Zara Larsson on Staying True to Yourself | GREAT MOMENTS

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2:14Zara Larsson: Hello, everyone. I'm Jamie Lange, and this is Great Moments. Guys, welcome back. Welcome back to Great Moments. So nice to see you here or hear you here. Now, okay, to celebrate this year's Brit Awards, which was amazing. It was incredible. I was there. It was just the best. Today's Great Moment is with the ultimate pop star, Zara Larsson. I don't know if you've seen Zara, but she's going viral on TikTok with her dance. And Zara was one of my first ever guests on Great Company, and I just love her. Now, in this Great Moment, Zara opens up about making music she truly believes in. And she also talks about how Beyonce makes her cry whenever she talks about Beyonce.

2:54Zara Larsson: So get ready for that. Now, if you really enjoy this great moment, you can go and click on the full episode as well. So make sure you do that if you like this clip. But here it is, our great moments with Zara Larsson.

3:14Zara Larsson: When you're recording a song, when you're writing it, when you're finding the lyrics and you're getting whatever you're getting within your song, when you hear one and you're like, this feels good. When you're in that scene, you're like, this is it. This is fucking it.

3:31Jamie Laing: This is good. you've had that a few times right yes so many times i'm like this like you're not even ready and then i'm like i felt that way with love me land like my first single off poster girl i really felt like guys like nah you're hearing what i'm hearing are you hearing what i'm hearing

3:56Zara Larsson: I don't think you're ready for this shit

3:58Jamie Laing: This is gonna blow every chart Everyone is gonna like How do you know that though? I just felt like it was such a good song And then it didn't do what I wanted it to But you know what? Is that marketing? I truly, I don't even know I don't even know, maybe it's the stars aligning in the universe I think there's so many things That just has to be Right For that moment in time But the thing is, I'm so proud of that song and I love the video. I love everything about it. And even just releasing it just felt like a proud moment because I don't feel like when I release stuff that I feel really happy about, that you can't lose.

4:39Jamie Laing: You really can't lose. And I'm just not saying that. I feel sad for the people missing out on that song. That's really what I feel.

4:47Zara Larsson: That is a great way. So you don't, it doesn't create, maybe it doesn't create self-doubt. It doesn't make you scared. It just makes you go.

4:54Jamie Laing: It makes me like, hello, wake up. Wake up. That's how I feel. So good. Yeah, and then. You guys didn't hear it?

5:04Zara Larsson: What the fuck?

5:05Jamie Laing: It was freaking, you idiots. It was amazing. And then I think if you would have released something.

5:10Zara Larsson: It's a great way to twist it. Not even twist it because that's a wrong word. It's the great way to view it.

5:14Jamie Laing: Yeah, but if you release something that you're not super proud of. And you feel that way of. I've released songs that I feel like this is good but I'm also mostly excited about like this might feel like a hit and then but I've never really released something that I didn't like but let's say you do that I know a lot of artists that have done that and they release something and you know if it's a hit they love it you know wow it's it was a number one I love it it got two billion streams if it's not a hit and then you stand there with the song that you don't even like that's like a flop to me emotionally that's an emotional flop which is the worst type of flop what does that feel like it's the worst kind of flop what does that feel like i think it would just be like again like why am i doing this who am i doing this for

6:10Zara Larsson: and then that's when your um drive and ambition started because you're like well because that's what keeps you going in life right just for everyone it's the ambition to drive and it's

6:19Jamie Laing: hard that there is hard when you are an artist that is um competitive which i think every artist is uh or has a drive to want to be at least the best version of yourself but also with like you you you want to be you want to be in the game you know um when you have that it's hard to also compare because music is so it's like jay-z said at the grammys like this is just a bunch of people voting for what they think is the best song it's not necessarily the best album or the best song because there is no such thing there's only the best song for you like me and my dad we have very different types of um genres yeah and tastes that we listen to yeah and that doesn't mean that he hates the grateful dead or yeah imagine but he probably wouldn't have my you know the majority of my songs on his playlist that he would listen to when he relaxes or cooks or whatever and i probably wouldn't listen to motorhead and that's not saying they're bad it's just not my type of vibe you know what i mean yeah so that's also something that's hard but when someone is amazing like Beyonce when someone is just sorry but objectively the best of course Texas Holden yeah and 16 carriages that makes me cry no it doesn't yeah it does it makes you cry yeah

7:50Zara Larsson: can someone play it

7:53Jamie Laing: wait why does it make you cry I don't know it's a bit unclear what the song is about but you could you could see it from different perspectives and and one of them is like 16 carriages is that her years that she's been in the industry like her her life like she sees her life the 16k is that her tour buses going away on the road driving away with her dreams of because even though Beyonce is like you know she's the superstar of the world she's like the celebrity of celebrities and everybody just not everybody but everybody who who has good taste loves her uh I would say she probably also have a lot of dreams that she couldn't fulfill because she had to sacrifice a big part of her life to her career and where she's at right now and was it worth it did she get to experience all the things she wanted like she obviously lives a very very different life than you and me she can't walk out she can't she can't have this like connection with strangers because everybody just sees her as a phenomenon almost i could only imagine and that's also something you got to think about like oh you know i want to be this like superstar i want to be like a celebrity like i want everybody to love me but then i also want people to love me for me because i don't know beyonce and not a lot of people actually know her at least the people who follow her and that's sad i don't know that made me cry but why but you but because because

