Uptown Funk AI: funk street crew lead from 1 photo

What this template does

The Uptown Funk AI trend puts your own face at the front of a funk street crew in sharp retro suits, the look of the 2014 Uptown Funk video.

What is the Uptown Funk AI trend, and where did it start?

"Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars came out on 10 November 2014. Its video, a crew in sharp suits dancing down a city street, had 5.9 billion YouTube views by 22 October 2026.

Uptown Funk AI trend timeline

• Fall 2014The video of "Uptown Funk" (Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars) goes up on YouTube: a crew in suits dances down a city street. It has 5.9 billion views by 22 October 2026.
• Recent weeksThe AI creator @garylau_ai posts a two-minute AI version of the video with AI look-alikes of famous tech CEOs as the crew, on X and Bilibili.
• Recent weeksGoogle searches for "uptown funk ai" start: zero from July to 8 October, then searches every day.
• Recent weeksA Taiwanese TikTok repost of the tech CEO clip goes up; it has 101,900 views by 22 October 2026.
• Recent weeksMedia.io adds an Uptown Funk AI page with four prompts: Solo, a lead swap, Duo and a crew of five.
• Recent weeksA Colombian AI creator posts his own Uptown Funk AI version: he leads, AI cat-headed dancers are the crew. It has 29,000 views and 5,696 likes by 22 October 2026.

Photo requirements for Uptown Funk AI

• A sharp face, turned to the camera, in good light. From the knees up is best; a far photo gives the model too few pixels of your face.
• You get a suit. Everyone wears a sharp retro funk suit (cream, mustard yellow, burgundy), so your own clothes do not matter.
• No hat brim or sunglasses over your eyes, unless you want them in the video. Glasses and facial hair stay as in your photo.
• Photo order: in Duo, photo 1 dances on the left and photo 2 on the right. In Crew, photo 1 leads in the middle, photo 2 is on the left, photo 3 on the right.
• Use your own photo or the photo of an adult who said yes. Never a celebrity, a stranger or a child.

Troubleshooting Uptown Funk AI

• What goes wrong — What our prompt does, and what you can do
• --- — ---
• Your face looks less like you — A sharp, front-facing photo from the knees up helps most
• A backup dancer gets your face — The prompt gives every backup dancer their own face. Run it again

How Uptown Funk AI differs from common face-swap templates

Caption & hashtag ideas for Uptown Funk AI

• Trying Uptown Funk AI
• Keep the AI label on
• Tag who has to go next
• Match a trending sound when you post

Hashtags that fit: #uptownfunk · #aivideo · #remixmeme

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