Zara Larsson Talks New Album 'Midnight Sun,' Crush, Dolphins and ‘Symphony’

Zach Sang Show

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Tv & Film, Music

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Zara joins us on the couch for the who-knows-what-time. The 27-year-old Swedish pop powerhouse has been stopping by to chat for the past nine years and it’s always a joy.

This time round she’s in to chat about her newly released fifth record Midnight Sun, her best long player yet. Celebratory, sexy, cheeky, and deliciously honest, we talk about its creation — alongside her longtime collaborator MNEK; largely in Jamaica — and find out the stories behind hits like the drum ‘n’ bass leaning title track, ‘Puss Puss,’ the house-influenced ‘Hot & Sexy,’ ‘Pretty Ugly,’ and how Tiffany Pollard wound up in the studio with her. Plus we discuss the appeal of Y2K, what can happen when you crush on your friend’s man (‘Girl’s Girl’), not to mention her unapologetic ambition and her relationship with dancer boyfriend Lamin. It’s the latest installment in her coming of age.

Oh, and she teaches Zach and Dan about TikTok and clues them in on the viral dolphin x ‘Symphony’ moment. You know, from August 2024.

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0:00.0	Hi, beautiful human. I am Zach. That is Dan. And this is seriously, a human being that has come on our show a bunch of times over at least a decade. But this album, we're about to talk about an album that is by far in my opinion one of the best
0:25.1	pop albums of all time oh not a question in my mind he said it when he walked in no hesitation
0:30.9	czar larsen made it say hello to zara larsson are you kidding thank you so much yeah but you've been no no, it's, and I'm telling you, it's you and M&EK. Yes. There is something there? Yes, yes, yes, yes, I just, whoa, I actually, like, tingles. No, it's so exciting. And you're right, I really think what I've realized is that especially in this industry but in kind of anything you want to
0:55.8	create I think it takes like a not necessarily a village but cooperation and working together and
1:06.3	like finding that that person or those people that you just feel like you can be the most yourself with and that give you a safe space and like confidence in saying what's on your mind in an honest, authentic way is everything.
1:22.5	And he really does that for me.
1:23.9	I mean, he's been doing it from.
1:25.5	Yeah, he was my first ever session.
1:27.9	That's...
1:28.3	Like my first ever session, writing session, was never forget you.
1:32.3	There is this beautiful, harmonious, cyclical, destiny.
1:38.8	And I feel like it's almost going back to the basics in a way.
1:42.5	Like going back to what I know and what just feels good instead of
1:47.8	trying to look so desperately for it elsewhere it's like but wait a minute I I I know what I
1:58.3	like and I know the people I like so Uzozo, like, Eminique is definitely one of them.
2:02.9	Like, he's the main guy that I've worked with for this project.
2:06.2	But even, like, the visuals, like, Charlotte,
2:08.5	who did all my shoots and my videos, like, pretty ugly and Midnight Sun.
2:12.9	She's also a person who, I mean, she did ruin my life, like 2018.
2:18.3	And that was one of her, if not the first music video she ever made.
2:23.3	And I was just like, silly of me to not keep working with her.
2:27.3	Like now when I think back at it, I'm like, that was such a winning concept.
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