Tyla Speaks On Putting A Pop Spin To Amapiano. One of Tyla’s career highlights is waking up to her single playing through her family home in Johannesburg. Tyla, now aged 19, got her big breakthrough after her hit single ‘Getting Late’ became famous.
While the song during the pandemic, the song’s success could have never been stopped by anything. The song dropped about 3 months ago, but it is about to reach 2 million views on YouTube. And for good reason, “Getting Late” isn’t quite like anything you have heard before. “I describe it as fusion music. 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,” Tyla explains.
She is putting a pop spin on amapiano and as a result, the duo have created an amapiano hit. “We’ve seen people calling it ‘popiano’. South Africans love to party and dance, so it’s a huge part of our culture,” Tyla said.
With people already calling her “South Africa’s Ariana Grande”, Tyla seems to be well on her way to reaching her 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.”
“I’m not the type to openly share my emotions, so I try to do it in a way where people are still able to dance and have fun without having to carry the deeper meanings. I find it easier to play a character than actually let out what’s going on,” Tyla concludes.
