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"Just Dance"
Song

"Just Dance" is a dance-pop song and lead single from Lady GaGa's first album, The Fame. The song is written by Lady GaGa and features Colby O'Donis, who is signed to the same label as Lady GaGa, and Akon, who provides backing vocals through Colby's verse and shortly afterwards. The track is produced by RedOne (most known for working with Akon, MJ, and Kat DeLuna).

The song started gaining radio airplay in both the U.K. and the U.S. at the end of October 2008 and the video was released to U.K. music channels near the end of November, 2008 . However, it will be released as a download December 29, 2008 and released as a CD January 12, 2009. The song has so far reached #1 in Australia, Canada and #5 in U.S. The song was nominated for a 2009 Grammy in the Best Dance Recording category.[1]

Remix

The official remix of "Just Dance" features rapper Kardinal Offishall. It contains some samples of Kardinal Offishall's voice from his own song Dangerous, and also has the same tempo and rhythm as that song. This remix along with the album version and other remixes were on released on a promotional CD single, named "Just Dance: Remixes".

Lyrics

In an interview with HX Magazine, Lady Gaga explained what "Just Dance" was about:

"If you've ever been so high that it's, like, scary, the only way you can deal with it is not deal with it, so you just kind of dance through the intoxication. I wrote the song the day after I had just flew in from New York to L.A., so I was taken very quickly out of my party lifestyle. I wrote it instantly—like it flew out of my body. I'd been working on this album for two-and-a-half years, and I was at a crossroads with my songwriting. I was trying to be so cool with my own music, but I would get better responses when I would write for other artists because I was not trying to be cool. So when I did "Just Dance", that was my way of being like, "just fuckin' write a good song. Stop worrying about what's going to fly in the underground. Worry about writing a great record." Actually, that record ended up being more powerful than any of the songs that I racked my brain writing, and after that, it was an influx of record after record. It was almost like a switch went off in my brain, and I figured out how to write a good pop song."

Music video

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Lady GaGa dancing in the music video for "Just Dance"

The video, directed by Melina Matsoukas, starts Lady GaGa arrives with her dancers, Dina and Pepper, at a house party, which seems to have ended, and one of the dancers puts a stereo on, starting the music. The crowd at the party appear to be sleeping in different areas, and are awoken by the music. They all start to dance, and scenes of the party are intercut with scenes of scantily dressed Lady GaGa dancing in a poncho, with a disco ball or in a small rubber pool. She wears a blue lightning shaped sticker beneath her right eye like that on the single cover. She also copies some moves from the Japanese Electropop group Perfume. The video shows Colby O Donis being flanked by several girls during the "When I come to the dancefloor" interlude.

Cameo appearances are made by Akon and Flipsyde. The song appears near the end of the dance movie Make It Happen.

Track listings

Official versions and remixes

  • "Just Dance"
  • "Just Dance" (Remix without Colby O'Donis)
  • "Just Dance" A Capella
  • "Just Dance" Instrumental
  • "Just Dance" (Glam As You Club Mix)
  • "Just Dance" (Glam As You Radio Mix)
  • "Just Dance" (HCCR's Bambossa Dub)
  • "Just Dance" (HCCR's Bambossa Main Mix)
  • "Just Dance" (HCCR's Bambossa Radio Edit)
  • "Just Dance" (RedOne Remix featuring Kardinal Offishall)
  • "Just Dance" (Manny Lehman Remix)
  • "Just Dance" (Richard Vission Remix)
  • "Just Dance" (Richard Vission Radio Edit)
  • "Just Dance" (Robots to Mars Remix)
  • "Just Dance" (Space Cowboy Remix)
  • "Just Dance" (Tony Arzadon Remix)
  • "Just Dance" (Tony Arzadon Extended Club Mix)
  • "Just Dance" (Trevor Simpson Radio Edit)
  • "Just Dance" (Trevor Simpson Remix)

Chart performance

The single was a hit in clubs in U.S. during the summer of 2008 peaking both number 2 on the Hot Dance Airplay, and Hot Dance Club Play, it also charted on the Billboard Hot 100 that summer and eventually breaking quickly into the Top 40. The song has peaked at #5 so far, becoming her first U.S top 10 hit. It also rose to #9 on the Pop 100 due to more radio airplay and digital download's in the country. In addition the songs longevity on the American Billboard Hot 100 she has sold over 1,000,000 digital downloads of Just Dance, making it one of the biggest singles of 2008. In Canada, the song originally debuted at number 97 on the Canadian Hot 100 and rose to #1 not only a couple of months later giving Lady GaGa her first number one hit.

The single also charted in Australia and New Zealand debuting at number 19 and 34 in the same week, before reaching the number 1 position on the Australian ARIA Singles chart, and has been certified Double Platinum with 140,000+ copies sold, a rare achievement for singles in the ARIA Charts.[2] "Just Dance" received massive airplay in Romania and as a result, the track reached number 3.[3] In addition, the song also charted in Sweden, climbing to number 6[4] two weeks after it debuted at number 14.[5]

Charts

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[6] 1
Australian Dance Chart[7] 1
Austrian Singles Chart[8] 12
Belgium Singles Chart[9] 17
Canadian Hot 100 1
Danish Singles Chart[10] 7
Dutch Mega Single Top 100[11] 31
Eurochart Hot 100 9
Finnish Singles Chart[12] 11
French Singles Chart 14
German Singles Chart 15
Italian Singles Chart[13] 26
Norwegian Singles Chart[14] 10
New Zealand Singles Chart 3
Russian Airplay Chart 11
Swedish Singles Chart 3
Swiss Singles Chart[15] 8
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 5
U.S. Billboard Pop 100[16] 6
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Airplay 2
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 2

Sales and certifications

Country Certification Sales/shipments
Australia 2xPlatinum[17] 140,000+
New Zealand Platinum 15,000+
United States Platinum 1,000,000+

Chart procession and succession

Template:Succession box two to one

References

  1. ^ The 51st grammy Awards Nominations List
  2. ^ Lady Gaga-Just Dance
  3. ^ Romanian Top 100
  4. ^ Sweden Singles Top 60 week 28/2008
  5. ^ Sweden Singles Top 60 week 26/2008
  6. ^ Australian Singles Chart - Australian Record Industry Association
  7. ^ Australian Dance Chart - Australian Record Industry Association
  8. ^ Austria singles chart
  9. ^ Belgium Ultratop 50
  10. ^ Danish Singles chart
  11. ^ Dutch top 100
  12. ^ Finnish singles chart
  13. ^ Italian FIMI singles chart
  14. ^ Norwegian singles chart
  15. ^ Swiss Singles Chart
  16. ^ Billboard Pop 100
  17. ^ http://ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display_singles.asp?chart=1U50


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