{"id":563082,"date":"2026-04-04T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563082\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:02:09","slug":"shes-literally-the-best-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563082\/","title":{"rendered":"She&#8217;s Literally The Best At It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t is clarifying a comment she made about music charts being \u201cdead\u201d to her and the only people who cared about them were industry people and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/taylor-swift\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-swift\" data-tag=\"taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a> fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe \u201cLush Life\u201d singer initially said she was not worried about charts and faced backlash, prompting her to issue a statement soon after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cPlaying the chart game is so dead to me. No one\u2019s looking at the charts but industry people and maybe Taylor Swift fans,\u201d Larsson said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/apr\/03\/zara-larsson-popstar-interview-on-fame-fun-fighting-the-power-lush-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Guardian<\/a> that was posted on Friday, April 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThat same day, Larsson took to Instagram to post a statement explaining that she mentioned the \u201cBejeweled\u201d singer \u201cbecause no one plays the chart game like Taylor Swift lol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cShe\u2019s literally the best at it and everyone knows that,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s not the read you guys think it is. And also\u2026 I care!!! Best believe I will try to release at least two different covers for my physical on my next project after Midnight Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLarsson explained that she said what she said because she now feels she has \u201csome cultural value in pop music, something I\u2019ve never had to this level, but I\u2019m not in a position to influence charts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI still think you can be an amazing artist and not chart. Those things are not mutually equal to me and shouldn\u2019t be to any fans either,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLarsson reiterated that she would like her next album to top the charts and asked her fans to help her get there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLarsson\u2019s latest studio album,\u00a0Midnight Sun,\u00a0was released in September 2025 and includes singles such as \u201cPretty Ugly,\u201d \u201cMidnight Sun,\u201d and \u201cCrush.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/zara-larsson-taylor-swift-statement.jpg\" alt=\"Zara Larsson's Instagram post\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"779\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tZara Larsson\u2019s Instagram post<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInstagra \/ zaralarsson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"is clarifying a comment she made about music charts being \u201cdead\u201d to her and the only people who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,4915,108094],"class_list":{"0":"post-563082","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-taylor-swift","11":"tag-zara-larsson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}