The Miley Cyrus case: Renouncing millions from touring to avoid relapsing

The news came as a blow for the singer’s fans: Miley Cyrus will not be touring her new album, Something Beautiful. A visual album that marks her return to the forefront and underlines her status as a pop icon, two years after her last great single, Flowers, the most-listened to song in the world in 2023. “I wish I had the desire to go on tour, but I don’t… it’s really hard to stay sober when you’re on tour, it’s hard to maintain your mental well-being,” she said on Good Morning America, sparking a wave of reactions from a fan base divided between empathy with the artist’s exposure of vulnerability and dismay at not being able to see her in the flesh, even more so when many of them were children on her last tour and may never have seen her perform live. The Tennessee native’s last international tour — or at least one comparable to those of contemporaries like Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, and Beyoncé — was in 2014, the era of provocative hits like Wrecking Ball and We Can’t Stop.

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