Filmore

Tyler Filmore, who records and performs under the name Filmore, emerged in the late 2010s as a Nashville-based singer blending earnest country songwriting with pop and electronic touches. Breakthrough singles “Slower” and “Nothing’s Better” helped establish his profile, after which he issued his first full-length album, State I’m In, in 2020 and continued issuing individual tracks such as the 2022 release “Mean Something” and the patriotic party song “USA,” the latter featuring a guest appearance from Pitbull.

Raised in Wildwood, Missouri, Filmore participated in choirs and local ensembles before attending the University of Missouri, where he started a band also called Filmore that gained traction on the regional college circuit and produced two albums. Around 2011 he relocated to Nashville and launched a solo career, shaping material from a country foundation enriched by prominent pop and electronic layers. Under his surname he put out a three-song EP in 2015 that yielded the hit “Headlights,” later included on the 2016 album Proof. Building on that momentum, he released the smooth country-pop single “You Know You Wanna” in 2017 and followed it in early 2018 with “Slower,” a banjo-driven summer anthem that mixed mainstream pop sensibility and quickly accumulated millions of streams. The next single, “Love That About You,” adopted a comparable style and enjoyed similar commercial traction. Further releases arrived throughout the ensuing year, among them the streaming success “Nothing’s Better,” which appeared on the 2020 album State I’m In.

Filmore then concentrated exclusively on standalone tracks, unveiling a series of new songs in 2021 that included “Used to Be,” “Who Cares,” and the Boat Boys collaboration “Long Time, No Sea.” His output continued into 2022 with solo efforts such as “Somewhere with Beer” and “Mean Something,” joined by the You Betcha Guy-assisted “Drunk I Am” and the Pitbull-featured “USA.”