SWEDISH BOP/POP SENSATION
HERKOMST
Zweden
GENRE
Pop
Voor fans van
RAYE, Tate McRae, ADÉLA
When it came time to make her fourth international studio album, Midnight Sun, Swedish pop sensation Zara Larsson had her first choice of collaborators on speed dial. “I knew it had to be MNEK,” she says of her “Never Forget You” duet partner and friend. “I knew it was time to get him back. I love him. We always do the best things together, we’ve been working throughout my whole career, and every time we’re in the studio, it’s a banger. I just love what he brings out of me.”
Once the British songwriter and producer said yes, Zara put together the rest of her team—up-and-coming producer Margo XS and songwriter Helena Gao—and the core four got to work. On day one, they made “Midnight Sun” and lead single “Pretty Ugly”; looking around at each other, Zara says, they realized there was magic in the room. They felt an energy that connected them, emboldening her to be open, vulnerable, raw, and real in her lyrics, her vocal delivery, and the ambition which she felt safe to express in the songs they were creating. “It’s almost like we all completed each other,” Zara says. “We shared tastes and styles and references and stories—it’s like I never had to explain myself when we were having conversations about what these songs could be. This close-knit group…I love to work like that, with people who understand me and vice versa.”
Midnight Sun ripples with that same confidence and trust. Its storytelling bursts with truth and vulnerability, plumbing the depth and growth of Zara’s artistry and journey over nearly 20 years in the public eye. It’s an album unafraid to show all sides of the 27-year-old: lovestruck, wistful, ambitious, cocky, flippant, and uncertain, often in the same breath.