Tyla, January 28, 2021
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part I of a two part pancocojams post about South African singer/dancer Tyla.
Part I showcases the official January 2021 YouTube music video of Tyla's late 2019 song "Getting Late" That post also presents some information about Tyla as well as information about the song "Getting Late".
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/05/comments-comparing-south-african-singer.html for Part II of a pancocojams series about South African singer Tyla. Part II showcases the official 2021 YouTube music video of Tyla's song "Getting Late". Part II also provides some examples from the discussion thread of that video about comments comparing Tyla and (White American) Pop singer Ariana Grande.
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Thanks to singer/dancer Tyla for composing and performing this song. Thanks also to her producer Kooldrink and all those who are associated with this embedded video and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
INFORMATION ABOUT TYLA
From https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/tyla-seethal.html
"BIRTHDAY: January 30, 2002
BIRTHPLACE: Johannesburg, South Africa"...
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Click https://www.bossmodels.co.za/capetown/vision/women/1605196/tyla for a biographical statement about Tyla that was published before the release of her hit song "Getting Late". That statement indicates that Tyla was "born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa to a family of Mauritian and Indian descent".
EXCERPT FROM AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE SONG "GETTING LATE" BY TYLA FEATURING KOOLDRINK
From https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/wx8939/south-africa-popstar-tyla-getting-late-interview By Frankie Dunn, 04 March 2021
"Tyla is on a mission to become South Africa’s biggest popstar
By putting a pop spin on the deep house sounds of amapiano,
19-year-old Tyla is taking the genre international with her debut single
‘Getting Late’.
[…]
It was just a few years ago that Tyla began posting videos
of herself performing both covers and original songs on Instagram. After
sending them to “literally everyone in the industry” but never making it out of
their message requests, she eventually received an email from her now-manager
who she was convinced was trying to scam her, so promptly ignored. Luckily, he
persisted, things worked out and Tyla was soon having regular recording
sessions with her go-to collaborator Kooldrink, who would go on to produce her
impossibly catchy breakout single, “Getting Late”.
While the song (her debut) came out pre-pandemic, the epic accompanying video dropped just a month ago and is already approaching a million views on YouTube. And for good reason. “Getting Late” isn’t quite like anything you’ll have heard before. “I describe it as fusion music,” Tyla explains. “I grew up with a love for all types of sounds and never wanted to be tied down to one. On ‘Getting Late’, Kooldrink and I unintentionally found a balance between my vocal style, which is more pop/R&B, and the sounds of the South African genre amapiano.” By taking elements of the latter — a blend of deep house, jazz and kwaito centred around piano melodies and hard, isolated basslines — and putting a pop spin on it, the duo have created a beautiful musical monster. “We’ve seen people calling it ‘popiano’!”
Tyla adds.
In the cinematic music video for “Getting Late” (“It’s a modern African fairytale”) we join Tyla and her girl gang up in her palace, getting ready for a marching band-led cheerleading performance like no other. Kooldrink plays the love interest in this classic high school movie, stealing Tyla an iced-out Rolex and falling for her hard. Naturally, everybody ends up dancing around the stadium. “South Africans LOVE to party and dance, so it’s a huge part of our culture,” Tyla says of the song’s amapiano beat, “just like the dance moves that come with it, such as the pouncing cat.” Of course, these are moves which you’ll find tutorials for on Tyla’s TikTok, where she currently has over 700k followers eating up her every post.
With people already calling her “South Africa’s Ariana Grande”, Tyla seems to be well on her way to reaching her ambitious end goal to be “the biggest popstar to come out of South Africa… and just in general. I wanna work every day towards breaking that door down for future African artists who have the same dream,” she adds. “I want to become the new reference and the start of something new.” ”…
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This concludes Part I of this two part pancocojams series on South African singer/songwiter Tyla.
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