Tyla Reveals What's On Her Phone

Glamour

From the last song she's listened to, to her secret siblings group chat, Tyla reveals everything she has hidden on her phone. What does Tyla have on her voice notes? Are there behind-the-scenes photos from the Met Gala? What does she use as her alarm? How much time does she spend on her phone?  Director: Anastasia Sanger Director of Photography: Ben Dewey Editor: Nicole Salmeri Talent: Tyla Producer: Christie Garcia Line Producer: Jen Santos Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark Talent Booker: Caitlin Brody Camera Operator: Yuki Soga Audio: Sean Paulsen Production Assistant: Shanti Cuizon-Burden Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Santamaria Post Production Coordinator: Stella Shortino Supervising Editor: Brandon Henninger Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds

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00:00Girl, no.

00:15Hey, Glamour, it is Tyler, and I'm here to play screen time.

00:21Girl, let me see.

00:25So, okay, I don't know if this is that bad,

00:27but my daily average screen time is, like, five hours.

00:32Is that bad?

00:33I think that's pretty normal.

00:34That's normal? Okay.

00:39WhatsApp.

00:41So I'll be chatting.

00:44I spend a lot of time on TikTok, to be honest.

00:47I'm surprised WhatsApp is up there, but, yeah.

00:50Do you set any, like, time limits for yourself

00:52for how much time you spend on your phone?

00:53I do sometimes, but I just say add more time.

00:56Like, I'm not disciplined, yo.

00:58I need to be disciplined.

01:02I lost all my contacts, guys,

01:03because I got a little hacked.

01:05So, literally, I have to search numbers.

01:07Yo, this is a struggle.

01:08But the last thing,

01:10she asked me if there's milk.

01:13Yeah.

01:14What's the law?

01:15No.

01:16Yeah, we have a big group chat with my whole family,

01:19and then we have a siblings one,

01:20when we don't want our parents to see what we're talking about.

01:22But we always talk, like,

01:24almost every day.

01:26The law song I listen to is

01:32Swim Good by Frank Ocean.

01:34I used to love this song,

01:35and then now I've been hooked on it again.

01:37So, like, every morning,

01:38I've just been listening to this song.

01:40I just love Frank.

01:41Like, he needs to come back now.

01:42He's taking long.

01:43Would you work with him?

01:45Girl.

01:45Duh.

01:46I think everyone would want to work with him.

01:47What do you want to do with your family?

01:49What do you want to do with your family?

01:50What do you want to do with your family?

01:51What do you want to do with your family?

01:51On TikTok, I mainly follow, like, my family,

01:54and, like, my close friends.

01:55I think on Instagram, I would die to meet Janet Jackson.

02:00She's, like, an icon.

02:02And meeting her and having a conversation with her,

02:04I have so many questions that I would want to ask her.

02:06Do you follow each other?

02:07I hope so, girl.

02:09Hey!

02:10Let me see.

02:12I follow her.

02:13Let me see.

02:16It'll be eyeballs, if not.

02:20Oh.

02:21Got to work towards that.

02:23But, yeah, I would love to meet her.

02:29So, that was the med gala.

02:31That was a crazy time.

02:33I have gang pictures from that day.

02:35Let me get one.

02:36This is me in the bath after the med gala.

02:39I had a big bubble bath.

02:41Like, it was full of bubbles.

02:42And I was just, like, talking about it the whole time with my friend.

02:46That was, like, 1 a.m.

02:48I was about to do an after party, but I was so tired.

02:52I was, like, oh!

02:53I don't know.

02:54I always pull out when I'm feeling, like, exhausted.

02:57And, yeah, that day, I was just...

02:59I just wanted to bath and, like, look at the pictures

03:01and look at the outfits and everything.

03:03I was scrubbing all the sand off and reminiscing.

03:07Like, I just wanted to go back.

03:08I just realized, like, wow, like, this dress is just amazing.

03:12Like, it looked like art.

03:13And I was just really happy that I got to wear that.

03:20Girl, I'm scared.

03:21I can't.

03:22Like, literally, I rant on my voice notes.

03:25I say too many things.

03:27I speak my mind on my voice notes.

03:28Like, hey, if people get access to these voice notes, my word.

03:33I can probably play, like, I have a warm-up.

03:35I don't know.

03:49When I do the warm-ups with someone, like, with the piano,

03:52I like to record it so when I'm alone, I can just keep doing it.

03:56Yeah, that's my warm-up before show.

03:58Can you do that a little bit of that for us?

04:00Girl, no.

04:01I sing a lot of covers on my voice notes.

04:07I've been singing a lot of Alicia Keys.

04:10Unthinkable, like, that song I've been singing,

04:12like, Aaliyah, Tamir.

04:15Like, I sing a lot of those songs on my voice notes.

04:17Yeah, I love singing covers.

04:23Oldest photo I have is my mother got a tattoo of my name on my birthday.

04:31My mom got a lot of tattoos, like, both her legs were full of tats.

04:35So I was really happy when I saw, like, my name there.

04:38I was like, hey, mama.

04:40So, yeah.

04:41I have a lot of photos.

04:43But I think I have...

04:46How do you check that?

04:47Hmm.

04:49I feel like a granny.

04:50Okay, 33,000.

04:51I feel like I've had so much more, but I always run out of space,

04:56so I have to delete ones.

04:57I have to compromise.

04:59Girl, this is a struggle phone.

05:03You know, but I kind of like it.

05:05I think it looks nice.

05:06Because I refuse to put on a cover.

05:08I don't know.

05:08I like the way it looks.

05:10So, yeah.

05:10I just drop it a lot.

