Three Voices Turn a Solar Pop Rush Into Midnight Velvet
Today’s “Performance Choice” is a no-brainer: FLO entered BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge and freshly delivered their own version of Zara Larsson’s “Midnight Sun.”
Stella Quaresma, Renée Downer and Jorja Douglas have built FLO around the kind of group chemistry pop keeps pretending it no longer needs. Give them a song with lift, melody and room to play, and the entire point becomes hearing three individual voices pull it into one shared identity.
“Midnight Sun” already arrives with a glow of its own. Zara released the title track on June 13, 2025, before the Midnight Sun album followed that September. The song was written by Larsson with Helena Gao, MNEK and Margo Wildman, with production from Margo XS and MNEK.
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A Zara Larsson Title Track Enters the FLO Vocal System
A good Live Lounge cover should not behave like karaoke with better microphones. The format works when an artist finds the structural reason the song belongs in their hands and lets the original survive without leaving it untouched.
For FLO, that reason is the group itself. Larsson’s recording is built around one commanding pop voice, while a trio naturally changes the song’s center of gravity. Melody becomes conversation, a single line can become a handoff, and the emotional charge can move between three performers instead of remaining fixed in one place.
The song still belongs to Zara, but the vocal architecture is suddenly living in FLO’s house.
That is also why FLO remain such a satisfying fit for the Live Lounge. Their strongest appeal has never been merely that all three members can sing. It is that the contrast between their voices becomes part of the arrangement rather than something polished away.
The Live Lounge Still Knows Exactly Why Covers Matter
BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge has lasted because the cover slot asks artists to reveal their musical instincts without requiring a grand reinvention speech. The choice of song tells us what they have been hearing; the arrangement tells us what they noticed inside it.
FLO choosing “Midnight Sun” places them in direct conversation with one of pop’s sharpest contemporary vocalists while leaving plenty of space for their own identity. It is respectful without being timid and familiar without becoming predictable.
The pairing also makes musical sense beyond the obvious pop connection. Larsson’s song is designed around clarity and emotional release, while FLO specialize in turning clear melodic ideas into layered group moments.
No gimmick required. Put thee microphones on, let the harmonies organize themselves and allow a great pop song to discover another route through the room.
FLO Cover Zara Larsson’s “Midnight Sun” in the Live Lounge
The supplied gallery preserves all four remaining images from the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge performance in their original INYIM order.
FLO during the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge session featuring “Midnight Sun.”
The images keep the focus where the performance puts it: on Stella, Renée and Jorja sharing the song as a unit rather than treating the cover as a single-vocal showcase with two supporting voices.
Watch FLO Cover Zara Larsson’s “Midnight Sun” in BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge
The supplied BBC Radio 1 video presents FLO’s Live Lounge rendition of Zara Larsson’s 2025 title track.
Sources: BBC Radio 1; FLO; Zara Larsson; Apple Music.
