"When I Grow Up" by The Pussycat Dolls is featured on Just Dance 2.
Appearance of the Dancer
C1
The song starts with a grown-up celebrity. She's wearing an aqua and purple dress. Her hair and sunglasses are dark teal. She is also wearing a purple sun hat, one purple glove (the other is hot pink), and light blue high-heels.
C2
Every time "When I grow up" is sung the lady "turns" into a teenager in her room who wishes to become famous when she grows up. She is, in fact, wearing the same accessories as her adult-form but instead of a dress and high-heels, she is wearing an orange t-shirt with a purple rainbow and white cloud, orange shorts, and white flats with purple socks. A feather boa has been added, and her hair and glasses are orange like her clothes.
In the remake, C1’s lipstick is much more visible, and a realistic effect is added on the clothes.
Background
Original
During the adult's scenes, she is standing on a reflective floor in front of The Red Carpet and around her are paparazzi, palm trees, railings, and glowing lights from a city. During the teen's scenes, she is in her orange-colored room, having a window with curtains, a bed, an armchair/sofa with lots of soft toys, a bed with a dolphin on it, and a clothes-hanger. Also, a Raving Rabbid appears on the couch as one of the stuffed animals.
Remake
In the remake, the flashes from the paparazzi's cameras are dimmer and the red carpet is stretched so that the dancer is standing on it instead of in front of it. The transition between the two backgrounds happens in a different way, and the second one looks lighter.
Alternate Routines/Contest Winners
There was a contest held which let fans choreograph their own dances to "When I Grow Up". Three winners of the contest got their dances recorded (the winners were dancing themselves) and added into the game as Alternate routines.
Contest Winner 1
The first winner was Sam from France. He is wearing a yellow cap, a green hoodie, blue pants, and white and green sneakers.
Contest Winner 2
The second winner was Mandy Davis from the United Kingdom. She is wearing a hot pink dress, a light blue jacket with short sleeves, and very dark purple belt.
Since her hair is blonde, the special effects make her hair white in-game. The same thing happened to her shoes which, apparently, are a very light pink.
Contest Winner 3
The third winner was Liana Veda from the United States. She has purple hair and is wearing a purple hat, a hot pink tank top and warmers, a dark purple short skirt, orange leggings, and dark shoes.
Gold Moves
Classic
There are 3 Gold Moves in the Classic routine:
Gold Move 1: Put your hands in the air.
Gold Move 2: Do a dramatic fainting position.
Gold Move 3: Pull up your hands a little and rotate the upper part of the body. This comes directly after Gold Move 2.
Sam (Fanmade Routine)
The routine by Sam has 4 Gold Moves, all of which are the same:
All Gold Moves: Open your legs and your arms and raise them up.
Mandy (Fanmade Routine)
The routine by Mandy has 2 Gold Moves, both of which are the same:
Both Gold Moves: Slide your right arm in a semicircle and slide your left hand on it.
Liana (Fanmade Routine)
The routine by Liana has 2 Gold Moves:
Gold Move 1: Facing left, open your legs and your arms and raise them up.
Gold Move 2: Put your right arm up while bending your right leg. This is the final move of the routine.
Appearances in Mashups
When I Grow Up is featured in the following Mashups:
Captions
When I Grow Up appears in Puppet/Party Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to her dance moves:
- Cutie Pie
- Pick And Choose
- Posh
- Posh Poses
Trivia
- When I Grow Up is the first song by The Pussycat Dolls in the series.
- Along with Holiday, S.O.S, and Song 2, When I Grow Up is one of the first four songs to feature a transforming dancer. She is also the first dancer to completely transform for a significant amount of time.
- The beta version of When I Grow Up had a different color scheme. It can still be seen in the menu icon on Just Dance 2.
- The choreography was different as well, as seen in some screenshots.
- The preview video, which shows the Beta color scheme for the coach, also features Beta pictograms in the style of the previous game.
- The choreography was different as well, as seen in some screenshots.
- For the contest winners, when they start recording with outfits on in the real world, it had a different color scheme. This was probably done to make it look more colorful and bolder.
- When I Grow Up is the first song to have alternate routines. The second was seen a game later and has become a common feature in every subsequent sequel.
- It also has the most alternate routines in the series (not counting Puppet/Party Master Modes or Mashups), with 3 alternate routines.
- The silhouette of the chorus dancer appears in the Multiplayer menu of Just Dance Wii, even though the song is not playable in that game.
- During C2's part of the routine, one of the outfits in the background resembles P2's outfit from Bad Romance (when the dancers turn white), but this is most likely a coincidence.
- The alternates are the only routines with a set scoring but no stars in the game; this happens later in Tutorial Mode of Just Dance Wii 2.
- The back of the PAL cover of the game mistakenly says that the song is covered by The Hit Crew.
- The avatar is supposed to be wearing sunglasses like its coach but is instead wearing regular glasses.
- Although Sam’s routine is placed before Mandy’s routine in the Contest Winners' menu, the code name for Mandy’s version is "contest1", while the code name for Sam's version is "contest3".
- This is the first song with a Rabbid cameo.
- The menu squares for the three contest winner routines can be found by dumping the textures on Just Dance: Summer Party.
- In the Just Dance Now extraction with pictograms, the Gold Move effects are missing.
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