With her latest single “Light Me Up”, Tyra turns a corner: sonically, emotionally, and artistically. The Swiss-born dark pop newcomer made an unforgettable debut with “Thank You For Leaving”, a moody, emotionally charged track that drew from personal devastation and heartbreak. This time, Tyra chooses to step into something warmer, faster, and unmistakably brighter, letting it explode through pulsing beats and a luminous chorus.
The song opens with nostalgia that’s laced with loss. “I remember when we were young, life had just begun,” she sings with a softness that echoes the ache of simpler times. Then, like a storm breaking into light, the chorus hits. “Light me up when I’m feeling down,” she pleads for connection. There’s a sense of running out of time in the lyrics, a fight against fading out in a world too loud to hear you scream. This cut trades the melancholic atmosphere of her first release for a punchier, upbeat energy.
Tyra brings depth, channeling her signature blend of emotional honesty with an unmistakable need to move forward. The chorus is infectious, but the strength lies in her delivery: soft in the verses, commanding in the chorus, always anchored in truth. You can feel the sense of urgency in every word, as if she’s writing with borrowed time, which, in a way, she is. Tyra’s recent history is not just backstory, it’s part of the music’s DNA. After her father’s paralysis and her own cancer diagnosis within weeks of each other, she made the radical decision to stop waiting and start creating.
Thematically, “Light Me Up” builds on the story she began telling in July. It’s about loneliness in a crowded world, about the need to be seen, and the quiet desperation to be rescued from yourself. In lesser hands, it could drift into cliché. Tyra avoids that entirely by staying grounded in what she knows: grief, resilience, and raw honesty.
With only two tracks out, Tyra is already carving out a lane that’s entirely her own. “Light Me Up” may be a departure in tone, but it confirms what her debut hinted at: this is an artist with purpose, resilience, and range. If “Thank You For Leaving” was the sound of surviving, “Light Me Up” is the sound of choosing to thrive.
