POP-STEP-UP

I don't know what you're saying-Mimi
	POP-STEP-UP needs its music comment, production information, and/or staff comments translated.

Lyrics

3-2-1 Let's Play!

※Give me a "P"
 Give Me a "O"
 Give me a "P"
 Give me a "N"
 Give me a "M"
 Give me a "U"
 Give me a "S"
 Give me a "I"
 Give me a "C"
 POP'N MUSIC!

Good!

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Keep going!

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Song Connections / Remixes

• A MIDI arrangement of POP-STEP-UP appears in Dance Dance Revolution FamiMat (ダンスダンスレボリューション ふぁみマット, Dance Dance Revolution FamiMat^?).
• The EX chart of POP-STEP-UP has entirely different melodies during most of the song, to match the more advanced chart.

Trivia

• POP-STEP-UP's charts are made of several different patterns, for which the song serves as a "training" song.
  • The note patterns at the start, middle, and end of POP-STEP-UP's charts roughly spell "POP'N MUSIC", following the lyrics.
• POP-STEP-UP received a brand-new NORMAL chart in pop'n music 9. The original NORMAL chart was moved to the HYPER chart.
• POP-STEP-UP marks the first appearance of Mimi as a rival character in pop'n music (not counting the spin-off pop'n stage). Before this song, the only time where she was a rival character was along Nyami on Theme of staff roll ~special mix~ as POPPERS.
• A small loop of music from POP-STEP-UP is used in pop'n music 9's How to Play tutorial.
• POP-STEP-UP is used as the tutorial song for ポップンミュージック.
• POP-STEP-UP's NORMAL chart was re-rated in pop'n music éclale on March 22nd, 2016.
• POP-STEP-UP received a brand-new EX chart in pop'n music peace, as part of the pop'n time trip (ポップンタイムトリップ, pop'n time trip^?) event. This chart can be unlocked from May 23rd, 2019 by filling out 8 stamps of the first pop'n music 5 card.
  • Unlike the other charts for the song, POP-STEP-UP's EX chart has Long pop-kuns, Highlight Zones, and BPM changes.
    • POP-STEP-UP's EX chart has 34 Highlight Zones, more than any other song in pop'n music.
  • In POP-STEP-UP's EX chart, the regular "POP'N MUSIC" pattern is used at the start, a more complex alternate pattern is used in the middle, and there is a very complex pattern at the end that spells "POP'N MUSIC! PEACE♥"[1].
    • POP-STEP-UP's EX chart also includes patterns seen in Level 49/50 songs such as 少年は空を辿る, L-an!ma, 終末を追う者, and BabeL ～Next Story～[2].

Music Comment

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Song Production Information

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Difficulty & Notecounts^[1]

pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia, and 1 to 50 from Sunny Park onwards.

※ The notecount of this chart correspond to the later 9-Buttons HYPER chart.

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