Both songs appear on the South African pop artist’s eponymous debut album
The narrative thread Tyla began unraveling in the music video for her single “Truth or Dare” continues in the accompanying visual for her latest single, “Breathe Me.” At the close of the first video, Tyla speeds off into the night after a long day of being trailed in her car by an obsessive ex. At the start of the second, she’s hanging out of a car window and breathing in the euphoria of an all-night date that she actually wants to be on.
“Breathe Me” features a time stamp early on in the video, starting the night at 10:47 p.m. in Osaka, Japan. Tyla giggles and smiles blissfully as she heads into a karaoke room. She sings the tender pop record sweetly, serenade-style, to her date before extending the mic for him to chime in with a few lip-synced ad-libs of his own. The rest of the night takes them across the city, making stops at food trucks and going on a late-night 7-Eleven snack run. The final time stamp reads 2:24 a.m.
Both “Truth or Dare” and “Breathe Me” appear on Tyla’s eponymous debut album, which arrived earlier this year. “It’s my introduction, so I just wanted it to be easy: Tyla. Plain and simple, letting people know I’m here. This is me. This is what I’m coming with,” the musician previously told Rolling Stone about leading with a self-titled record. “I really wanted to give a statement because I think that shows confidence, and I’m just ready. I’ve been working on this for so long. And even though people think I just [arrived] a few weeks ago, I’ve literally been working for very long on this.”
And she’s getting her worth out of it. While many pop album cycles have come and gone throughout the year, Tyla is on her fifth single from the album. She started in 2023 with the viral smash “Water,” which was followed earlier this year with “Truth or Dare” in February, “Art” in April,” and “Jump” in May.
“I’m hoping that more people get tuned in and they see what we have to offer, because we’re really just taking it to a different level,” Tyla added. “I don’t think people understand the plans that we have. Everything that I’m planning on doing and the music and the culture and everything that’s coming with it … it’s bigger than people think.”
