Stateside Dance: Origin, Song and Meaning

PinkPantheress, the English singer and producer, released “Stateside” on 25 April 2025 through Warner Records, as the second single from her mixtape Fancy That, which followed on 9 May 2025. The track is short and fast, built on the bouncy drum and bass and big beat sounds she is known for, with a light, breathy vocal on top. Its full credits and chart history are on Wikipedia's “Stateside (song)” page.

In October 2025 she released Fancy Some More?, a remix album of the mixtape. One of its tracks, “Stateside + Zara Larsson”, adds verses by the Swedish pop singer Zara Larsson. That version came out as a single on 16 January 2026 with a new music video, and many of the dance videos use it. It became one of the biggest songs of 2026 for both artists.

“Stateside” is an everyday English word for “in or to the United States”, used mostly by people outside the US or Americans abroad: going stateside means heading to America. In the song, the word frames a crush on someone American. PinkPantheress, who is British, sings about the excitement and nerves of the early stages of a crush, and the music video plays with the idea of American “hot, hot boys”.

So the dance itself does not tell a story about America. It borrows the song's feeling: light, flirty and a bit giddy, which is why the moves are quick turns, hair flips and a playful kick rather than anything slow or serious.

The format is simple: one person, a phone propped up at floor level, a room with some space, and about ten seconds of the song. The routine hops in, turns, sweeps an arm over the head, frames the face, drops the hands to the hips, turns again and finishes with a knee lift and a kick back. Different creators add their own twists, and several have posted step-by-step tutorials.

Many versions sit under #statesidedance and on TikTok's Stateside dance trend page. Watch the real dancers there: this site does not show or copy their clips. We could not confirm who performed the routine first, so we do not credit one person here. If you created it, write to [email protected] and we will add the credit and a link to your post.

A trend like this lives on people seeing themselves in it. Learning the moves and filming a clean take is fun for some and a hurdle for others, so AI versions appeared: you give a photo, and a video model performs the routine as you. That is all Stateside Dance does. Upload one full-body photo and get a 10-second vertical video of you doing the Stateside dance, with the trend's sound, in HD 720p.

Step-by-step instructions are in the Stateside dance AI tutorial, and common questions about credits, privacy and copyright are in the FAQ.