Zara Larsson on ‘Dream’ of Headlining Coachella, Why ‘Blue Moon’ Deserves More ‘Love’ & Her ‘Respect’ for Macklemore Speaking Out

For Zara Larsson , the Midnight Sun era still has some daylight left.

Although the Swedish pop star already has plenty of new music on the horizon, she’s not ready to move on from her latest album just yet, especially when there’s still a song she feels deserves its moment.

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“And it deserves a video and it deserves love.” That doesn’t mean Larsson isn’t thinking about what comes after the Midnight Sun wave comes to a halt.

If anything, the massive year she’s having has only made her more eager to keep going.

The album reached a peak of No.

36 on the Billboard 200 , and the project’s title track peaked at No.

13 on the Billboard Hot 100 .

As she’s taken the album around the world, she’s watched fans turn her live shows into their own kind of spectacle — from viral drone footage of a festival crowd to a fan joining her onstage at Lollapalooza and an audience being lifted into the air at a show in Belgium.

Those moments are impossible to manufacture, Larsson says, and that’s exactly what makes them so special.

“It’s something that can’t be planned.

And it’s something that the fans bring,” she says.

“It’s really something that I can’t do from stage by myself.” The people on the other side of the barricade are an essential part of the performance for Larsson.

She wants every single show to feel like its own experience, regardless of the country or festival.