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From her first crush to her first viral dance, Tyla looks back on the milestones that shaped her journey. Reflecting on the experiences that helped launch her career, Tyla shares the stories behind some of her most memorable firsts—both on and off the stage.
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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
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