The Official Chat with Maisie Peters: "I'm trying to use my powers for good...that's an attempt, not a promise"

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Maisie Peters is, by her own admission, the keeper of the keys to her own musical world. Her second album, The Good Witch, is the follow-up to 2021’s You Signed Up For This, a self-assured and textured debut album that debuted at Number 2 on the Official Albums Chart, solidifying Maisie’s position as one of the most in-demand, up and coming pop singer-songwriters in the country.

Following on from a series of droplet singles last year – from the chaotic re-writing of Stacy’s Mom for a new generation, Cate’s Brother to the acidic Not Another Rockstar – The Good Witch sees Maisie conjuring an atmosphere that is entirely her own; one that weaves a tale of feminine rage, power and, ultimately, victory on her own terms.

As a body of work, it feels cohesive and complete, heavily indebted to other chronicles of this chaotic, turbulent time in your late teens and early 20s, like Lorde’s Melodrama. ‘Melodrama was definitely my biggest reference for this album,’ Maisie tells us over Zoom a couple of weeks out from the Good Witch’s release. ‘Not even really sonically, but as a moment in time, both culturally and emotionally. ‘When Melodrama came out, it was so important to me and my friends.

It still is. What it meant to everyone was huge, and I want to try and bring some of that into this album.’ Like Lorde, and like her biggest influence and idol, Taylor Swift (of course), Maisie uses her sophomore album as a meant to level up artistically.