# Hotline Bling Dance AI: Your Own Color Room Video From One Photo > The Hotline Bling dance is the loose, goofy solo dance from Drake's 2015 music video, done alone in bare rooms of glowing colored light. Canonical: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/hotline-bling-ai-trend Updated: 2026-11-10 Published: 2026-11-10 Author: MakeViral Team (https://www.makeviral.ai/about) Publisher: MakeViral (https://www.makeviral.ai) The **Hotline Bling dance** is the loose, goofy solo dance from Drake's 2015 music video, done alone in bare rooms of glowing colored light. The Hotline Bling AI trend puts you in it: from one photo, MakeViral makes a 10 or 15 second video of you, or your pet, dancing in a red puffer jacket while the room changes color. Bouncy knees, loose arm swings, a hand at your ear like a phone: the 2015 meme dance, in an empty room whose walls glow yellow, pink, green, blue and lavender. Add one photo of you or your pet. Also called: Hotline Bling color room dance, Drake color room dance, Hotline Bling light box dance. **Make it now:** [Make this video](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/hotline-bling-ai-trend/create). 1 photo · 10 s · 9:16 with sound · 126 credits, charged once · ready in a few minutes · no prompt to write. Keyword: hotline bling dance. Also answers: hotline bling ai, drake hotline bling dance, hotline bling dance meme, hotline bling meme, hotline bling ai video, hotline bling dance video, hotline bling dance moves, drake dance hotline bling, hotline bling trend, hotline bling ai dance, drake dance meme, drake hotline bling ai, hotline bling music video, hotline bling ai trend, drake hotline bling outfit, drake dance moves, hotline bling cat, hotline bling dog, drake ai video, hotline bling room. ## What is the Hotline Bling Dance trend, and where did it start? "Hotline Bling" is a 2015 single by the rapper Drake. Its music video premiered on 19 October 2015 and went up on YouTube on 26 October 2015, where it had 2.16 billion views by 10 November 2026. In it, Drake dances alone in a red puffer jacket and a turtleneck inside empty boxes of light that slowly change color. Critics compared the set to the light art of James Turrell, who answered in a statement that he was flattered but had nothing to do with the video. The Drake Hotline Bling dance became a meme within days. Creators filmed their own versions: the YouTuber Just Sul posted a parody on 24 October 2015. On TikTok, #hotlinebling has 90,912 videos and 1.19 billion views (10 November 2026). The Hotline Bling trend came back eleven years later as an AI wave. AI video template sites added a Hotline Bling dance template from 9 October 2026, two more sites added one on 9 November, and from 5 November AI clips on TikTok put cartoon characters into the same glowing rooms. MakeViral's version never uses the music video or the singer: you dance in a room of our own, made from your photo. ### Hotline Bling Dance trend timeline - **2015-10-19**: The "Hotline Bling" music video premieres: Drake dances alone in empty rooms of glowing colored light. - **2015-10-24**: Creators post their own takes of the dance within days, among them the YouTuber Just Sul's parody (180,453 views by 10 November 2026). Source: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqOEQEeVpn4). - **2015-10-26**: The music video goes up on YouTube; it has 2.16 billion views by 10 November 2026. Source: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxpDa-c-4Mc). - **2026-10-09**: AI video template sites start to offer a Hotline Bling dance template that puts a user's photo in the glowing rooms. - **2026-11-09**: Two more AI template sites add the trend on the same day; #hotlinebling stands at 90,912 TikTok videos and 1.19 billion views. ## What the Hotline Bling Dance video looks like Made from the prompts on this page. The people and pets are AI-made, not real persons, and the sound is original. Your result will differ from run to run. - **Example 1** (10 s, 9:16 MP4 with sound): Made with MakeViral from one photo of an AI-made man (not a real person): he dances alone in a glowing room that turns yellow, pink, green, blue and lavender, in a red puffer jacket, over an original beat. - Video: https://www.makeviral.ai/media/templates/hotline-bling-ai-trend/example-main-v1.mp4 - Poster: https://www.makeviral.ai/media/templates/hotline-bling-ai-trend/example-main-poster.jpg - Input photo: https://www.makeviral.ai/media/templates/storm-ai-trend/example-input.jpg ## How to make the Hotline Bling Dance video on MakeViral Everything runs in the browser. No editing app, no watermark. ### The one-tap way (no prompt to write) 1. **Add your photo.** Press "Make yours" and add you, face clear. Take it with the camera or pick it from your library. Start here: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/hotline-bling-ai-trend/create 2. **Press Generate.