Maisie Peters hints at touring with 'hero' Taylor Swift as she dissects new break-up album
23.06.2023 - 08:23
/ msn.com
Taylor Swift and her music as she lifted the lid on the influences behind her second album, The Good Witch. Now available to stream, download, and all other exciting things, the record marks Maisie’s second since her debut album You Signed Up For This dropped in 2021. Filled with songs about love, heartache, insecurity, friendship, and everything in between, the ‘break-up album’, as Maisie describes it, is a culmination of everything she’s felt over the past 12 months.
Chatting exclusively to Metro. co. uk, the Psycho hitmaker, 23, not only reflected on what inspired her album, but also teased where it might take her, as Miss Swift gears up to tour the UK and Europe next year.
Asked if she’d be down to open for Taylor, 33, at her stadium shows, Maisie – who makes her Glastonbury debut this year – played coy as fan speculation that she’s the unannounced support act rages on. ‘I would love to do it, obviously!’, she declared excitedly. ‘Taylor is my hero and always will be.
’One song on her new album in particular – The Band And I – will strike a chord with any Swiftie, as it also tells the story of Maisie’s love of touring and for her band, just like a track on Taylor’s Speak Now record. ‘That’s definitely my Long Live! You’re not the first person to say that,’ she laughed. But it’s not just Taylor who inspired Maisie on this album, as Lorde also played a part.
‘I was really inspired by Lorde’s second album Melodrama, not so much sonically, although it is an amazing album, but more so just how important that album is. It’s her second album and it was so important culturally and to me and my friends, so formative and struck a chord with us, so cohesive,’ she praised. ‘I wanted to make an album that would make other people
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