Miley Cyrus not keen to go on tour again
"It’s so isolating because if you’re in front of 100,000 people then you are alone.”
It's been a minute since Miley Cyrus went on tour and the singer's fans are going to have to wait even longer to see her on the road again.
The 30-year-old has revealed that she probably won't go on tour to promote her new album, 'Endless Summer Vacation'. Speaking to British Vogue, Miley says while she loves performing "singing for hundreds of thousands of people" isn’t really what she loves.
"There’s no connection. There’s no safety," she said about performing to a large audience. "It’s also not natural. It’s so isolating because if you’re in front of 100,000 people then you are alone.”
The last time Miley went on tour was in 2014 when she took her 'Bangerz' tour around the world. She performed 70 shows in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and North America.
"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?" the 'Party in the USA' hitmaker told the publication.
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Miley's 'Bangerz' era also saw her receiving a lot of harsh criticism. She released the album in her early 20s while trying to distance herself from her popular Disney character, Hannah Montana.
She was also trying to make a name for herself which was not easy to do with two country stars in the family. She is the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus and the goddaughter of Dolly Parton.
"I was creating attention for myself because I was dividing myself from a character I had played. Anyone, when you’re 20 or 21, you have more to prove. ‘I’m not my parents.’ ‘I am who I am.’”
But her desire to be "different" came with a lot of controversy. She pushed the envelope a little too hard - in the view of some.
The parents of her younger fans were not impressed with her performance at the 2013 MTV Music Video Awards - which saw her twerking. Her 'Wrecking Ball' music video also raised many eyebrows.
"I carried some guilt and shame around myself for years because of how much controversy and upset I really caused. Now that I’m an adult, I realise how harshly I was judged. I was harshly judged as a child by adults and now, as an adult, I realise that I would never harshly judge a child," she told British Vogue.
Miley Cyrus Flowers
Despite the never-ending hate, Miley continued to push herself and experiment with her music. She released one of her biggest singles in 2023.
'Flowers', which is allegedly about her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, spent eight weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
It achieved more than a billion streams on Spotify in just 112 days - a new record for the music platform.
The song's powerful lyrics became a girl power anthem for women all over the world. Miley told Vogue that the track originally was a little gloomy as she initially wrote, 'I can’t love me better than you can' instead of 'I can love me better than you can'.
"I wrote it in a really different way. The chorus was originally: ‘I can buy myself flowers, write my name in the sand, but I can’t love me better than you can.’ It used to be more, like, 1950s. The saddest song. Like: ‘Sure, I can be my own lover, but you’re so much better," she told Vogue.
But she wisely chose to change course. "The song is a little fake it till you make it which I’m a big fan of.”
Miley also talked about the song's meaning in her Disney+ special, 'Endless Summer Vacation: Backyard Sessions'.
“Really, when you strip away all the sounds and big harmonies, there’s a lot of sadness to it. But I’ve liked the idea of ‘fake it till you make it.’ On the first chorus, I’m kind of telling myself and I’m trying to convince myself, and by the third chorus, you can hear that there’s a confidence, that I finally believe it.”
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Read Miley's full interview with British Vogue here.
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