Toy With Me, Meghan Trainor's seventh studio album, drops Friday, April 24, on Epic Records. [1] Sixteen tracks, 52 minutes, singles "Still Don't Care," "Get In Girl," and "Shimmer" already released. [2] The album will not have a tour behind it. Trainor cancelled the 32-date Get In Girl Tour — Live Nation-produced, 26-show run, Clarkston kickoff June 12, Madison Square Garden on the marquee — in an Instagram Story on April 16. [3]

The paper's Wednesday feature reads the cancellation as the sixth in eight days on a touring-economics cluster that Monday's feature first named and Tuesday's Scorpions brief extended. Tuesday Trainor gave Billboard her first phone interview about the cancel: "Do I choose my career or do I choose being a mom right now?" She framed the decision around her newborn, a third child for Trainor and husband Daryl Sabara. [4]

The economic frame is sharper than the motherhood line. An arena-to-amphitheater tour booked against an artist whose last top-10 hit was 2016's "No" carries a 2019-cost-structure load against a 2026-velocity ticket curve, and Trainor's team did the math. The album drops anyway. Epic's calculation — that streaming, cameo placements, and social rollout carry Toy With Me into a commercial return that a tour would drain rather than amplify — is the precise inversion the paper's Coachella Weekend 2 feature named on Monday. Madonna's cameo at Sabrina Carpenter's set was the substitution product. Trainor's album-without-tour is the substitution ledger, posted on a Friday.

The thread's Wednesday test is whether a named touring insurer re-prices publicly before the weekend. The Friday drop is what the cluster is now using as cost structure.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles