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Zara Larsson probably pulled up to "Cheap Shots" ready to overshare, and we're not mad about it. With cocktails inspired by 'Midnight Sun' and 'Lush Life' in hand, the pop star takes on spicy questions about her biggest online posting regrets, the tours she never wants to relive, and who she’s blocked on Spotify. She also taps into her well-known love of Beyoncé by ranking her favorite songs — no hesitation. Truth or drink, Zara proves she’s just as honest as she is hilarious.

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00:00That's just all you do in LA, really.
00:01You're just in your car.
00:02And then you go to Air One.
00:05That's about it.
00:07Hi, I'm Zara Larson,
00:08and I'm taking cheap shots with Cosmo.
00:11All of them are still here.
00:14No.
00:15Is that not a good enough answer?
00:19Are you picky about what you drink?
00:20I'm actually not very picky about what I drink.
00:23I just need it to go down fast.
00:25Like, I would rather have a shot than have a drink.
00:28And if I'm not having a shot,
00:30I would maybe enjoy, like, the glass of wine.
00:32But I drink to get drunk.
00:34In round one, I'll be taking shots at myself.
00:37The drinks are Lush Life Lemon Drops,
00:39four are regular,
00:40and one is spiked with some questionable vodka.
00:44Question number one.
00:45You went viral for defending people talking in the movie theater.
00:48What's your most controversial music take?
00:51I didn't even think my movie take was controversial,
00:54so I guess it's just up to the people receiving it
00:57to decide if it is or not.
00:58If you, like, only listen to one music genre,
01:03then I don't think you're very smart.
01:08Question number two.
01:09What's your most toxic Sagittarius trait?
01:13I guess I just don't like to stay in one place for very long.
01:17I need to move around.
01:18I need to feel free.
01:20I don't want to be tied down.
01:21I just can't see myself, like, in one place
01:25for more than three months.
01:28Oof.
01:30What's your least favorite time?
01:31I don't know. I don't care.
01:33I just know the best sign is Sagittarius.
01:36You're known for being chronically online?
01:39What's one thing you've posted in the past that you regret?
01:42I post a lot and everything that I post,
01:46all my stories, all my, like, in-feed,
01:48like, most of them are just from whatever I feel like now.
01:54I do wish I could go back sometimes
01:56and, like, articulate myself clearer,
01:58but I don't, like, in hindsight,
02:01actually regret anything, I think.
02:04You could also take the shot.
02:06Hell no.
02:08You know what I regret?
02:10I regret deleting some things.
02:12I remember one thing I said was, like,
02:1513 Reasons Why is, like, a really bad TV show,
02:17and everyone came at me so hard
02:20because Selena Gomez produced it.
02:23I was like, I didn't say anything about her.
02:25And I just got the craziest amount of people coming at me.
02:30I didn't just delete one tweet.
02:31I deleted all of my tweets.
02:33Because now it's just like, you know what, you guys win.
02:37And now I'm like, no, just stand on it, you know?
02:42Stay with your chest.
02:43I don't think that series is very good,
02:45but I do love Selena Gomez.
02:48Question number four.
02:49If you had to delete one song from your discography,
02:52which one would it be and why?
02:54If I want to make it easy,
02:56I'll just go back to, like, my first or my second EP.
02:58Cash Me Out, which is very experimental.
03:03I'll say that.
03:06Question number five.
03:09All of them are still here.
03:10Let's see.
03:11You're famously unfiltered.
03:13What's one celebrity encounter you wish
03:15you had been slightly more filtered?
03:18Listen, I don't really get embarrassed.
03:20I just think it's an unnecessary feeling.
03:23I have a lot of mercy for myself.
03:27And by being kind to myself,
03:29I also then never really think other people
03:32are embarrassing or cringy.
03:33And that just goes in the loop.
03:34Is that not a good enough answer?
03:42Oh.
03:47That wasn't very nice.
03:50That was a cheap shot.
03:53It was?
03:54Yeah.
03:55Yeah, that wasn't very good.
03:57It was like hand sanitizer.
04:02Okay, boom.
04:04Round two, time shots.
04:06These drinks are tequila midnight sunrises.
04:09Four made with top shelf tequila.
04:12And one with the sheep nasty stuff.
04:16All right, let's go.
04:17Question one.
04:18What song did you open with on your first US headlining tour?
04:22Which was my first headlining tour?
04:25The Don't Worry About Me tour.
04:27Don't worry about me?
04:28I guess it was...
04:31Never Forget You?
04:33Ain't my fault?
04:34I don't know.
04:38It must have been...
04:42Lush Life?
04:44No, I don't know.
04:49So...
04:52Oh, that's nice.
04:55Okay, I like this glass.
04:59Ooh.
05:15That was not the cheap one.
05:17Yeah, it was all right.
05:21I wouldn't do tequila with orange juice.
05:27Oh, question number two.
05:29How many times do you say midnight in your hit Midnight Sun?
05:33I think I say...
05:38I would guess six.
05:41Really?
05:42Eight?
05:44Okay, period.
05:44That was easy.
05:45I could have just kept one, two, three, four, five.
05:49Bye.
05:50Question number three.
05:52Oh, wow.
05:54What was the first song you ever danced to on TikTok?
05:58I feel like it has to be...
06:03Hmm...
06:03I remember around that era, it was like Ruined My Lifetimes.
06:07So I don't know if I danced to it, but I might have made a TikTok to it.
06:11It wasn't your song.
06:12Oh, it wasn't my song?
06:13Was it Renegade?
06:14Oh, I have no idea.
06:20Can you give me a clue?
06:21Cardi B.
06:24Oh.
06:27What was it?
06:28It was Wow.
06:32Wow, okay.
