The pop star has dropped Midnight Sun: Girls Trip, a full-album reimagining that sees every track from her acclaimed 2025 record transformed through collaborations with women from across the world.
The all-female cast includes Shakira, Robyn, Tyla, PinkPantheress, Kehlani, JT, Madison Beer, Emilia, Helena Gao, Margo XS, BAMBII, Malibu and Eli, each bringing their own flavour to the mix.
Visualisers for every track are already live, giving fans a first taste of the project’s globe-trotting energy.
The album opens with a refreshed Midnight Sun, reuniting Zara and PinkPantheress for a shimmering dance-garage hybrid.
Kehlani slides into Blue Moon with a smooth R’n’B spin, while JT storms through a Margo XS-powered version of Pretty Ugly.
Shakira turns Eurosummer into a jet-set club anthem, Tyla doubles the heat on Hot and Sexy, and Robyn lends her unmistakable touch to Puss Puss. Zara adds new vocals throughout, tying the whole trip together.
Behind the scenes, she worked closely with Margo XS and MNEK — two key collaborators from the original Midnight Sun era — to shape the project.
Meanwhile, Zara Larsson has revealeds he is performing at colleges to fund her “real” tour.
The 28-year-old singer may have enjoyed global success in recent years, but she admitted she has had to take on extra work in order to cover the huge costs of putting on her own live shows.
After performing at Yale University’s spring Fling ’26 concert this month, Zara joked in a video shared to TikTok: “Yeah, I went to Yale.
“I went there to sing once, so technically I did go to Yale, yes.”
Zara is taking part in a string of college shows, including performances at the University of Delaware, Tufts University, Brandeis University, following her North American tour and before her upcoming global festival performances and a tour of Australia and New Zealand later this year.
Explaining why she is “on some kind of college show tour”, she said: “I signed that s*** a long time ago because I needed to pay for my real tour, because it’s so expensive to tour…
“Once I’ve signed that contract, I’m not pulling out. I don’t do that. I don’t cancel shows.
“Some people pay to go to college, I get paid to go to college.”
