Maisie Peters on New Album ‘Florescence,’ Opening for Taylor Swift & Working With Heroes

Maisie Peters’ third studio album, Florescence , is an exciting new chapter for the singer-songwriter. Led by singles like “My Regards,” “Audrey Hepburn” and “You You You,” the 15-track project arrived Friday (May 22) via Atlantic Records and Ed Sheeran’s Gingerman Records, and features collaborations with Julia Michaels and Marcus Mumford.

At its heart, Florescence is about the journey of growing up and adulthood. Blending love songs with reflections on the past, the album explores heartbreak, change and self-discovery, as Peters continues to navigate life in her twenties. Compared to her previous records, Maisie described the album as “softer and more gentler in many ways,” while songs like “My Regards” and “Kingmaker” still bring some edge and bite to the project.

From teasing the album in January 2026 with its trailer, Maisie had a clear vision for the album’s visuals and artwork. She enlisted Amelia Dimoldenberg — best known as a comedian and producer on Chicken Shop Date — to help bring that vision to life. The trailer offered fans a sneak peek of what was to come, recreating the iconic Halloween party scene entrance from ’00s British teen classic ANGUS, THONGS AND PERFECT SNOGGING . Maisie appeared alongside Georgia Groome, the film’s original star, with Georgia dressed as a full-body olive and Maisie as a daisy.

Since announcing Florescence — her first full-length solo release since The Good Witch in 2023 — Peters has been teasing new music while on the road for her Before the Bloom Tour, giving fans an early taste of the album along the way. In between wrapping up the tour and celebrating the release of Florescence , Maisie sat down with Billboard to talk about the new album, its visuals, and what she’s most excited for as she steps into this next era.

Why did you decide to name your third album Florescence , and what is the significance of the name for you?

Florescence means to blossom and to bloom. It really represents the major feelings, overall message, and story that I wanted to tell with the album. The album is about a journey into love and into adulthood, and the album sort of sonically feels like a blossoming and a blooming.

If you could choose one song off of your new album that you’re most excited for your fans to hear, what song would it be and why?

There’s a couple… I feel like “Girls Just Flying” really reminds me of my fans and in a way, is a song that I sort of wrote for them and for us all to sing together. I really also like “Mary Jane” and “Nothing Like Being In Love.” I put a lot of value into all these songs and I really love the “Mary Jane” as the opener and “Nothing Like Being In Love” the closer of the album, and I was very intentional with choosing them as those.

Your album trailer — where you’re dressed as a flower and Georgia Groome is dressed as an olive — was such a fun and memorable concept. When did you decide you wanted to create an album trailer like that, and what was the process of getting Georgia and Amelia involved?

The concept came really quickly. Amelia and I talked about what story we wanted to tell and what references we wanted to pull from. We are both really inspired by British rom-com tributes and bringing the lightheartedness out of the trailer, and adding that to the journey of the album. With Georgia and doing that little piece of script… that film [ Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging ] was so important in my childhood and I loved the songs in it, any British teen was watching that film, so adding Georgia to it was perfect.

The album cover art is beautiful. Can you share a little bit about the creative process behind it and how much you were involved with the visual side of the album?

We shot all of it in the British countryside, which is very near where I grew up, close to a cafe where I spent a lot of time as a teenager. The front cover is just me lying on the front field and was shot in film and there’s just the shadow of a flower on my cheek. You kind of have that florescence imagery and it’s upside down. I’m almost frowning, there’s sort of a slight sadness to my face, but upside down, it looks much more peaceful and I kind of love that. It’s almost two sides of the album, because there is this bit of sweetness and this sadness or melancholy that does run through the album as well as the hope, love, and joy.

Looking back on your other previous two albums, do you wish you could change anything about them now that you’re about to release Florescence ?

In some ways, there’s always things you would do differently, but and then in other ways, I wouldn’t change anything because I’m really proud of both of those albums and they both were really representative of how I felt and what I wanted to put out and what I wanted to be at the time. One thing I love about Florescence is it has a song called “Houses” which I wrote 100% by myself, and that’s something I love and I definitely want to do more of in the future.

I’ve always written by myself as long as I’ve been releasing music, but I’ve never put any of that stuff out. So maybe I would have liked to do that in the earlier albums, but I feel like I’ll just do it in the future ones.

Many artists don’t want friends or family to hear their music before it’s released. Did you let your family and friends listen to it before it was out?

With Florescence , I played almost the whole album for my friends and family. I feel like I’m not as much looking for constructive opinions from them though. Obviously, with my co-writers, collaborators, and producers, I’m looking for that more. But with friends and family, I’m more just playing it to bring them in on the world and lots of them are sort of inadvertently part of it as well and different ways. They have been part of certain stories or moments that get referenced in songs, and I think it’s a cute thing to do.

Do you have a favorite single from the album?

