Amber Liu Announces “No More Sad Songs” 2024 Tour
Amber Liu’s tour is her first in North America in nearly three years and supports new music.
For the first time in nearly three years, Amber Liu will headline a solo North American tour.
Beginning in Seattle on January 17 and continuing through eight U.S. cities, Amber will bring her “No More Sad Songs” tour to her fans in support of two new albums released since 2021. The tour includes stops in Los Angeles (January 20), Chicago (January 23), Toronto (January 24),and New York (January 26). Amber will also headline one date in London on January 30.
Tickets are on-sale now and include VIP access, which gives fans a meet and greet opportunity, an exclusive photo with Amber, a beanie, and a signed tour lanyard.
Amber’s last North American tour was in 2020, just weeks before the beginning of the pandemic. But she’s worked continuously since then: Releasing two albums, “y?” and “Z!”, plus stand-alone singles like “HARDER” with Jackson Wang and Yultron.
Originally, Amber was scheduled to make her return to the U.S. in November 2022, but those shows were postponed. In an interview this year, Amber cited a desire to work on new music as the reasons for the delay. “If it’s Amber Liu, it’s crazy,” she told Kraze about the new work. “I was able to work with so many cool producers, and with some really cool friends, and I’m just excited to put that out. And a tour next year, that’s definitely something that will be happening. And typical Amber shenanigans. It’s always crazy with me.”
When she was a member of the girl group f(x), Amber was one of the most recognizable idols in second generation K-Pop. Today, Amber still stands alone as the only female idol who dared to be androgynous. "Back then, there were very limited visuals for girls to be," she told Allure in 2019. "I think now, slowly, it's opening up and people are embracing the different sides of femininity and masculinity. It's a spectrum.”
f(x)’s boundary-pushing music elevated the girls into one of the most forward thinking groups in K-Pop history. “Pink Tape” is the group’s most critically acclaimed and commercially successful album, but it is “4 Walls”, their last release, that I think best encapsulates how transgressive f(x) felt. Tracks like “Rude Love” and “X” still sound as contemporary as they did in 2015. Min Hee Jin, the group’s creative director, is responsible for the brilliance of “4 Walls”. Seven years later, she debuted another group who upended the industry: NewJeans. What makes NewJeans so refreshing, whether in their sampling of Jersey Club music or their ability to create style trends, came from a framework designed by f(x).
In the years since leaving SM Entertainment in 2019, Amber has built a solo career. Her latest album “Z!” proves that not only is she a talented singer, but that she always stayed true to herself in K-Pop. The girl you saw in f(x) who stumbled over Korean words and often was abjectly honest, is still the woman making music with open vulnerability.
Now that she’s creating on her own terms, Amber’s goal is to share music with fans who may feel like her. “Growing up, I felt alone, I felt misunderstood. I felt like a villain. I felt really down. But through music, there’s a weird click that happens. I feel less alone,” she told Kraze. “When I put that into my music and fans say to me, “Thank you for writing that song,” that just makes it go full circle. And it’s why I do music; I just want to help people.”
You can purchase tickets for the “No More Sad Songs” tour HERE.
