I honestly didn’t know what to expect from my first fan-con, but I was expecting that it’d be like a shorter concert, and I was right! Anyway, after seeing ATEEZ in New York on Saturday, I decided to check out CHUU’s 2024 Strawberry Rush Fan-Con at the Town Hall in Manhattan before I left home to go back to Texas.
The Town Hall was an indoor venue, much like the P1Harmony concert I attended back in May in Dallas. Thankfully, this time around, there weren’t nearly as many screaming fans directly into my ears, so the noise levels were nowhere as deafening.
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CHUU opened up with songs like “Hitchhiker,” “Chocolate,” “Lucid Dream,” “My Palace,” and “Aliens“, but what I appreciated about this fan-con was that it was a much more intimate experience with CHUU. Since her solo catalog is much shorter than LOONA’s, she made it up with fan interactions.
After performing her opening songs, she opened up a segment called Ask CHUU where attendees before the fan-con wrote down requests on post-it notes for CHUU to read. She also took this opportunity to practice her English, and read a bunch of personal questions. Through this, we learned that her favorite American food included pizzas, hamburgers, and French fries (of course), as well as her favorite New York-specific joint was Joe’s Pizza.
The rest of the fan-con went on as usual, with her performing “Daydreamer,” “Honeybee,” “Strawberry Rush,” and “Howl.” She even performed LOONA’s most popular song, “Heart Attack,” and closed out with “Underwater.”
Honestly, I liked this much shorter fan-con and I didn’t feel exhausted at the end like I do at most regular concerts. It’s definitely a sign for me to attend more of them in the future. I’m really glad to see CHUU thriving on her own as a soloist, especially given all of the drama with Blockberry Creative. And “Strawberry Rush” still remains one of my favorite singles of 2024!
