R&B / Pop · 2003
Generate an AI dance video of your cat performing the Milkshake choreography from Kelis's 2003 Neptunes-produced hit. Upload a single photo and our AI maps the song's signature hip-roll and shoulder-sway onto your cat's pose — adapted for quadrupedal anatomy as a smooth upper-body bounce that syncs to the track's 113 BPM groove.
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Choreographer: Performed by Kelis in the Jake Nava-directed music video
Released August 25, 2003 by Star Trak and Arista Records as the lead single from Kelis's third album Tasty, Milkshake peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 — Kelis's only top-10 entry in the US — and held that #3 position for five consecutive weeks. It topped Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart for a week in December 2003, was certified Gold by the RIAA on October 25, 2004, and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Urban/Alternative Performance the following year. The song has stayed in cultural rotation through licensed use in Family Guy, Mean Girls, and dozens of other films and series, and its TikTok footprint has run continuously since the platform's 2018 dance-trend era.
Cultural Note
Milkshake is one of the most-recognisable Neptunes productions of the early 2000s. Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo built the beat after Pharrell came back from a trip to Brazil — he has said in interviews that he was inspired by the booty-shaking, low-tempo club music he heard there and wanted to capture the same dance-all-night feeling. The result was a stripped-down low-beat R&B groove that gave the track its slow-tempo, high-confidence character. The music video, directed by Jake Nava (who would go on to direct Beyoncé's Single Ladies and Crazy In Love), was shot at the Brooklyn diner Relish on Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, with the signage redressed to read 'Tasty's Yard' — a reference to the album title Tasty. Kelis told Elle in 2023 that the released video was actually the second one shot, because L.A. Reid and the Arista team felt the original cut was 'just too much' and made the team reshoot the entire thing. The song's chorus has become standalone cultural shorthand, sampled, parodied, and quoted in everything from children's movies to political ads, which is exactly why cat versions of it travel: the lyric is unfamiliar enough to feel like a deep-cut pull, but the chorus is universally recognisable in two seconds of scroll.
Sphinx-pose or sitting photos work best — the choreography is built around upper-body sway and hip-roll, which the AI re-maps onto feline torso-and-shoulder bounce
Photos with strong silhouette contrast between cat and background land the smooth, mid-tempo groove more cleanly than busy patterns — the song's identity is sultry, not chaotic
Warm-toned or diner-aesthetic backgrounds (cream, pink, soft yellow) tie the output to the 'Tasty's Yard' music video aesthetic — but plain backgrounds work fine
At 113 BPM this is one of the slower cat templates — relaxed, alert sitting poses match the energy better than mid-pounce or playtime photos
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