M.I.A. behöver en paus och turnerar därför inte i Europa i sommar.

Artisten M.I.A. har bestämt sig för att ställa in hela sin stundande europaturné. Svenska Arvikafestivalen och norska Hove är två som drabbas av stjärnans plötsliga avhopp. M.I.A. annonserade själv nyheten under en spelning på välgörenhetskalaset Party in the Garden i går. Vad hon sa, enligt New York Magazines webbupplaga:

"This is it. You’re hearing it first. My manager was supposed to cancel it yesterday, but he was watching football – don’t tell anyone – and he forgot. So nobody knows. I guess now they will."

"I’m canceling because I feel like physically I just have to stop for a second,"

’It takes a lot out of you, physically. I make club music, which means I’m clubbing every night for, like, six months. Know what I mean? So now and again you finally just want to be gardening and get your nails done or something like that."

It’s too insane. I was losing a sense of just, like, reality, you know what I mean? I think for an artist like me, it’s so important for me to be in the streets and go to the same shop every day and see the same people and, like, communicate. And it’s really difficult to do that when you’re in the city every day for 24 hours. Like, I love connecting with my band, but I want to actually help them and be a part of peoples’ lives. Which is really hard when you’re on tour.’

Surt, sa räven.