Zara Larsson

I wanted to sell out stages all over the world.

I don't know if it was like I actively didn't listen to Swedish music.

I think it's something that I've started doing now in my grown up years, but I've tried to write songs in Swedish.

And it's really tricky and difficult.

Yeah, because it's almost like it's too close to me.

It's like it's too literal.

It's too direct.

Oh, interesting.

It's very scary.

It's like vulnerable in a different way.

And me saying that, of course, I still have a closeness to that language.

But there is something about singing in Swedish that I just... I barely...

I don't even like to speak, to talk Swedish when I do my shows and I have to like talk between my songs.

I'm like, oh no, how am I, like, what am I going to say?

And it's my first language, like my mother tongue.

Yeah.

Maybe, maybe it's the role when I'm like a pop star, you know, it's the English me.

And then when I go home and I obviously I'm doing concerts in Sweden, I'm not going to speak English between the songs.

Like that would be so crazy.

But then it's like, oh, wait a minute.