The latest piece of musical news flashes that Enrique Iglesias scratched off his name for the scheduled joint tour with Britney Spears.
RadarOnline warns that those who looked forward to the Britney Spears and Enrique Iglesias tour will be disappointed, for the Spanish star cancelled his participation several hours after it had been announced.
The first public notification of the joint tour was made on Tuesday just before Spears’ much-expected appearance on Good Morning America, but the Spanish pop singer had second thoughts about it soon afterwards. His rep released an official statement to the effect that though preliminary discussions of the run had allowed for the joint tour announcement, Enrique Iglesias was sorry to say that the tour is not to be in spite of the highest regard in which Iglesias holds Spears’ work.
No reasons for the decision were cited, apart from the information that Iglesias’ solo tour in support of his 2010 bilingual album Euphoria will be proceeding as scheduled.
Live Nation that is promoting the tour had to react with an official media statement denying Iglesias’ participation.
Billboard has some more light to shed on the incident. The tour featuring two world-famous artists was supposed to draw a lot of attention, and there were plans for Iglesias (who is touring Europe now) to take full production of his part of the performance in order to be more than just an opening act – which is rather a cumbersome and expensive endeavor.
Iglesias, according to Billboard, backed out because he didn’t like the idea to be any kind of an opening act.
