"Timber" by Pitbull featuring Kesha (formerly known as Ke$ha) is featured on Just Dance 2014 as a downloadable track and Just Dance+. It was also available on Just Dance 2015 as a downloadable track on the Wii and Wii U if the player’s console has been modified. It was also briefly featured on Just Dance Now before being removed.

Appearance of the Dancers

P1

P1 is a woman with wavy black hair. She is wearing a black hat, a pair of sunglasses, several gold necklaces, a gold armband on her right arm, a top with a design of the USA flag, denim shorts, and red heeled boots. She also wears a pink fingerless glove.

P2

P2 is Panda. He wears a red cowboy hat, a sleeveless denim vest, a gold harmonica necklace, and red bandages tied up on his left wrist (which functions as his glove) and right ankle.

Background

The background is western themed with a barn house, a windmill, and old-fashioned buildings. They go dark and light up. In the beginning, the dancers appear on two "Wanted" posters, indicating that they are outlaws.

Gold Moves

There are 4 Gold Moves in this routine:

Gold Moves 1 and 3: Step forward with your right foot and swing your right arm to punch upwards.
Gold Moves 2 and 4: This is a Wave Gold Move which occurs in the following order:

• P1: Put both of your hands below your chin.
• P2: Point to P1.

Appearances in Mashups

Timber appears in the following Mashup:

• Holding Out for a Hero (Cray Cray Duet)

Appearances in Playlists

Timber is featured in the following playlists:

Just Dance Now

• Countdown 2023

Release History

This section details the release and removal history of Timber.

Game	Date Added	Date Removed
Just Dance 2014	February 11, 2014	Various (store closures)
Just Dance Now	December 30, 2022	January 24, 2023
Just Dance+	June 17, 2025	N/A

Trivia

General

• Timber is the fourth song by Pitbull in the series.
• Timber is the fifth song by Kesha in the series.
  • It is also her first appearance as a featured artist.
• The beginning of the song is extended in-game.
• "Damn" is censored.
• "We about to climb, why? / ’Cause it’s about to go down" is misinterpreted as "We about to climb / Wild ’cause it’s about to go down".
• The credits paragraph for the song on Just Dance Now is empty.^[2]
• On Just Dance+, as well as in promotional material for the release of the map in the service, Kesha is still credited by her old stage name (Ke$ha).
  • Besides, on the information screen, Kesha’s tag is displayed before Pitbull’s, despite the former being the featured artist.

Routine

• Timber is the second routine in the Just Dance series to feature Panda, after C’mon.
• In concept art for the map, the coaches are referred to as Country Girl and Country Panda.^[3]
  • Additionally, P1’s hair is blonde instead of black.
• From Just Dance 2014 to Just Dance Now, the same pictogram is erroneously used twice in a row in the final post-chorus.
  • This is fixed on Just Dance+.
• A gameplay of Timber, originally uploaded by Mexican YouTuber Humberto Contreras, was one of the most watched Just Dance gameplays on YouTube, at 200,393,926 views.
  • In 2019, it was the second most popular gaming video on YouTube, according to WatchMojo.^[4]
    • The original gameplay has since been deleted, due to it violating Ubisoft’s video policy, which was introduced in August 2019.
• Timber won in the "Favorite New Downloadable Song" category in the first Just Dance Awards.^[5]
• The menu assets of Timber can be found in the DLC files of Just Dance 2015, hinting that the routine was meant to return as a DLC on all consoles.^[6]
• In the unreleased Just Dance 2015 version, the moves where P1 moves her shoulders with her hands on her hips and taps her heels are not counted.
• The background is reused in the Just Dance Machine routine "Saloon".
• Some background elements reappear in The Way I Are (Dance With Somebody).
• In the old Just Dance Now servers, the preview audio was reused from Just Dance 2014^[7], starting at the line "Swing your partner ’round and ’round"; as soon as the map was released, however, the preview audio from Just Dance 2015, which starts at the first pre-chorus^[8], was used.
  • Besides, the new song description file reads "JDVersion: 2016", implying that changes had already been made to the map upon the launch of Just Dance Unlimited.^[9]
• Panda appeared on the icon for the Just Dance Now playlist "Back-Track!" despite the map not being available in the game at the time.
• The routine appears in the background of Canned Heat.
• Stickers of the dancers are attainable in Just Dance 2020.
• Timber is the first returning song to receive a teaser ahead of its Just Dance+ release.
• On the Just Dance+ cover, P1 has been mirrored and her placement has been switched with Panda. Besides, the coaches’ outlines have been made thinner and also have been changed from sky blue to deep blue.

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