Before her performance last night at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, M.I.A. revealed that she has chosen to cancel her upcoming U.K. tour, explaining in an interview with New York Magazine, that she will be taking a much needed break.

“This is my last show. I cancelled the U.K. tour…Nobody knows…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’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.”

She did not say whether her upcoming appearance at Bonnaroo would be affected, or if any of the canceled shows would be rescheduled.

Perhaps the only good thing that comes out of all of this is the revelation that M.I.A. will be using her new found free time to begin recording a new album, telling the magazine, “‘I’ve been writing on tour. I’m really into writing new songs…I’m going to put out a new record instead. At the end of the day, I’m here, you know.’”

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Tags: Bonnaroo Music Festival, M.I.A.