“I think I should take some time off. I think people might need a break from me. I’m going to… I don’t know. Hang out with my friends. Write new music. Maybe not write new music. I don’t know.” One Source of this quote
Whether she's releasing music or not, she has not "taken a break" in any sense of the word. People DO need a break from her, but yet she's shoving this PR relationship down our throats. Her "personal life" is her public life, at least as long as she chooses to date and write songs about it, along with releasing all these staged "paparazzi" photos.
Maybe our definitions of "taking a break" are completely different.