I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. First of all, I wanted to acknowledge the passing of both Sly Stone and Brian Wilson.

You can read a lot of coverage about them on Rollingstone.com. What a week will definitely be memorializing them both in a future episode or episodes.

But right now, I wanted to bring you something completely

different. Back when she was 10 years old, Zara Larson won Sweden's Got Talent with a Celine

D on cover, and she went on to make her first album, 2014's 1 at age 17. Since then, she's become a global

pop star with hits including the great song,

Lush Life, and Symphony with Clean Bandit, which just had a huge revival on TikTok. She's got

a new single called Midnight Sun dropping this Friday, and it just announced album by the same

name coming September 26. I recently sat down with her at Rolling Stone's offices for a super honest conversation

about the art of hit making, ambition, and much more. Here's my interview with Zara Larson.

That's one thing you've escaped by starting at a young age.

You've never had an office job.

No.

That's true.

They've always been working.

But you've always been working, yes. And much worse than 9 to 5, yes.

But like when you do something that you love and you just do it for yourself, it doesn't feel like work, really.

Like, I don't have any hours I need to put in.

Right.

I mean, it must feel like work sometimes.

I'm trying to think.

It actually doesn't.

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