My favorite would be “My Regards,” probably because I just loved making that song and the music video. I have so many good memories from that period, and then also playing it live, doing that dance routine on stage, having that be part of the set. It’s such a fond song, it’s so light-hearted and full of joy. Another would be “Say My Name In Your Sleep,” because it is very representative of the album and it’s a top three Florescence track for me. It feels very Florescence -coded.

Can you describe “My Regards” in three words for someone who might’ve not heard the song yet or for someone who is a new fan of yours?

Ohhh, that’s a hard one… I would say “country,” “sultry” and “funny.”

As one of the lead singles off of your album, was there a specific lyric in “My Regards” that came to you first and shaped the rest of the writing process?

My producer already had that chordal world when we started writing it. It was immediately very moody and felt sort of quite country and western and had a Loretta Lynn “You Ain’t Woman Enough to Take My Man” type of feeling to it. So I immediately had that sort of confidence and the swagger was part of the concept. After that, we wrote the chorus first and I definitely remember getting “the best of luck, my regards, from his bedroom” lyrics as one of the first bits that we then built out from there.

Can you speak to the process of working with Amelia Dimoldenberg and Benito Skinner on the “My Regards” music video? How did this music video come about conceptually, and how does it represent the song?

We wanted to bring the song to life and do it in a way where I wasn’t visually fighting with a woman. We came up with the concept of paying homage to The Bodyguard , the film with Kevin Costner in it, which is a lyric in the song. We were looking for a heartthrob and someone to play a bodyguard too, and Benny’s name came up. I thought it was such a good idea. He’s the most gorgeous man in the whole world, and he’s also so funny and so sweet and charming and talented. It was a dream team with Amelia and Benny and everyone was so great and we were all up for anything.

One of the songs that fans had the funniest reaction to during the secret sessions was “Flat Earther.” When you were writing it, what were you and your co-writers drawing inspiration from and how did you come up with using a “Flat Earther” as the parallel for the song’s message?

That song came from the title. My co-writer brought in the concept and said the title and from there, I worked out what it meant to me and how it could work within my universe. The song came together quickly and it’s about unrequited love, the delusion and the hope for it.

The most recent single release from your album was a collaboration with Julia Michaels on “Kingmaker.” How did you approach Julia Michaels for this collaboration?

We didn’t go into it knowing it was going to be a duet. We were just writing toward the end of my record process and I had thought the album was already done, but I had the date in my calendar in London to write with Julia and we both ended up loving the song we wrote. Julia said to me that if you ever wanna put this out, I’d love to be a part of it. Once Julia said she wanted to be part of it, we just went about figuring out how we’d make it a duet and did this cool thing where in terms of arranging the vocals, it was very much arranged almost as if it’s a conversation between the two of us , which was very intentional because I wanted the song to feel like we were really commiserating with each other on sort of the shared experience.

Has there ever been a song you almost didn’t release because it felt too personal for your album?

Not that it was too personal, but “If You Let Me” [with] Marcus Mumford at first wasn’t part of the record. It was not a duet originally and I just didn’t feel like it worked story-wise, because it was just me. He rang me up and said “I love this song, what about if we make a duet?” Once we’d did just that, the song really changed for me and it became again much more of a conversation between two people about finding closure and the speed at which you do that. There’s a lyric where I say “I’m beautiful alone,” and it’s like a blossoming and a little mini-journey within a song.

On your previous albums, there was always a song that surprised everyone – that was emotionally charged or sad in a way. What song off of this album do you think is going to surprise everyone?

Maybe “Old Fashioned” because it’s pretty intense. It’ll definitely knock some people over. I love that song, it’s probably one of my favorites.

Do you have a favorite lyric off this album? It could be anything that resonated with you but not necessarily has to define the album.

In “Girls Just Flying”, I say, “Now I’m in Athens and my sky is full of stars. Can you see them from your neck of the woods?” Which is a reference to when I was on the Coldplay Tour around Europe, a few summers ago — and obviously that lyric is very literal and visual, and it immediately just takes me back and makes me feel sort of warm and happy and I reminisce on it all.

Do you have any unreleased songs and if so, which unreleased song are you most tempted to release, or potentially add to a deluxe album of Florescence ?

I mean, I have a lot. I wrote a lot of songs for the record that I love, and I’ve definitely hope to put them out at one point and you’ll hear them one day. I don’t want to give away any titles, but just know there are a couple that I’m campaigning for.

You’ve toured extensively with your Before The Bloom Tour in Spring 2026, but do you have a favorite city that you’d love to go back to for a potential Florescence tour?

We did so many live shows for the Before the Bloom Tour . I love them all. I played San Paulo for the first time in Brazil. I loved playing in Chicago, the crowd was great. I always love playing in Paris, and this time was no exception to that. I had such a great time, and the crowds were just so welcoming.

Can fans expect a larger Florescence tour announ

_Originally reported by [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/music/features/maisie-peters-new-album-florescence-tour-taylor-swift-1236253548/)._