Zara Larsson Finally Explains the Dolphins That Took Over Her Pop Era
Zara Larsson visited Late Night with Seth Meyers and finally got into one of the internet’s more delightful recent pop accidents: how her Clean Bandit collaboration “Symphony” somehow became permanently attached to a dolphin meme.
The bit has taken on a life of its own, pairing dreamy dolphin imagery with the soaring song until the visual practically became part of the record’s second life online. Zara told Seth Meyers about watching the old track get pulled back into the conversation years later, only for that aquatic chaos to start bleeding into her current era too.
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Zara Larsson Enters Her Dolphin Era
Zara Larsson talks the viral Symphony dolphin meme, the evolution of her choreography and fans turning Midnight Sun shows into full-on human dolphin displays.
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Then the joke somehow became choreography. During performances of “Midnight Sun,” fans began spontaneously lifting one another into the air to mimic Zara’s now-signature dolphin pose. What starts as one person popping above the crowd quickly becomes a whole sea of human dolphins — ridiculous, oddly beautiful and exactly the kind of thing the internet can turn into concert tradition almost overnight.
The whole thing is a very Zara kind of full-circle moment. “Symphony” gets revived by a meme, the dolphin imagery follows her into Midnight Sun, and then the audience physically turns itself into the meme in real time. You cannot really plan that kind of pop-culture loop. You just ride it.
She also looked back at how the choreography for “Lush Life” evolved over time, another reminder that the songs people keep returning to rarely stay frozen in the era when they were first released. The moves change, the internet changes, the audience changes — and sometimes somebody ends up airborne.
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Watch Zara Larsson Talk “Symphony,” “Midnight Sun” and the Dolphin Meme
Zara Larsson breaks down the viral dolphin connection and the crowd reaction around “Midnight Sun” during her September 23 appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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