Iggy Azalea is finally explaining why she decided to scrap her The Great Escape Tour. Last Friday (May 29), the "Pretty Girls" rapper shocked her fans by cancelling her first-ever arena tour, and now she's coming clean about her reasons.
In a lengthy op-ed from Seventeen magazine, the newly engaged rapper explained that a flurry of factors - from old music to needing a mental break to being unable to find an opening act - led to her to believe that all the signs said she shouldn't go on tour.
"It just seemed like it was so many things pointing me in the direction of not doing [the tour], that I finally thought, when enough things come your way, you can't ignore the signs. It's not easy to decide that the best thing to do is cancel a tour, but that's the best thing for me. I don't want to disappoint fans. I feel really bad. It was a tough decision to make, but it was the best thing," she explained.
Azalea dismissed rumors that her scrapped tour was a result of poor ticket sales or that she was "failing at something, somehow." Instead, this was purely a creative and mental decision.
Read part of Azalea's full explanation below and the rest over at Seventeen:
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.
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. I'm not in a bad place. I think sometimes when you say you need a mental break, people are like, "A mental break? Be sure you don't have a breakdown because you're sad." No, not necessarily. 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. I need a break from everything to just enjoy what I worked so hard for, and I don't really feel like I've had a chance to do that. I need a break to figure out what I want my sound to progress to, and I need a break to figure out how I want my visuals to progress.
