In early December, KPOP soloist WOODZ (real name Cho Seungyeon) brought his highly anticipated “OO-LI AND” tour to North America. Despite being on the scene for years now, this is the first time that the singer has toured in the states, where many Moodz (his fandom name) were waiting. “OO-LI AND” expanded into five states and six cities before ending in the Big Apple on December 12.
Despite this being the last stop of the tour, Woodz’s energy never seemed to decline as he danced around the stage, interacted with Moodz, played the guitar, and even walked through the crowd! The show started with a live band playing the first notes to “Busted”, gaining the anticipation of the crowd as the lights went down and Woodz came onto the stage. At the beginning of the show, he performed many of his rock related songs such as “Hijack”, “Who Knows” and "Dirt on My Leather” which did a great job at hyping up the audience.
After five songs in a row, Woodz finally took a break to talk to the audience about Christmas time and to discuss some sad news that had been relayed a few days prior to the show. On December 10, it was announced that Woodz would be enlisting in the military at the beginning of 2024. He assured Moodz that he would be coming back and that they needed to wait for him. In order to bring the mood back up, Woodz stated that he had prepared a special song just for the stop. The lights on the stage turned red and green as he went into a live band rendition of Michael Buble’s iconic Christmas song, “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas.” Shortly after, he did a small segment where he read Moodz signs, had small conversations with them, took selfies, and even had a singing battle with one lucky fan. He even took song requests for songs that were not on the setlist and sang acapella versions of “Accident” and “Rebound.”
The concert continued on with many of his fast paced songs before slowing it down with “Multiply” where he personalized the song by changing a lyric from “LA” to “New York”, which excited up the crowd. Near the end of the show, he surprised the audience by bringing out a guitar and singing his new single “Amnesia”, which had not yet been released. The last shock of the night came as he performed “Bump Bump” and jumped off the stage before walking through the crowd and taking selfies, waving, and interacting with as many Moodz as possible, which served as great memories to end the tour.
Even though the tour is over, fans have many things to look forward to, such as two new singles, new merch, and an “OO-LI Land” encore in Seoul at Jamsil Stadium. The next year and a half may be a bit difficult, but Moodz will be waiting patiently.
Written by CeCe B.
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