Up-and-coming pop star Taylor Gayle Rutherfurd—stylized as “GAYLE”—has just wrapped up a wild tour run as an opener for crowds as large as 70,000 people. The 19 year-old’s 2021 single “ABCDEFU” reached worldwide audiences via TikTok and other streaming platforms, even snagging a Grammy nomination for song of the year. Since then, she’s released a few more singles—like 2023’s teenage angst-fueled “Everybody Hates Me”—and casually served as an opener for Taylor Swift’s massive Eras tour and the European leg of pop star P!nk’s Summer Carnival tour.
Tuesday night in Ybor City marks the opening night of GAYLE’s very first headlining run of shows deemed the “Scared But Trying Tour”—definitely the first of many from the prolific teenage songwriter.
Kyla Fields is the food critic and former managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay who started their journey at CL as summer 2019 intern. They are the proud owner of a charming, sausage-shaped, eight-year-old...
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