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"Starships" by Nicki Minaj is featured on Just Dance 2014, Just Dance Now, and Just Dance Unlimited. It also appears on Just Dance 2020 via All Stars Mode.
The song also has an alternate routine titled "Charleston Version".
Contents
Appearance of the Dancers

The dancer is a woman that wears a purple dress with yellow sleeves. There are stripes on one sleeve and dots on the other. On her waist, she has a big blue ribbon. She has pink-and-blue hair with pink, blue, and orange flowers on it. She also has black high-heels, and blue socks that have the appearance of liquid flowing on them. Her makeup is visible and consists of blue eyeshadow. Her skirt is covered by a skeleton of what looks like an umbrella. Her glove has a ribbon on it that has a similar color to the glove itself.
Background
The level 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. The dancer 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, the dancer will once again end up on the platform and go 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, the dancer 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) [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.)
- Starships
- Nice Guy Serenade/Talking To Me?/Telepathic Transmission/Hot Boy
- 70's/Fitness Fun/Wind Up Pony/Dancefloor/Super Woodpecker
- Watch It!/Punching Mill/Hard Rock Santa/Monster Claw
- Russian Plane/Rubber Leg/Follow The Leader/Gentleman
- Zombie Walk/Hammer Time/Over You/Peace And Love
- Energetic Girl/African Punch/Half Time/Medalion Man
- Elbow Stomp/Earthquake/Circular Punch/Robot Dance
- Move Like A Star☆/Cyber Punch/Double Punch/Exorcism
- Pom Pom Swing/Rolling Clap/Pretencious/Cyber Man
- Pin-Up Kick/Nice To Meet You/Love Boat/She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)
- Nice Guy Serenade/Talking To Me?/Telepathic Transmission/Hot Boy
- 70's/Fitness Fun/Wind Up Pony/Dancefloor/Super Woodpecker
- Watch It!/Punching Mill/Hard Rock Santa/Monster Claw
- Russian Plane/Rubber Leg/Troublemaker/Where Have You Been
- Zombie Walk/Hammer Time/Over You/Peace And Love
- Energetic Girl/African Punch/Half Time/Medalion Man
- Elbow Stomp/Earthquake/Circular Punch/Robot Dance
- Move Like A Star☆/Cyber Punch/Double Punch/Exorcism
- Pom Pom Swing/Rolling Clap/Pretencious/Cyber Man
- African Swim/Princess/Emotion Overdose/Dream Doll
- Where Are You?/Let Me Pass/Silent Fall/Party Lights
- Russian Plane/Rubber Leg/Flashdance ... What a Feeling/I Will Survive
- Elbow Stomp/Earthquake/Circular Punch/Robot Dance
- Move Like A Star/Cyber Punch/Groovy Jerk/Exorcism
- Pom Pom Swing/Rolling Clap/Pretencious/Cyber Man
- Starships
Gold Moves
Classic
There are 4 Gold Moves in the Classic routine:
Gold Moves 1, 3, and 4: Bend your knees 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: Flap your hands up and down. (Ghostbusters (Sweat))
Appearances in Mashups
Starships appears in the following Mashups:
- Starships
- DADDY (K-Pop)
- Flashdance ... What a Feeling
- Gentleman
- Ghostbusters
- I Love It (Best of JD2014)
- Just a Gigolo
- Moskau
- Papaoutai (Ultra Violet)
Dance Quest
Starships appears in the following Dance Quest maps:
- Pine Cone
Appearances in Playlists
Starships appears in the following playlists:
Just Dance 2019
- Just Dance 2014
- Kawaii
- Royally Cool
- The 2010s Were Banging
Just Dance 2020
- Just Dance 2014
- Kawaii
- Royally Cool
- The 2010s Were Banging
- Winter Has Come
Just Dance Now
- 10 Years of Just Dance!
- Just Dance Billboard!
- All About That Bass!
- All Songs S-Z
- Beats from the Far East
- Easy Peasy Party
- Galactic Groove!
- Hall of Fame
- Recommended For You
Just Dance Unlimited
- Beats from the Far East
- Just Dance 2014
- Just Dance Unlimited S-Z
- Princess
Captions
Starships appears in Party Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to her 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.
- The lyric "Let's go get a wave" is misinterpreted as "Let's go get away".
- On Just Dance 2014, the lyric highlighting gets ahead of itself 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.[2]
Classic
- The resolution goes down during the flashing lights background on YouTube videos because the colored background can cause people with epilepsy to have seizures. To raise it, it has to be 480p or higher.
- The resolution does not go down in the game and on mobile phone though.
- The abduction effect at the start and the end is recycled 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.
- The coach appears in the background of Blurred Lines.
- The coach 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]
- Starships won in the "Most Stylish Female Coach" category on the first Just Dance Awards. [3]
- Starships is one of the routines to have a Dancemas Ornament.[4]
- A girl cosplaying the Classic coach appears on a promotional video for Just Dance Now.[5]
- 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, Birthday replaces Starships.
- A pictogram from Starships can be seen in the Beta pictograms sprite for I Love It.
- The coach 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 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 forms a planet to reappear in Just Dance 2018 as an unlockable sticker.
- The coach makes a cameo in High Hopes.
- As of October 17, 2019, the album coach got updated.
- However, this updated version can only be seen in Just Dance 2019 and Just Dance 2020.
Party Master Mode
- The Party Master Mode has a possible total of 13 Gold Moves.
- Thus, it counts as the routine with the highest number of Gold Moves in the Just Dance series.
- In the Party Master Mode, 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
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(re-updated, phone)
Promotional Images
Behind the Scenes
Beta Elements
Others
Videos
Official Music Video
Gameplays
Classic
Mashup
Party Master Mode
Extractions
References
- ↑ https://youtu.be/9W3TTpA6Mw4?t=7
- ↑ 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLoCDV2IuBk&list=WL&index=8
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