Kylie Cantrall announces her first headline tour, a 15-city run backing her ‘Valley Girl Problems’ EP, starting Sept. 25
Kylie Cantrall is graduating from the screen to the stage on her own terms. On Monday (Aug. 3), the singer, songwriter and Disney actress announced her first-ever headlining tour, a 15-city North American run built around her new EP Valley Girl Problems. The Valley Girl Problems Tour kicks off Sept. 25 at the Fillmore Minneapolis and wraps Oct. 22 with a hometown show in Los Angeles, marking the moment a rising multihyphenate steps out as a headliner in her own right.
“I’ve been waiting to bring this project to life onstage and create an epic show where my fans can experience the entire world of Valley Girl Problems with me,” Cantrall said in a statement. “This music is so personal, and I can’t wait to sing these songs together every night.” The emphasis on world is deliberate. Cantrall has built Valley Girl Problems as a full aesthetic universe, complete with a “Closet” music video and a series of visualizers, and the tour is designed to let fans live inside it.
A Commercial Foundation Worth Noting
The numbers give the announcement real weight. Valley Girl Problems earned 2.5 million on-demand official U.S. streams in its first week, according to Luminate, and debuted inside the Top 10 of Spotify’s U.S. Albums Chart, with standout track “Space Between” climbing to No. 7 on the Genius Weekly Song Chart. For an artist releasing her first EP since signing to Republic Records in partnership with APG and Heroine Music, those figures signal a fanbase ready to convert streams into ticket sales.
The creative pedigree behind the project reinforces the ambition. The nine-track EP was produced by Grammy-winning hitmaker Tricky Stewart, whose résumé includes Rihanna and Tyla, with songwriting contributions from Tayla Parx, a frequent collaborator of Ariana Grande and Khalid. That is A-list infrastructure for a pop artist establishing her sound, and it positions Valley Girl Problems as a serious bid rather than a side project spun off from acting fame.
From Disney’s Descendants to Her Own Headline
Cantrall is no stranger to a live audience, which is part of why this leap feels earned. She starred as Red, the daughter of the Queen of Hearts, in Disney’s Descendants: The Rise of Red, and performed on the Descendants/Zombies: Worlds Collide Tour, a North American arena run tied to the franchises. She recently reprised the Red role in Descendants: Wicked Wonderland, keeping her Disney profile active even as she pivots toward music. The headlining tour is the clearest sign yet that she intends to be known as an artist first.
Her ambitions are not modest, and they trace back to a specific spark. Cantrall has said her first-ever concert was Beyoncé, which she attended at age 8 after begging her father to take her. “I walked out of the venue and told my dad, ‘That’s what I want to do. I want to be just like Beyoncé one day,'” she recalled, calling Beyoncé “the ultimate icon of icons.” That north star is instructive. The theatricality, the world-building, the insistence on a cohesive era all echo the blueprint of the artist who inspired her.
The run threads through Chicago, Toronto, New York, Atlanta, San Francisco and more before the Los Angeles finale, with an artist presale beginning Aug. 5 and general on-sale Aug. 7. Cantrall has framed Valley Girl Problems as a record about heartbreak, friendship and stepping into a new chapter of adulthood, songs she hopes fans “heal through.” Taking that material on the road as a headliner is its own kind of arrival, the point where a Disney star becomes a touring pop act with a story of her own to tell.
