00:00 The bond I think with f(x) I think I like to see it is that it's beyond music.
00:04 It's just us as like friends, as sisters and that's what's most important to us.
00:10 Hey what's up Asia One this is Amber Liu.
00:18 So it's great to meet you. So you're like almost at the end of the tour. Singapore marks the last
00:24 stop of it and now you're in Oceania. So how has the tour been so far? My band and I are always like
00:32 oh man can the crowds get any crazier and then every night there's always something different
00:37 that the crowd brings. So I'm really curious because this is my first time like performing
00:44 on my own. I'm like really curious to like what each city's like vibe is. It's kind of crazy like
00:51 like you wake up you're like oh I'm in Australia right now. I'm in Changsha right now. So it's
00:58 it's been kind of like a it's been like a dream but a very fun dream. The last time I saw you
01:04 perform was with f(x) 12 years ago in SMTOWN 2012 here in Singapore. But have you been back to
01:12 Singapore since? I had like a short performance in Singapore like in 2016. I did go for my friend
01:20 good friend Jessica her her concert as like a surprise. So have you had time to like visit go
01:26 around visit the sites or what are you looking forward to doing when you're here this time
01:31 around? For some reason like I feel like I have less time to look around than I actually think I
01:37 do. I at least try to at least walk around where at least wherever my hotel is. Like if I wanted
01:44 to go sightseeing and stuff it might be a little hard unfortunately. I think looking up places and
01:49 going there is I think at a different time where it's more suitable right now. It's more like I
01:55 really want to not have any plan and just kind of feel things out. So before one of your shows
02:03 before a concert like how do you get ready for it? Do you have some kind of like pre-concert ritual?
02:07 Nothing too exciting usually. I'm usually just chilling with with everybody like obviously eat
02:14 typical like get ready. We kind of do like a huddle circle right before. Also with the band like
02:21 think a group sing-along I guess. So we kind of choose a song that we all really like and we just
02:27 just sing a chorus of it and just kind of while I just kind of get us pumped a little bit.
02:32 You obviously had a very different style to other women in k-pop and was that something I mean I
02:39 know that is your style because you haven't changed it since you left. So that's something
02:44 you were worried of that you would be made to change how you look, made to look more feminine
02:50 perhaps or was that seen as like a positive thing because you were like so different?
02:55 Going and doing every single album you never know what concept it is and I think at the time
03:01 since I'm also really young I also just didn't have the I guess confidence. I think I was very
03:09 self-conscious as well and very insecure with like if I changed up my style would I like would I like
03:16 it? How would people look view me as because you know when when people when I put out something
03:20 feminine people just you're like oh my gosh Amber's doing this. I think over the years I've really
03:26 embraced just like kind of dressing up and having fun with it. Luckily at the same time it was never
03:32 like every concept for the album didn't really cross any like huge like this is not my style.
03:39 Luckily it was never that. Now being 30 and 31 wow I'm 31. Been in this realm of
03:48 not not only embracing my feminine like my femininity as like as a woman but kind of just
03:54 being all like you know I'll just dress the way I want. If Amber puts on a dress or dress feminine
04:00 it's gonna you know get more likes or be more like in like the viral sense or whatever like I don't
04:06 I don't I don't need that like I just really just want to be who I am. What makes me feel comfortable
04:12 is what I'm gonna do and you know when I want to challenge myself I'll challenge myself as well.
04:16 I think those times in K-pop has definitely like exposed me to a lot of different types of styles.
04:22 It's fun in the end like fashion is just a way of expressing yourself so if I feel like wearing
04:28 something really pretty and nice I'll wear something pretty and nice. If I want to be you
04:32 know in my sweats and my tea I'll be in my sweats and my tea. So yeah you mentioned Jessica earlier
04:38 and obviously also listen to her music and she's of course your bandmate's older sister. So how did
04:47 that collaboration with her come across like who approached who? Oh Jess and I were on a show and
04:55 she messages me after she's all like hey like by the way do you want to do something because like
05:00 Jess and I have hung out like throughout the years. She's always like supported me like she's
05:04 she came to my last tour back in what 2020 in New York. We've always had each other's backs in that
05:12 way and she's always been a really good big sister to me. So when we saw each other on the show last
05:17 year she was like hey let's do something I'm like I'm down. It just was like yeah I don't know what
05:22 you want me to do but I'm gonna do it for you. So we were thinking about what to do with the song
05:26 Get It Got It Good and I was like I'm like we gotta dance we just gotta do it come on we gotta
05:31 do it like all like all flash career come on let's just do it and she's like okay fine. Do you ever
05:37 think you're gonna collaborate with the other girls in f(x) or do you guys still stay in touch?
05:42 You can't predict the future I think we're all just right now really focused on you know our
05:47 solo stuff and um yeah I guess when the time is right maybe but can't promise anything as well.
05:54 The bond I think with f(x) I think I like to see it is that it's it's beyond music it's just us as
06:00 us as like friends as sisters and that's what's most important to us and we're always supporting
06:06 each other um in our own endeavors as well so. So f(x) I know never got disbanded but kind of
06:13 fizzled out so do you have any regrets or hard feelings about what happened or wish things could
06:19 have gone differently? I can always say there could have been a shoulda woulda coulda um I think in
06:26 the end whether it's my personal feelings or whoever's personal feelings or whatever it may be
06:31 or like maybe what happened is the best that happened. I like to concentrate on the present
06:38 and what I could do as Amber Liu. What are your uh future music plans? For this year just to
06:45 finish out the tour and I feel like I'm already working on my next project that's um something
06:51 I'm really excited about um at the shows um we've been like playing some demos for the fans. Even
06:57 though the No More Sad Songs tour technically ends in April um I know there are a lot of cities that
07:03 we haven't where we weren't able to get to so hopefully down the line a little surprise one or
07:10 pop-up concert show like hopefully that I don't know hopefully that might be a thing. Do you have
07:15 anything to say to your Singapore fans or what do they have to look forward to at your concert? I
07:20 hope that number one they'll have fun. I believe it's on a weekday this show so you know bring all
07:25 that work stress or school stress and let's just like dance it out at the concert and I hope we
07:31 can have a lot of fun. I am really excited to meet the fans in Singapore and rock out with them and
07:36 I just hope that uh that we can just again have a really fun time. Thank you so much Amber. All
07:42 the best for your Oceania dates and all the best for Singapore. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank
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