However, Larsson\u2019s stance is a reminder that listening is still a choice, and a moral one at times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Every stream counts for something, visibility<\/a>, revenue, and cultural relevance<\/a> are all boosted by even a single stream.\u00a0<\/p>\n Larsson wants to make sure that hers count for good.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t like him,\u201d she said. \u201cI do like his music, to be honest. I think he\u2019s a really talented person. He can really dance and sing. But he\u2019s not a nice person.\u201d<\/p>\n Chris Brown has long been followed by allegations and legal troubles.<\/p>\n In March 2009, the singer pleaded guilty to a felony charge after physically assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna.\u00a0<\/p>\n Years later, in September 2014, he pleaded guilty again to misdemeanour assault stemming from an altercation that took place in Washington, D.C., in October 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n In 2017, Brown\u2019s former partner Karrueche Tran was granted a five-year restraining order against him following what was described as a tumultuous on-and-off relationship that had ended in 2014.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time Larsson has made her feelings about Brown\u2019s music clear. <\/p>\n Back in 2016, during an interview segment styled as a Tinder-inspired song game, she swiped left on his track \u201cHotel,\u201d the collaboration with Kid Ink.<\/p>\n Brown hasn\u2019t directly responded to Larsson\u2019s statements, though he did share a cryptic Instagram story shortly after the interview. <\/p>\n Writing, \u201cWalk in YO PEACE LET THEM SEE THEMSELVES LET THEM HATE LOVE THEM ANYWAY \u2764\ufe0f.\u201d<\/p>\n In a world where music seems almost endless and instant, perhaps the most human thing you can do is decide what you don\u2019t want to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zara Larsson\u2019s playlists have boundaries. In the age of endless streaming, where algorithms decide your mood before you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,7492,14735],"class_list":["post-317811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-pop-music","tag-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"chris](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-10.05.43\u202fAM.png\")
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