The Stateside live performance fans had been waiting for finally happened, with Zara Larsson and PinkPantheress taking the stage together to sing the track for the first time. ‘You guys are watching herstory being made right now,’ Larsson told the crowd.
Despite having performed together since the track’s release, this marked the first occasion the two had actually sung ‘Stateside’ live. The moment had been building for a while: back in April, PinkPantheress brought Larsson out at Coachella to debut their rework of Larsson’s 2025 hit ‘Midnight Sun’, but ‘Stateside’ itself stayed off the setlist.
‘Stateside’ features on Larsson’s remix album Midnight Sun (Girls Trip), which arrived in April alongside contributions from Robyn, Tyla, Shakira, and others. The record reframes Larsson’s original Midnight Sun project through a series of collaborations, and PinkPantheress’s involvement gave the campaign one of its most-talked-about moments.
The Stateside Live Performance in Context of a Sprawling Tour
Larsson is deep into the global Midnight Sun tour, a campaign that has taken on considerable scale. The European leg got underway on 28 October 2025 in Munich, Germany, and according to Zara Larsson Wiki, it runs through to 5 June 2026 in Stavanger, Norway. That stretch alone covers months of dates across the continent.
From there, a festival leg picks up on 19 June 2026 and runs until 25 August 2026, meaning the tour’s momentum carries well into the summer. North American festival dates follow: Larsson is lined up for both the New York and Maryland editions of All Things Go Festival, with Ticketmaster listing her appearance at All Things Go in Columbia, MD on 26 September 2026. For anyone who caught the ‘Stateside’ live moment and wants to see what the full show looks like, there are plenty of opportunities ahead.
PinkPantheress: BRITS History-Maker with a Busy Year
PinkPantheress arrived at this collaboration off the back of a landmark moment of her own. In February, she became the youngest artist and first woman to win Producer of the Year at the BRIT Awards, a milestone that put her in a different category of recognition entirely. Since then, she has set an acting debut in the next film from the Daniels and released a video for her track ‘Girl Like Me’, described as very British in feel.
That trajectory makes the ‘Stateside’ collaboration more than a feature credit. PinkPantheress is not simply a guest on someone else’s record right now, she is one of the most talked-about artists in the UK, and her appearance alongside Larsson carries weight in both directions. The Coachella moment in April was already a statement; getting the Stateside live performance on record confirms the two are treating this as a proper joint moment rather than a promotional footnote.
Larsson, for her part, clearly felt the occasion. ‘You guys are watching herstory being made right now’ is the kind of thing you say when the room is genuinely erupting, and by the sounds of the crowd in the footage, it was. The track has had a long runway to build anticipation, and it seems the live version delivered.
With the European run still to wrap in Stavanger and a full festival summer to follow, the Midnight Sun tour is set to keep that energy going for several more months. The 26 September Columbia date will be one of the later chances to catch it stateside.
