"Starships" by Nicki Minaj is featured on Just Dance 2014, Just Dance Now (for players who subscribed before April 9, 2024), and Just Dance VR. It was also featured on Just Dance Unlimited and 舞力无限, but was removed on August 1 and 2, 2024, respectively. It also appeared on Just Dance 2020 via All Stars Mode prior to the shutdown of the feature on February 28, 2023. The song can be also found in the Just Dance+ files.
The song also has an alternate routine titled "Charleston Version".
Appearance of the Dancer[]
The dancer is a woman named Oneeka, who wears a purple dress with puffy yellow sleeves. There are stripes on one sleeve and dots on the other. On her waist, she has a big light blue ribbon. She has peach pink-and-aqua blue hair with hot pink, blue, and orange flowers on it. She also has black high-heeled boots, and light blue socks that have the appearance of glaciers. Her makeup is visible and consists of blue eyeshadow. Her skirt is dark purple and covered by a black skeleton of what looks like an umbrella over a yellow tulle skirt. Her glove has a ribbon on it that has a similar color to the glove itself.
Background[]
The map takes place inside the mouth of what seems to be a monster. The background is a blue sky with clouds and unrealistic (almost cartoony) metallic-looking rainbows with the colors (in-order) yellow, orange, pink, purple, and darker purple. Oneeka is standing on a flying pink candy-resembling platform that, like the rainbows, looks metallic-looking. When the chorus starts and "Starships" is sung the platform flies upwards to a pink sky with hot air balloons and blimps. When it reaches the top there is a background similar to the one at the bottom. It then floats down again and the process repeats itself once. After it repeats itself, the platform flies towards the screen and out of a monster’s mouth. When "We’re higher than a ..." is sung, the monster rolls its eyes and the dancer moves far away from the monster. The background turns into a passage with multiple flashing and colorful lights; most likely trying to be like in the music video. After the line has been sung thrice, Oneeka once again ends up on the platform and goes back into the mouth and back to the normal blue sky. All of this repeats but when the bridge of the song begins the platform will instead fly into outer space after the background with many colors. It then flies up extremely fast passing the blue sky and the red one; it is also extremely fast when the platform comes down. The last verse is just like the others. After the song, Oneeka gets abducted by a spaceship that appears to be inside the monster, the monster zooms out to the background and winks.
Sweat Mashup[]
Starships has a Sweat Mashup on Just Dance 2014 that can be unlocked for 5 Mojocoins.
Dancers[]
- Starships
- Disco Ball Head Dancer
- Party Rock Anthem
- Follow the Leader (Sweat)
- Limbo (Sweat)
- Dun N’ Dusted
- Fame
- Boomsday
- I Was Made For Lovin’ You (Sweat)
- Where Have You Been (Extreme)
- Hey Boy Hey Girl
- Disco Ball Head Dancer
- Party Rock Anthem
- Follow the Leader (Sweat)
- Limbo (Sweat)
- Dun N’ Dusted
- Fame
- Boomsday
- I Was Made For Lovin’ You (Sweat)
- Where Have You Been (Extreme)
- Hey Boy Hey Girl
- Limbo (Sweat)
- Ghostbusters (Sweat Version) [GM]
- Boomsday
- I Was Made For Lovin’ You (Sweat)
- Where Have You Been (Extreme)
- Hey Boy Hey Girl
- Starships
Party Master Mode[]
Starships has a Party Master Mode. Here are the captions that appear in order of appearance:
(Captions in bold indicate a Song Switch.)
Gold Moves[]
Classic[]
There are 4 Gold Moves in the Classic routine:
Gold Moves 1, 3, and 4: Bend your knees inward and pull your arms downwards and then spin your head in a clockwise direction.
Gold Move 2: Put your hands on your chin like a "Y" while leaning downwards.
Sweat Mashup[]
There is 1 Gold Move in the Sweat Mashup:
Gold Move: While facing the right side, bend your knees slightly and move your arms up and down. (Ghostbusters (Sweat Version))
Release History[]
This section details the release and removal history of Starships.
Game | Date Added | Date Removed |
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Just Dance Now | August 28, 2015 | April 9, 2024, or the end of the next billing period |
Just Dance Unlimited | October 22, 2015 | August 1, 2024 |
Just Dance 2020 (All Stars) | November 5, 2019 | February 28, 2023 (service shutdown) |
舞力无限 | August 12, 2022 | August 2, 2024 |
Appearances in Mashups[]
Starships appears in the following Mashups:
- DADDY (K-Pop)
- Flashdance... What A Feeling
- Gentleman
- Ghostbusters
- I Love It (Best of JD2014)
- Just A Gigolo
- Moskau
- Papaoutai (Ultra Violet)
- Starships
Dance Quest[]
Starships appears in the following Dance Quest maps:
- Pine Cone
Appearances in Playlists[]
Starships appears in the following playlists:
Just Dance Now[]
- 10 Years of Just Dance
- All About That Bass!
- All Songs S-Z
- Beats from the Far East
- Dancing for Gaia!
- Easy Peasy Party
- Fan Favorite
- Galactic Groove! (Pre-August 2020)
- Galactic Groove! (2021)
- Got the Groove!
- Hall Of Fame
- Just Dance Billboard!
