Miley Cyrus has revealed why she won’t be touring her latest album, Something Beautiful.
The singer, 32, released her latest album on May 30, including the single End of the World, which has already earned 80million streams on Spotify.
Despite the fantastic reception the new album received, the star has revealed that she has no intention to perform it on tour.
Speaking with Good Morning America, Miley said that she doesn’t feel that artists are supported while they are on tour.
‘I do have the physical ability, and I have the opportunity to tour – I wish I had the desire, but I don’t. I also don’t think that there is actually an infrastructure that supports artists.
She added that staying sober was another issue for her on tour: ‘It’s really hard to maintain sobriety when you’re on the road, which is a really important, kind of pillar of stability in my life.’
She added that on top of all of this, she also has to consider her mental health, as tour can come with crushing lows.
‘None of this that I create would ever be possible without the way that I think about things.
‘And I do think it’s really hard to keep mental wellness [while touring]. You have so many thousands of people screaming at you, so [there’s] dopamine, you’re feeling a lot of love and then you totally crash at the end of the show.
‘You start thinking that one person loving you is not enough; it needs to be 10,000, it needs to be 80,000.’
In the interview, Miley mentioned Prince and added that she isn’t the only artist to struggle with the intensity of touring. Famously, Michael Jackson hated touring, and stars like Shawn Mendes, Adele, and Zayn Malik have all been open about how their mental health has struggled with touring.
The singer first went on tour in 2007 for the Best of Both Worlds Hannah Montana tour. She toured again in 2009 for the Wonder World Tour, and in 2011 in the Gypsy Heart Tour.
She has also taken on two promotional tours, the 2015 Milky Milky Milk Tour in 2015, which consisted of just eight tour dates to support the album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (2015).
In 2022, she also took on a mini 11-show tour, the Attention Tour to support of her seventh studio album, Plastic Hearts (2020).
This isn’t the first time that Miley has spoken honestly about how touring has affected her.
Speaking to British Vogue in 2023, the star once again emphasised that she had ‘no desire’ to return to the stage, having last toured an album in 2014 with Bangerz.
‘It’s been a minute,’ she said of her years-long break. ‘After the last [headline arena] show I did [in 2014], I kind of looked at it as more of a question. And I can’t. Not only ‘can’t’, because can’t is your capability, but my desire.
‘Do I want to live my life for anyone else’s pleasure or fulfilment other than my own?’ she said.
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