{"id":628148,"date":"2026-09-18T03:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628148\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T03:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:24:10","slug":"zara-larsson-talks-blue-moon-coachella-dream-macklemore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628148\/","title":{"rendered":"Zara Larsson Talks ‘Blue Moon,’ Coachella Dream & Macklemore"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFor Zara Larsson<\/a>, the Midnight Sun era still has some daylight left.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough the Swedish pop star already has plenty of new music on the horizon, she\u2019s not ready to move on from her latest album just yet, especially when there\u2019s still a song she feels deserves its moment.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI really want to push \u2018Blue Moon\u2019 because I feel like it\u2019s \u2018Midnight Sun\u2019s\u2019 sister,\u201d Larsson told Billboard backstage Wednesday night at her Apple Music x Chase Sapphire Experience concert and Q&A. \u201cAnd it deserves a video and it deserves love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat doesn\u2019t mean Larsson isn\u2019t thinking about what comes after the Midnight Sun wave comes to a halt. If anything, the massive year she\u2019s having has only made her more eager to keep going. The album reached a peak of No. 36 on the Billboard 200<\/a>, and the project\u2019s title track peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>. As she\u2019s taken the album around the world, she\u2019s watched fans turn her live shows into their own kind of spectacle \u2014 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\u2019s exactly what makes them so special.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s something that can\u2019t be planned. And it\u2019s something that the fans bring,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s really something that I can\u2019t do from stage by myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 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.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI really want people, wherever they are, in whatever festival or country, to have that experience and to be together to create special memories,\u201d she says. \u201cI really do feel like every show is different and every audience brings something different.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd there are still plenty of stages Larsson aims to reach. When asked whether fans could someday see her headline Coachella, she had a very quick answer: \u201cThat\u2019s my dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLarsson has attended the festival for years, and she says it\u2019s one of the places where she feels extremely inspired by the artists and musicians around her. But she knows she\u2019s not ready to take the top spot just yet.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not quite there yet, but I definitely want to perform,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd then for headlining, I want it to be so mega and big and amazing that everyone\u2019s like, \u2018Well, now she has to headline.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the meantime, Larsson has become extremely hands-on with the career that could potentially get her there. After years in the music industry, she says she\u2019s only recently started feeling like she\u2019s truly taking control of her artistry, whether it\u2019s her music or the business decisions surrounding it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s weird how long I\u2019ve been in the industry but yet just now feel like I am taking control over my artistry and what I do and how involved I am,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s so much for me to still get to know and work on, and I will do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTo her, this meant being open about the things she believes in, something that Larsson says she hopes to maintain as her career continues to skyrocket.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the interview, Larsson was asked about the support Macklemore<\/a> has received from fans after taking public stances that could potentially alienate some listeners. For Larsson, seeing people rally around an artist who is willing to speak honestly is more powerful than anything.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI respect that so much,\u201d she says. \u201cIt is so powerful to see how everyone can come together and make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLarsson has found herself on the receiving end of that same kind of support. After showing support for Macklemore, she was included near the top of an online list of artists that fans considered trustworthy, which is something that Larsson says she appreciated, but doesn\u2019t necessarily view as a title she\u2019s trying to earn.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI just try to be a good person,\u201d she says. \u201cI genuinely believe that most people out here \u2014 I don\u2019t think that there are many evil people in the world. I do think everyone is good in their souls.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the stakes get higher, Larsson\u2019s goal is to keep making decisions that feel honest.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want to feel like everything that I do is clear and it comes from a place of love,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat philosophy seems to extend to how she approaches her music as while. Though Larsson admits she does have \u201cso much new music\u201d she wants to work on and release, she\u2019s more interested in giving Midnight Sun her time to shine rather than rushing toward whatever comes next.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPeople are still discovering so much about you every day,\u201d she says. \u201cSo there\u2019s so much space to be held still for the whole Midnight Sun album.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat includes \u201cBlue Moon,\u201d which Larsson plans to keep pushing through TikTok and, eventually, the visuals she has in mind for the song.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI really want to make sure that people aren\u2019t forgetting her,\u201d she says. \u201cor maybe they haven\u2019t even discovered \u2018Blue Moon.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Zara Larsson, the Midnight Sun era still has some daylight left. Although the Swedish pop star already…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,821,61,60,278,633],"class_list":["post-628148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628148","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=628148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}