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Zara Larsson: Venus review – fervour on the dancefloor
Ignore the occasional earnest track and the Swedish star’s fourth album is an object lesson in delicious, ‘super fun’ pop
In the buildup to Larsson’s fourth album, the Swedish pop star variously described Venus ’s 12 songs as “super fun”, “dancey” and a “collection of really good music”. If that sounds like faint praise, it’s also a neat way of distancing herself from pop’s current penchant for retroactively adding layers of meaning to songs constructed for eliciting simple pleasures. Nothing cribs too readily from Rihanna’s 2010-era balladry, while Larsson’s full-bodied delivery jars with Soundtrack’s soft strings.
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