The baddest bitches ain’t in LA, and TikTok agrees. The “Ain’t In LA” trend, built on Slovak singer ADÉLA’s breakout single, has become a hometown-pride anthem, with creators swapping Los Angeles for wherever they are actually from and declaring that someone has to hold it down there.
The format is simple. A creator lip-syncs to ADÉLA’s song, usually over clips of their hometown, their school or their job, making the point that you do not have to move to Los Angeles to make it. The line that carries the trend is the chorus: “It’s all a lie, the baddest bitches ain’t in LA.” The song was released on July 23, 2026, as the third single from ADÉLA’s debut album PRIMA, which arrived on September 4.
Someone’s Gotta Hold It Down
ADÉLA, 22, wrote the song about Bratislava, the city where she grew up, and the trend took off when fans started swapping in their own overlooked hometowns. Nicole Kidman chose the song for her first TikTok in August 2026, and by October the track had been used more than half a million times on TikTok, according to Billboard. It climbed into the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first song by a Slovak artist to chart there, and ADÉLA performed it on The Tonight Show on October 23.
The trend is still growing. Trend tracker ViralMeme reports that searches for the “Ain’t In LA” trend rose 62 percent in the last 24 hours as of November 15, one of the biggest jumps of any meme this week. The song also ranked among the top 10 TikTok songs of October 2026, alongside ADÉLA’s other viral hit, “Nicole Kidman”.
From Bratislava to the Hot 100
ADÉLA’s rise has been one of the year’s fastest. She first found an audience as a contestant on the Dream Academy show, missed out on a place in KATSEYE, signed with Capitol Records in 2025, and released her debut EP The Provocateur last summer. PRIMA followed in September, and its two viral singles have now both reached the Billboard Hot 100.
In an interview with Who What Wear on November 11, ADÉLA opened up about the anxiety that followed the album’s release, saying relentless online criticism had begun to affect how she felt about her own songs. The “Ain’t In LA” trend, though, is the opposite of that noise: a joke about staying home that turned into a global hit. Note: the site covered ADÉLA’s “Nicole Kidman” sound on November 11; this post covers the separate “Ain’t In LA” song and format.
