The Ba Ba Ba Dance is TikTok’s fastest-rising trend today, with the two-person routine topping the daily growth chart as thousands of new videos pour in. The dance, set to a mashup of Tori Kelly’s ‘Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing’ and Ca$h Out’s ‘She Twerkin’, has gone from a library clip in October to one of the biggest viral dances of the autumn.
According to ViralRemix, which ranks trends by how many new videos each one gained over the last day, the Ba Ba Ba Dance is among the three fastest-growing TikTok trends as of November 12, alongside the Shoulder Carry and Y Entiende Corazón trends. The routine’s appeal is its hand-over: two dancers stand side by side, one steps away while the other dances alone, they swap, then come back together for a synced finish.
From a library to 726,500 videos
The sound came first. On September 20, producer account @iproducedit posted the mashup of Kelly’s song from the film Sing and Ca$h Out’s 2014 single, and the chant that names the dance is Kelly’s voice. The dance itself arrived on October 2, when DMV-area dancer @otr.j5 posted a two-person routine in a library captioned ‘Ba ba baa’. Copies spread within days: a stairwell version posted on October 6 has passed 9.8 million plays, and by November 5 the sound was in 726,500 TikTok videos, with the #bababa hashtag holding 26,440 videos and 378.7 million views.
The routine runs in four parts: side by side, a right-side solo, a left-side solo, then a synced finish. It takes about 34 seconds and one propped-up phone, which is part of why it has travelled so well: anyone with a friend and a hallway can do it.
The AI twist
On October 28, the trend took a stranger turn when @nathalybrrtdc posted an AI version featuring two meme figures, a pickle and a tall wooden figure, dancing the routine in an empty school hallway. The clip sparked a wave of AI remakes in which friends, twins and even pets are dropped into the same locker-lined corridor. The posts tracked by trend watchers add up to around 11 million views, and the AI version has become a trend in its own right.
Whether filmed with a friend or generated from a single photo, the Ba Ba Ba Dance is the duo trend of the moment. See Toc Toc dance sweeps TikTok with 452 million views and Shoulder Carry and Y Entiende Corazón lead TikTok today.
