"Feeling Anxious: Zara Larsson Concerned That Her Popular Remix with PinkPantheress Was Overlooked for Kylie Minogue’s"] - Guitar | Technique

More than a decade after the release of Lush Life, which became one of the biggest songs of the 2010s, Zara Larsson is having another moment. Not only is that single racing back up the charts after going viral on TikTok, but Larsson is also making commercial inroads alongside PinkPantheress on a remix of her song Stateside, which we first heard last year.

This is taken from PinkPantheress’s Fancy Some More? collection, which sees her reimagining her 2025 mixtape, Fancy That, alongside a roster of other artists. In fact, Larsson’s version of Stateside was one of four to be created for the album, so she says that, at one point, she feared that it might not make the cut.

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The collaboration came about shortly after Larsson had sent PinkPantheress a DM expressing her admiration. Her timing was fortuitous: not only did the British star quickly respond, but she also asked the Swede if she wanted to be involved in Fancy Some More?

“She was like, ‘I’m doing this remix album. Are you down to do a song?’ I was like, ‘Yes,'” Larsson tells People.

After that, things happened very quickly. “It was cute, boom boom boom boom boom, wrote my verse, sent it in,” says Larsson. However, after she learned that Kylie Minogue had a version on the album, she started to worry that hers wasn’t going to be included.

“I got really scared, like, ‘Oh my God, what if she hated it? I thought she liked it,'” says Larsson. “But then it turned out she had, like, a million people on the remixes, which I think is actually a really fun way to do it.”

There are indeed a lot of other artists on Fancy Some More?, but not only is Larsson’s version of Stateside proving to be the biggest reworking of that song – as well as Minogue’s, there are also versions involving Bladee and Groove Armada – but it’s also turning out to be the album’s standout commercial hit. A video was released on 15 January, and since then Stateside has gone global, with the clip racking up more than 13 million views already.