tyDi On ‘Tear Me Up’ And His Musical Inspirations [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO]

Australian music producer and DJ tyDi has found success in America with his pop-inspired electronic dance music.

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For his latest single, “Tear Me Up,” tyDi teamed up with Hot Chelle Rae’s Nash Overstreet. The song brings together summertime pop sensibilities with tyDi’s more traditional approach to dance music. “It’s actually the first track we’ve done together and he brought this fun, kinda quirky pop vibe to the track that I probably wouldn’t have thought to do before,” tyDi said of Overstreet in an exclusive fan interview with uInterview.

When it came time to doing the music video for “Tear Me Up,” tyDi pushed back against the idea of adding one of his to the deep catalogue of house party videos. However, when he got the plot twist he was looking for, he was all in.

“I’m like, ‘Sure you want the red cups and the chicks with the pillow fights and stuff like that? And they’re like, ‘Yeah yeah that would be great we want all that stuff,'” tyDi said. “I was like, ‘Alright guys we can do that, but we need a plot twist.'”

“After about 30 minutes going back and forth my manager is like, ‘Hey, you want a plot twist, how about aliens suck everyone up?’ And I just lost it,” tyDi laughed. “I was like, that’s it, aliens are sucking everyone up. Then later I was just thinking, what if aliens just sucked all the dudes up and leave me with the girls? So we made that happen.”

tyDi didn’t always plan on delving into the world of EDM and actually harbored aspirations of making a living as a drummer in a rockband. “I was really into bands like Blink 182,” tyDi explained. “So I was a huge fan of them and bands like Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional.”

While the likes of Blink 182 may still inspire tyDi, he decided to take his music in a different direction after learning more about electronic music. “I just went, ‘Woah, I could make all that with a computer on my own,’ and decided then and there that’s all I wanted to do,” tyDi admitted.

“I was that loser kid in high school just making electronic music at lunchtime, and then I kept chasing it all the way through to college, did a degree in music,” he said. “And here I am.”