Zara Larsson announced in a video to her 11.6 million Instagram followers that she will release Midnight Sun: Girls Trip, a reworked, reimagined remix deluxe edition of her 2025 album Midnight Sun, on May 1.
The project will gather 13 female artists across the record — including PinkPantheress, who appears on a remix of Stateside, and Tyla, who joins Larsson after their recent teaming on She Did It Again and its music video. Madison Beer, Kehlani, Bambii, Margo Xs, JT, Emilia Mernes, Malibu, Eli and Helena Gao are also credited on the album.
Larsson said the remixes are not simple edits but tracks reproduced and reworked into what often feel like new songs, and she framed the collection as the fulfillment of a long-held aim to do collaborations with women. She told followers she could hardly believe the line-up had come together and called the project “so fun to give it another life,” adding that it is only the beginning of what she called a girls trip that will carry into the summer.
The announcement comes after Larsson released her debut EP Introducing in 2013 and the hit single Lush Life in 2015, and follows her 2025 original Midnight Sun album. Larsson said she was especially inspired by how Charli XCX approached her own post-release remix project — Brat And Its Completely Different But Also Still Brat — and modeled parts of Girls Trip on that expansive, collaborative approach.
The scale of the guest list is the detail that makes this more than a deluxe reissue. Thirteen credited female collaborators transforms what might have been bonus tracks into a collective statement aimed at spotlighting female voices across pop and alternative production. Larsson’s collaboration with PinkPantheress has already gone viral, a sign that at least one of the new pairings has struck a chord before the full record drops.
Larsson has also acknowledged the messier side of remix culture: she noted that many alternate versions of songs often never see the light of day and that there are countless ways to take a production. By choosing artists across scenes and voices, she argued, these reworkings become distinct pieces in their own right rather than merely leftover material.
That choice creates a practical tension. Remix deluxe editions can either revive an album by reframing its songs, or they can dilute the original’s identity. Larsson is betting on the former, saying this configuration of collaborators turns reproducers into co-authors and gives the songs new momentum; the risk is whether listeners will treat Girls Trip as a companion to Midnight Sun or as a separate statement.
For Larsson, the record is an explicit push to center women in the remix conversation. She told her followers she’d always wanted to do collaborations with girls and said she felt honored and excited by how many artists signed on — calling the release the start of an ongoing girls trip. That framing makes the May 1 date less like an endpoint and more like the opening of a season of collaborative pop releases.
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In plain terms: Midnight Sun: Girls Trip is Zara Larsson’s deliberate pivot into a collaborative remix model popularized recently by acts like Charli XCX, and it lands May 1 as a curated showcase of 13 female artists rather than a conventional deluxe with a few bonus tracks. Larsson has said she wants these reworks to live as new songs; on release day, listeners will decide whether Girls Trip succeeds at giving Midnight Sun the second life she promises.
