Backstage at Zara Larsson’s Viral Lollapalooza Show

[gentle lively music]

[gentle lively music continues]

Hi, it's Zara.

And I would like to order some room service, please.

Amazing. Thanks.

Yum.

Oh, this reminds me of pytt i panna.

I don't know how you would say that in English,

but it's like...

I don't know.

It's like the fancy version of a pytt i panna.

I'm in Chicago.

I am sort of getting ready

for today's performance,

which is Lollapalooza.

And I've been here about 10 years ago.

I think a lot is happening in a decade.

I was a teenager, and now I'm a woman.

I feel like my voice is better.

I feel like I have more fun, actually.

I feel more involved in my artistry and in my songwriting

and in the making of the show,

and I think you can really, really tell.

I'm excited.

If anyone's in the crowd tonight

that was also there 2017,

to see the change because I think it's quite huge.

So I just got her.

She don't really have a name yet.

She's so cute.

It was based on someone's grandma.

And I thought she looked really cool.

I don't know, I think she just like reminds me of me.

It's a really nice accessory.

So maybe I'll just bring her like this.

I feel like my voice is a little bit tired today.

Oh. [clears throat]

Ooh.

[clears throat] [chuckles]

I'll warm it up for you guys.

So my warmup isn't actually

the first time I sing it tonight.

Should we see how it goes?

[chuckles] I get nervous now.

Right. Okay.

Here we go.

♪ A never-end ♪

♪ A never-ending ♪

♪ Midnight sun ♪

♪ A never-ending ♪

♪ Midnight sun ♪

I'm sweating, honestly. [chuckles]

I think it's time to go.

Come with me. Let's have fun.

[Zara vocalizing]

My teeth look so white.

That's Lollapalooza. See ya.

This show is definitely one of the biggest shows

that I will do this summer,

and it's something that I've been looking forward to a lot.

I almost feel a bit nervous, I don't know.

I hope it lives up to the expectations.

It will. It will.

[gentle upbeat music]

Oh my God.

Oh my God, I didn't expect to see you.

Oh my God.

Oh my God, you're the sweetest. I'm so excited.

Now we are backstage

on a buggy.

Look, and here's where we were in the car,

and now I'm on the other side of it.

Stay hydrated.

So today, the inspiration for the look is a crawfish,

and it was purple with orange details,

and it was really beautiful.

I don't know how you found it.

Maybe it was on your Pinterest.

My Pinterest board.

[Zara] There we go.

When it comes to glam,

we don't really overthink anything, to be honest.

We're just kind of like living in the moment.

I just sit in the chair.

I'm a little bit of an oily skin girl,

but luckily, like, we don't even use setting.

People are like, What setting spray? What setting spray?

No, no. No setting spray.

But I do, like, I'm pretty light with your skincare.

But I know because you are like a little bit oily here,

so I'm like a bit light here, exactly.

And then I do like a good layer of powder.

Hella powder. Hella powder, yeah.

But nothing else. No setting spray, no primer.

No primer. Sorry, I'm perfect.

We've never been like, let's do like Y2K, you know?

[Stylist] No, no, never.

Even with my stylist

and the people who like create my world,

it just kind of happens to be stuff

that I maybe was inspired by growing up,

which is obviously in that era.

But I think I'm just trying to have things

that I really like.

Like, it's that simple, really,

which is usually sparkly

and glittery and fun.

Very fun.

Outfits for stage,

I like 'em to be really comfortable to dance in,

meaning no restrictions.

Like I can lift my arms all the way up, I can do a split.

I want to be able to feel like I can move.

I think that's really important.

And then not too hot.

I really don't like being hot.

So usually I keep them as naked as possible

and as colorful as possible

because there's a lot of things happening on stage.

You have like different levels.

There's a lot of color, there's a lot of people.

So you still kinda wanna stand out a little bit.

And I think we do that with fun, shiny, sparkly materials

or really strong vivid colors.

