It’s been more than a decade since Miley Cyrus last embarked on a proper headlining tour, and the musician insisted she has no plans to change that anytime soon.
Speaking with Good Morning America, Cyrus was frank about her decision not to hit the road in support of her latest album, Something Beautiful: “I do have the physical ability, and I have the opportunity to tour — I wish I had the desire, but I don’t.”
Cyrus went on to note that many artists still lack a healthy and supportive infrastructure to help them deal with the rigors of the road. She specifically noted that it’s “really hard to maintain sobriety when you’re on the road, which is a really important pillar of stability in my life.”
And Cyrus discussed the mental toll that touring can take: “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.”
Cyrus’ statements to GMA echo the ones she made during her last album cycle following the release of Endless Summer Vacation in 2023. Speaking with Vogue UK at the time, Cyrus reflected on her last headlining trek, the 2014 Bangerz tour, saying, “After the last [headline arena] show I did, 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?”
While Cyrus has not embarked on a full-fledged tour since 2014, she has done shorter runs, one-off gigs, and festival sets. Just last month, she took the stage with Beyoncé in Paris to perform their Cowboy Carter collaboration, “II Most Wanted,” live for the first time.
“When you’re standing behind her, you can actually feel her desire and her passion,” Cyrus said of Beyoncé on GMA. “That to me is a win. It’s not a trophy. It’s not something physical that you hold or put on a shelf. But it’s something that I have that’s a true win.”
