Anxiety,” the latest single from Grammy-winning artist Doechii, has maintained an unrelenting stronghold on the internet this year. There are over 1.8 million videos set to the song on TikTok and it’s even warranted its own dance trend, loosely inspired by moves featured in the pilot episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
That challenge has been accepted by everyone from the White Lotus cast to the Fresh Prince himself, Will Smith. Even classic children’s shows have tapped in; The Sesame Street TikTok account dropped their own version of the “Anxiety” dance last week. But thanks to its official music video, which dropped today and you can watch below, the popularity of Doechii‘s “Anxiety” shouldn’t let up anytime soon.
The official music video features intricate choreography from an ensemble of dancers confronting Doechii in a chaos-filled house. There’s a callback to the video for Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” the song “Anxiety” samples—with extras in the video shown in the same body paint design that Gotye’s 2011 video made famous.
The music video also shows Doechii in a recreation of her old bedroom, where she recorded the original 2019 version of the song. Her real-life younger twin sisters are also a part of the video’s supporting cast, and they appear throughout the video in dresses inspired by the iconic twins from The Shining.
The video’s release comes just a day after Doechii posted a teaser on Instagram, but it’s not completely unexpected. Earlier this month, fans on TikTok started sharing behind-the-scenes footage of Doechii and her dancers filming scenes for the video on the streets of Los Angeles, which truly set the anticipation for the video’s release in motion.
“Anxiety” has a long history that predates this year’s blowup success. Doechii originally released the track on her YouTube channel back in 2019. At the top of 2025, it resurfaced on social media, and that newfound popularity inspired Doechii to re-record the song and release a new official version on streaming services in March. Since then, it’s crawled up multiple charts, hitting a peak at #10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
During an interview at Billboard’s Women in Music Event earlier this month (where she was honored as Woman of the Year), Doechii said that “Anixety’s” virality shocked her. “That song is years old, that I made in my bedroom just goofing around, and now it’s something that’s huge, and that people connect with, which is powerful.”