** The button shows the price. Seedance 2.5 films the Hotline Bling dance scene straight from your photo, with no in-between picture, for 10 seconds with original sound. You write no prompt. 3. **Download or share.** The video is ready in a few minutes as a 9:16 MP4. Download it, share it from your phone, or find it later in My videos. ### The by-hand way, with the exact prompts The one-tap flow runs this prompt for you. The video model takes your photo as a reference ([Image 1]) and films the scene straight from it, with no photo step first. AI Video takes one photo as the first frame, so it cannot run this prompt the same way: the prompt is here to read. #### Variant: Human Settings: 1 photo (you, face clear) · Seedance 2.5 · 10 s · 720p · 9:16 · with sound · 126 credits in one tap. 1. The video prompt is filled in. Settings: Seedance 2.5, 10 s, 720p, 9:16, sound on. The video prompt: ```text A playful solo dance clip in one continuous take with no cuts, like a music video filmed on a fixed camera at chest height that slowly pushes in. Photorealistic, vertical 9:16. [Image 1] is the sole face reference for the dancer. The dancer is the person in [Image 1], in every frame: copy the exact face from [Image 1] (the face shape, eye color and eye shape, eyebrows, nose, mouth, skin tone, age, hair color, hair length and hairstyle, and any beard, moustache, glasses or freckles), so their friends recognize them at once. The face stays the same from the first frame to the last, also when the colored light tints the skin. Never blend it with another face, never morph. If [Image 1] shows an animal, the dancer is that animal standing upright on its hind legs, with its own face, fur and markings, in a small red jacket, not a person. The look: a plain, puffy red winter jacket with no logo, worn open over a plain white T-shirt, with light-blue jeans and tan lace-up boots; a hijab, turban or head covering from [Image 1] stays as it is. The place: an empty, minimalist room shaped like a big open box, like a light art installation: smooth, seamless matte walls, floor and ceiling that meet in soft rounded corners, no furniture, no windows, no doors, no stairs and nothing on the walls. The whole room glows with one solid color of soft light that fills every surface, and the color slowly washes from one to the next. Shot 1 [0-10s]: one continuous take. The dancer is alone in the middle of the glowing room, seen from head to boots at the start, and dances a loose, easygoing, slightly goofy dance to the slow beat, with a calm, cool face and a small smile. 0-2 s: golden yellow light. Bouncy knees, a slow side-to-side two-step, both arms swinging loosely like gentle tennis swings. 2-4 s: the light washes to soft pink. One hand comes up to the ear like holding a phone, the other hand rests on the chest, the head nods to the beat. 4-6 s: mint green. A slow shoulder roll and a hip sway, then a playful dip down with bent knees, one arm waving low. 6-8 s: icy blue. They rise into a smooth little shuffle, both hands rolling in front of the chest, the eyes closed for a moment. 8-10 s: lavender. The camera has pushed in to a medium shot from the knees up; they point at the camera with a cheeky grin and a last bounce. The whole face is large and sharp: exactly the face from [Image 1]. Audio: a slow, moody late-night R&B beat with a soft warm synth, a gentle finger snap and deep bass, original music with no vocals and no words. No dialogue throughout the entire video. Exactly one person in the room. No other people, no dancers in silhouette, no real phone in the hands, no extra arms or legs. No text, no subtitles, no logos, no brand name on the jacket, no watermark. ``` 2. Press Generate, then download the 9:16 MP4. One-tap version of this variant: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/hotline-bling-ai-trend/create #### Variant: Pet Settings: 1 photo (your pet, whole body) · Kling 3.0 · 10 s · 1080p · 9:16 · with sound · 56 credits in one tap. 1. Open [AI Photo with this template](https://www.makeviral.ai/photo?template=hotline-bling-ai-trend&variant=pet) and add your photo (your pet, whole body). The photo prompt is filled in: ```text Use the uploaded image as the base. 9:16 vertical photo, a frame from a music video. The pet from the uploaded image stands upright on its two hind legs, alone in the middle of an empty, minimalist room shaped like a big open box, like a light art installation: smooth, seamless matte walls, floor and ceiling that meet in soft rounded corners, no furniture, no windows, no doors, no stairs and nothing on the walls. The whole room glows with one solid color of soft light that fills every surface, warm golden yellow at this moment. It wears a small, plain, puffy red winter jacket with no logo, open at the front. It faces the camera with a calm, cool look, front paws held loosely out to the sides, the whole body in view from the ears to the hind paws, with its tail. Realistic photo, soft even light from the glowing walls. Exactly one animal and no people. No text, no logos, no watermark. ``` 2. Check the still before you spend credits on the video. Everything the video model does starts from that one frame. 