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Multiplatinum chart-topping global pop powerhouse Zara Larsson releases her brand-new studio album VENUS. Get the 12-track album HERE via Sommer House/Epic Records.
Along with the new album, today Zara Larsson has shared the electric official music video for new single “You Love Who You Love.” The video was notably co-directed by Zara herself alongside Viivi Huska. In the clip, Zara stars as a pawnshop owner where you can trade in your ex’s gold for cash, and lends her support to a friend getting over a breakup. Watch it HERE.
Just yesterday, Zara Larsson gave the US debut TV performance of “You Love Who You Love” on Good Morning America. Watch it HERE.
With her elevated sound, eclectic style and unifying vision, Zara Larsson is one of modern pop’s most essential stars. It’s an evolution she takes to the next level on VENUS. It mixes the mythic and the personal in its exploration on modern love, whether with a partner (“You Love Who You Love”), family (“On My Love”), your craft (“End Of Time”) or with yourself (“Can’t Tame Her”). On the title track, she channeling the celestial being itself in an ethereal rush of 80s soundscapes, technicolor pop, and powerhouse vocal runs that capture those first real feelings for someone in universal but affecting detail. It is that dual spirit of strength and vulnerability that Zara Larsson – quite literally – embodies on VENUS, with its striking artwork twisting the Botticelli tradition into a bold new era for the Swedish superstar.
VENUS was conceived by Zara Larsson with a diverse, but more focused team of collaborators, which proved essential to the breadth of the record and the goal of representing all sides of herself. The results are pure, unexpected chemistry: the classic-songwriting tradition of Rick Nowels, Violet Skies or Casey Smith paired with the maximalist beats of Danja, or long-time London ally MNEK coupled up with Swedish duo MTHR. With work full of wit, bite and – as on moving closer “The Healing” – a newfound sense of stillness, the project is Zara’s most dynamic, eclectic, and fully-realized work to-date; or in her own words, “it’s a little bit all over the place, but that’s honestly just very me!”
Now a decade into her recording career, Zara Larsson has the feel of an artist only growing in power. She made headlines around the world last year in a trailblazing deal that saw her take control of her entire recording catalogue, with VENUS the first release in a new partnership between Sony Music and Larsson’s own Sommer House label. Celebrating the many shades of love by owning all sides of her sound and her art, VENUS affirms Zara Larsson in the pop pantheon – a millions-selling artist with empowered, subversive appeal. “Can’t change her. Can’t blame her. Can’t tame her.”
VENUS tracklisting:
1. Can’t Tame Her
2. More Than This Was
3. On My Love with David Guetta
4. Ammunition
5. None Of These Guys
6. You Love Who You Love
7. End Of Time
8. Nothing
9. Escape
10. Soundtrack
11. Venus
12. The Healing
The Venus Tour itinerary:
2/16/24 – Manchester, UK – Manchester Academy
2/17/24 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy
2/18/24 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy
2/21/24 – London, UK – Roundhouse
2/24/24 – Paris, FR – Le Trianon
2/25/24 – Brussels, BE – Ancienne Belgique
2/26/24 – Amsterdam, NL – AFAS Live
2/28/24 – Berlin, DE – Verti Music Hall
3/1/24 – Cologne, DE – Palladium
3/2/24 – Milan, IT – Fabrique
3/4/24 – Zurich, CH – Komplex 457
3/6/24 – Prague, CZ – Forum
3/7/24 – Warsaw, PL – Towar
3/8/24 – Vienna, AT – Gasometer
3/16/24 – Reykjavik, IS – Laugardalshollin
6/21/24 – Dublin, IE – Fairview Park
