Iggy Azalea Pushed Back Her Album Because Her ‘Personal Life Fell Apart’
When Iggy Azalea and Nick Young called off their engagement in June, the breakup didn’t just rock the rapper’s love life — it messed with her work, too, and the release of her next album, Digital Distortion.
In a revealing chat with People, Azalea was candid about why she went back to the drawing board for the follow-up to 2014’s “Fancy’-wielding The New Classic: “I mean, you wake up one morning and your fiancé is having a baby with someone else, you’re going to need some time, right?”
It isn’t all about healing and recuperating from heartbreak, either: Azalea is very clear about the fact that she was writing songs about certain subjects when she was in a relationship, and now that she’s single, her music will be touching on themes that are relevant to her that weren’t when she had a ring on her finger.
“I just kind of felt like, on top of me needing the personal time, then feeling, ‘OK, I’m single now. I want to have sexy songs. I want to say stuff about being single,’” she continued. “I obviously didn’t write that on my album because when I wrote it I was about to get married … I don’t want to go and promote my album and get asked about my relationship that has just crumbled.”
Digital Distortion is now scheduled for a January 2017 release, and Azalea is keeping herself busy with a judging stint on the Aussie edition of The X Factor — and presumably writing those “sexy songs” about the single life she’s embracing.