{"id":236651,"date":"2025-10-31T21:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236651\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T21:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:39:11","slug":"zara-larsson-on-opening-for-tate-mcrae-i-didnt-expect-it-to-make-waves-the-way-it-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236651\/","title":{"rendered":"Zara Larsson on opening for Tate McRae: \u2018I didn\u2019t expect it to make waves the way it did\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pop star Zara Larsson<\/a> has admitted that she wasn\u2019t expecting the reaction to her performances opening for Tate McRae during her Miss Possessive tour<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Swedish artist, known for hit singles including \u201cLush Life\u201d and \u201cAin\u2019t My Fault\u201d, was the subject of a number of viral TikToks as fans attending the shows expressed their astonishment at her live vocals. <\/p>\n

Some fans went so far as to jokingly suggest that Larsson should have been the one headlining, or question why she wasn\u2019t headlining her own arena tour. <\/p>\n

Larsson has now reflected on the success of the tour, saying she feels she still has \u201ca lot of work to do\u201d in building her live audience and explaining the McRae tour was a great opportunity to do that. <\/p>\n

\u201cI feel that was the whole idea and the point of doing the tour,\u201d she told the Good Vibrations podcast<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not oblivious to the fact that I feel like I have a lot of work to do, especially when it comes to touring in America, just to build my live audience. And I feel like [the Tate McRae tour] was such a good opportunity for me, to put myself in front of the perfect crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Larsson said she felt it was the \u201cmost amazing match\u201d to perform for McRae\u2019s fans, who she said really appreciated the shows she put on with her four dancers. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if I expected it to make waves the way it did on social media, but I knew it was an amazing opportunity, and I got really excited when I was booked for it,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cObviously in a dream world, of course, I am ready to be the headliner \u2013 I will go out and headline my own show here in Europe. You just have to be realistic, a little bit. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would be silly to announce a worldwide arena tour right now\u2026 I have yet to achieve that [outside Europe], but I wish and I hope to do it in the very near future.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"Zara<\/p>\n

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Zara Larsson received widespread praise for her performances on the Tate McRae tour (Getty Images for MTV)<\/p>\n

Larsson pointed out that there was a vast difference between an artist getting a positive reaction on social media and that translating into ticket or album sales. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve just gotta keep shoving it down people\u2019s throat until they\u2019re like, OK I\u2019ll have a listen, I\u2019ll go and buy the ticket,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s a good first step and it\u2019s amazing to feel like people are excited about it, and I feel like I\u2019m really trying to live in the moment and savour that feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Zara<\/p>\n

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Zara Larsson is the latest guest on Roisin O’Connor’s Good Vibrations podcast (Press\/The Independent)<\/p>\n

Larsson released her fifth studio album, Midnight Sun, to positive reviews on 26 September. The record marked her fourth No 1 in Sweden and also charted in the top 40 in the UK and other countries around the world. <\/p>\n

She will perform at Wembley Arena in London on 5 November before embarking on the European leg of her Midnight Sun tour.<\/p>\n

The full episode of \u2018Roisin O\u2019Connor\u2019s Good Vibrations\u2019 with Zara Larsson is available now on all streaming platforms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-236651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}