"Firework" by Katy Perry was featured on Just Dance 2 as a free downloadable track but was made unavailable for purchase following the shutdown of the Wii Shop Channel on January 30, 2019. The song remains playable on Just Dance: Summer Party, Just Dance: Greatest Hits, Just Dance: Best Of, Just Dance Now, Just Dance Unlimited, and Just Dance+. The song also appeared on 舞力无限 until the service shut down.
Appearance of the Dancer
Original
The dancer is a woman with bluish purple curly hair. She wears a pink shrug with a cyan romper with indigo linings underneath. The romper has a starburst design on it. She also wears a reflex blue wristband, on her left hand and a pair of turquoise wedges with light blue straps. Additionally, she wears a turquoise bow on her head and a pair of pink earrings. She also wears a turquoise glove and has a reddish outline.
Remake
In the remake, the dancer looks more realistic. Her romper and the starburst design on it are now in a darker shade of magenta, her bow and glove are now electric green instead of turquoise, her hair is in a darker shade of purple, and her wedges are aqua blue. Her face is less visible and her headband also has a white and electric green pattern.
Background
Original
The routine takes place in front of a blurry amusement park with a glowing ride that resembles the London Eye and many other lights in shades of pink, red, fuchsia and purple that constantly glow and fade away. The floor is reddish and reflects the background, and the corners of the screen are black.
At the beginning of the song, several blurry fireworks in shades of red and violet burst. Since the beginning of the first verse, many 2D pink bubbles with a thin, light pink outline float behind the coach and fall down. As soon as the pre-chorus starts, the lights in the background glow up more and with faster intervals until the chorus ends. Whenever the coach performs her Gold Moves, the background glows red. During the chorus, many fireworks in shades of pink and violet burst with a different animation from that of the previous ones. At the end, more fireworks in shade of white and blue burst.
Just Dance: Greatest Hits (Xbox 360)
In the Xbox 360 version of Just Dance: Greatest Hits, the background is slightly less blurry and in darker shades, the ride is bigger, the floor is darker and there is more black fading around the screen.
The fireworks at the beginning come in a wider variety of colors (including light blue, yellow and orange) and burst more slowly, there are no bubbles behind the coach, the glowing interval does not speed up during the verses and the background does not glow red when the Gold Moves are performed. The fireworks in the chorus start bursting from the pre-chorus (when the coach opens and closes her arms), and they have the same textures and animations as those from the beginning. They also appear during the bridge. At the end, there are many more fireworks than in the previous versions.
Remake
In the remake, the routine starts with a black background that is gradually revealed through its glowing intervals, which become more luminous; besides, the coach already starts walking in before the song starts (as opposed to previous versions, where she fades in).
The background is much darker, the ride only starts spinning after the beginning of the first verse and the bubbles have deeper colors. The glowing intervals in the pre-chorus and the chorus are much shinier, and the fireworks in the chorus come in more shades of red and violet and look more similar to the ones from Just Dance 2, Just Dance: Best Of, and the Wii version of Greatest Hits.
At the end, the background fades back to black, and the same happens to the coach right afterwards.
Gold Moves
There are 6 Gold Moves (5 in the remake) in this routine, all of which are the same:
All Gold Moves: Point your right hand to the screen while putting your left hand on your hip and stomp your left foot. Gold Move 1 (before the remake) is done with your left hand on your left shoulder.
(pre-Just Dance+)
(Just Dance+)
in-game
All Gold Moves (remake)
in-game
Appearances in Mashups
Firework makes appearances in the following Mashups:
- Are You Gonna Go My Way
- Birthday (Best of Katy)
- Crucified
- Ghostbusters
- (I've Had) The Time of my Life
- I Kissed a Girl
- I Will Survive
- Just a Gigolo
- Love You Like A Love Song
- Never Can Say Goodbye (Best of JD2)
- Pound The Alarm
- Rock n’ Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain)
- So What
- She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)
- Super Bass
Captions
Firework appears in Puppet/Party Master Modes. Here are the captions attributed to the dance moves:
- Circle The Stars
- Over You
- Punch the Sky
- Rainbow
- Star Waves
- Sun Rise
- Why Me
Appearances in Playlists
Firework is featured in the following playlists:
Just Dance: Greatest Hits
Just Dance Now
- Countdown 2024
- Dance Therapy!
- Firework Frenzy
- Firework Fest (2022)
- Firework Fest (2024)
- Firework Fest (2025)
- Free the Fireworks! (2023)
- Free the Fireworks! (2024)
- Free the Fireworks! (2025)
- Happy Holidays!
- The Best of 2000s!
Just Dance Unlimited
Just Dance 2016
Just Dance 2017
Just Dance 2018
舞力全开
Trivia
General
- Firework is the second song by Katy Perry in the Just Dance series.
- Firework is the first song by Katy Perry to be used for a downloadable routine.
- Firework is the only song released in the 2010s to appear in Just Dance 2.
- The lyrics in Just Dance 2, Just Dance: Summer Party, and Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of read "Through/Ough/Ough", whereas the lyrics in the remake read "Through/Oo/Oo".
- In Just Dance: Greatest Hits, the preview audio uses the beginning of the song instead of the first chorus.
Routine
- Firework was the first free downloadable map in the history of Just Dance, and the first such map to be for a song by Katy Perry.
- Along with Barbie Girl, Pon de Replay, and Pump Up The Volume, it was one of the first downloadable maps in the Just Dance series.
- Firework was the first Just Dance routine whose full gameplay was uploaded on the justdancegame YouTube channel.
- It is also the ninth-most watched video on said channel, with over 10 million views.
- Firework is the only map in Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of whose difficulty and effort ratings have been increased, as well as the only one with difficulty and effort ratings of 3.
- However, this does not happen in the Wii version of the former game.
- 365 and Firework were the first two pre-Just Dance 2023 Edition routines to return to Just Dance+ outside of a monthly release batch since February 2024.
- In a beta promotional image for Just Dance 2, the pictograms are reversed.
- At the time of the release of Just Dance 2, Katy Perry invited players to submit videos of them dancing to Firework for a chance to win VIP tickets to her concert.[citation needed]
- The coach’s ribbon is green, as opposed to light blue, in the covers of Just Dance: Summer Party and Best Of.
- The coach of Firework appears in the intro of every Just Dance 3 preview gameplay, along with the coach from TiK ToK, despite their respective routines not being present in that game.
- The dancer has a completely altered color scheme in the cover of Just Dance: Greatest Hits.
- In Just Dance: Greatest Hits on the Xbox 360, after the game’s theme has been downloaded via Uplay, the background for Firework will appear. This background will appear on Xbox Home as the theme.
- In Just Dance 2015, the coach’s avatar is used by Aurélie Sériné for her VIP appearance on the World Dance Floor.
- In the remake, the first Gold Move is not counted at all[3]; on camera consoles, it is counted as a regular move[4].
- The coach makes a cameo in Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.).
Gallery
Game Files
(Remake, pre-Just Dance+)
(Remake, Just Dance+)
In-Game Screenshots
Promotional Images
Beta Elements
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Behind the Scenes
Others
