{"id":733572,"date":"2026-06-15T23:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tyra-bankss-modelland-is-the-internets-latest-hyperfixation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T23:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:25:18","slug":"tyra-bankss-modelland-is-the-internets-latest-hyperfixation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tyra-bankss-modelland-is-the-internets-latest-hyperfixation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyra Banks\u2019s \u201cModelland\u201d is the internet\u2019s latest hyperfixation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a30cb83817e4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a30cb83817e4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tyra-bankss-modelland-is-the-internets-latest-hyperfixation\/#Some_are_comparing_the_surreal_pre-hyperpop_song_to_Beyonce_and_Tinashe_Those_people_are_crazy\" >Some are comparing the surreal, pre-hyperpop song to Beyonc\u00e9 and Tinashe. Those people are crazy.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Some_are_comparing_the_surreal_pre-hyperpop_song_to_Beyonce_and_Tinashe_Those_people_are_crazy\"><\/span>Some are comparing the surreal, pre-hyperpop song to Beyonc\u00e9 and Tinashe. Those people are crazy.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281481\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-2228608727_w9tps4\/tyra-banks-modelland-song-explainer.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-2228608727_w9tps4\/tyra-banks-modelland-song-explainer.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-2228608727_w9tps4\/tyra-banks-modelland-song-explainer.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-2228608727_w9tps4\/tyra-banks-modelland-song-explainer.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-2228608727_w9tps4\/tyra-banks-modelland-song-explainer.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-2228608727_w9tps4\/tyra-banks-modelland-song-explainer.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-2228608727_w9tps4\/tyra-banks-modelland-song-explainer.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-2228608727_w9tps4\/tyra-banks-modelland-song-explainer.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-2228608727_w9tps4\/tyra-banks-modelland-song-explainer.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-2228608727_w9tps4\/tyra-banks-modelland-song-explainer.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-2228608727_w9tps4\/tyra-banks-modelland-song-explainer.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"60vw\" alt=\"Tyra Banks\u2019s \u201cModelland\u201d is the internet\u2019s latest hyperfixation\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Brendon Thorne\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281482\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <i>Can your survive &#8220;Modelland?&#8221;<br \/><\/i><br \/>This question has been on everyone&#8217;s lips since a deep cut document from Tyra Banks&#8217;s oeuvre reemerged on the niche, queer, brainrot side of the internet last week.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281484\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">so my best friend sent me this song that Tyra Banks made herself for a dystopian young adult book she wrote over a decade ago and i&#8217;m being so serious i think she officially made the worst song of all time <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pcMOUTu4h7\">pic.twitter.com\/pcMOUTu4h7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 kit \ud83c\udf4b (@sourkrowt) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sourkrowt\/status\/2063673013032144936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281483\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <i>Modelland<\/i> is the name of both a book and a song by supermodel, reality TV host, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> lightning rod, Tyra Banks. The 2011 book is reportedly a dense piece of dystopian fiction with a seemingly psychedelic bend to its plot. It&#8217;s about a young woman named Tookie De La Cr\u00e8me who finds herself in the fictional world of Modelland after being discovered by a scout.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            In Modelland she faces off with, among many other things, creatures named the LeGizz\u00e2rds. If you are curious to hear a fuller summary and analysis of this patently bizarre book, you can read PAPER&#8217;s full accounting of the book (which they read, so we didn&#8217;t have to) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.papermag.com\/tyra-banks-modelland-book-explainer#rebelltitem12\">here<\/a>.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Banks paired the book with a promotional song and it&#8217;s genuinely one of the more strange, unsettling and, if you&#8217;re in the right mindset, thrilling pieces of audio you&#8217;ll come across in your lifetime.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281485\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tyra Banks&amp;apos; Homemade Modelland Song\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cSDd_aQjm54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281492\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Part digitzed incantion, part serpentine vocoder-spell, and fully rhythmically and melodically nonsensical, it sounds like it was recorded under water before being filtered through another layer of liquid. Its thin, low-grade audio quality also sounds like it was processed through 10 layers of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>-to-mp3 degradation which, to be fair, could be a problem with the above video file. But given the nonsensical nature of the music itself, it could too be a stylistic choice. I can&#8217;t really make out the lyrics, other than its central refrain, <i>&#8220;Can you survive modelland?&#8221;<\/i> If this song is any indication of the nature of this fantastical world, I don&#8217;t believe I can.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Music theorist and TikTok user Will Geraint Drake did a more formal analysis of the song, and discovered that, while not in any traditional key, its closest label would be what is dubbed &#8220;The Jewish Scale&#8221; or the Phrygian dominant scale (used in Klezmer music and traditional Hebrew prayer). Maybe that&#8217;s why &#8220;Modelland&#8221; awoke deep buried childhood memories of listening to music in synagogue for me.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281505\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@willgdrake\/video\/7650610860322278678\" data-video-id=\"7650610860322278678\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\">\n<section> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"@willgdrake\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@willgdrake?refer=embed\">@willgdrake<\/a> Tyra Banks wrote a song\u2026 and it\u2019s unhinged, but I\u2019ve tried to make sense of it. So this is a video essay on \u201cModelland\u201d by Tyra Banks \ud83d\udc80 let me know what you make of this song down below! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"tyrabanks\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/tyrabanks?refer=embed\">#tyrabanks<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"modelland\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/modelland?refer=embed\">#modelland<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"antm\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/antm?refer=embed\">#antm<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"2010smusic\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/2010smusic?refer=embed\">#2010smusic<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"musicanalysis\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/musicanalysis?refer=embed\">#musicanalysis<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Will Geraint Drake\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7650610869138770710?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Will Geraint Drake<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281506\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Pot stirrers on X have also compared the song, with its electronic avant garde bend, to Tinashe&#8217;s new song &#8220;Too Easy,&#8221; which also has a cutting-edge, digital quality. But that&#8217;s like trying to compare Jackson Pollock to a 5 year old&#8217;s finger painting (Tyra is the child in this analogy). <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cSDd_aQjm54&amp;t=54s\">YouTube comments on Banks&#8217;s Youtube channel post of the song<\/a> also mention Beyonc\u00e9 and her documented love for chaotic beats. (Bey using <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DNikmLty1KH\/\">&#8220;pots and pans&#8221;-style beats<\/a> that really shouldn&#8217;t work as well as they do has become a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@blackbillgatez\/video\/7550803249352264990\">big meme<\/a> on the internet in recent years).\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281507\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This new tinashe song <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VtsgqAxWer\">pic.twitter.com\/VtsgqAxWer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \uff50\uff55\uff4e\uff4b (@punkmp3) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/punkmp3\/status\/2062698779854225617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281508\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            At the end of the day, if you&#8217;ve followed Tyra throughout her career, you know that above all: the woman loves a goofy bit. <i>America&#8217;s Next Top Model<\/i> is filled with a litany of gags  \u2014 insane challenges, long-running jokes, and a seemingly endless run of skits. Much of her work on <i>ANTM<\/i> went in a seriously dark direction (as documented in the recent Netflix documentary <i>Reality Check: Inside America&#8217;s Next Top Model<\/i>, which Banks is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tyra-banks-files-lawsuit-against-netflix-11997357\">suing<\/a> Netflix over for defamation).\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Controversy aside, it&#8217;s best if we simply treat the Modelland project and song as simply one of Bank&#8217;s many goofy jokes. If you&#8217;re in the right mind, it&#8217;s also a pretty fun one at that.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Tobias Hess<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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