On September 26, Zara Larsson’s new album, ‘Midnight Sun’ is published. The first advance, ‘Pretty Ugly’, has ended up being eclipsed by the viral of ‘Midnight Sun’, one of the best songs of summer 2025, and today a third advance called ‘Crush’ arrives.
‘Crush’ is an immediate production of pop dance, full of melodic and instrumental tricks that define the style of its main producer, Zhone, who is behind the productions of ‘Rush’ by Troye Sivan or ‘Fast’ of Demi Lovato. ‘Crush’ is a cousin sister of both, but differs thanks to their theme. No, not a ‘crush’ as Jennifer Paige understood.
‘Crush’ finds Larsson “in the gray zone of morality”, fantasizing with a man while maintaining a healthy relationship with another, and although he knows that this detour can “ruin his life.” Zara is excited by the “secretism” of the relationship, he feels “dangerous” when that boy calls him hidden, hooks his “attention” and wonders where his impetus of “destruction.”
‘Crush’ turns out to be an example of emotional responsibility when Larsson expresses, in the second stanza, who has spoken with his partner and “is better that we cut the communication.” However, Larsson never denies his desire for the other person, he simply does not consume it.
The hard “reality” is that this “crush”, for Zara Larsson, will never cease to be a fantasy. Therefore, Larsson makes a word game between the words “crush” and “crushed”, because Larsson feels “devastated”, but knows that, deep down, there was never love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu-y_3kieg0
