Iggy Azalea has had a whirlwind week. It’s been less than four days since the Australian cancelled The Great Escape Tour with little explanation, and just last night,She became engaged to her NBA boyfriend Nick Young.
Now she’s opening up to Seventeen Magazine about why she cancelled The Great Escape Tour.
Read her lengthy explanation after the cut
I’ve had a different creative change
of heart. I want to start totally anew, and if I stayed on my tour, that
would mean I wouldn’t even be able to start working on that until after
Christmas.
On top of that, mentally, to be
honest with you, I just feel I deserve a break. I’ve been going non-stop
for the past two years, nearly every single day. I’m not in a bad
place. I think sometimes when you say you need a mental break, people
are like, “A mental break? Be sure you don’t have a breakdown because
you’re sad.” No, not necessarily. It’s very emotionally draining to be
on all the time and going all the time, planning all the time. It’s a
lot, and it’s tough. I need a break from everything to just enjoy what I
worked so hard for, and I don’t really feel like I’ve had a chance to
do that. I need a break to figure out what I want my sound to progress
to, and I need a break to figure out how I want my visuals to progress.
It can kind of wear on you, too, when
you’ve been doing the same material for a really long time. Even though
a lot of people just discovered it, I am a musician and a creative
person and I want to be able to perform new stuff and do new things. I
feel like I’m at the end of an era now. To go on a tour in late
September and to stay in that mindset of what I’d envisioned for that
tour, I feel like that would stifle me.
And then, on top of that, once I
postponed [the tour the first time], I couldn’t find two opening acts. I
began the search, and to be honest, I never found someone who was
available on those dates that I thought was a good fit for the tour.
It just seemed like it was so many
things pointing me in the direction of not doing [the tour], that I
finally thought, when enough things come your way, you can’t ignore the
signs. It’s not easy to decide that the best thing to do is cancel a
tour, but that’s the best thing for me. I don’t want to disappoint fans.
I feel really bad. It was a tough decision to make, but it was the best
thing.
There are people thinking it’s me
giving up, or me failing at something, somehow. I said to a friend the
other day, “The only reason why at this point I would stay and do this
tour is to save face publicly, or to not endure publicly what people
will say if I cancel it,” and that’s not a good enough reason to do
something. So that’s the choice I made.
Hmmm.
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