Well, I personally don't like

to have too much backing track.

When you do it live,

it's not always like perfect, perfect, perfect.

And I don't mind that it's not flawless.

And sometimes I think it's really, really common these days

to have like a pitch corrector on the microphone.

I definitely have that sometimes.

But sometimes I'm like, it takes away the soul.

This is what I'm gonna wear tonight.

We're either gonna do the light shorts

or the dark shorts.

I feel like these fit better,

but these ones are nice and sparkly,

so let's try it on set.

[lively music]

Blessing, the show's moved.

Come in for some more questions.

So what happened was, we were walking out

on the way to stage and then it was like, Stop.

Do you wanna go on a later time?

And I was like, Yeah. What happened?

And then it shows that it is kind of raining here.

So I wonder where a Lil Uzi Vert is

because he was supposed to go on after me,

but it was weather delays.

So he couldn't make his set on time.

And then they asked me if I wanted to take his set time,

which is right after me.

So I was like, Yes, I do.

Thank you very much.

It literally could not have been better.

And now we have time

to put some extra love and energy into the hair and makeup.

I don't feel like I have to stress.

I might even do a little vocal warmup. Who knows?

And a nap. And a nap.

What I'm wearing today is a Euroko,

very cute girls trip,

sort of like striped polo cropped.

And then I have a pair of shorts

that we put a little flower on.

And these amazing girls strip Midnight Sun boots.

So I feel like this is a little bit different

than the Midnight Sun original aesthetic,

but it's still in the same world.

It's just like a sister of what I usually wear

on my own shows and my tours

when I have other changes and stuff.

But I feel like it's so fun.

And then I have my Puss Puss underwear.

The moto gloves come from the girls trip theme,

which I feel like is sort of like

going on my motorbike, going in my truck.

This is for certain like a throwback thing,

almost giving like Hannah Montana in the best way.

I just think it adds like an element

of pop star to the look.

So here's some other tour looks.

This is one of my favorites that I've been wearing so far.

I wear this for Lollapalooza in Berlin,

and I just love this color.

It pops so beautifully on stage and in the light.

It's by Barak,

and it also comes with the matching top.

He made this in pink also for me.

This one is also a look that I've been wearing.

I wore this in Norway,

and it was the first show of the year.

And it was kind of cold up there.

So then we have this gorgeous jacket from Fancy Club

that we remade a little bit.

It had some straps.

And we took that off, added the flowers.

And then we have these capris from Agro Studios

and we bling them out.

And they're like, very nice and stretchy,

which is important.

And I just love a capris.

I do. Sue me.

My bedazzler is my stylist.

Sometimes when I look at comments, I'm like,

Oh my God, that's me.

Like people just use that for so many things.

This one.

The first is like.

Oh no, it's like that. It's like that.

[Zara laughs]

You know what that was?

It was like top three albums,

top three pop albums.

And I just though that was a really hard question.

B-Day, Back to Basic, Midnight Sun. Yeah.

Okay, I'm gonna finish up here

and then we'll head to stage.

All right, ladies, let's go.

[energetic upbeat music]

I think it's just so impressive in general,

festivals, to my own shows,

to everything that goes on backstage,

that there's so many people involved in all of this.

I just kind of show up and the stage is there.

The set is there. The mic is on.

The lights work.

I'm enjoying traveling with them

and making the show with them

because there really wouldn't be any show

without all the people backstage.

It's definitely not like a one-woman show.

Lollapalooza, how we feeling?

[crowd cheering]

Let me take you to the Midnight Sun.

[energetic upbeat music]

Let's go.

[bright upbeat music]

♪ A never-ending midnight sun ♪

♪ A never-ending midnight sun ♪

♪ Midnight sun ♪

♪ A never-ending midnight sun ♪

[crowd cheering]

Thank you so much.

A memory for life.

Thank you.

Puss puss.

[bright upbeat music continues]