The night Zara Larsson ’s Midnight Sun dropped, the singer’s closest friends, collaborators (and even a few Katseye members) packed into a Los Angeles bar to watch her blow out candles as the album officially arrived. The Swedish midnight sun she sings about wasn’t shining, but Larsson was.

“I feel like I rarely do that,” she tells Rolling Stone the following morning. “I am so bad at celebrating milestones and accomplishments. I don’t even like celebrating my birthday. It was nice to come together in a room and remind ourselves that we made it.”

Midnight Sun has reignited Larsson’s pop stardom in ways beyond even her own imagination. Nearly a decade after “Lush Life” and “Never Forget You” first launched her onto the global stage, the Swedish star is stepping into a new era. At

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