Scenes)
8th Gen & Wii Exclusive Mashups
- All About That Bass (Divas)
- Animals (Club)
- Blame (Sunglasses)
- Boys (Summertime Love) (Best of Just Dance 2016)
- Chiwawa (Geeks)
- Hangover (BaBaBa) (High Energy)
- I'm An Albatraoz (Merry Go Round)
- Let's Groove (Just Shine)
- Lights (Pink Hair)
- Stuck On A Feeling (Suit Up!)
Just Dance Unlimited Mashups (8th-gen Exclusive)
- Balkan Blast Remix (May Mashup)
- Copacabana (July Mashup)
- Fun (June Mashup)
- Irish Meadow Dance (April Mashup)
- No Control (January Mashup)
- Same Old Love (February Mashup)
- This Is How We Do (December Mashup)
- Want To Want Me (November Mashup)
Ubisoft Club Mashups (8th-gen Exclusive)
- You're On My Mind (Quatro) (Dance Crew Mashup)
Just Dance 2017
Only Solo and Duet Mashups re-appear in this game, but the Party Master Mode has been removed. The Mashup background is the same as the previous game. On eighth-generation consoles and PC, the Mashups are playable via Just Dance Unlimited, meaning that an internet connection is required to play the Mashups except Scream & Shout’s. On Wii, the Mashups are unlockable for 20 Mojo Coins, similar to the last two games. Mashups are not available on the Xbox 360 or the PlayStation 3.
The Mashups available in this game are:
- Cheap Thrills (Sunglasses)
- DADDY (K-Pop)
- Ghost In The Keys (Swag)
- Hips Don’t Lie (Caliente)
- Lean On (World)
- RADICAL (Back in the days)
- Scream & Shout (American dream)
- September (Sweatember) (Sweat Mashup)
- What Is Love (Icebreaker) (Duet Mashup)
- Worth It (Tease me) (Duet Mashup)
Trivia
General
- Party Rock Anthem and Apache (Jump On It) both have the most appearances in Mashups, with 21.
- However, this is only the case for Apache (Jump On It) if the unused Mashups the coach appears in are counted; otherwise, he appears in 19 Mashups.
- Crazy Christmas is the only coach to appear in at least one Mashup in every Just Dance game since Just Dance 3.
- Da Funk (Sweat Mashup) is the only Mashup in the series that does not repeat any dancers, except for starting and ending with the same dancer.
- Besides, Da Funk (Sweat Mashup) and You’re On My Mind are the only two Mashups where no moves are repeated.
- Baby Zouk’s Mashup has the least number of dancers, with only four routines being featured.
- Additionally, all post-Just Dance 3 Mashups except Lean On’s feature at least 6 routines.
- Just A Gigolo’s Mashup has the highest number of dancers, with 22 original dancers.
- In Just Dance 2014 and Just Dance 2015 Mashups are pieced together in-game with each dancer except being its own video in the game files rather than the Mashup being one long video of all the dancers, with the exception of You’re On My Mind. All other games in the series use one long video.
- In Just Dance 2015, the score screens for Mashups show the album coach for the Classic routine of the respective song (for example, on the score screen for the Mashup of Papaoutai, the Classic album coach appears). On Just Dance 2016 and Just Dance 2017 for 7th-Gen consoles, instead, the Mashup album coach from the 8th-Gen versions of the games is shown instead.
- In December 2016, the Mashup sections from Just Dance 2016 and Just Dance 2017 were removed for the Xbox One, Wii U, PS4, and PC. Mashups from Just Dance 2017 are still accessible through the "Favorites" section. They were added back to the menu at a later point.
- Just Dance 2016 is the only game where no mashup features beta dancers.
Just Dance 4
- In Mashups in Just Dance 4, the dancers’ reflections sometimes tend to exceed the boundaries.
- This is not the case with the Xbox 360 version of the gane, where coaches are not reflected on the background of Mashups.
- Just Dance 4’s Mashup background was also used for the Extreme routines of Good Feeling and Run the Show, as well as in Puppet Master Mode.
- However, Puppet Master mode applies different animations, and the coaches’ reflections are not kaleidoscopic.
- Good Feeling and Run the Shows’ Extreme Versions also use the original background in a slightly dissimilar way.
