Iggy Azalea: I may not return to social media

The Australian rapper, who has spent the last month off the social networks, said she may not return to them.

“Yeah, so nice not to be on social media so I’m kind of going to continue that until, maybe forever,” said the Problem singer.

Iggy’s management has been posting on her social media accounts since she announced she was taking a break. In her last Instagram post, she wrote about a paparazzo invading her privacy by taking photos of her outside her home.

“This is me standing in front of my home, which has a 6ft high blacked out fence around it. No one should be made to feel like their own home is a prison because even your garden may be grounds for a photoshoot,” she wrote.

“I think it’s disgusting,” the 24-year-old star said backstage at the Samsung Milk Music Lounge during South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, where she was the headline act.

“I don’t think it’s nice to stick your camera through somebody’s fence and hedge and take a picture of them in their yard and think that’s OK at all.”

Though the Fancy performer is off social media, she’s keeping busy with new music and her upcoming tour, which was rescheduled to happen in the autumn instead of the spring due to “production delays”.

“The whole point was to make no compromises, but nothing’s changed in terms of my creative vision,” she said. “It’s very kind of like Patrick Nagel, powerful 80s androgynous women vibe.”

Iggy said she didn’t want to wait until September to launch the tour but arenas are booked far in advance and there was no choice.

She said she’ll take advantage of the free time by recording her sophomore album.

“I didn’t anticipate having any time to completely finish it, but now that I have kind of the time,” she said. “I’d love to have an album at the end of 2015.”

Iggy said her first single will be the Britney Spears-assisted Pretty Girls.

“I love Britney. She’s super sweet and I just want to hang out with her all the time,” she said. “I saw her at Toys R Us randomly; she lives right down the street from me. Since I’ve met her now we keep bumping into each other in the street.”

“I don’t know if I needed re-inspiring, but it’s just made me extra excited to want to put out new music,” she added about the song.

Iggy’s new album will be the follow-up to last year’s The New Classic, which was nominated for best rap album at this year’s Grammy Awards and launched the hits Fancy and Black Widow.

“My first album got pushed back so many times and it was really, probably like two years of recording on and off, not the entire time, but it was a real struggle and I think that was something that really like reflected in my album a lot – I talk about trying to make it, trying to breakthrough,” she said.

“So my second album, now I don’t have this problem. So I hope it’s a little bit more up-tempo and just really fun. I just want to have something so summer and so girly, so loud and obnoxious and braggadocious.”