The last time the Swedish pop star played Lolla, “I was a teenager,” she tells Vogue, “and now I’m a woman…, I feel more involved in my artistry and in my songwriting and in the making of the show, and I think you can really, really tell,” she says.The last time the Swedish pop star played Lolla, “I was a teenager,” she tells Vogue, “and now I’m a woman…, I feel more involved in my artistry and in my songwriting and in the making of the show, and I think you can really, really tell,” she says.
Zara Larsson is patiently awaiting a room service order in her Chicago hotel room as she prepares to play Lollapalooza, one of many stops on the Swedish pop star and singer-songwriter’s Midnight Sun tour that’s taken her from Los Angeles to Brazil to Tokyo (and beyond). What’s changed for Larsson since her last stop-in at Lollapalooza a decade ago? “I was a teenager, and now I’m a woman. I feel like my voice is better, I feel like I have more fun, actually, I feel more involved in my artistry and in my songwriting and in the making of the show, and I think you can really, really tell,” she says.
Catching up with Larsson as part of Vogue’s Sound Check series means being treated to some of her vocal warm-ups, as well as watching her mingle and pose for selfies with starstruck fans. “The inspiration for the look is a crawfish,” Larsson explains as she sits for hair and makeup before taking the stage, showing off the purple and orange details of her beat that perfectly match the coloring of a photo of a crawfish pulled up on her makeup artist’s phone.
