By now, an expanding crop of pandemic-era influencers who used to call TikTok home have settled into the music industry. The faces that used to fill the Hype House’s walls now occupy the rosters of major labels and indie imprints. One of the breakout artists of this influencers-turned-musicians class is alternative punk-rocker Huddy. Fresh off of filming the upcoming How to Lose A Popularity Contest for Tubi and releasing his latest single “Vendetta,” the up-and-comer is returning to the road as the special guest idobi Radio’s Summer School Tour.
First gaining an audience online for videos of him lip-syncing and dancing, not to mention popularizing the “e-boy” aesthetic, the singer, born Chase Hudson, has spent the last half-decade building on the success he cultivated since the pre-pandemic days. After co-founding the Hype House and riding the wave of his pandemic-era TikTok success, he released his first LP Teenage Heartbreak in 2021, which featured songs like “21st Century Vampire” which has amassed over 27 million streams on Spotify. He’s landed roles in projects like Machine Gun Kelly’s 2021 film Downfalls High opposite Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney, maintains a following of over 30 million fans on TikTok, and has been consistently performing live for the last few years.
But now, his sights are set on delivering the best show possible on the Summer School tour as he readies his next album. “I felt like a little bit of a lost puppy in the start,” Hudson tells Melodic Magazine over the phone from Cleveland just a few days into the tour. “I was just kind of figuring things out and dipping my toes into different waters, and now I have a great understanding of what it’s like to tour and what I want to do on stage.”
Coming hot off of wrapping the Tubi project and a tumultuous couple of travel days, Hudson has been thrust back into touring life at full force with little time to spare. “We went straight from filming the movie into the tour — no rehearsal and no sound check either,” he says. “We’ve been just winging it, and already, out the gate, have been swinging and having some great shows. We just fell right back into the tour life which we’ve become so familiar with now.”
With the slot of “special guest” on the tour, Hudson gets the crowd warmed up each night before the other six acts rotate their set times city to city. (“It’s fun because it demands that people show up to the concert on time.”) The consistency has offered a reprieve from the whirlwind of his recent few months and process of finalizing his next record. “I want to take away some good memories, great shows, to be able to pass down some stories,” he says. “A tour like this is something that is not usual. I usually don’t see seven acts touring together.”
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