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“If you’re looking for the girl of your dreams, she’s in Brooklyn with me,” screamed fans of Maisie Peters on Wednesday, October 15, at the Music Hall of Williamsburg when she sang her song “Brooklyn” for the first time ever in Brooklyn, New York. The UK-based singer/songwriter sold out the venue with her only U.S. show on her Before the Bloom mini tour after selling out two shows in London the week before.

On October 9, Peters released her first two singles from her upcoming third album, MP3, as she unofficially calls it, “Audrey Hepburn” and “You You You”. Peters has graduated from the easter egg school of Taylor Swift and loves to tease her fans with clues. “You You You” was a surprise double release after teasing with Scrabble tiles on Spotify. Peters describes the songs in an Instagram post as “inexplicably tied together, whilst being such north and south poles of each other at the same time…neither could have existed without the other.”

Both songs were performed live for the first time at her Before the Bloom shows, a three-show tour of her reintroducing herself after some time away before her next album comes out “next year.” She wanted to perform and revisit songs she wrote at 17, 20, 22, and 25 to help set the tone for MP3. She also debuted two unreleased songs called “Vampire Time” and “You Then Me Now,” and I have not stopped playing my video of “Vampire Time” all week. So far with this new era, Peters has returned to her singer/songwriter roots, seen more in her first album, You Signed Up for This, compared to her more pop-sounding second album, The Good Witch.

In the past three years, Peters has opened for some of the biggest artists in the world, like her boss Ed Sheeran. She’s been signed to Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Records since 2021. Sheeran even supported Peters by attending her Brooklyn show and stopped to say hi to fans like myself before heading in! She has also opened on tours for Coldplay, Noah Kahan, Conan Gray, and London night seven of Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour (that I got to experience!). Peters was also booked to open on Kelsea Ballerini’s tour earlier this year, but had to withdraw to prioritize her mental health and focus her energy on making the best third album she could.

After performing at the Eras Tour, a clip of Peters performing “Lost the Breakup” went viral in a negative light, despite that small section of the song highlighted in the clip being meant to sound like her ex’s and his point of view, and is about how she won the breakup. But way before that, arguably, Peters was one of the first artists to successfully market their new music on TikTok in 2022 with her song “Cate’s Brother,” using a snippet of the song for weeks before it was released, and I’ve been a fan ever since!

I think this upcoming era for Maisie Peters will be her biggest yet. She has flown under the radar the past few years, but her songwriting is very strong, and it’s something that’s lacking in mainstream media right now, even name-dropping her ex-boyfriend in a song, but MP3 will feature more romantic songs than breakup songs–something we haven’t really heard from her yet. So, open up whichever platform you stream music on and take a listen to Maisie Peters before you hear her songs everywhere next year!

This was written by our contributing writer, Demi Tsatsaronis.