Within the refrain of Tyla’s “Water,” the musician challenges her speculative love curiosity to “Make me sweat / Make me lose my breath.” Being a graduate of literature, I instantly acknowledged the intertextuality happening right here, that chorus being a reference to Future’s Little one’s 2004 comeback observe “Lose My Breath”. However after I knowledgeable my colleague of this perhaps-too-erudite-for-him-to-grasp statement, he mentioned, “Um, I believe that’s fairly a standard factor for individuals to say in songs.” And so, I made a decision to compose a whole article to defend my place: Tyla has worn a metallic bikini (as Beyoncé as soon as did) and Tyla has posed along with her palms above her head (as Beyoncé famously did) and she or he additionally is aware of a few phrases from “Cuff It” (the music that Beyoncé wrote). There are different examples of interconnectedness between these two musicians–like this outfit–however I’ll cease right here as a result of Google says Tyla’s predominant inspiration is Rihanna and I can’t bear to be disproven.

The purpose is: Tyla seems to be as if she was born from an MTV music video within the mid-’00s: the cherubic face, the “I’m going to emulate that transfer in my bed room”-style choreography and the micro-miniskirts. At this 12 months’s 2024 Grammy Awards–the place she received the inaugural golden gramophone for Finest African Music Efficiency–Tyla wore a one-sleeved Atelier Versace robe, constructed from body-baring draping in lime-green georgette. It wasn’t classic, but it surely wouldn’t have appeared misplaced in Donatella Versace’s spring 2000 assortment (or Tina Knowles’s workroom.) With the steering of stylists Lee Trigg and Katie Qian, Tyla’s ascent to pop superstardom has been executed with main league fashion: the Rui bodycons and Bye Bambi bustle skirts and beachy Gimaguas attire and wet-look Di Petsa robes. It is a 22-year-old girl with the world, and the world’s wardrobe, at her toes. As she releases her self-titled debut album (one thing Beyoncé has additionally achieved), scroll down beneath to see a few of Tyla’s greatest trend moments so far.