00:00my first time seeing someone do the water dance challenge i remember a lot of people were like
00:05tyler change the dance challenge it's too hard it's too hard they were like commenting like
00:09girl like no one's gonna do this it's too hard look now hello teen vogue this is tyler and
00:16these are some of my firsts my first car was an old school mercedes drop top i got my first
00:27car
00:28when i got my first check i mean even still now but before i got my car i was just
00:33like passenger
00:34princess passenger princess i'm still kind of passenger princess but i'm like now a princess in
00:39an old mercedes first time i met tato we were in high school both of our first times in grade
00:45eight
00:45we ended up being in the same class they were just asking us to introduce ourselves and whatnot
00:50and i remember something happened that was funny right but nobody else was laughing i was trying
00:56not to laugh and then i turn around and i see her try like she was trying not to laugh
01:01too
01:02so we were like the only people that found that one thing funny and then we bonded over that moment
01:07and ever since that day we were like my mother everyone says their mother but my mother my mother
01:13and my cousins because my mother was always dressing up she always looked good like no matter what
01:21and my cousins also were fashionistas they would wear anything they wanted to regardless of the theme
01:28like it would be casual but they will show up like the least casual people i've ever seen and i
01:34always
01:35admired how they just were themselves no matter which room they were in i don't know why this question
01:40keeps following me because i did not study it guys but i was this close to and luckily my parents
01:47gave
01:47in and let me do music because i didn't have to be in a mining engineer class i did not
01:53make it to the
01:53class we always party with our parents like my peers are heavy like they will come you know how many
01:59times as a teen it was embarrassing now i'm like whatever but as a teen like my parents would have
02:04to
02:04drop us off and they wouldn't drop us off at the door they'll come inside the party they'll look for
02:10the parents they're gonna have a whole conversation with the parents then they'll leave we'll party for
02:15a little bit and they won't even let us know that they're coming to fetch us we just see them
02:19in the
02:20party and they come up to us like okay it's time to go like my parents are crazy the first
02:25thing i do
02:25i give them a big hug and we literally sit on the bed and talk and talk and we catch
02:31up like
02:32my siblings always have tea i always have tea and we like exchange the tea that's the first thing we
02:39do every time so who has the best tea sydney she travels a lot like i do and we both
02:44have such
02:45interesting lives that we always shock each other with our tea first time i was recognized on the
02:50street was probably around water i was at david buster's and there was like kids there and they
02:54were like oh tyler water tyler water and i was like that's me like i said i was always freestyling
03:00my
03:00room but the first time i got the opportunity to record on a mic i met someone that wanted
03:04to like let me record in a studio and i never recorded before so i remember he was like just
03:09write a song and come record the next day the way i was stressing it was called does he love
03:14me love
03:14me not and it was kind of themed out of like you know when you're picking a flower and it's
03:18like he
03:18loves me he loves me not he loves me he loves me not so it was a song about that
03:22i was not good at
03:23grandma at that time it was just does he love me love me not easy i played it for my
03:29brother i always
03:30play music for my brother first because he just loves music and he will be mad if i don't play
03:37it
03:37for him first so it goes to him first and then whenever i'm excited about a song whoever's around
03:42i'm playing it for you like even if you don't want to hear it i'm gonna play it for you
03:45my first year of
03:46choir it was really fun i was looking forward to it every day after school because my best friend
03:52sato was also in the choir so i literally felt like just extra time with my friends and i also
03:57just love to sing so we would always learn new songs and it was just fun it didn't really feel
04:04like that serious it felt like a getaway after school one time i auditioned for the bigger role
04:09and i ended up munchkin number two yeah not even number one number two like that was that was crazy
04:16i had a one line and i delivered that with passion i saw once like my teachers were on the
04:21news
04:22and they were talking about me and i was like ah like it was really nice seeing them speak about
04:27me
04:27the version of me in school because i never really knew how i was perceived in school by
04:32the teachers or whoever would listen to me sing and speak about becoming a singer and
04:37being able to hear from them um what they thought about it at the time was just very comforting they
04:45were
04:46very influential in me becoming tyler my first concert that i went to was justin bieber when
04:56he came to south africa my sister she's a good luck charm like she won tickets she wins everything
05:02and she ended up winning tickets and that was crazy was it called post uh concert depression i had that
05:09like yo i was so mad that it was over and i was at the back and i really thought
05:13i was gonna be
05:14the one less lonely girl but i was not picked i sang die die in your arms on youtube when
05:21i was 11
05:21because every time you touch me i just die in your arms oh it feels so right
05:32so that's there forever when i get like soppy and like sentimental i go and watch it and i think
05:37damn t like you did not know i thought those videos i i thought that was gonna blow me up
05:42like
05:42i remember waking up early getting dressed recording on my dad's webcam it was glitchy
