Zara Larsson DRAGGEDt Chart Enthusiasts (Especially Swifties), & Supports Chappell

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Larsson says that Midnight Sun’s cultural moment is a happy accident. It was a fan who paired her and Clean Bandit’s 2017 hit Symphony with kaleidoscopic dolphin art for a viral TikTok in 2024; Larsson just leaned into her marketing savvy to bring Y2K mermaid-core style to Midnight Sun. After fans started creating DIY versions of her airbrushed baby tees, she introduced a moment in her show where she spray-paints one for a lucky fan. Has she learned that her instincts are better than a record label’s? “Yes,” she replies instantly. “I get this weekly data update of my chart positions and monthly listeners from my label. And it’s not interesting to me to look at because that’s last week’s data. It’s already old. I want to ask, ‘What are we creating, what are we doing now?’”

She is putting the finishing touches to a Midnight Sun deluxe edition with all-women guest stars. Her label, Epic, “want me to release a new song before it drops to tease it”, she says. “And I’m like: it ruins the project and the specific rollout that I have planned.” It’s all a play for stats, which she finds depressing: “Playing the chart game is so dead to me. No one’s looking at the charts but industry people and maybe Taylor Swift fans.”

Sometimes fame can feel like a Faustian bargain, with scrutiny, sexism and presidential subtweets coming as part of the package. As her star has kept rising, Larsson has been wondering if there are limits to how much fame she can take. Could she handle it if she was as famous as, say, Chappell Roan, now in regular standoffs with the paparazzi? “The more people hate her, the more I love her,” says Larsson. “I don’t like how she’s being treated at all. When a woman has boundaries, I think people freak out. Men can do violent criminal things and people applaud them, but when a woman says, ‘Stop following me,’ it’s controversial? It’s like: you guys just hate women, actually.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/03/zara-larsson-popstar-interview-on-fame-fun-fighting-the-power-lush-life

[AVeryGagaHolyDick 30,782]

I still don’t like her music but I still love her as a person. More every day.

[Phaye Monster 8,797]

I agree with her on Chappell Roan. The more people hate a woman, especially an outspoken woman, the more I’ll like her.

[Teletubby 159,865]

she clarified her comment. I think she knows how to play the industry game so she mentioned Taylor to get reactions

[Junko Enoshima 4,249]

1 minute ago, Teletubby said:

she clarified her comment. I think she knows how to play the industry game so she mentioned Taylor to get reactions

At least they’ll just be 2 different art covers, and not +35 variants, including physical and digital releases 

[Ladle Ghoulash 44,310]

44 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

she clarified her comment. I think she knows how to play the industry game so she mentioned Taylor to get reactions

You know she posted this so the Swifties would stop sending her death threats 

[River 124,765]

she's so perfect, always saying the right things... like a good PR show

[gagasmalyan 80]

1 hour ago, Junko Enoshima said:

At least they’ll just be 2 different art covers, and not +35 variants, including physical and digital releases 

she has 10 (TEN) versions of a song on spotify  i wouldnt speak of chart depserations if i were her

[Ladle Ghoulash 44,310]

30 minutes ago, gagasmalyan said:

she has 10 (TEN) versions of a song on spotify  i wouldnt speak of chart depserations if i were her

Eh, at least she can sing.

[nATAH 55,006]

40 minutes ago, gagasmalyan said:

she has 10 (TEN) versions of a song on spotify  i wouldnt speak of chart depserations if i were her

that's nowhere near as bad as the stunts taylor pulls

at least they're still available after 48 hours