Bree Player

Hi, it's Brie Player, the executive producer of No Filter.

Today, our host and my friend Kate Langbrook has very kindly vacated her seat because she felt I was the right person to sit down with today's guest.

I first met British pop star Maisie Peters in 2022 when she came to Australia supporting her friend and boss Ed Sheeran.

I remember watching her perform and being instantly struck by how sharp and emotionally intelligent her songwriting was.

The way she wrote about relationships and heartbreak felt so funny and specific and painfully relatable.

Afterwards I asked Maisie what inspired so many of her songs, and she said completely deadpan, mid-men.

Average men.

Men who absolutely do not deserve the calibre of song being written about them.

And yet somehow those men inspired The Good Witch, which is one of my favourite pop albums of the last few years.

So today, to celebrate the release of Fluorescence, Maisie's new album, I'm sitting down with a slightly different version of Maisie Peters.

One who's in love, more settled, and genuinely happy.

In this conversation, we talk about heartbreak, songwriting, the pressure of turning your real life into art, that viral Taylor Swift era's tour moment that brought her both enormous highs and brutal online scrutiny, and what it means to finally move on from mid-men.

This is Maisie Peters.

Okay, Maisie Peters.

Hello.

Welcome to No Filter.

Thank you so much.

Oh, my God.

What a treat to have you here in the office.

Luckily, actually, there's an event going on at Mamma Mia down the road, so half the office is gone because otherwise I think you'd have people clawing at the door.