Miley Cyrus says she's done with arena tours, citing lack of safety

Miley Cyrus has once again evolved, and this iteration won't be doing big tours

By Mary Kate Carr | May 22, 2023 | 2:51pm

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Miley Cyrus says she's done with arena tours, citing lack of safety

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Miley Cyrus has been performing for the public on an unprecedented scale since she was just a kid. It’s not a surprise to hear that lifestyle has taken a toll on her, nor that she’s changed her approach to performance itself. “Am I going on tour? Yeah, the Aman hotel tour,” she jokes in a new interview with British Vogue. “Singing in the lobby for that complimentary massage.”

In all seriousness, “singing for hundreds of thousands of people isn’t really the thing that I love,” says the pop star, whose first experience doing so was a blockbuster Hannah Montana tour when she was just 16 years old. Cyrus opines that not only is there “no connection” at these shows, but there’s no “safety” either. (That could speak to any number of issues, from the horrifying terrorist attacks experienced by some of her peers to the still-present threat of coronavirus exposure to the security issues that have caused devastating consequences at other concerts.) “It’s also not natural,” she adds. “It’s so isolating because if you’re in front of 100,000 people then you are alone.”