On her dress Zara Larsson had prints from three different bands: Cannibal Corpse, Behemoth and the band Burzum’s album from 1996. Burzum’s founder and sole member Varg Vikernes was sentenced in 1993 to 21 years in prison for one murder and three counts of arson after burning down churches. Vikernes has also been convicted of incitement against a ethnic group and is accused of being a Nazi.
Now the artist Zara Larsson comments on her outfit The evening paper :
“Oopsie, had no idea. Just thought my clothes looked cool. It was unfortunate,” she writes in a statement to the newspaper.
“It’s neither the first nor the last time someone wants to look cool by picking details from a culture they know nothing about,” says culture journalist Ika Johannesson, who has written a book about Swedish metal music for SVT.