06:35I like this glass.
06:36Oh, oh.
06:42Oh, I don't like that.
06:44I don't like that one.
06:49No.
06:49Is this good tequila?
06:51No, that's the cheap one.
06:52Ah, yeah.
06:54You can taste the difference, actually.
06:55Ah, ha, ha.
07:00Ah.
07:07Question number four.
07:09You opened for Ed Sheeran on his 2019 European Divide Tour.
07:13Name five Ed Sheeran songs.
07:14Damn, okay.
07:16Shape of You, um, A-Team.
07:22You, I Don't Need You.
07:24Is that what it's called?
07:25You Need Me.
07:25I Don't Need You.
07:26Oh, my God.
07:27Wait.
07:28Help.
07:31What the fuck?
07:36Photograph.
07:37One more.
07:40Wait, like, um.
07:46Wait, okay.
07:47Even though time's up, I have to come up with, like, perfect.
07:51I think the Beyonce's on that.
07:53Come on now.
07:53That's crazy.
07:54Okay.
07:55Cheers.
07:56To Ed Sheeran.
07:58Fantastic songwriter and artist.
08:06Okay.
08:09Question number five.
08:11Your Grammy nomination is for Best Dance Pop Recording.
08:14There are only two other artists who have won this award.
08:17Who are they?
08:18It's a very new category.
08:21So, I know Charlie won it.
08:26Is it a feature that she won with?
08:30No.
08:31She won it and then someone the year before.
08:33Yep.
08:36Can't get you out of my head.
08:37Who's that?
08:39Who's that?
08:39The song.
08:40No.
08:40Who's that?
08:42Get out of my head?
08:47Kelly Minogue.
08:48Oh.
08:50Congrats to her.
08:52I didn't know that.
08:53I like this glass.
09:02Love that.
09:03And that was that.
09:04That went really bad.
09:05Round two.
09:08Complete.
09:10Round three.
09:11The category is cheap shots.
09:12I'll be taking literal cheap shots at everyone.
09:15The drinks are hot and sexy whiskey sours.
09:18Four are made with some expensive bourbon and one is made with not so nice bourbon.
09:25I like this one.
09:26Question one.
09:26You are from Sweden, but you spend a lot of time living in the US.
09:31Name one habit that still annoys you about Americans.
09:35Good one.
09:36I spend most of my time in LA.
09:39People just can't drive.
09:40They just can't drive.
09:42I think it's so crazy how you spend so much time in your car and you can't drive.
09:47Like that's insane coming from me as well who get in a car accident like once every month maybe.
09:55But I can drive very smoothly.
09:58You can roll smoothly.
10:00You don't have to stop.
10:02You don't have to come up to the car.
10:03Stop.
10:03Come up to the car.
10:04Like I hate that shit.
10:06That's just all you do in LA really.
10:08You're just in your car and then you go to Air One.
10:12That's about it.
10:13So yeah, please learn how to drive.
10:15Also, by not stopping, you just save so much gas.
10:19So that's that.
10:21Question number two.
10:23Rank this iconic Swedish musicians from favorite to least favorite.
10:27Ooh, ABBA Robin Iconopop.
10:31Robin one, ABBA second, third Iconopop.
10:34But that's like top three, you know?
10:36That's like a good collection of amazing musicians.
10:41Okay.
10:42Question number three.
10:43You consider yourself a Beyoncé stan.
10:45Which of her albums do you listen to the least?
10:50Probably Dangerously in Love, like that era.
10:53I listen to like the newest one the most.
10:56B-Day is like my favorite, I think.
10:59Do you have a top three favorite Beyoncé song?
11:02I don't.
11:03It just always changes, doesn't it?
11:06Like my most played song this year was Protector.
11:09I also really love flamenco.
11:13I love the Renaissance album so much.
11:16I would go for like, like, resentment.
11:20Which is not from Renaissance, but it just does something to me.
11:23I don't know.
11:23It's very loud.
11:24I like that one.
11:26Wee.
11:27Question number four.
11:28Name one artist we would never find on a playlist of yours.
11:31There's so many artists I have blocked on Spotify.
11:36And all of them are like abusers.
11:38You certainly wouldn't find like a Chris Brown song.
11:43Hi.
11:45Question number five.
11:47You opened for many artists throughout your career,
11:49including Ed Sheeran, Cheer Lloyd.
11:51Ah, yes.
11:51Beyoncé and Tate McRae.
11:53Name one tour you'd never want to go on again.
11:55The Cheer Lloyd one, just because it was like a theater tour.
11:59You know?
12:00She's great.
12:01Like, she's fun.
12:03Bring Cheer Lloyd back.
12:04But Ed Sheeran, that was like stadiums, you know?
12:07Like, yeah.
12:08Beyoncé was like, ah.
12:09But Tate was the most amazing experience.
12:13Cheer Lloyd was also an incredible experience for me at that time,
12:16because it was the first tour that I was ever on.
12:19But now, please, please, please,
12:21I don't want to come back to opening for an artist in a theater.
12:25I'm just on my way to do my own theater tour in the U.S.,
12:31which is also very exciting,
12:33because it's like the biggest tour that I've done so far in the U.S.
12:36But hopefully I'll come back very soon,
12:39and maybe we'll do like amphitheaters.
12:42And then hopefully like the arenas.
12:43I want to go like in that direction.
12:45So that's why.
12:47Bye.
12:49Thank you so much for watching Cheap Shots.
12:52Come see me on tour if you have a ticket.
12:55If not, go get it, because it's basically sold out.
13:02Top park in that sit.
13:03They're better, and you're good.
13:07But we have to keep trackin' for a 25- tirar of the water in the background.
13:16It will be lovely.
13:18Let's see you next night.
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