REVIEW | Tyla’s A*POP turns Johannesburg nostalgia into global pop
Tyla's new album A*POP is a bold reclamation of 2010s South African club culture - Popiano, amapiano log drums and Y2K nostalgia rolled into a global pop statement.
The 24 July release finds the 24-year-old South African star doubling down on her Popiano signature (a sleek, rhythmic fusion of polished pop, R&B sensuality and amapiano’s log-drum bounce) while weaving in deeper house, kwaito echoes and straight-up nostalgic South African club energy.
Picture: AFP We’ve long-been accused of leaving the rest of the world out of our conversations with our effortless code and language switching but it can’t be helped when we have such specific cultural shorthand for a very particular era in modern South African life.
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