Tiffany Young has a lot to be pumped about. She’s about to embark on her Magnetic Moon Tour, the K-pop star’s first tour in the United States, that will have her on a bus driving across state lines and meeting fans all over the country. On Friday, Tiffany dropped her latest single, the dancey, sultry, genre-bending “Run For Your Life.” The accompanying music video shows just how far Tiffany has come as an artist, giving us lots of glam with plenty of ferocity and edginess. I mean look at that blue, glittering bodysuit she wears in the video.

Between preparing for her upcoming tour, working on new music, and recently performing at the famed D23 expo, Tiffany has been booked and busy. But Teen Vogue recently caught up with the musician to talk about her return to California, how she’s expanding what it means to be a K-pop star, the legacy of Girls’ Generation’s “Gee,” and more.

Teen Vogue: Considering that you’re originally from California, what’s it like being able to return to your home state and perform new music for the Magnetic Moon Tour?

Tiffany Young: It still feels like a dream. I was just in Asia [for the Open Hearts Eve tour], and it's always fun to be back home in my music home. But everybody's like, “what is the U.S. like?” I'm so fortunate to be able to experiment and really take charge and create something different and change what K-pop is. It's wonderful. It's new and I think sometimes it does get a little unfamiliar and uncomfortable when you're doing something new but I feel like that means I'm onto something, that I am creating something.

TV: How do you feel like you’re changing K-pop?

TY: When I went to South Korea to be a K-pop star, at the time I thought I had to move halfway around the world. I thought I had to sing in Korean. Now it's such a beautiful time where it doesn't matter what language you're singing in. You are hearing K-pop all around the world. Whether I'm singing in Korean or English or whatever language I am singing in, it doesn't matter anymore. Everyone's like, “are you going to release anything in Korean?” I remember back when I was singing in Korean, people were like, “are you going to release anything in English?” I think everything translates, and I'm down for anything. I wanted to keep continuing to do everything in both English and Korean, without even thinking about the language. I hope what I'm doing, where I'm doing it, won't matter. It's going to be more of a, “oh, she's doing new things, different things from what we're used to seeing,” whether that's like the Korean music shows or the Korean platforms. Which I am still also doing.

TV: What’s the story behind your new single “Run For Your Life”?

TY: It is about ambition. It is about being in a mood and not wanting to hide it and just being free, running wild, and being your true self. This is the most different track I've created. I connected with this song so much and I hope that it translates so that everybody will be inspired to be daring and different and fearless.

TV: So you moved from the States to South Korea when you were a teen to become part of Girls’ Generation. “Gee” ended up being a viral sensation and made waves back in the U.S. What was it like seeing that song become such a big deal back where you were from?