No mere ‘Poster Girl’, Zara Larsson is that new kind of pop star. At just 23 years old, the Stockholm-based sensation is already a multi-platinum-selling artist, who has been nominated for 4 BRIT Awards, racked up over 6 million followers on Instagram, and showcased her sixth sense for hit melodies with a series of chart anthems.

Her first international album, So Good, became the second most-streamed debut by a female artist ever on Spotify, though Zara’s ambitions only begin with the bangers. Few mainstream acts can claim to have performed before the Nobel Prize committee, won an award for feminism from Sweden’s oldest womens’ rights organisation, and led a Durex campaign in association with the HIV charity Red. A budding Gen Z role model, Zara Larsson is a classic pop star, but in the most contemporary sense: frank, seemingly fear-free, and no-fucks-given (sample tweet: “Feminism and man hating are two different things. I support both”).

All of which sets the stage for ‘Poster Girl’ – Zara’s hugely-anticipated second international album, and without a doubt her arrival at Pop’s Top Table. Mixing some of the musical loves of her life (the dancefloor melodrama of local heroes Abba, the empowered R&B of early Rihanna) with tales of young love gone wrong (and right again), ‘Poster Girl’ also lets Larsson’s vibrant personality shine through clearer than ever before. “I’ve grown as a person, making this album,” Zara says decisively. “The thread is me growing up, being more comfortable and more confident. I’m not a teenager anymore; I’m a young woman.”