Seventeen made a grand return to Los Angeles, performing two nights at L.A.’s BMO Stadium.
The 13-member K-pop group — consisting of members S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, The 8, Mingyu, DK, Seungkwan, Vernon and Dino — is currently performing with nine members. Four members, Jeonghan, Wonwoo, Hoshi and Woozi, are currently carrying out their mandatory military enlistment in South Korea.
Seventeen, fresh off their 10th anniversary and latest album, Happy Burstday, returned to the U.S. for the New_ Tour, stopping in L.A. on Oct. 16 and 17. The two-night engagement was one of five stops in America; the group began their tour in Korea before heading to Hong Kong. They’ll continue on to Japan after they wrap the U.S. leg.
It was an energetic and non-stop affair, a delight for longtime fans and newcomers alike. Seventeen, known for their close relationship with their fans, seemed equally delighted to see the screaming crowd. The K-pop group kicked off their show with a display fitting for a runway with different members popping up in pairs to strut around the stage to recent B-side “Bad Influence.”
The intro was fitting for many reasons. Several members of Seventeen have made their way into fashion over the last few years — Mingyu, for example, is an ambassador for Dior and frequents Calvin Klein campaigns. But “Bad Influence” itself started on the runway. The song, produced by Pharrell Williams, debuted at the Louis Vuitton Men’s Fall Winter 2025 runway show; Williams serves as the men’s creative director for the luxury fashion house.
The new tour allowed the group to bring recent single, “Thunder,” a highlight of their latest album, along with all of Burstday’s B-sides in the form of solo stages. The group spoke with The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year in a digital cover story about the move to include more individual opportunities as this stage of their career.
“We are standing at a new starting line, preparing for a new path ahead and ready to blaze a new trail,” the group’s overall leader, S.Coups, told THR during that interview. Added Hoshi, “We would like to show more of our individualities, each of the members’ personalities and capabilities, so that when the time comes and we get back together again as a group, we‘ll be able to showcase ourselves as a better Seventeen.”
In addition to the solo songs, Seventeen sprinkled in some of their singles from the last few years, “Hot,” “Rock With You,” “Love, Money, Fame,” “Dar+ling” and “F*ck My Life,” along with some unexpected surprises — “A-Teen,” “9Teen” and “20.” But, of course, no Seventeen show is complete without the Seventeen track – “Very Nice.”
The song, off the group’s first full-length album, was released in 2016 and continues to be a staple for the group. Veteran Carats, the official name for the boy group’s fans, know to expect not one, two or even three encores of the song, but typically at least a handful of times. The group also gets fans involved, going down to the barricade to let fans sing a portion of the song. During the Friday night show, the group performed the song a handful of times, along with a repeat of the 2024 track, “Eyes on You.”
Throughout the night, Seventeen noted that they were unsure when they’d be back as a big group; much of the group will join their already enlisted members to complete their mandatory military service in the coming years. The sentiment made the night even more special for the fans in the audience, seeming to cherish the time with the group.
Seventeen has made it clear that fans have nothing to worry about in terms of the group’s future, however. “We understand that the fans are very sad that some of us are going to be away, but among ourselves, [we] don’t consider this to be a really huge deal because we know that we are going to stay together,” Woozi previously told THR. “We should consider this as quite a long preparation phase for the next album that’s going to be even better and greater.”
Seventeen’s New_ World Tour will continue its U.S. leg with dates in Sunrise, Florida and Washington, D.C. next week.
