Midnight Sun

Zara Larsson took four years to finish Midnight Sun, and not for lack of ideas. Between 2017 and 2021, while recording what would become Poster Girl, she tried at least five different versions of what her next album could be. Every time something didn’t convince her, she set it aside: “No, no, no, it’s not enough. Let’s start again.” The title Midnight Sun had been floating in her mind from the start, but she shaped it until it fit the concept she sought: a Swedish summer that never ends, where the sun never sets and the night stretches like a reflection of her own artistic evolution. The result is an album that smells of hot asphalt after the rain, of laughter on a pier at sunset, and of that golden light that only exists in Scandinavia in July. The sound of Midnight Sun breathes electropop layered with drum and bass and flashes of Brazilian funk, as if Larsson had mixed the sparkle of her early hits with the maturity of someone who no longer needs to prove anything. The album’s most personal tracks — Pretty Ugly, Midnight Sun and Crush — served as beacons before its release, but where the record truly shines is in its ability to shift between the intimate and the danceable. Euro Summer sounds like a party that never wants to end, while The Ambition carries the weight of someone who already knows success isn’t everything. Larsson worked side by side with collaborators like MNEK, Margo XS and Helena Gao, but she maintained full creative control, as if each track were an open diary. Released on September 26, 2025, Midnight Sun debuted at number one on the Swedish charts, adding another chart-topper to her career. The tour that followed, the Midnight Sun Tour, kicked off in October across Europe, but Larsson already had bigger plans: a remix of the album, Midnight Sun: Girls Trip, arrived in May 2026 with collaborations she had long dreamed of. In an interview with Elle that March, she called it “a mother of a earthquake” and hinted that the artists she’d work with on the reissue were names she’d been wanting to bring together for a while. Meanwhile, in the studio, she recorded in places like Muzo, Just for the Record and Geejam, where the atmosphere seems to have left its mark on the album. Thirty-two minutes of music that never stops, like that sun that never sets.

Year

2025

Songs

10

Duration

32 min 1 seg