Here’s Why Miley Cyrus Will Not Go On Tour Anytime Soon

Miley Cyrus has no plans to tour anytime soon. The Something Beautiful singer opened up about her choice to avoid life on the road during a Good Morning America interview, which aired on July 15. According to Cyrus, it’s very challenging to “maintain sobriety” while touring — a huge reason why she has no plans to embark on another tour.

“I do have the physical ability,” Cyrus said. “I have the opportunities to tour, I wish I had the desire, but I don’t. I also don’t think that there’s an infrastructure that supports artists.”

“The artists like Prince that are not here today that lived such a high-intensity lifestyle out on the road … It’s really hard to maintain sobriety when you’re on the road, which is a really important pillar of stability in my life,” Cyrus added, touching on how young people can struggle in this on-the-go atmosphere. “And 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.”

“It’s really hard to keep mental wellness [on tour]. You have so many thousands of people screaming at you, so 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’s not enough, it needs to be 10,000, it needs to be 80,000,” she added.

This is not the first time Cyrus has discussed her decision to stop touring. Since dropping her eighth studio album, Endless Summer Vacation, in March 2023, she’s been vocal about not wanting to hit the road anytime soon.

On Aug. 27, 2023, Cyrus shared her thoughts on her Used To Be Young TikTok series. She began the video by explaining that traveling as a competitive cheerleader “set her up” for touring. “The show or competition may only be a day, and that’s what people don’t really understand about touring,” she said. “The show is only 90 minutes, but [as an artist] that’s your life.”

The “River” singer then stated if an artist is performing “at a certain level of intensity and excellence,” then they deserve the same amount of “recovery and rest.” To Cyrus, acing that sort of energy for a show comes with being in a certain mindset. And sometimes, that can be exhausting. “There’s a level of ego that I feel gets overused when I’m on tour. I think when you’re training your ego every single night to be active, that’s the hardest switch for me to turn off,” she said.

She then shined a light on being a performer, and how being reduced to just that title “isn’t healthy for her.” “Having — every day — the relationship between you and other humans being subject and observer isn’t healthy for me, because it erases my humanity and my connection. Without my humanity, my connection, I can’t be a songwriter, which is my priority,” Cyrus said.

Cyrus also discussed her desire to take a step back from live shows in May 2023. “After the last [headline arena] show I did [in 2014], I kind of looked at [touring] as more of a question,” she told British Vogue at the time. “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?”

At the time, her fans were mixed on her decision: Many understood her stance, while some were disappointed and felt as though the singer was losing her connection to her fanbase. On May 24, six days after her Vogue interview, she revealed another reason why she’s not interested in touring.

“I simply don’t want to get ready in a locker room, which is the reality of life on the road,” she said, adding this era’s fashion involves archival looks that wouldn’t “travel well” between shows. “I just don’t want to sleep on a moving bus. It isn’t what’s best for me right NOW, & if you’ve been following my career you know that I always change and the way I feel about that could too.”