When it came time to make her fourth international studio album, „Midnight Sun”, Swedish pop sensation Zara Larsson had her first choice of collaborators on speed dial. “I knew it had to be MNEK,” she says of her “Never Forget You” duet partner and friend. On day one, together with the rest of her team — up-and-coming producer Margo XS and songwriter Helena Gao, they made “Midnight Sun” and lead single “Pretty Ugly”; looking around at each other, Zara says, they realized there was magic in the room. They felt an energy that connected them, emboldening her to be open, vulnerable, raw, and real in her lyrics, her vocal delivery, and the ambition which she felt safe to express in the songs they were creating. „I wanted to write about a Swedish summer where the sun never goes down,” she says. “I wanted the whole album to feel like it's a summer night and it never ends. And it doesn't matter if it's December: the summer night will be there for you. It's waiting for you and it will come back for you, and you will come back for it”. We can’t wait to feel that vibe on July 1!