00:00 Hey it's Tyler and today I'm bringing the breakdown with Cosmopolitan.
00:04 I don't like watching myself when I'm with other people but when I'm alone,
00:07 yes I have to watch so I can critique and be better the next time. Let's do this.
00:24 So there I was 11 years old at my old house back in South Africa and I was a huge Belieber. Like
00:31 oh my gosh guys I used to have the biggest crush on Justin Bieber. Firstly the night before I know
00:36 I prepared myself I said I'm gonna wake up early, I'm gonna post my YouTube video, I'm gonna go viral
00:42 like I planned the whole thing out and I went to my father's computer and I recorded it and uploaded
00:48 it. I remember checking the views every like 10 minutes and I thought I was gonna wake up to a
00:54 million views, I didn't. But yeah it's the cutest video ever. I tried many times to delete it and I
01:00 can't get in my login. It's still on my main YouTube page so I think it's cute. And the Grammy goes to
01:08 Water. Tyler. I still can't believe it happened like oh my gosh. It didn't register. It took a
01:21 while like they said was it Tyler and I was like oh okay. That's me and I won a Grammy.
01:29 My parents came to America for the first time. My mother was crying in the audience.
01:35 She couldn't stop crying. She's still crying till this day I'm telling you right now.
01:38 The president of South Africa gave me a whole video call congratulating me and that also meant
01:45 a lot to me because obviously the president of South Africa what the heck nobody just gets calls
01:51 from the president. That was also like a fire moment for this year. My first ever music video.
02:03 Guys we were fighting for our lives in that era. Oh my gosh we were grinding. We were trying
02:10 everything. Favors like independence. Literally me, my manager, my best friend. People don't know
02:17 what we went through during that phase but I'm so happy because now we're here and I appreciate that
02:23 even more being here now. And it was the video that got me noticed by my label that I'm signed
02:30 to now and it basically started my journey being Tyler. Making her US tv debut performing her
02:38 global hit Water. Give it up for Tyler. So that was me performing for Jimmy Fallon. I always
02:51 dreamed of that moment. Even my friend and my choreographer knows not long before we got the
02:57 offer I was in my hotel room and I was literally pretending to be Jimmy Fallon. I was like
03:02 it's Tyler Water. Like I was acting the whole thing out and then we got the offer to perform
03:10 for Jimmy Fallon which was crazy. That's probably one of my favorite performances I've done
03:15 so far. I was so nervous like performing for literally US tv and we had to record it and it
03:24 went live that night. Like it was a lot but I mean I won't go under pressure. So your hand goes up
03:32 then you sweat, sweat, then you jump, jump, yes and then you
03:37 love love love love love Jennifer Hudson. I remember being small and I kept singing that
03:46 song Spotlight. Oh I felt like a woman. So it was cool meeting her and teaching her the dance.
03:54 Always gonna remember that my mother loved it. She was dying when I called her backstage.
04:00 So that was my New Year's Eve performance in New York. What the heck. That offer was also like a
04:15 crazy offer to get and I couldn't have turned it down. Like I mean I was supposed to be with my
04:22 family the whole Christmas time which I would have loved but I got to spend Christmas with
04:25 them and I had to tell them I gotta go and sort out this thing and yeah I'm so happy I did.
04:32 We also had not much rehearsal but it came out exactly how we wanted. It was freezing. People
04:38 were even asking me how did you do that? Like it was so cold but I mean when you're passionate
04:44 about something you will literally go through a lot and I got to meet and chill with my fellow
04:49 cover girl Sabrina. She's super cute. Love her.
04:53 So that is my music video for Truth or Dare. If you haven't watched it, go watch it. That video
05:05 I really wanted to do something different because I mean I dance in a lot of my videos which I love
05:10 doing but for this one I wanted it to kind of be completely different to the way the sound
05:16 of the song sounds you know. A little fun detour. So we worked with the director Nabil.
05:22 Love him. Love, love, love, love him and we just let him know that we wanted a very like
05:29 organic cool new difference and he came up with a whole story. Like when I got the treatment for
05:35 it like I expected pictures because that's how I'm used to seeing treatments. It was literally a
05:39 story and we read it. Didn't fully understand it but we trusted him and it came out better than I
05:47 thought it would. Thumbs up Nabil. So you guys be prepared for more fire music videos because
05:53 they are coming. Thank you so much for watching. Make sure to check out my Cosmo cover story.
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