BackMags Cosmopolitan USA - January 2017 | Page 13

Q & A
ZARA LARSSON
The outspoken Swede behind the smash-hit songs“ Lush Life” and“ Ain’ t My Fault” drops her new album, So Good, this month.
ON GOING TO BAT FOR
HER FAVE TRACKS:“ There’ s a song called‘ Mississippi’ about a back-andforth relationship. It’ s like you’ re counting: One Mississippi, things are good, then two Mississippi, things are bad. It was actually written a couple of years ago, so the song had
ALICIA KEYS On Here, her strippeddown soul is just as bold and gorgeous as her makeup-free aesthetic.
a big chance of being left off the album, but it just stayed with me.”
NEW YEAR’ S RESOLUTION:“ To always be on time. It never works out. Every January 1, I’ m like,‘ Sorry I’ m late!’”
ON USING HER VOICE:“ My parents taught me that it’ s okay to
THE HAMILTON MIX-
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question everything. Sometimes, it came back to bite them— if they said I couldn’ t do something, I’ d say,‘ Why not?’ We can talk for hours about things that are happening in society. It’ s absolutely thanks to them that I’ m confident in saying what I want.”
— RACHEL MOSELY

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