05:12I have a selfie with Shakira that I really love.

05:22Cute.

05:23So this was this year's Met Gala.

05:26And, yeah, it was so cute.

05:27I was actually going to the front because Stevie Wonder was performing,

05:31and I wanted to...

05:31Hey!

05:32I was getting down to the old songs.

05:34And then I saw her sitting down.

05:36I was like, hey, Shakira.

05:37And then she was like, let's take a selfie.

05:39And, yeah, we took a cute one.

05:41Like, she actually gave me a ride because, like, our car was taking forever.

05:45So she was like, come with me.

05:46So I was like, okay, Shakira.

05:48And then, yeah, we drove together.

05:50So the first time I met her was in Argentina.

05:53We were in Argentina around the same time for something special.

05:57She's an icon.

05:59You know, like, she just...

06:02I just remember around the time of the World Cup in South Africa

06:05when Waka Waka came out.

06:08It's like that song was playing everywhere.

06:11Like, and I saw her perform it the other day,

06:13and I was just, like, going crazy because it's, like, insane watching her perform Waka Waka.

06:18Like, what the heck?

06:20And just, like, Hips Don't Lie and all of these songs that just are ingrained in my mind.

06:25And, yeah, she made me want to know how to belly dance.

06:28Like, I have a video of me as a baby, like, belly dancing and everything.

06:32So meeting her was insane.

06:35Like, it was very...

06:36I was really happy to meet her.

06:44Johannesburg, Tokyo, Kigali.

06:47This is in Africa.

06:48Mykonos, Greece.

06:50Amsterdam, Pumalanga, London, Los Angeles, and Seoul.

06:58The national babe.

07:00What's the weather like in South Africa right now?

07:02Right now, it is...

07:04It's nighttime, and it's 12 degrees Celsius.

07:08So it's kind of cold.

07:09Yeah, spring.

07:11I like spring because at school we would always have spring day.

07:15That day we could, like, spray everyone with water,

07:17and that used to be fun, you know.

07:19Summer was just the best, you know, because it's Christmas.

07:22Our summer's during Christmas and the holidays,

07:24so we're always, like, outside and with family and friends and at the pool.

07:29I've always wanted to experience a white Christmas

07:31because all our Christmases are boiling hot.

07:34Like, yo, all the fans are on.

07:36It's like, yo, that's a lot.

07:37Like, a white Christmas always just felt like it was just in the movies.

07:41So we would try to recreate it.

07:43Like, we would put icing sugar on the floor

07:44and make it, like, Santa's footprints.

07:47And we would try and make eggnog.

07:49We'll search on YouTube how to make eggnog.

07:50And maybe one day I'll experience a white Christmas.

07:54Okay, it says chicken breast fillet, not frozen.

08:00Hit the meat to a schnitzel in a plastic bag.

08:03Salt, pepper, lemon.

08:04Hey, it's a whole recipe, I'm telling you.

08:06I wanted to make a chicken schnitzel, so it's that.

08:09Did you make it?

08:10No.

08:11I didn't make it yet, but my mother gave me the recipe to make it, so.

08:16A lot of my notes are, like, random ideas that I get.

08:19Like, a lot of the times I would wake up randomly in the middle of the night

08:24and I would have to let out an idea and I would have to just put it down in my notes

08:29so else I can't go back to sleep.

08:30A lot of it is, like, ideas of, like, performances or music videos or lyrics

08:35or what I want to do for, like, merch.

08:37Yeah, like, my mind is always going.

08:40So, it's kind of like my brain dump.

08:46I've been trying to be healthy, so sweet green.

08:49Like, I was underestimating sweet green.

08:51Like, what?

08:52Yeah, I don't know.

08:53I kind of like it.

08:54I think it's just easy.

08:55Like, you're not thinking so much.

08:56Like, you just eat a little bit of everything.

08:59Yeah.

09:00No, I don't have a place in New York that I go for South African food.

09:03I actually don't, hey.

09:05Like, what we usually do is travel with as many, like, South African stuff as we can,

09:10like, seasoning or I only like, like, South African mayonnaise,

09:14like, things like that.

09:15And it kind of makes the food taste like South African.

09:17That's usually what we do.

09:22For this morning, I have to wake up at quarter past seven.

09:26So, 7 a.m., wake up.

09:28Girl.

09:30Oh, it's a struggle.

09:31Like, I'm not a morning person at all.

09:33This is the only one that wakes me up.

09:37Like, because it's so annoying.

09:38Because if it's a song I like, hey, I'm going to vibe in my sleep.

09:41I'm not going to get up.

09:46Girl, I can scroll for long.

09:49I don't close my tabs.

09:51Like, I'm just like.

09:53Wow.

09:54I know, girl.

09:55I don't know.

09:55I watch a lot of YouTube on the browser.

09:59I don't know why I don't just get the app.

10:01It's Yukon.

10:02The lyrics.

10:03Because I was singing Yukon.

10:04Yeah.

10:07I definitely need to spend less time in my phone.

10:10For sure.

10:11I think we all need to.

10:13Like, we need to get outside.

10:14Like, touch grass.

10:16And just be in the real world.

10:18Because, girl, this phone will have you hooked.

10:21For sure.

10:22Thank you guys for watching.

10:23See you online.

10:24Bye-bye.

10:25Bye-bye.

10:26Bye-bye.

10:27Bye-bye.

10:28Bye-bye.

10:29Bye-bye.

10:30Bye-bye.

10:31Bye-bye.

10:32Bye-bye.

10:33Bye-bye.

10:34Bye-bye.

10:35Bye-bye.

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