- However, Puppet Master mode applies different animations, and the coaches’ reflections are not kaleidoscopic.
Just Dance 2014
- Mashups in Just Dance 2014 only use the following coaches:
- #thatPOWER (Extreme)
- A Little Less Conversation
- Apache (Jump On It)
- Barbra Streisand
- Barbra Streisand (Extreme)
- Beat Match Until I’m Blue
- Beauty And A Beat
- Boomsday
- California Gurls
- Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (Alternate)
- Crazy Christmas
- Crazy in Love
- D.A.N.C.E.
- Dare
- Disco Ball Head Dancer
- Disturbia
- Dun N’ Dusted
- Fame
- Feel So Right
- Fine China
- Fine China (Extreme)
- Firework
- Follow The Leader
- Follow The Leader (Sweat)
- Forget You
- Funhouse
- Funkytown
- Funplex (CSS Remix)
- Gentleman
- Gentleman (Sweat)
- Ghostbusters (Sweat)
- Good Feeling
- Hey Boy Hey Girl
- Hot N Cold
- I Kissed a Girl
- I Kissed a Girl (Sweat)
- I Was Made For Lovin’ You (Sweat Version)
- I Will Survive
- Idealistic
- It’s You
- It’s You (Sweat)
- Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)
- Le Freak
- Let’s Go To The Mall
- Limbo (Sweat)
- Love Boat
- Love You Like A Love Song
- María (Sweat)
- Move Your Feet
- Moves Like Jagger
- Never Gonna Give You Up
- On the Floor
- Only Girl (In The World)
- Party Rock Anthem
- Rasputin
- Rich Girl
- Rock n’ Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain)
- She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)
- She’s Got Me Dancing
- So What
- Starships
- Step by Step
- Superstition
- U Can’t Touch This
- The Power
- Troublemaker
- Troublemaker (Sweat)
- Walk Like an Egyptian
- Wannabe
- We No Speak Americano
- What You Waiting For?
- Where Have You Been
- Where Have You Been (Extreme)
- Wild Wild West (Extreme Version)
- The background used in-game features coaches from past Just Dance games as holograms that come in from the left to change dancers. They always appear in this same order (from left to right):
- Step by Step (visible at the beginning)
- I Will Survive (visible at the beginning)
- Forget You (visible at the beginning)
- California Gurls (behind disco ball at the beginning)
- She’s Got Me Dancing (visible at the beginning)
- Le Freak (visible at the beginning)
- Love You Like A Love Song (visible at the beginning)
- Never Gonna Give You Up
- The Power
- A Little Less Conversation
- She’s Got Me Dancing
- Beauty And A Beat
- Barbra Streisand
- Let’s Go To The Mall
- Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (Alternate)
- Firework
- Funhouse
- Hot N Cold
Just Dance 2015
- The following glitch may occasionally happen: Monthly Mashups may be unlocked at a cost of 20 Mojo Coins, which is the cost of a Mojo Coin-unlockable Mashup.
- In addition, by accessing the Mashup via the JD Wall, the game will freeze after a few minutes.
- The background of Mashups was supposed to change color each time a different dancer appears. However, this could not happen due to technical limitations, and this only happened on You’re On My Mind.
- Despite this, the background color will change each time a Mashup is being replayed.
- This was later fixed in Just Dance 2016.
- Despite this, the background color will change each time a Mashup is being replayed.
- On the Wii version of the game, after playing a Mashup, the screen will flash light blue for a split second before switching to the scoring screen.[citation needed]
- This is due to the game unloading the background. The game will always place a blue screen behind routines.
Just Dance 2016
- Starting with Just Dance 2016, Mashups no longer began and/or ended with the original dancer, even if he or she fit the theme.
- In the 7th-Gen version of the game, the background may glitch on the Wii: when this happens, the moving hexagons at the sides have a rounded effect, as if the screen was seen from a sphere.
- This also happens in Just Dance 2017.
Just Dance 2017
- In Just Dance 2017, Mashups are only available on the 8th-Gen consoles, PC, Nintendo Switch, and Wii. Xbox 360 and PS3 have no Mashups available.
Just Dance 2018
- Some unused background textures can be found in the Just Dance 2018 files.
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