Photo: @kelley.heyer via TikTok
Are you ready to drive all night? Because Charli XCX wants you to perform the Apple dance so hard your little arms fall off. So far, the Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Sweat Tour is off to a steamy start. When Charli’s song “Apple” plays, a camera cuts to an “Apple girl” in the crowd doing the TikTok-famous Apple dance in the pit. Most famously, at Madison Square Garden, Charli and Sivan brought out Addison Rae and Lorde, yes, but also Kelley Heyer, the originator of the dance. She started performing and got interrupted, but she still powered through. “Thank you, Kelley,” Charli sang, through immense Auto-Tune.
Thank you, Kelley, indeed. There hasn’t been a bigger dance trend on TikTok this year — it’s a simple, easy-to-learn routine that looks equally good when you’re cute and sober or sloppy and drunk. How brat! Below, we’ve compiled the dancers from every city so far on the tour, from the girl who was confused in Detroit to Heyer at MSG to the dangerous twink-ening that happened in Boston. Watch these on your way to the airport, the airport, the airport.
Detroit (9/14)
Detroit kicked off the tour, meaning the audience got to be the true guinea pigs. The result? A delightfully frightened girl doing the Apple dance with a smile smeared on her face while her eyes belied a deep-seated fear. We stan. Yes, she forgot the moves, kinda, but she had a passion few will ever truly experience.
Montreal (9/16)
Montreal got to see the first influencer Apple dance of the tour when TikTok icon and Charli superfan @grapejuicenads (also known as just Nadia) performed the dance with her friends. She had chutzpah, she had ferocity, and she had the choreo down cold.
Toronto (9/18)
wait guys… i look so beautiful and i don’t normally say that pic.twitter.com/CS89Y9s3mF
— sammy (@theepopprince) September 19, 2024
In Toronto, the dance centered around a superstar gay in chaps and a Rush T-shirt doing the dance perfectly. Then the camera panned out and revealed someone had brought their little daughter to the show and she wanted to slay too. But Sammy, the Rush-er, really was great.
Columbus (9/20)
Columbus gave one of the more chill Apple dances thus far on the tour. The girls did the dance and looked like they had fun. Good for these queens!
New York City (9/23)
New York got the mother lode of mothers, which included Heyer, creator of the dance. Unfortunately, another girl near her got a little too excited and tried to get onscreen with Heyer. Like a pro, Heyer just performed her way through it, showed off her Brat underwear, and made a video the next morning encouraging people not to dox that girl. 2024!
Philadelphia (9/25)
The Philadelphia Apple girl was like an Apple dance sniper — she got in, she did the job, she got out. No drama, no shenanigans, just Brat T-shirts and strong knowledge of the choreo.
Baltimore (9/26)
Baltimore gave us the platonic ideal of Apple girls doing the Apple dance: well performed, a little personality, no drama. We are particularly into the Apple boy on the left’s “homemade cult classic” shirt.
Boston (9/28)
Look, Troye Sivan’s music makes up half this tour, so it was inevitable that a trendy twink would be emboldened. This is their space, and we have to let them take the center sometimes. In Boston, one such attendee, in a crop top and sunglasses, natch, got called a “cutie” by Charli before doing a quite blasé version of the Apple dance. Yeah, it’s cute, but if you live in Boston, please keep an eye out for any feral and jealous BoCo twinks for the next few months.
Chicago (9/30)
Charli deemed this one, through Auto-Tune, “the cutest shit evah.” We are inclined to agree.
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