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Key Takeaways:
- Tyla’s ‘WWP’ mixtape delivers 4 tracks in 11 minutes, mixing amapiano and pop.
- The mission contains fan-favorite “BLISS,” a Wizkid characteristic on “DYNAMITE,” and a daring message on “MR. MEDIA.”
- ‘WWP’ attracts from a South African chant, exhibiting how Tyla infuses her heritage into a contemporary pop sound.
Tyla is just not letting us make it by means of the summer time with no few songs to bounce to. On Friday (July 25), the songstress dropped her eagerly anticipated WWP, quick for “We wanna social gathering.”
Though it’s billed as a mixtape, the mission is on the shorter aspect, particularly contemplating how a lot of it’s model new. There’s “BLISS,” which Tyla first debuted at Coachella again in April, and “IS IT,” a document followers beforehand complained was “too quick.” In response, the Grammy Award winner jokingly instructed them to “play it once more, [the f**k].”
Of the 2 new songs listeners launched, Wizkid exhibits up because the lone characteristic on “DYNAMITE.” “Why do not you deliver it, come my manner?” he sings, earlier than Tyla follows with, “Maintain me ‘spherical my waist / We are able to take it gradual, child, you management the tempo / The way in which I rotate, child, that is a bit of style.”
From there, the South African singer lets her critics know she’s really been enjoying it too good on “MR. MEDIA.” She sings, “Keep in mind once I used to struggle with phrases? / Actually, I must be worse / I must be meaner.” There are not any skips on WWP, which, to be truthful, is sort of anticipated with simply 11 minutes of runtime. Nonetheless, the mission does depart behind loads of curiosity and anticipation for what her sophomore album may deliver.
“I’ve been on this tip of simply having fun with life, not simply partying, however simply enjoyment with folks that I like, with folks which can be a vibe,” the “Water” hitmaker mentioned, explaining the which means behind the mixtape’s title. “‘We wanna social gathering’ is definitely a South African chant. So we’ve been utilizing it ceaselessly, and it’s been a factor for hyping up folks and simply that feeling of enjoyment. I assumed it was excellent for the mixtape ’trigger the music screams, ‘We wanna social gathering!’”