3. Press the film button on the still to open AI Video with the still as the first frame. Settings: Kling 3.0, 10 s, 1080p, 9:16, sound on. The video prompt: ```text One continuous shot with no cuts, a fixed camera at the pet's chest height that slowly pushes in. Keep the animal's face, fur, markings, tail, size and the small red jacket, and the empty glowing box room, exactly as in the image. The light of the whole room changes color smoothly; the walls stay empty. 0-2 s: golden yellow. The pet, upright on its hind legs like a little person, bounces its knees and sways side to side, front paws swinging loosely. 2-4 s: the light washes to soft pink. It lifts one front paw to its ear like holding a phone and nods its head to the beat. 4-6 s: mint green. A slow shoulder roll and a hip sway, then a little dip down and back up. 6-8 s: icy blue. A small shuffle step, both front paws rolling in front of its chest, the eyes half closed. 8-10 s: lavender. It looks into the camera, points one front paw at the lens and does a last bounce. It stays upright the whole time. Audio: a slow, moody late-night R&B beat with a soft warm synth, a gentle finger snap and deep bass, original music with no vocals and no words. The pet never speaks. Exactly one animal, no people. No extra animals, no extra legs, no morphing. No text, no subtitles, no logos, no watermark. ``` 4. Press Generate, then download the 9:16 MP4. One-tap version of this variant: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/hotline-bling-ai-trend/create?variant=pet ### Which photo works best? You need **one photo**: of yourself for Human, of your pet for Pet. - **Human:** a sharp, well-lit photo with your face turned to the camera. A photo from the waist or the knees up works well; the video shows you from head to boots, so you get the red puffer jacket, a white T-shirt, light jeans and tan boots whatever you wear in the photo. A hijab, turban or head covering stays. - No sunglasses, no hat that hides the face, no beauty filter, and nobody else in the photo. - **Pet:** a sharp photo with the whole animal in view and the face clear. Fur colors and markings come from the photo; your pet stands upright and gets a small red jacket. - Use a photo of yourself, of an adult who agreed, or of your own pet. Never a celebrity, a stranger or a child. ## How many credits does it cost? You pay per video in credits, and the create page shows the exact price on the Generate button before you spend anything. The one-tap price covers the scene photo and the video, charged once. The cheaper models are there if you run the prompts by hand in AI Video. | Video model | Settings | Credits | | --- | --- | --- | | Seedance 2.5 (this template) | 10 s, 720p, straight from your photos, one tap | 126 | Credits come with a plan; see [pricing](https://www.makeviral.ai/pricing). A failed video gives its credits back. ## What happens in your Hotline Bling AI video, second by second? The camera stays still and slowly moves closer. The room is empty, and its walls, floor and ceiling glow in one color at a time: | Seconds (10 s) | The light | The move | |---|---|---| | 0-2 | Golden yellow | Bouncy knees, a slow side-to-side step, both arms swinging loosely like easy tennis swings | | 2-4 | Soft pink | One hand at the ear like a phone, the other on the chest, a nod to the beat | | 4-6 | Mint green | A slow shoulder roll, a hip sway, then a playful dip with bent knees | | 6-8 | Icy blue | A smooth little shuffle, hands rolling in front of the chest, eyes closed for a moment | | 8-10 | Lavender | A closer shot from the knees up: a point at the camera, a cheeky grin, one last bounce | These are the Hotline Bling dance moves people know from the meme, played by you. The 15-second option gives each color a bit more time and ends with a shrug. **Human** is made straight from your photo with the best AI video models available, with no in-between picture, so your face stays yours. Vertical 9:16, 720p. **Pet** first makes a picture of your pet standing upright in the golden room in a small red jacket, then turns it into the dance. Standard is the cheaper choice; Best uses a stronger model and keeps the upright dance and one smooth take more often. Press "Create your own" and pick Human or Pet; the exact price shows on the Generate button before you spend anything. Every run is a new take, so results differ. ## What sound does the video have, and how do you post it? Your Hotline Bling AI video comes with its own original music: a slow, moody late-night R&B beat with a soft synth and a finger snap, with no vocals. It is **not** the song. "Hotline Bling" belongs to its owners, and MakeViral does not put it on your clip or give you any rights to it. To post it as the meme, pick the song in TikTok's or Instagram's own sound library when you post, and turn the clip's sound down. Music rules differ from platform to platform, so check them before you use the clip in an ad or a paid post. **Hashtags:** #hotlinebling is the big one, with 90,912 TikTok videos and 1.19 billion views on 10 November 2026; #hotlineblingdance had 132 videos and 1.9 million views. The same tags work on Instagram Reels. Keep the platform's AI label on. ## Who should do the Hotline Bling meme? The joke of the Drake dance meme is a very serious face on very silly moves. These casts fit: - **You.