"Emergency Budots" / Paging Dr. Beat, Emergency

Submission 4,829

About

"Emergency Budots," also known by the lyrics Paging Dr. Beat, Emergency, is a song remixing a portion of Miami Sound Machine's "Dr.Beat" and Mylo's "Doctor Pressure." The song became the subject of a TikTok dance trend among Filipino users in March 2024. By June of that year, the trend spread to English-speaking users, along with a second trend in which users casually dance to the song while transitioning outfits to the beat. The song also inspired some animation memes on YouTube.

Origin

"Emergency Budots"

In 1984, Miami Sound Machine released the song "Dr. Beat" (shown below, left). The track begins with a voice saying, "Emergency, paging Dr. Beat, emergency." In 2005, Mylo released a mash-up song called "Doctor Pressure" that mashes up the songs "Drop the Pressure" by Mylo and "Dr. Beat" by Miami Sound Machine (shown below, right).

On February 27th, 2024, Linear Phase released the song "Emergency Budots," which makes heavy use of the "paging Dr. Beat, emergency" segment of the previous songs (shown below).^[1]

2024 TikTok Dance Trend

On March 26th, 2024, TikToker^[2] @amirehxz posted a video in her pilot's outfit dancing to "Emergency Budots," garnering over 21 million views in four months (shown below). This is purportedly the video that began the dance trend.

Spread

The dance trend spread over the following months, with the original sound by TikToker @amirehxz garnering over 430,000 uses over the next four months.

Some of the most viral examples include a video uploaded by TikToker^[3] @sophialaurice.sn on May 16th, 2024, garnering over 39 million views in two months (shown below, left), and a video by TikToker^[4] @kek._.hx5 posted on May 21st, garnering over 27.2 million views in roughly the same span of time (shown below, right).

On June 12th, 2024, TikToker^[5] @illtetotetoyou posted a video in which Roblox characters dance to the song, garnering over 7 million views in a month. The original sound was popularized over the following month, inspiring over 65,000 users in that time period.

The most prevalent trend under the sound sees users dance to the song and transition outfits with the beat. For example, on July 3rd, TiKToker^[6] @tmntana posted a video like this that gained over 6 million views in three weeks (shown below, left). On July 22nd, TikToker^[7] @_alexandra.louise_ posted a version of the trend that gained over 36 million views in four days (shown below, right).

The trend also inspired several animation memes on YouTube throughout June and July 2024. One of the most viral examples was posted by YouTuber^[8] Suki Studio on June 23rd, garnering over 125,000 views in a month (shown below).