Thanksgiving Bend Dance AI

The words are ten years old. "Beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, lamb, rams, hogs, dogs, you name it" is the spoken part of "Hold My Mule", a live recording by the gospel singer Shirley Caesar. In November 2016 a remix of that chant became the #UNameItChallenge: people danced to it in their kitchens before Thanksgiving, celebrities joined in, and Caesar herself said she loved it (just not the twerking).

On November 5, 2026 the Austin DJ @djsaucedup posted a new dance edit of the chant with the line "Is that Thanksgiving I hear". It had 400,000 views and 54,800 likes by November 13. Dancers picked it up the same day and posted their own routines as a "Thanksgiving bend", most with "dc: me" (their own dance credit), so there is no single fixed choreography: the common thread is the bouncy bend, the arm swings and the Thanksgiving hype. A group take, "Thanksgiving function ready", passed 180,000 views on November 8, and on November 12 a crew did it in Times Square. By November 13 the sound was in 950 TikTok videos, and two AI video tools had added Thanksgiving bend templates.

The clip on this page is the take by @ssipp74 from November 6, 2026: a solo dancer in a black Misfits tank top in his living room. One dancer, full body, shown with its original sound; a caption band at the top of the post is cropped out. On AI Dance, the template copies his moves onto your own photo: your face, clothes and background stay, and your body follows the routine.

He starts low in a wide stance and bounces on the beat, crossing his arms over his chest and tapping his shoulders. He swings his arms down and lifts one knee with his hands up by his head, then rocks side to side in the bend, rolling his shoulders. Near the end he throws one arm up, then both arms high over his head, and drops back into the groove with a hand on his hip.