Iggy Azalea has opened up about the cancellation of her "Great Escape" tour, saying that she pulled the plug on the outing because of a "creative change of heart" and because she feels that, mentally, "I deserve a break."
"Fancy" artist Azalea explained her decision to Seventeen, saying that she opted out of the tour so that she could "start totally anew" on the creative front.
"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," Azalea said.
"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," Azalea added, emphasizing that she's "not in a bad place" but that 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."
Azalea also complained of the dreary prospect of performing the same material ad infinitum, rather than developing new songs to perform, saying that she feels like "I'm at the end of an era."
"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," Azalea offered. "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."