05:50and everything and i thought i went to go look at the views every single day because i thought that
05:54was gonna blow me up didn't happen then but when i look back i remember that time like wow you
06:00actually
06:01did it first time i heard getting late on the radio me and my manager and sato were speeding back
06:08to my
06:08house because my mother through our whole events my whole family was at the house and we were speeding
06:14to make it on time and we sped sped sped sped sped we made it in and we ran inside
06:19and my whole family
06:20was there my mom made snacks she made drinks for everyone and they had the radio on loud my first
06:27celebrity crush i already said the first one but was like maurice chestnuts yeah wasn't he like a doctor
06:38a cop or a cop or something the first time i was on tv was in south africa on the
06:44expresso show and
06:46that's when i performed getting late for the first time and i was so nervous i was so nervous but
06:55excited
06:55at the same time because i remember watching that show and then being on it was it felt like wow
07:02i'm
07:03really a singer like i had a mic pack i had a mic like i was on tv things were
07:10really going for me
07:11at that time my first time seeing someone do the water dance challenge i remember there was a few
07:16people that were doing it but i remember a lot of people were like tyler change the dance challenge
07:22it's too hard it's too hard they were like commenting like girl like no one's gonna do this it's too
07:26hard
07:28look now like the whole world ended up being the water challenge so it just shows like just trust your
07:36artistic vision like and people will catch on you know like i remember being on a call with my
07:40choreographer and speaking to him like what are we gonna do for this song like we don't know what we're
07:47gonna do and he was doing a lot of bakadi dancing and it's a specific dance style to a different
07:53type of
07:53music but i asked him i was like do you think we could do that dance style on water and
07:58he was like
07:58hmm i don't know but let me try and he tried it and he made a video to it and
08:04i was like amazed i said
08:06this is it teach me right now and ever since that i was doing it on stages and eventually taking
08:14water
08:14and pouring it down my back and that's how it came about my dad keeps it he says that not
08:20he's glammy
08:21and my brother was making a joke saying that he's charging people for a picture with the grammy
08:26so it's just there at home my first reaction hearing the album it just took me back to different
08:33moments in my life because i did make the album throughout last year leading up to this year so
08:38i just remember each song representing a different time in my life and like a different thing that i was
08:45going through at that time so when i listened through it i could just remember what i wore
08:51what i was thinking what i felt it just feels like a diary for me whatever i gravitated towards i
08:58fed into
08:58and i leaned into and it didn't make sense for a long time and then naturally towards the end of
09:04last
09:04year i feel like as i was rounding out the album i went back to south africa i brought the
09:11same people
09:11back to south africa and i was just listening to everything every single day and just recording
09:16music and working with the people that felt good and felt like me in this era of my life it's
09:22just an
09:23album that i wanted to satisfy that goal of being this pop star that i've always had i feel like
09:29i'm
09:29becoming her more and more every day my first fashion show was dolce and gabbana crazy
09:36aha like they flew me out and everything i was like okay i got motion and then they sat me
09:43next
09:43to kim kardashian and i'm sure she was like who's this girl next to me like i was just there
09:49i was
09:49like hi kim but she i think i spoke about this before like she introduced herself like i didn't know
09:55who's
09:55kim kardashian like girl you don't need to introduce yourself it's very short like you would think that
10:00it's a bit more of a show but you go there and it's like you sit down and it's like
10:05five it feels
10:06like five minutes and then go home like it's like like i got ready the whole morning for five minutes
10:13uh but i do enjoy it still because i enjoy seeing how all the different fashion houses
10:18design their show and their new collections and it feels like its own form of art which is cool
10:24my first chanel bag i think was when i went to chanel when i got invited to chanel
10:30they gifted me a bag so thank you chanel i don't know how to explain it but it was like
10:37diamond stitch in front and it was like denim gold um chain it was those ones that cinch like this
10:47yeah my first med gala experience was very interesting because i remember getting ready and
10:54leaving for the events and just being so present in it that i did not realize it was going to
10:59become
10:59what it became i did not know at all i was just living in it and enjoying it after the
11:05whole evening
11:06i was like watching back on the night i was like whoa like balman really did that like that sand
11:14dress
11:14was and still is one of my favorite looks i've ever worn oh is that called the water dress i
11:20remember
11:20when i was doing a fitting for that event that was the first thing i tried on and i was
11:24like this is
11:24what i'm wearing like i don't need to carry on this fitting one thing about me if i do a
11:29fitting and i
11:30put on something that i like please i want to wear that because like when i have to try on
11:34things the
11:34whole night when i already know something feels right it's like i always end up going back to that
11:39thing so i literally just loved that outfit and i loved my cornrows i loved the hairstyle that i had
11:47and
11:47everything just felt so i felt snatched i felt curvy i felt so good in that dress so yeah that
11:54was my
11:54feeling that night thank you teen vogue for having me go listen to my album apop
