# @popbase on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dch-Cc3BBBr
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69782621-popbase-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-27T04:50:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pop Base (@PopBase) — https://gondola.cc/PopBase

## Caption

1 year ago, Zara Larsson released the music video for ‘Crush.’

Grant James Thomas directed the music video for Zara Larsson's 'Crush,' released on August 27, 2025, roughly two weeks after the single itself dropped on August 15 as the third release from her fifth studio album, 'Midnight Sun.' Larsson wrote the track alongside Helena Gao and producers Margo XS and MNEK, with the song emerging from the same creative team behind the album's earlier singles, 'Pretty Ugly' and 'Midnight Sun.' Larsson first teased the track on TikTok in early August before performing it live while opening for Tate McRae on the Miss Possessive Tour.

Visually, the video leans into playful, high-energy choreography that showcases Larsson's performance skills and personality, built around a narrative concept involving a mysterious, elusive creature representing an unrequited, forbidden love. That imagery mirrors the song's central theme, capturing the emotional push and pull of chasing something just out of reach. The clip arrived during an especially packed touring stretch for Larsson, sandwiched between stadium dates opening for Tate McRae and preparations for her own upcoming 'Midnight Sun' tour.

On the charts, 'Crush' became Larsson's twentieth top ten entry in her native Sweden, reaching number 32, while also charting on several Billboard airplay lists in the US. It helped build momentum ahead of the full 'Midnight Sun' album, released that September, continuing Larsson's run of dance-pop and electropop singles that defined one of the busiest stretches of her career to date.

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