Showtime
On Oct. 4, Dove Cameron kicked off her shows with a performance at Schuba's in Chicago.
New Experience
"I performed for big audiences before, but it's always somebody else's work," Dove explained to E! News. "It's always a show or special for a film or a TV show or Broadway or something. But it's very rare for me that I'm just being myself, just me talking about my music with my songs and the things that are important to me, so it was quite different."
Two Thumbs Up
"It felt very intimate and I was almost kind of faced with this feeling like, 'Oh, people actually like me,'" the singer reflected after her shows. "I never really had that experience. It was kind of emotional actually."
Fashion Must-Haves
"I'm actually super pleased to say I was completely self-styled," Dove revealed when discussing her outfits for the tour. "All the corsets I got, they're all one of a kind and made by street vendors that I found in Los Angeles before I left. All the jackets and pants were vintage and all the shoes were my own from my closet, so it was all just like complete and total mishmash of me cutting and taping and glue gunning things together."
All in the Details
"Before I was going to go into acting and singing, I told myself I was going to go to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising," Dove revealed. "I used to sew a lot of clothes so fashion has always been something that I was highly interested in. I was kind of worried about self styling. I was like, ‘Can I trust myself with this?' I was really pleased that it kind of worked."
Hello New York
On Oct. 6, Dove took her show to Baby's All Right in Brooklyn where she covered "I Can't Feel My Face" by The Weeknd. "I knew I wanted to gender bend something," she explained. "I knew I wanted to cover something typically done by a male artist. I love that song."
Request it All
Most of Dove's setlist featured her very own songs. "Hearing what people responded to was almost like not what I expected. People really loved ‘Remember Me' and ‘LazyBaby' and ‘We Belong,'" she revealed. "I also think people really respond to ‘Bloodshot.' But again if you're coming to a show, I think typically the fans are fans of the whole discography. They really went all out for basically every song."
Savoring the Memories
"I think Gwyneth Paltrow said this in one of her shows. She was like, ‘I am here to milk this life for every single thing it has to offer,'" Dove shared with E! News. "I've always felt like if I don't soak up every human experience possible, what's the point of being a human being? I'm only here to do that."
West Coast Vibe
On Oct. 10, Dove traveled to Los Angeles and the Moroccan Lounge for another sold-out show.
To Be Continued
"This was just sort of like a warm up to test the waters and then I think we're probably going to try to do like a national tour," Dove predicted. "And then we'll probably go to London and Scotland and all over the place."