Tyla Dance / "Pop Like This Pt. 2 (Slowed)" Dance

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About

The Tyla Dance or "Pop Like This Pt. 2 (Slowed)" Dance is a TikTok dance trend inspired by South African singer-songwriter Tyla. The dance, which is set to a slowed-down version of the song "Pop like this Pt. 2" by CPK Shawn, has participants sway their hips and twerk while smoothly moving sideways along the floor. The dance was popularized throughout June 2024 and is inspired by a video of Tyla performing a similar dance on-stage during a concert. Notably, the trend inspired discourse about TikToker @laurasophiasotopr, known as the Blue Sweatpants Girl, as users began to thirst for her following her viral video performing the dance.

Origin

On May 17th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @gelogelada posted an edit set to the song "Pop Likes This Pt. 2 (Slowed)" of musical artist Tyla doing a dance on-stage that involves twerking, swaying her hips and sliding across the floor with her feet, garnering over 74 million views in a month (shown below). On May 28th, Tyla posted the unedited video to her TikTok^[2] page, @tyla_, garnering over 22.5 million views in a similar span of time.

It is unclear who first posted a video attempting to do the dance, however, the earliest examples were posted on June 9th, 2024. Two of the most popular versions of the dance posted that day were posted by TikTokers^[3]^[4] @laurasophiasotopr, aka Blue Sweatpants Girl and @theyloveelala, garnering over 76 million views and 40 million views respectively in a week (shown below, left and right).

Spread

The dance went viral throughout June 2024, inspiring many TikTokers to take part in the trend. For example, on June 10th, 2024, TikToker^[5] @sanie.luders posted a video doing the dance that gained over 27 million views in a week (shown below, left). On June 15th, TikToker^[6] @charlidamelio did the dance, garnering over 101 million views in two days (shown below, right).

On June 16th, TikToker^[7] @brookemonk_ posted a video where she does the dance, only for a man to pop up in front of the camera, blocking her body, with a phone in front of him as if recording the viewer, the joke being that the trend is popular because people find the dance sexual, garnering over 5 million views in a day (shown below, left). On June 12th, the "Dancing Security Guard" TikToker^[8] @rynielpineda uploaded a video performing the dance, receiving over 46.1 million views and 5.6 million likes in five days (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Blue Sweatpants Girl

The Blue Sweatpants Girl refers to a viral TikTok video posted by TikToker laura sophia (@laurasophiasotopr) in which she's doing the so-called "Tyla dance" (a viral dance originally performed by artist Tyla) in June 2024. The video gained millions of plays in less than a week and the TikToker was dubbed the "Blue Sweatpants Girl" because she was wearing blue sweatpants (as well as a pink crop top). Viewers thought that the Blue Sweatpants Girl performed the dance extremely well, resulting in discourse, reactions and other viral meme content about her, comparing her to Tyla herself.