ZARA LARSSON - LOVE ME LAND

LOVE ME LAND

ZARA LARSSON

SONGWRITER: JASON GILL; JULIA MICHAELS; JUSTIN TRANTER & ZARA LARSSON

COUNTRY: SWEDEN

ALBUM: LOVE ME LAND

LABEL: EPIC RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2020

Zara Maria Larsson (/ˈzɑːrəˈlɑːrsən/, Swedish: [ˈsɑ̂ːra ˈlɑ̌ːʂɔn]); born 16 December 1997) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. At the age of 10, she achieved national fame in Sweden for winning the 2008 season of the talent show Talang, the Swedish version of British TV's Got Talent. Four years later, in 2012, Larsson signed with the record label TEN Music Group and subsequently released her debut compilation recording, the extended play Introducing, in January 2013.

Larsson's first original song, "Uncover", topped the music charts in Scandinavia: Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. In February 2013, "Uncover" was certified Platinum by Universal Music Sweden. In July 2013, Introducing was certified 3× Platinum in the country. Larsson signed a three-year contract with Epic Records in the United States in April 2013. In 2016, she performed at the opening and closing ceremonies for UEFA Euro in France. Larsson's second studio album, So Good, was released on 17 March 2017 on the UK Albums Chart. Her third studio album, Poster Girl, is expected to be released in 2020.

Zara Maria Larsson was born at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden, to Agnetha and Anders Larsson. In an interview with Svenska Dagbladet, she said that she was born "dead" due to a lack of oxygen from nuchal cord. Larsson grew up in Tallkrogen in Enskede, south of Stockholm. Her mother is a nurse and her father is an officer. She has a 3-year younger sister, Hanna, who is also a singer and a member of the band Lennix.

Zara sang everywhere and often when she was young. Her first inspiration was Carola Häggkvist after getting her first album from her mother, which was a Carola album. She obsessively began impersonating Carola in every way, as best as she could. She then got amazed by Whitney Houston after receiving Whitney: The Greatest Hits.

Zara has said that since the age of five she's known that she wants to become a legend and "immortal" like Elvis Presley.

Larsson went to Gubbängsskolan for primary school, but in her third grade transferred to the Royal Swedish Ballet School and studied until age 15. Afterwards she went to Kulturama, an art school in Stockholm. She described that the new environment quickly made her much more aware of the world, social issues, and gender patterns, which increasingly came to impress in her public role. In a 2015 interview, Larsson said that she was accepted into the Adolf Fredrik's Music School for junior high school, but declined because she did not want to sing in a choir. 

Never thought I would love again

Here I am, lost in love me land

How dare you have lips like that?

How dare you go and kiss like that?

How dare you make use of it?

Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah

Touch me in the way that you do

No matter who's in the room

I see you sweatin' when you feel it, goin' fuller, baby

Touch me in the way that you do

No matter who's in the room

I see you sweatin' (sweatin')

Never thought I would love again (never thought)

Here I am in love me land, eh-eh, ah-ah

Never thought I would love again (here I am)

Here I am in love me land, eh-eh, ah-ah

Lost in your vocabular

Got around vernacularly

Take me home, don't call me Mary

Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah

Touch me in the way that you do

No matter who's in the room

I see you sweatin' when you feel it, goin' fuller, baby

Touch me in the way that you do

No matter who's in the room

I see you sweatin' (sweatin')

Never thought I would love again (never thought)

Here I am in love me land, eh-eh, ah-ah

Never thought I would love again (here I am)

Here I am in love me land, eh-eh, ah-ah

Eh-eh, ah-ah

Lipstick stain your soul

Eh-eh, ah-ah

So when you feel it, go fuller, baby

Eh-eh, ah-ah

Can't contain my bones

Eh-eh, ah-ah

So when you feel it, go fuller, baby

Never thought I would love again (never thought)

Here I am in love me land, eh-eh, ah-ah

Never thought I would love again (here I am)

Here I am in love me land, eh-eh, ah-ah (land).