Maisie Peters has expressed her love for 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 feel the way I felt listening to Melodrama.'
As for other celebrity friends, Maisie is always down for a collaboration with close pal Ed Sheeran, who signed Maisie as one of the first artists under his Gingerbread Man Records label two years ago.
In fact, Ed actually sings backing vocals on one track on her new album - there's a little Easter egg for you!
'Ed and I are great friends,' Maisie said with a smile.
On why it's important for him to be involved in her music, she added: 'He's actually singing and playing guitar on one of the songs on this album, on Want You Back he does some backing vocals very sweetly because I just wanted him to be involved in some way.
'One of my closest friends Gretta Ray, she's Australian and she does backing vocals too on Two Weeks Ago and other songs. I always want my friends to be across my music.'
On the possibility of releasing a duet with the Lego House hitmaker in the future, Maisie said: 'I would love to do something with him one day. But I guess we'll see! We're great friends and I hope we will be for a long time.'
Despite her album being so open and honest lyrically - her songs are very much diary entries of her deepest thoughts and feelings - Maisie is keen to keep her private life, well, private.
She's managed to nail the balance between baring all in her songwriting but also keeping certain things for herself.
'My music is fair game and I write very honestly and it's always up to interpretation, but I am pretty private with the rest of my life and that's how I like it,' she explained.
'I give everything I have to give to my music and then everything else is mine. I want my music to let people in and I want them to feel like they know me through my music because that's so me. All of me is in my music. But keeping a good balance is important.'
What's your favourite lyric on The Good Witch?
It's a very hard question! I love, 'I can write you out the way I wrote you in', that feels important.
What's your dream venue to play that you haven't already performed at?
I'd love to play Red Rocks in California.
What's the biggest lesson you've learned in your career so far?
I think just to take the good with the bad. Maybe that sounds strange, but I guess to just appreciate all the great moments and know that it's a long journey, there'll be highs and there'll be lows but just appreciate the highs, work through the lows, and know that it's all the greatest time ever.
What's a memorable fan encounter that sticks out in your mind?
My German fans in Berlin, we just played there, and they made me a book, a hardback book of letters and they all signed it in the queue. It was so sweet and I love that.
Maisie - who arrived at the title The Good Witch as she reflected on who she was over the last year - also doesn't overthink who might be listening to her music.
Instead, the Body Better hitmaker simply focuses on creating her own 'universe' via her writing and letting everything else wash over her.
'When I'm writing my music, I'm not thinking about where that song is gonna go or who's gonna listen to it, I just do it to say what I want to say in the way I want to say it,' she said proudly.
'Everything else is an afterthought to me. I write music for myself. I always have and always will.'
Maisie Peters' new album The Good Witch is out now.
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