After more than a decade grinding in the pop machine, something about Zara Larsson finally clicked this summer. It happened while she was on the road opening for Tate McRae on the Miss Possessive Tour. Each show, videos of Larsson’s biblically accurate Y2K outfits, skilled choreography, and vocal prowess racked up tens of thousands of likes across social media platforms. In a recent interview on Roisin O’Connor’s Good Vibrations podcast, the 27-year-old Swedish singer-songwriter discussed the unexpected success of her support gig and how it’s setting her up for big-scale pop shows of her own.
“Obviously in a dream world, of course, I am ready to be the headliner — I will go out and headline my own show here in Europe. You just have to be realistic, a little bit,” Larsson said. “I would be silly to announce a worldwide arena tour right now… I have yet to achieve that [outside Europe], but I wish and I hope to do it in the very near future.”
She added: “I don’t know if I expected it to make waves the way it did on social media, but I knew it was an amazing opportunity, and I got really excited when I was booked for it.”
By the end of her 28-show run with McRae, Larsson felt “very much at home on a stage that size,” even if she wasn’t able to fill the space in the same way that she might as a headliner. Larsson brought only four dancers with her, saying, “I feel like we did as much as we could with the space that was the stage.”
During her final week of shows on the Miss Possessive Tour, Larsson released her fifth studio album, Midnight Sun. Thanks to the opening opportunity, the record had an extensive audience of new fans tuning in.
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“I feel like that was the whole idea and the point of doing the tour,” Larsson said about expanding her audience. “Because I am not oblivious to the fact that I feel like I have a lot of work to do, especially when it comes to touring in America, just to build my live audience. I feel like that was such a good opportunity for me to put myself in front of the perfect crowd because I feel like it really was the most amazing match with me and Tate.”
Larsson will kick off her headlining North American tour in March 2026.
