Cat Burns and the emotional limits of performance: How To Be Human, touring, and withdrawal

Cat Burns’ decision to postpone her UK tour following the release cycle of “How To Be Human” reframes touring as more than the final stage of an album rollout. 

Instead, it becomes a space where emotional labour, public expectation, and personal capacity begin to collide. 

Rather than sitting outside the album’s themes, the postponement extends them, exposing the pressure points that sit beneath contemporary pop performance, writes Music News Blitz’s Zinhle Radebe.