Dressed in a tie-dye hoodie, her hair scraped back into a ponytail, she is breezy and gregarious, never mincing her words, which tend to come out with more of an American lilt than a Swedish one. Larsson may still be young, but she has been in the industry for long enough to witness its ugly sides. A dancehall anthem written by a crack team of Swedish songwriters Larsson makes no bones about the fact she outsources half the songs she releases , it was the sonic equivalent of a cocktail by the pool; for one whole summer, those springy, sugary synths were on every radio station and in every supermarket.
All three made it onto her album, which did big business — though Larsson stopped short of becoming a megastar. She found herself being railroaded in meetings.
As Larsson grew older, she grew more assertive — but then a new problem reared its head. Older men with whom she worked started making sexual advances. What room do you stay in? This was pre- MeToo, she says. If anybody was trying to make a move I would hit them, you know what I mean? And the woman I thought I was going to be at that point was just gone.
Larsson always knew she would be a star. Her parents — mother Agnetha is a nurse while her dad, Anders, was an officer in the navy — supported her early desire to perform, enrolling her in ballet lessons, but never expected she would be famous. After she won Talang in , she went to the US to take meetings with record labels. When are we shooting the videos? After Lush Life made her a superstar in it currently sits on m global Spotify plays , Larsson found herself undermining her own success.
Her frustrating flip-flopping on whether or not to keep it eventually saw its songwriters take it back and the song slip from her grasp.
It wasn't really the motivation for the concert. I just wanted to connect with fans. In fact, Larsson says in-game concerts and virtual merchandise could be a lifeline for musicians at a time when CD sales have crumbled, touring is uncertain, and streaming royalties aren't compensating artists fairly. To make a seven-figure sum from YouTube or Spotify "would take a long, long time and hundreds and millions of streams," she observes.
But the attraction isn't solely financial. Larsson's Roblox show attracted more than 1. Many of those are fans who couldn't travel to a concert venue, or afford a concert ticket. Some even heard Larsson's music for the first time.
That's how they found out about me even though I've been doing this for 10 years. With the COP26 climate summit taking place this week, she's also aware that virtual shows could greatly reduce her carbon footprint. But does Larsson mind the intrusion into her personal life? View Iframe URL. Hearing that Zara Larsson, year-old world-conquering pop queen, was dumped for another girl might be a bit hard for readers at home to compute, I suggest.
We were a messy, messy couple, very toxic to each other. We stayed with each other for way too long. He just fucked me over completely. He was seeing this whole other girl for months, while I was there, and I was completely shook for a few months after that.
We were both young and dumb. And Larsson is grateful for her early start, which she thinks insulated her, in many ways, from the whims of the music business and which has given her a willingness to say things how they are that other pop stars might blanche at.
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