TYDUS – First Girlfriend (Official Music Video)

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A five-year-old with his own official music video just dropped a love song about asking a girl to be his first girlfriend.

On November 23, 2019, the family YouTube channel Trav and Cor released the official music video for “First Girlfriend,” the latest single from five-year-old creator Tydus Talbott — the pint-sized internet personality widely nicknamed “Mini Jake Paul.” The video leans on Tydus’s real-life connection to Jake Paul and the Team 10 crew, filming a comedic childhood-romance storyline across Calabasas, California, including the Team 10 mansion itself.

  • “First Girlfriend” was co-written by Jake Paul, director David Lehre, and Tydus’s father Travis Talbott, with audio produced by Darren “Baby Dee” Beats.
  • David Lehre directed the video through his Los Angeles production company Vendetta Studios, shooting the entire project in Calabasas.
  • The plot follows Tydus courting Peyton Johnson’s character, asking her to be his first girlfriend while riding a motorized mini-Lamborghini and rocking designer pajamas.

The Team Behind the Track

The credits on “First Girlfriend” read like a scaled-down version of a Team 10 production meeting. Jake Paul gets a co-writing credit alongside Lehre and Travis Talbott, tying the single directly to the influencer ecosystem that made Tydus a recognizable face online in the first place. Darren “Baby Dee” Beats handled the beat and mix, giving the track the same polished pop/hip-hop sheen as other kid-influencer singles that have circulated on YouTube in recent years.

Lehre’s involvement matters beyond the writing credit — Vendetta Studios, his Los Angeles-based production house, filmed and produced the video, giving it a look far more cinematic than a typical family-channel upload. The choice to shoot at the actual Team 10 mansion in Calabasas wasn’t incidental; it plants Tydus’s storyline squarely inside the same universe Jake Paul built his brand around.

The Storyline, Beat by Beat

The video opens with Tydus flaunting a scaled-down version of the influencer lifestyle — Gucci pajamas, fresh basketball sneakers, and a spin in a motorized mini-Lamborghini — before setting his sights on Peyton, played by Peyton Johnson. The lyrics keep things squarely in kid-logic territory: “Waking up, Gucci on my PJs,” and comparisons like being “the peanut to my butter” and “the mac to my cheese.”

“Excited for the date, I gotta tell Jake, I’ll pick you up at 8.”

That single line does more than anything else in the track to explain the whole project — Tydus name-drops Jake Paul mid-love-song, cementing the mentor-and-mini-me dynamic that’s driven his channel’s growth. Travis Talbott and actor Cristian Hawley round out the supporting cast, keeping the production a family affair even as it borrows Team 10’s polish.

The Rollout

Trav and Cor premiered the video to their multi-million-subscriber audience on release day, backing it with behind-the-scenes vlog content showing Tydus actually asking Peyton to play his love interest before cameras rolled. That kind of pre-release vlog-to-music-video pipeline has become a staple of the family-channel and kid-influencer space, where the real-life “asking” moment functions as its own piece of content before the finished single even drops.

The pairing of a scripted love story with unscripted-feeling behind-the-scenes footage is the same playbook that’s powered plenty of viral moments across trending music releases built around young creators, and it’s a format Tydus and his family have leaned on before to build anticipation ahead of a premiere.

Part of a Bigger Persona

None of this happens in a vacuum. Tydus’s “Mini Jake Paul” branding is the entire engine behind “First Girlfriend” — the mini-Lamborghini, the designer pajamas, the shoutout to Jake mid-song are all lifted straight from the influencer-lifestyle tropes that made Team 10 famous in the first place. It’s a kid-sized mirror of the same content style that’s turned plenty of names into fixtures among trending celebrities online.

What’s next for Tydus is presumably more of the same: another single, another vlog-to-video rollout, another Calabasas shoot. But for now, “First Girlfriend” is the song where a five-year-old asked a girl out, told Jake Paul about it, and got the whole thing filmed at the Team 10 mansion — which is about as on-brand an origin story as this corner of YouTube gets.

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