** The classic: you, cool and calm, doing the dad dance in a room of colored light. - **Your dog or cat.** A pet standing upright in a red puffer jacket, nodding to the beat, is the twist people share. People search for Hotline Bling cat and Hotline Bling dog clips too. - **A friend.** With their OK, for a birthday or a running joke. **Caption ideas:** "Me when they finally text back", "Late night, no plans", "My cat when the food bowl is empty", "Dancing like nobody is on the phone". Or write your own. Want more dances in the same style? Try the [Toosie Slide AI](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/toosie-slide-ai-trend) for a slide dance in a mansion, or the [Popstar AI](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/popstar-ai-trend) for a music video walk. ## What goes wrong, and how do you fix it? | Problem | Fix | |---|---| | The face looks less like you | Use a sharp photo with the face turned to the camera and good light, then run it again. The colored light tints the skin, so a front-facing photo helps most. | | A real phone shows up in the hand | The phone is only a gesture. Run it again. | | The room gets a door, stairs or a second dancer | The prompt bans them, but it can happen. Run it again. | | The jacket gets a logo | The prompt asks for a plain jacket. Run it again. | | Your pet drops onto four legs or loses the jacket (Pet) | Pick Best, or use a photo where the whole pet is sharp and in view. | | The video model refuses the photo | Some photos get refused. The credits come back; try another photo. | ## Hotline Bling Dance trend questions ### What is the Hotline Bling dance? It is the Drake dance "Hotline Bling" made famous in 2015, the loose, carefully casual solo dance of its music video: bouncy knees, arm swings like tennis strokes, a hand at the ear like a phone and little dips, done alone in empty rooms of glowing colored light. It turned into one of the biggest dance memes of 2015, and the video has 2.16 billion YouTube views (10 November 2026). ### What is the Hotline Bling AI trend? It is the 2026 version of the meme: AI video templates put your face into a Hotline Bling dance video in the glowing color room. AI template sites added it from October 2026, and more joined on 9 November 2026. MakeViral makes the Hotline Bling AI dance from one photo of you or your pet, in a room of our own, never with Drake's music video or his face. ### How do I make a Hotline Bling AI video? Press "Create your own", pick Human or Pet and add one clear photo. Press Generate; the button shows the price first. You get a Hotline Bling dance video of 10 seconds (or 15 with the longer option), vertical 9:16, with no watermark. You write no prompt, and the video waits in My videos when it is ready. ### Is Drake in my video? No. Your video shows only you, or your pet, in a glowing room made for MakeViral. No frame of the music video and no face of the singer is used. The page names Drake and the song only to say which meme the dance comes from. ### Does the video have the Hotline Bling song? No. Your clip comes with an original slow R&B beat with no vocals, made with the video. The song belongs to its owners. To post your Hotline Bling dance meme, add the song from TikTok's or Instagram's sound library when you post. ### Can my cat or dog do the Hotline Bling dance? Yes. Pick Pet. Your pet stands upright in a small red jacket and does the moves: the bounce, the paw at the ear like a phone, the shoulder roll and the point at the camera. Any pet works; use a sharp photo with the whole animal in view. ### What do I wear in the video? Is it the Drake Hotline Bling outfit? Yes, in a plain version: a red puffer jacket, open over a white T-shirt, with light jeans and tan boots, like the look people know from the meme. It has no logo. A hijab, turban or head covering from your photo stays. ### Does it show the Hotline Bling room from the music video? It shows a room in the same style, not the set itself: an empty box with smooth walls whose light turns golden yellow, pink, mint green, icy blue and lavender. There are no stairs, no doors and no props, so all eyes stay on you. ### Do I have to learn the Hotline Bling dance moves? No. The AI plays the whole dance from your photo, so you never film yourself. If you want the real Drake dance moves for a live take, the meme's core is easy: bend the knees, swing the arms loosely, hold a hand to your ear, and keep a straight face. ### Which AI models make the Hotline Bling AI video? Top-quality AI video