In 2023, the singer revealed that her 2014 Bangerz tour would likely be her last, in terms of large-scale tours. “Singing for hundreds of thousands of people isn’t really the thing that I love. There’s no connection. There’s no safety,” she explained.
Fresh off the release of her new album Something Beautiful, Miley confirmed to Good Morning America that she won’t be touring the record. She explained, “I do have the physical ability and I have the opportunities to tour. I wish I had the desire but I don’t.”
“I also don’t think there’s actually an infrastructure that supports artists,” she continued. “The artists like Prince, that are not here today, that lived such a high-intensity lifestyle. You’re out on the road, and it’s hard to maintain sobriety when you’re on the road, which is a really important pillar of stability in my life. Not only losing their life but losing their minds.”
“None of this that I create would ever be possible without the way that I think about things. I do think it’s really hard to keep mental wellness. You have so many thousands of people screaming at you,” she added. “You feel a lot of love, then you totally crash at the end of the show. You start thinking one person loving you is not enough. It needs to be 10,000. It needs to be 80,000.”
Miley further denied that her decision was due to feeling “afraid” of those feelings, noting, “I like to do things I’m afraid of” — such as being on stage with Beyoncé.
The 32-year-old has been candid about her sobriety before, previously noting her relapse during the 2020 pandemic, “A lot of people, their sobriety broke during this time. I was one of them. Luckily, I haven’t gone back to using any drugs, but I was drinking during the pandemic… I will not accept anyone or anything that causes me to not reach my fullest potential.”
You can watch Miley’s full GMA interview here.
