"Rasputin" by Boney M. is featured on Just Dance 2, Just Dance Wii, Just Dance 3 (as a downloadable track), Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of, Just Dance Now, Just Dance Unlimited, Just Dance 2020 (All Stars Mode), and 舞力无限.
Appearance of the Dancer
Original
The dancer is a man parodying Grigori Rasputin. He is wearing a traditional Russian costume. He has a beard, he is wearing a Papacha, a Russian cap. He also has a dark teal jacket with a red scarf, violet pants, and black boots are also worn.
After the coach performs his Gold Move, an effect that overlaps frames of his silhouette is applied on him.
Just Dance Now
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From Just Dance Now onwards, the overlapping effect at the end is no longer visible. He also has less of an outline.
Just Dance Unlimited
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In the remake, all of the coach’s dark spots are now a dark purple and he has a blue outline.
Background
The background is a winter landscape composing of a frozen lake, several evergreen trees and St. Basil’s Cathedral, one of the most iconic buildings in Moscow, Russia. Snow can be seen falling in the background and the frozen lake shows the reflection of the trees, the coach, and the Cathedral.
Gold Moves
There is 1 Gold Move in this routine:
Gold Move: Jump and open your arms in a straight position, and bend your legs.
(Original, used until Just Dance 2020)
Appearances in Mashups
Rasputin appears in the following Mashups:
- Apache (Jump On It)
- Dynamite
- Good Feeling
- Irish Meadow Dance
- Just A Gigolo
- Limbo
- Maneater
- Moskau
- Never Can Say Goodbye (Best of JD 2)
- Oh No!
- She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)
- Teacher (Costume Party)
- Tribal Dance
- Uptown Funk (Behind the Scenes)
- What Makes You Beautiful
- YMCA
- You’re the First, the Last, My Everything
Captions
Rasputin appears in Puppet/Party Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to his dance moves:
- Happy Rasputin
- Kazatchok
- Mujik
Russian Airline[2]- Russian Bounce
- Russian Hat
- Russian Plane
- Russian Rumble
- Russian Sidestep
- Russian Skip
- Russian Tilt
- Russian Violin
- Smooth Kazatchok
Dance Quest
Rasputin appears on the following Dance Quest map:
- Special New Year
Appearances in Playlists
Rasputin is featured in the following playlists:
Just Dance 2019
Just Dance 2020
Just Dance Now
- Got the Groove!
- The Best of ‘60s & ‘70s!
- Global Groove List!
- Hot Moves and Hot Cocoa
- Your First Dance
- Easy Peasy Party
- All Songs K-R
Just Dance Unlimited
- Easy Peasy Party
- World
- Unlimited K-R
- The Groovy 70s
- Put a Lid on it
- Fairy Dances
Trivia
General
- Rasputin is the first song by Boney M. in the series.
- The “overdub version” from Gold - 20 Super Hits is used in-game. This version has a shorter intro and added hand clap overdubs.
- The song fades out right before the line "Ra-Ra-Rasputin/Russia’s greatest love machine/And so they shot him til’ he was dead".
- Rasputin was referenced by Ubisoft in the ESRB label of Just Dance 2, in which the following lyric was cited: "drinkin’ and lusting,".[3]
Routine
- In the Xbox 360 version of Just Dance: Greatest Hits, the color of the ground has been changed from white (as in Just Dance 3 on that console) to bluish in order to prevent the lyrics from blending into it.
- This makes Rasputin the only routine to receive graphical updates from Just Dance 3 to Just Dance: Greatest Hits.
- The coach resembles Grigori Rasputin, a Russian historical figure whose life is told in this song.
- The choreography is heavily inspired by the Kozachok, a traditional Ukrainian dance.
- As seen in a picture, the coach’s boots were initially green instead of black-green.
- One of the pictograms in the pre-remake version has a double-headed arrow. Unlike other songs from Just Dance 2 that were recycled for Just Dance 3, Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of, Just Dance Now, or Just Dance Unlimited, this was not changed or replaced by a different pictogram in the latter two games.
- This also happens with Toxic and Mamasita.
- However, before the release of Just Dance 2020, all the pictograms were completely remade.
- This also happens with Toxic and Mamasita.
- In the Just Dance 2 menu icon, the coach’s face, cap and beard have a red outline and his glove is on the wrong hand.
- In Just Dance 2, the props on some pictograms are yellow instead of red.
- This was fixed on the Wii versions of Just Dance 3, Greatest Hits and Best Of, as well as in the remake.
- In Just Dance Unlimited’s album coach, the dancer's boots are green instead of black-green.
- The background reappears in Spice Up Your Life.
- The coach is a returning dancer on five different songs throughout the series, namely Just Dance (as a stained window), Hungarian Dance No. 5 (P2), Y.M.C.A. (P1), Sugar (P2), and Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) (as a cameo).
- A picture of the routine appears in the background of the Tutorial mode from Just Dance Wii 2.
- On the Just Dance 2015 version of the avatar, the mouth is comparatively closer to the mustache.
- The coach makes a cameo appearance in the background of Uptown Funk.
- The remade coach presents slight differences between Just Dance Now and Just Dance Unlimited: in the former game, he is the same size as his original version and his glowing outline fades towards his feet; in the latter, he is slightly smaller, and his glow is thinner and does not fade.
- In addition, his color scheme and his textures are all retained from the original version in Just Dance Unlimited (as opposed to Just Dance Now, where he has been given several changes).
- As of, October 17, 2019, the pictograms and the album coach have been updated in Just Dance Unlimited.
- In All Stars Mode, the planet displays the Just Dance Now version of the coach, even though the video file is from Just Dance Unlimited’s servers.
- The coach makes an appearance in the background of Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.).
- Later on in the routine, Rasputin’s beard is worn by the coach of Hot N Cold, which references their appearance together in Sugar.
Gallery
Game Files
(Just Dance 2)
In-Game Screenshots
Behind the Scenes
Beta Elements
Others
Videos
Official Music Video
Gameplays
Extractions
References
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