So Zara Larsson just released her third international album, Venus, and I've seen a lot of criticism about the lack of quality control in her music. In other words, her albums are always full of filler.

 

We can see how much she shines when she's given a good song to work with (Can't Tame Her, All The Time, Love Me Land just to name a few).

 

She's obviously a very talented singer and live performer, I just wonder why her label is wasting her potential on this mediocre material. There are other mainstream acts who don't really write much of their own stuff but still seem to be able to deliver a cohesive project. What's up @Zara's team

I don’t know why but I have wondered this too.  I feel like the lack of consistency really harms her ability to make it big. Back in 2016 she seemed to be such a rising star with great quality output.  

There’s a few bops on the album but it’s crazy to think about Zara v. Dua threads from a few years ago

I don’t think it’s a matter of control, it’s just the best material she was able to get.  Writing a good pop song is incredibly hard, and no offense but she’s not exactly the first choice to sing the biggest gems

She’ll be fine. 

11 minutes ago, Dephira said:

I don’t think it’s a matter of control, it’s just the best material she was able to get.  Writing a good pop song is incredibly hard, and no offense but she’s not exactly the first choice to sing the biggest gems

She was after her so good era. She had so many great writing camped songs like permission which she scrapped

I think her team/label just doesn’t believe in her. So nobody is investing in her at all. YouI’ll get a few bops on all her albums but overall the era & album are normally messy & inspired. 
 

Look at her music videos this era you can’t tell me her label cares 

This is tragic because she was my favorite pop star in 2017 and now look...

kinda crazy that her strongest material was all secured when she was a main sweden girl and had no real international breakthrough, but then the quality started to go downhill after she broke out 

 

if slayyyter can manage to get an album of bops why can’t zara

I agree. She's trying to make a hit and seeing what sticks and not focusing on making a cohesive body of work.

Shame, because she's really talented and is truly a good live performer. 

2 hours ago, Delirious said:

She was after her so good era. She had so many great writing camped songs like permission which she scrapped

She was after Lush Life. Then she scrapped hits like Permission and Wanna and filled So Good was mid trash, and toned down her personality - something I think her management played a part in after AMF flopped.

Then she kept her momentum with RML and DWAM but after she sabotaged/flopped with the latter and went back to the drawing boards the producers good faith was done.

Edited February 9, 20242 yr by Blue.

I thought Can't Tame Her was very cheap and bad and I wish she went with a different song to push as a lead single.

She just doesn’t have taste or a vision.

If you think she is the problem you're dumb

She has no backing from her label/team 

Venus doesn’t have any filler for me. I loved every track. 

Lack of vision either on her part or her label

14 hours ago, Yawn said:

if slayyyter can manage to get an album of bops why can’t zara

Wait this spill. Slayyyter's production is serving free sample pack but the songs are all bops. We need her to hook Zara up