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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-11T21:05:30.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.papermag.com",
  "tags": [
    "Music",
    "Cover story",
    "Midnight sun",
    "Rise bar",
    "Zara larsson",
    "May cover star",
    "See on Instagram",
    "View this post on Instagram",
    "A post shared by Paper Magazine (@papermagazine)",
    "Anneliese Horowitz",
    "@zaralarsson"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nNew York City’s RISE Bar is no stranger to a pop girl. In fact — as its legions of patrons already know — RISE champions those same girlies with all the zest and passion befitting its status as one of the city’s greatest gay bars.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIts pop star themed club nights are particularly iconic, and last Friday was Club Zara, in partnership with PAPER. Not the Spanish clothing brand, naturally: but Europe’s reigning pop powerhouse, and PAPER’s very own May cover star. Our Queen of Dolphins and Midnight Sun Mother, Zara Larsson herself.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n> See on Instagram\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nFor Zara herself to make a surprise appearance at her own themed club night is the kind of power move we know by now she is all _too_ capable of making. Yet that didn’t stop her presence — introduced by Zeta Jones, who was performing Zara’s “Midnight Sun” — from gagging the club entirely. And, subsequently, the internet.\n\nStepping out in a floral mini dress and a trademark Hawaiian flower tucked behind her ear to boot — _boot_! that’s my ego _boot!_ — the crowd went wild as Larsson stepped onto stage with Jones to celebrate her PAPER cover and thank her gay fans _specifically_.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n>        View this post on Instagram            \n>\n> A post shared by Paper Magazine (@papermagazine)\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n“I was so happy to meet this beautiful girl,” Zeta Jones wrote on Instagram. “She really is my favourite singer and I’ve performed her music for so long and I’m so happy that she’s getting her flowers and on top of that she’s a hottie and a girls’ girl.”\n\n“I LOVE @zaralarsson,” Jones concluded.\n\nThe crowd clearly agreed. Having just released _Midnight Sun: Girl’s Trip_ , which includes fellow modern icons of the genre Tyla, Robyn, Shakira, and PinkPantheress, Larsson is obviously the commander of today’s pop ecosystem.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nBut to pull off a genuine surprise appearance on a night dedicated to her is so chic. (And, to be honest, _totally_ cunty.) And mere hours after performing on Good Morning America with a broken heel? It’s myth-making in real time. Think Timothée Chalamet appearing at his own lookalike competition, but for the girls and gays.\n\nAll we can say has already been said by Zeta.\n\nWE LOVE Zara Larsson!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhotography by: Anneliese Horowitz",
  "title": "Zara Larsson Stormed RISE Bar With PAPER"
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