Swedish pop singer Zara Larsson recently came under fire for comments she made joking about a fan’s abortion.
It all started when TikTok user @honeyhazelwood shared a video of the singer performing “Midnight Sun” at one of her recent shows. Larsson is currently touring in the United States.
In a text overlay of the video, the TikTok user wrote, “i didn’t know i was pregnant here but at least my baby got to hear midnight sun before I aborted it.”
Larsson responded with a joking comment, writing, “I killed the performance and then you killed it after the performance purrrrrr.”
@honeyhazelwood a never ending midnight baby #fyp #xyzabc #viral #midnightsun #zaralarsson @Zara Larsson ♬ original sound – lattegirl 🎬
Their exchange inspired a negative reaction online. Later on, the singer doubled down, saying she couldn’t understand why people were so upset. “Sorry, that’s funny… Sorry if you don’t have humor,” Larsson posted in a follow-up TikTok video.
“Why do you feel like abortion is only OK when it’s a very hard decision, when it’s something that women have to struggle with going through, when it’s emotionally or physically painful?” she went on. “Why does that make it morally superior to someone just wanting an abortion for whatever reason? Why is it only morally OK when women have to suffer? Now riddle me that.”
“It doesn’t have to be taboo,” Larsson insisted. “It doesn’t have to be this bad thing that women do… if we speak about it in a casual manner, that also makes [it easier for] the women who go through it and who are actually suffering through it,” she concluded. “So let’s just make more jokes. Abortion is healthcare, what can I say.”
Social media commenters, meanwhile, were not amused.
“Speaking about babies this way is demonic. The normalization of abortion’s violence is evil, and it exposes that the Left only cares that babies continue to die,” Students for Life of America shared on X.
“Millions of little girls look up to Zara Larsson… and this is the example she’s setting for them. Utterly grim,” another commenter agreed.
“No one is celebrating abortion,” The Daily Wire host Isabel Brown mockingly wrote, repeating a popular false assertion among the pro-abortion crowd.
Larsson started gaining recognition in American pop culture after figure skater Alysa Liu, who won the nation’s first gold medal in women’s singles since 2002, skated to her song “Stateside” at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
The singer has been outspoken about politics, revealing her anti-Israel stance and support for left-wing causes on multiple occasions. Despite being Swedish, she has a lot to say about American politics.
The singer wrote on her Instagram story in January, “I love immigrants, I love criminals, I love trans people, I love abortions, I love queers, I love slutty women, I love contraception, I love welfare, I love socialism, I f***ing hate ICE.”
“IDK about yall but I’d rather have someone smoking crack on my couch than a f***ing ICE agent ewwwwwwwwww,” she wrote in a follow-up, per TMZ.
The White House’s official TikTok responded with a video mocking her. The post included footage of Donald Trump and had Larsson’s song “Lush Life” playing as phrases appeared, including, “We love America First … We love deportations … We love cheap gas prices … We love a secure border … We love world peace … We love law and order … We love work not welfare … WE LOVE ICE and our law enforcement!”
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