Where's Latrell? On The Dance Floor

About

Where's Latrell? On The Dance Floor is a trend on TikTok based on an audio clip from the movie White Chicks where Marlon Wayans' character asks Heath, "Where's Latrell?" who answers, "on the dance floor," followed by clips of people or animals dancing, often comedically. The original sound was uploaded by TikToker @annas..babe in April 2022 and reuploaded by Terry Crews, who plays Latrell, in May, going viral shortly after in lip-dub skits and other videos.

Origin

Terry Crews Upload

On June 23rd, 2004, White Chicks was released in theatres. In one scene, Tiffany Wilson asks Heath, "Where's Latrell?" Heath answers, "On the dance floor," followed by Latrell, played by Terry Crews, dancing with glowsticks and whistling on the dance floor (shown below).

On April 16th, 2022, TikToker^[4] @annas..babe posted a video using the scene captioned "where's Glen?" followed by a cut to various clips of Glen dancing in a funny way, gaining over 3.4 million views in a month (shown below).

Spread

The original sound went viral and was used over 500,000 times in a month between April and May 2022. In the majority of videos, TikTokers caption their clips using text as a phrasal template with "Where's X?" replacing "Latrell" with the name of a friend, pet or another person, then cut to videos of "X" dancing (examples shown below).

Terry Crews' Original Sound

On May 20th, 2022, actor Terry Crews uploaded a video to TikTok^[1] showing the scene followed by a cut to various clips of Crews dancing on talk shows and TV (shown below). The video gained over 4.6 million views in two weeks.

The original sound inspired over 20,000 videos in roughly two weeks, used in the same way as the original. For example, on May 27th, TikToker^[2] @sookieandivy posted a video of a dog dancing to the sound, gaining over 100,000 views in four days (shown below, left). On May 29th, TikToker^[3] @_the_joel_ posted a video of a woman dancing badly in a bar, gaining over 123,000 views in two days (shown below, right).

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