9:24Zara Larsson: you care for her so much or it relates to you is that what it is it's because you care for her so much you you that's unbelievable that's so you're like an empath sorry that is you're actually getting tearful yeah i'm gonna clip up this bit and just add it to another bit so it doesn't feel like it's about Beyonce do you want a tissue I'm not gonna cry but it is

9:51Jamie Laing: it's just like oh I don't even know if that song's about that but to me it felt like I could empathize with that and she probably has had the most amazing life and obviously experienced stuff that a regular person wouldn't and so have I I've been traveling I've been able to tour the world with my music but what have you sacrificed maybe like time time with the people I love and what's more important than that really when you go out and yes you do get love from people you don't know but like when you are on your deathbed and you lay there and you think back about life isn't it the relationships the real relationships that we have with people that really meant everything but i think also you want to leave like a legacy or you want to inspire people and and be a part that's why music is so beautiful like sometimes i have people walking up to me and they're like oh my gosh like your song was uh i was i had your song as i got married or on my graduation or this really important moment in someone's life and i got to be a part of that or they would have looked at my videos in a time where they felt sad or wasn't in a good place and they felt inspired or even someone might be listening to your podcast and felt it maybe just ticked a little thought that led them to something.

11:24Jamie Laing: You know, I think it's nice that you are able to inspire people, but personally, at the end of the very, very end, I don't know, like, what is this all about?

11:36Zara Larsson: There's a, like a, is it a fable? I don't know. But there's a story which I heard recently, which is, and I'm going to completely murder it, but I'm going to give it a go, where it's a, it's a, it's a fisherman and an American businessman. and the American businessman says to the fisherman, what do you do? And he says, well, I go and fish in the morning and then I do a little bit and I come back to my family and I play with them and I have a great time with them. We eat the fish. And the American businessman says, well, why don't you spend all your day fishing, collect the fish, take it back to your family, but then go and sell the fish.

12:12Zara Larsson: And the fisherman says, well, why don't I do that? He goes, well, then you can make more money. The fisherman goes, why don't I do that? He goes, well, then you can sell the fish and you can then maybe go and sell the fish, collect money go and buy a factory tin it up and then you've got the production and then you can sell more and the fisherman says well why do you do that and he goes well then then you can sell

12:30Jamie Laing: all that and you can have loads of money and the fisherman says well why would you do that and he

12:33Zara Larsson: goes well then you can spend more time with your family right and the fisherman says well i was

12:36Jamie Laing: doing that in the first place that made me it makes me want to cry boom capitalism

12:45but you know what i mean right and so yeah it gets me a bit emotional because what the hell

12:51Zara Larsson: are you doing to me because at the end of the day yeah that's really what is important yeah it really is love relationships loyalty truck all those kind of things all the other stuff that we're doing right here you know but maybe that gets us purpose right and purpose is really important and and in terms of purpose you know you're so fulfilled with what you're doing so maybe that is the part of life as well that you can look back yeah and i don't think anyone actually

13:17Jamie Laing: no matter what you do have it completely figured out because i think you like you say you do need something to strive for and a purpose and to work towards something but at the same time just be aware of it and be aware of being being present and like appreciate all that you have and that's just such uh because sometimes i think oh what what will be different like in this actual very very moment let's say I would have right now like 20 Grammys right and I would have a big big entourage wherever I go and I would have I was I will be on the way to a stadium tour would would the rehearsal that I'm doing or sitting here right now talking would that be that much different?

14:12Jamie Laing: It wouldn't. It really wouldn't. I still want it. I still want it. But you just have to think like, would it be that, would it feel that different? Maybe from the, it would look different from the outside, but would it feel different for me? I don't think so.

14:30Zara Larsson: No, it really wouldn't.

14:31Jamie Laing: So I'm just happy in any setting, basically.

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15:29Zara Larsson: Tommy John Underwear is designed for a perfect fit that stays put all day. There's zero chafe thanks to four times more stretch than competing brands. And their innovative horizontal quick-draw fly is a game-changer. With over 30 million pairs sold, there are thousands of men out there more comfortable than you. Don't settle for less. Go to TommyJohn.com today for 25 % off your first order with code COMFORT. That's TommyJohn.com slash COMFORT. TommyJohn. Comfort perfected. Hello there, Ben Shepard here. And me, Joel Domitz. So Christmas is here. And while you're wrapping gifts, it's time to wrap up your business goals too.

16:05Zara Larsson: If you want to know exactly how to prepare for your money resolutions before the end of the year and start January ahead of the game, listen to our podcast, The Businessman. So grab a mulled wine, hit play and make this Christmas the start of your best business year yet. Search The Businessman wherever you get your podcasts or watch it on YouTube.