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Euro summer isn\u2019t over if you don\u2019t want it to be. Just ask Zara Larsson, whose fifth album, Midnight Sun, keeps the good vibes, long days, and late nights going. From start to finish, Larsson\u2019s latest refuses to ever slow down, instead trafficking in high-energy dance-pop joy.<\/p>\n
Hailing from pop mecca Sweden, Larsson wanted to celebrate the sun-drenched energy of a summer in her home country. Title track \u201cMidnight Sun\u201d is as deliriously hypnotic as the experience of partying through 24 hours of daylight. With notes of trance in its swirling chorus uplifted by Larsson\u2019s extended run, the song is the perfect high-energy kickoff to the rest of the LP.<\/p>\n
More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n As the album progresses, Larsson jumps between the more sweet and sour emotions that percolate in the heat. Like \u201cMidnight Sun,\u201d songs like \u201cBlue Moon,\u201d \u201cEuro Summer,\u201d and \u201cPuss Puss\u201d (Swedish for \u201ckiss kiss\u201d) traffic in the sweetness: she waxes poetic through tender scenes of short sundresses, late-night phone calls and handprints left on her ass. But the more interesting moments are when she\u2019s a little naughtier. On \u201cGirl\u2019s Girl,\u201d she\u2019s wracked with guilt for wanting a childhood-friend\u2019s man. Meanwhile, over the stomp beat of \u201cPretty Ugly,\u201d she threatens slashed tires and crashed cars. \u201cHave you ever seen a pretty girl get ugly like this?\u201d she threatens early on the track.<\/p>\n The more complex, ugly feelings start to bleed into sleepless ruminations about her life. \u201cThe Ambition\u201d pulls a few pages from the raw moments of Charli XCX\u2019s Brat: Here Larsson yearns to be bigger, brighter. \u201cBut that\u2019s the thing with the ambition\/I want it so much\/Everything\u2019s a competition\/So out of touch,\u201d she declares on one of the biggest earworm moments of the project. \u201cSaturn\u2019s Return\u201d is a standout in this vein, as the 27-year-old leans into life\u2019s confusions, giving up control she sought when she was younger.<\/p>\n Those messier moments are where Larsson comes alive. You can hear her coming into her own across Midnight Sun, where even her more formulaic moments still shine brighter than that Swedish summer sun. That ambition is paying off.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Euro summer isn\u2019t over if you don\u2019t want it to be. Just ask Zara Larsson, whose fifth album, Midnight Sun, keeps the good vibes, long days, and late nights going. From start to finish, Larsson\u2019s latest refuses to ever slow down, instead trafficking in high-energy dance-pop joy. Hailing from pop mecca Sweden, Larsson wanted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2051958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[381150,381149,354485],"class_list":["post-2051957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-euro-summer","tag-midnight-sun","tag-zara-larsson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Zara-Larsson-Burns-Through-Sleepless-Summer-Nights-on-\u2018Midnight-Sun.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}