Iggy Azalea is trying not to get ahead of herself. Right now, her biggest priorities are her second album and upcoming Great Escape Tour. The Australian rapper spoke with GQ recently about how she is staying focused in the face of all the success that accompanied her The New Classic LP in 2014 and how Madonna inspired her upcoming tour.
"I try not to have too many different goals, because then if they don't happen, you can be disappointed," the busy star said.
Azalea has a few months before hitting the road, but there is tons of preparation that goes into the kind of tour she is scheming up.
"Everything. Concept. Tour posters. I want everything to be right — everything, from the tour book to what someone wears. Even the right faces for the dancers, and their attitude. Everything is equally important. At the moment, I'm just trying to work on the initial stage design and making a stage that I feel like can engage with many people in an arena that big. So I'm doing something maybe not very traditional, and I'm working on that. Then tour posters," she added.
Although the performer never made it to a gig during Madonna's 2006 Confessions Tour, Azalea cites that trek by the Queen of Pop as a definite inspiration. That is why the rapper recruited Jamie King, the mastermind behind Madge's tour, to run point with the Great Escape trek.
Azalea is right in the middle of the first chapter of her what-looks-to-be lengthy career and shows no sign of slowing in the near future. When she is forced to look ahead, Azalea knows that it can go either way, but she is hoping to be around for a while.
"I might be here for a long time. At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change — that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great," she said.
