Tai Verdes

One Liner: Sunshine in a pop rock package

Wikipedia Genre: His Wikipedia fails to list a genre, but this is poppy rock

Home: California

Poster Position: 11
Weekend Two Only.  Saturday.

Thoughts:  This dude is kind of fun, despite myself.  The one song of these that I already recognized was "Sheesh!," which is actually by Surfaces (who were at ACL last year), but features some bars by my man Tai.  And it is a fun song, light and fluffy and relatively silly (like all of the best stuff from Surfaces), and that colors my thoughts of the rest of this dude's catalog.  The best stuff is kinda fun.

His top song, by a TON, is "A-O-K," with 244.3 million streams.

See?  Just kind of a sunny little track about being okay despite the messy circumstances of the world.  He whistles in it!  Something about him reminds me of that Travie McCoy guy from Gym Class Heroes.

His real name is Tyler Colon, and he grew up in California playing music.  After high school, he ended up dropping out of Babson College, where he was on the basketball team, to go for music full-time.  His first single popped off during the start of the pandemic lock down and was a big TikTok hit, as he was living on a friend's couch and working at a Verizon store.  He auditioned for shows like The Voice and American Idol, but didn't make the cut.  Instead he apparently did well (?) on a MTV dating show called Are You The One?  I almost don't understand the Wikipedia page about that show.

Just one album - 2021's TV.  The top single from that one is "Stuck in the Middle," with 111.5 million streams.

Another one that sounds sunny and bright, despite the maybe not so happy lyrics.  The vibe is great.  I won't be there for weekend two Saturday, but I might go check him out, I dig the whole sound that he has going with the sunny pop rock stuff.