- Lunar Arcade
- Pop Mix Workout
- Recommended For You
- Signs & Elements
- The All Stars
Just Dance 2016[]
Just Dance 2017[]
Just Dance 2018[]
Just Dance 2019[]
Just Dance 2020[]
舞力全开[]
Captions[]
Starships appears in Party Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to Oneeka's dance moves.
- Cheery Jump
- Cute Kicks
- Girly Walk
- Like A Flower
- Losing My Mind (sometimes misspelled as Loosing My Mind)
- Kawaii Up (sometimes misspelled as Kawai Up)
- Modeling
- Model Walk
- Overpowered Mill
- Rolling For You
- Running Weird
- Smart Lolita
Trivia[]
General[]
- Starships is the fourth song by Nicki Minaj in the series.
- The official clean version of the song is used in the game, in which "b**ches", "s**ts", "motherf**ker", and "f**k" are censored.
- However, in some trailers, such as the UK Gamescom Trailer for Just Dance 2014 showing off the World Dance Floor, the official version of the song with no censorship is used.
- The lyric "Let’s go get a wave" is misinterpreted as "Let’s go get away".
- On Just Dance 2014, the lyrics are highlighted too early multiple times in all modes.
- This was fixed on Just Dance Unlimited and mostly fixed on Just Dance Now.
- The line "Have a drink, clink, found the Bud Light" is referenced in the ESRB website page about Just Dance 2020.[3]
- While the alternate routine was added to 舞力无限 in Season 18, Starships was added to 舞力无限 in Season 19. This marks the seventh time an alternate routine is released before its classic counterpart in 舞力无限, after Hips Don’t Lie, It’s You, Bad Romance, Ghostbusters, This Is How We Do, and Fancy.
- It is the eighth instance among all online music catalogs in the Just Dance series, after Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go in Just Dance Unlimited and the aforementioned.
Classic[]
- Oneeka’s name is likely a reference to Nicki Minaj’s birth name, which is Onika Tanya Maraj.
- When watching a YouTube gameplay of the map on a desktop, the resolution goes down during the beat drop because the high amount of colors and special effects in the background can cause people with epilepsy to have seizures. To raise it, it has to be 480p or higher.
- The abduction effect at the start and the end is reused from Crazy Little Thing.
- Akin to Crazy Little Thing, the opening cutscene that shows the abducting animation is not seen in Just Dance 2014.
- However, this is not the case in Just Dance Unlimited.
- Akin to Crazy Little Thing, the opening cutscene that shows the abducting animation is not seen in Just Dance 2014.
- Oneeka makes a cameo in the background of Blurred Lines.
- Oneeka appears on the PAL cover of Just Dance 2014, on the right. However, her hair is combed neater, the colors have swapped sides and the flower crown only covers the left of her head.
- Successfully performing Gold Move 2 in Just Dance 2014 results in a "YEAH!" that appears to be faded.[citation needed]
- Oneeka won in the "Most Stylish Female Coach" category on the first Just Dance Awards.[4]
- Starships is one of the routines to have a Dancemas Ornament.[5]
- A girl cosplaying as Oneeka appears on a promotional video for Just Dance Now.[6]
- Ever since Just Dance Now was first released, an image of the gameplay used to appear after a song had been selected with the captions "Follow the dancer as if he’s your reflection in a mirror" and "Grab your phone and dance!"; however, Starships was only released on August 28, 2015.
- Starting from the July 2017 update, Starships is replaced by Birthday.
- A pictogram from Starships is used as placeholder in the beta pictograms sprite for I Love It.
- Oneeka makes a cameo appearance in the background of Uptown Funk in the second verse.
- Starships is featured in the Just Dance Unlimited playlist "Beats from the Far East", which otherwise only contains maps for songs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
- The coach selection image is more zoomed in on Just Dance Unlimited.
- The background reappears in Don’t Stop Me Now (Panda Version) and Don’t Worry.
- The background reappears in Just Dance 2018 as an unlockable sticker in the form of a planet.
- Oneeka makes a cameo in High Hopes.
- As of October 17, 2019, the album coach has been updated.
- However, this updated version is only used in Just Dance 2019 and later games.
Mashup[]
- During both appearances of Party Rock Anthem, the coach freezes right before it switches to the next coach.
Party Master Mode[]
- The Party Master Mode has a possible total of 13 Gold Moves, thus counting as the routine with the highest number of Gold Moves in the Just Dance series.
- If the player who holds the gamepad switches to another song, such as Follow the Leader, the routine can unexpectedly stop.
Gallery[]
Game Files[]
In-Game Screenshots[]
Promotional Images[]
Behind the Scenes[]
Beta Element[]
Others[]
Videos[]
Official Music Video[]
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Gameplays[]
Classic[]
Mashup[]
Party Master Mode[]
Extractions[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@doloresmadrigalgemini/video/7111716257027673345
- ↑ https://youtu.be/9W3TTpA6Mw4?t=7s (better source needed)
- ↑ https://www.esrb.org/ratings/36479/Just+Dance+2020/
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.445404725594983.1073741834.298090406993083&type=3
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.387322048069918.1073741832.298090406993083&type=3
- ↑ https://youtu.be/JLoCDV2IuBk
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/justdancegame/photos/pb.100067348292428.-2207520000/355127354622721/?type=3
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