Miley Cyrus Explains Why She Won’t Go on Tour for <i>Something Beautiful</i>

THE RUNDOWN

• In a new interview, Miley Cyrus explained why she won’t be going on tour for her album, Something Beautiful.
• She spoke candidly about how the constant travel makes it difficult to maintain sobriety and mental wellness.
• Her comments echo what she first shared in a 2023 British Vogue cover story, where she described large-scale touring as “isolating.”

Miley Cyrus has decided not to go on tour for her new visual album, Something Beautiful, and she’s sharing the personal reason why.

In a Good Morning America interview that aired today, Cyrus revealed she made the choice to protect her well-being. “I do have the physical ability, and I have the opportunities to tour,” she prefaced. “I wish I had the desire, but I don’t.”

She pointed out the demands of life on the road: “I also don’t think there’s actually an infrastructure that supports artists—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 being sober, she added, can lead to people “not only losing their life but losing their minds.”

“I do think it’s really hard to keep mental wellness [on tour],” the singer continued. “You have so many thousands of people screaming at you. 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.”

Cyrus will still take the stage selectively. Last month, she joined Beyoncé during the Cowboy Carter Tour’s Paris stop. They performed a duet of their Cowboy Carter track “II Most Wanted” during the surprise appearance.

Cyrus first spoke two years ago about her decision to stop touring during her June 2023 British Vogue cover interview. She said her 2014 Bangerz Tour was likely her last. “Like singing for hundreds of thousands of people isn’t really the thing that I love,” she said. “There’s no connection. There’s no safety. It’s so isolating because if you’re in front of 100,000 people then you are alone.”

When asked if she’d headline again, Cyrus said, “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 fulfillment other than my own?”