From the release of lead single “Flowers” in January, to her eighth studio album Endless Summer Vacation in March, and up to last week’s new single “Used To Be Young,” Miley Cyrus has had a very successful year. So naturally she’s building on this good fortune by… not going on tour. My Bitches, for my day job I work in a management office for music artists. I can say with some measure of authority that if an artist wants to make money, they have to go on tour. But okay, I’ll entertain the thought experiment that Miley is too pure a flower child to be driven by more money. Even with that in mind, Miley’s recent commentary on touring has been, well, curious. More on that later. In a new TikTok, Miley is once again waxing on the ills of touring, this time claiming she had to pay for her 2014 Bangerz Tour herself because no one believed in her vision. To quote our own Carina, “Okay, Miley.” Some coverage from People magazine:
Miley Cyrus admitted just how much she decided to say, “I’ma do my thang,” during her Bangerz era.
In the latest installment of the pop star’s Used to Be Young TikTok series in which she reflects on her life and career in the spotlight, the singer, 30, opened up about how she fully funded her Bangerz Tour because no one else trusted her vision.
“The Bangerz Tour was an investment in myself,” the “Flowers” artist said of the 2014 tour in support of her hit, fourth studio album. “I didn’t make a dime on this tour because I wanted the tour to be excellent.”
She said in the TikTok, “When everyone kept saying, ‘Why are you doing this? You’re going to do like 100 shows and not going to make any money.’ I said, ‘There’s no one I would rather invest in than myself.’ So I paid for it all to make it exactly what I thought I and the fans deserved.”
The “Midnight Sky” singer explained that few people on her team at the time understood her ideas for the show, which was famously extremely campy. She shared, “A lot of these ideas were kind of so outlandish that no one really wanted to support me in making these pieces, so I had big puppets, oversized beds, I came out of my own face on my tongue.”
Cyrus also opened up about the significance behind one of the concepts of the concert that she and her creative director at the time, Diane Martel, came up with. “[Martel] goes, ‘How would you want to end this concert?’ Like, ‘The show is so big, how do you want to end it?’ and I wanted to end it in a Truman Show reference,” the performer shared, referring to the 1998 movie starring Jim Carrey as a man whose life is broadcast as a TV show without him knowing.
She continued, “So I flew out on a giant hot dog, obviously, and I left through all the clouds and the exit sign, the way Jim Carrey does, because I felt like The Truman Show was really a reflection of my life.”
I refuse to believe that there was no one who would fund what Miley put up onstage in that tour. What, because it was too crass? Wasn’t her brand of “goofy vulgarity” the point of the Bangerz era? I think Miley might not realize that that concert was more exhausting than shocking. It’s just not adding up for me.
This angle though, of “I had to pay for it all myself to get what I wanted,” is a bit of a departure from her other recent comments on touring. Last week she made the case that performing in front of an audience “erases her humanity and connection,” and I had questions. I would think that having a live audience would reinforce the human connection, no? Maybe she would prefer playing small arenas. It’s also totally fine if she just doesn’t like performing! I don’t think I’d fully believe that of Miley specifically, I’d probably give side-eye like when she said she’s not “attention-seeking.” But I do think I’d respect her more if she simply said “I’ve made the personal decision not to tour right now, and I’m grateful to be in the position to make that choice,” and end it there. Without involving the depths of humanity. It’s just kinda hard to reconcile that heady subject with the image of Miley coming out of her own face onstage via giant tongue slide. But I guess that’s my failing, not hers.
Eh, her voice is so damaged – it might be one of the reasons for her not touring. Sure, touring is tough and unpleasant, but I’m not sure she’s telling us the whole story
Nobody cares if you tour anymore, Miley lol. Just say you find it too stressful and move on. You’re rich and can do whatever you want.
I don’t believe her about Bangerz, though. Long tours can head into the high millions with costs. Home girl isn’t THAT wealthy. Somebody either didn’t budget properly or they chose oversized venues.
IIRC she wore a dildo onstage…I mean, she was being marketed as an edgy pop star and then her show was…something else. Not suitable for primetime. And about as explicit as you can get for that kind of thing, whether in terms of sex or drugs. So I believe her. I think she means that she paid for those wonky enormous props, stage design, etc. (the actual show) and didn’t really make any money as a result.
I’m so soooo tired of hearing this nepo baby whine about how she has has such a difficult exhausting life when she could make it so easy on herself if she actually wanted to by just GOING AWAY and leaving us alone!
I think the whole family is very full of themselves as a rule. If you have been reading the comments of her brother Trace Cyrus you can see the absolute arrogance he has even though he is basically a nobody. I think that may be a family traite
Yeah, that dude is on one right now and it’s hilarious because most people are like “who?”. Who knew that we would still be talking about freaking Billy Ray Cyrus and his kids in 2023.
There’s a famous clip of Michael Jackson talking about how much he hated touring.
Justin Bieber spoke about how difficult it is to navigate the highs of being in front of 15k people to being alone in a hotel room or rushing from city to city in a tour bus as well.
I believe that it can be incredibly hard mentally.
Performing is one thing, touring is another.
What does this even mean.Industry insiders please help
1. What does it mean to pay for a tour!?(as in production,crew,extra staff?)
2. Who normally pays for daid tour? (artist,record label,management label?)
3. If the Bangerz tour made $63 million then was that her loss ??
Feels unbelievable to me, just like her comments on “being the least paid person on Hannah Montana”. It’s like she expects people to have a short memory or not actually pay attention.
Is it it even possible to have a tour like this, selling a lot of tickets and not making any money?
Also, remember when she did this tour – she made a lot of drug positive comments at the time. Maybe she *spent* a lot of money (on drugs and more “normal” personal expences) at the time, but that’s not the same as not making anything…
“There’s no one I’d rather invest in than myself.” No surprise…
One of the things that turns me off about Miley – and I know I’m not alone in this – is that she thinks she’s being shocking and over the top when really she’s just being obnoxious and insufferable. That was entire vibe of that concert. I think if she couldn’t find funding it may have been because the concept of that tour was so completely different from what she’d done before. Sponsors are risk-averse by nature.
ITA. I’m know I’m really old, but her attempts to look “edgy” have always just struck me as gross and obscene.
Why does she suddenly look exactly like her mother?
It’s all I can see in recent pics! Someone mentioned buccal fat removal so that may be what’s contributing to her suddenly having the face shape of a much older woman.
I know my face changed massively in my mid to late twenties—all my face baby fat went away. So maybe it happened naturally? It was hard for me to suddenly not have the face I was familiar with in the mirror. Same thing happened to my older sister. But yes, suddenly her mom’s twin
I don’t get why she keeps talking about it. If she doesn’t want to tour for what ever reason don’t tour why make a big deal out of nothing.
I kind of wonder whether she’s got some narcissism going on?
First of all because yes she IS attention-seeking, but also because this sort of face-saving re-writing of reality sure seems like the kind of thing that narcissists do when something has reflected badly on them.
She has wrecked her voice with bad lifestyle choices and is making excuses. She is a nepo baby to the extreme and should have an extremely competent management team. The only way she wouldn’t have made money on a large scale tour is either extreme mismanagement or the money was spent on the drugs that have wrecked her voice. If she had been financially exploited, she would have been talking about that in the press.
I just heard an a snipet of an interview she did talking about her former husband and sounded like she has a diet consisting of eating cigarette ashes from an ashtray.