models, including Seedance 2.5, make it. Human goes straight from your photo to the video. Pet first makes a picture of your pet in the room, then turns it into the video; Best uses a stronger model for a smoother dance. Like any Drake AI video maker, it can get a detail wrong, so a second run comes out different. ### Is there an example video? Not yet. We do not show the music video or AI clips with famous faces, so the example on this page will be one of our own runs on an AI-made person. Until then, the second-by-second table above shows what you get. ### How long is the video and what format is it? Human makes 10 seconds, or 15 with the longer option, vertical 9:16 at 720p. Pet makes 10 seconds, vertical 9:16. All are MP4 files with an original beat and no watermark, ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. ## Other AI video templates and tools - [Toosie Slide AI: Do the Toosie Slide Dance by the Grand Piano](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/toosie-slide-ai-trend): Right foot up, left foot slide. One photo puts you in a black suit and gloves in a marble mansion hall next to a grand piano, and you do the real 2020 routine, with the song. - [Popstar AI: Star in the Popstar Music Video From One Photo](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/popstar-ai-trend): Walk down the wood-panelled hallway of a mansion toward the camera, a champagne bottle in your hand, arms swinging wide, rapping straight into the lens. One photo in, a 10-second clip with the trend's sound out. - [Burning Bridges AI Trend: Put Yourself in the "Where She At?" Party](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/burning-bridges-ai-trend): Take the lead at a packed party under crystal chandeliers: a silver cup in your hand, rapping to the camera, then one hand over your eyes as you scan the room for her. One photo, 15 seconds, with the song. - [AI TikTok Video](https://www.makeviral.ai/tools/ai-tiktok-video-generator): Eight native TikTok formats, one prompt or product URL, a finished 9:16 video with captions burned in. - [AI Reels](https://www.makeviral.ai/tools/ai-reels-generator): Pick a format, give it a topic or a product link, and get a finished vertical reel with voice and captions. Nothing to film, nothing to edit. - [AI photo generator](https://www.makeviral.ai/ai-photo-generator) - [All AI video templates](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates) ## New AI video trends this week - [Dog Pool Party AI Dance: Your Pet Owns the Pool Party](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/dog-pool-party-ai-dance): Your dog or cat puts on pink swim goggles, a ruffled pink bikini and arm floaties and dances on its hind legs at a glowing night pool party: hops, a spin, then a hip shake under a phone flashlight. One photo in, a 13-second clip with the song out. - [Husband Emporium: Put Your Partner on Display in the Retro Ad](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/husband-emporium-ai-trend): "Welcome to the Emporium, madam. Looking for a husband?" Add a photo, and your partner goes on display as a husband model in the viral 1950s shop ad, or your pet becomes "the good boy". The ad's own dialogue plays on your video. - [La Mujer del Pelotero Dance: Do the Trend From One Photo](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/la-mujer-del-pelotero-ai-dance): Hands by the head, the forearm roll, a hip sway and a finger to the sky: the La Mujer del Pelotero TikTok routine. Add one photo of you or your pet, or two photos for you and a friend, and get the clip with the song. - [Iconic By Mistake Dance AI: Do the Viral Challenge With a Friend](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/iconic-by-mistake-ai-dance): The Iconic By Mistake TikTok dance, from your photos: peace signs over the eyes, wide-knee squats, hip pops, prayer hands and a strut to the camera, side by side. Add a photo of you and one of a friend, one of you alone, or one of your pet, and get the dance with the song. - [Kiat Jud Dai Cat: Turn Your Pet Into the Kitten Parade](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/kiat-jud-dai-kitten-parade-ai): A whole line of kittens walks upright down a night road and dances past the camera to "Kiat Jud Dai". Add one photo of your pet, and every dancer in the parade becomes your cat or your dog, with the song on the video. - [Hey Boo Come Slide With Me AI: Slide With Your Boo From Two Photos](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/hey-boo-come-slide-with-me-ai): Hand in hand, two steps to the side, a step back and a smooth slide close, in a ballroom full of line dancers in denim. Add a photo of you and one of your partner, or one of you alone, or two of your pets, and get the dance with the song. ## Make your own Hotline Bling Dance video Add one photo and press Generate. No prompt to write. 126 credits, charged once. [Make this video](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/hotline-bling-ai-trend/create)