What Does "Ela Peida Funk" Mean? The Portuguese Title, the Track, and the TikTok Dance

"Ela peida funk" means, roughly, "she farts funk." "Ela" is Portuguese for "she," "peida" comes from the verb peidar, "to fart," and "funk" is Brazilian funk, the genre the track belongs to. That is the whole joke — and it is the reason the most common search about this song is not the dance at all, but what the title means.

What language is ela peida funk in?

Portuguese — Brazilian Portuguese, to be precise. Brazilian funk (often called funk carioca) is a dance-music style built on heavy, repetitive beats, and short, cheeky titles are part of the genre's personality. If you have searched for an English translation of the lyrics, the title already tells you the tone of the rest.

This article explains the title rather than reprinting the lyrics; the song's words belong to its rights holders.

Who made ela peida funk?

The most-viewed upload on YouTube is credited to DJ V2BE on its official Topic channel — the kind of channel a music distributor creates automatically for a released track — with about 6.4 million views. Around it sits a whole family of re-uploads: a super-slowed edit by SUKA. with about 1.3 million views, an ultra-slowed one-hour loop, and "TikTok version" mixes.

Those edits matter more than the original for the meme. Most TikTok dances use a slowed version, which drags the beat down to a heavy, swaggering tempo that suits the choreography.

When did it trend?

In US Google searches, "ela peida funk" peaked around September 16, 2026, then picked up again in late October — the last week of October averaged roughly twice the week before (Google Trends, US). Dance tutorials on YouTube with tens of thousands of views date from early October, which fits a song that broke first as a sound and then as a dance.

How does the ela peida funk dance go?

One move per beat, usually solo or two friends side by side:

1. Arms into an X over the chest.
2. Hands up by the face, fingers spread.
3. Hands behind the head, hips swaying side to side.
4. Cross-steps — one foot crosses over the other and back, shoulders leading.

The face matters as much as the feet: cool, confident, a little smug, never laughing. One couple's version passed 1.6 million YouTube views, and a mash-up that pairs the slowed sound with the K-pop "Boompala" choreography passed 1.4 million — so if a clip looks like a different dance, it may well be that blend.

Can you make an ela peida funk video without dancing?

Yes. The ela peida funk page turns one photo — you alone, or you and a friend — into an 8-second vertical clip of the routine above. The clip has no music baked in; add the ela peida funk sound inside TikTok when you post.

For another October trend with a very different origin story, see the Chipmunks Dance guide, or the la calabaza column for how a song-led meme turns seasonal.