Episode 209 - Maisie Peters

Sodajerker On Songwriting

Sodajerker

Sodajerker, Barber, Simon, Music Interviews, Liverpool, Songwriters, Musicians, Oconnor, Songwriting, Interviews, Music, Podcast, Brian

4.9 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Rising star Maisie Peters chats with Simon and Brian about the writing of her debut album You Signed Up For This. The singer-songwriter gives an in-depth account of her process and shares what it's like to collaborate with Ed Sheeran, the value of busking to her career, and the word she chose to remove from the song ‘Boy’.

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0:00.0	And the Hello and welcome to So Dijaker on songwriting, episode 2009.
0:23.4	I'm Brian here with my longtime compardre Simon and joining us today is an English singer and
0:28.0	songwriter who's smartly crafted infectious tunes have notched up more than a quarter of
0:32.2	a billion global streams to date,
0:34.0	being featured in Hollywood movies, and then here are devoted following which includes the likes of
0:38.0	Taylor Swift, Lewis Capaldi, J.P. Sachs and one Ed Sheerin.
0:42.0	In fact, the latter liked us so much he signed her to his label.
0:45.0	As this reaches you, she recently dropped their highly impressive debut album, You've signed up for this.
0:50.0	She joined us for a Zoom chat a few weeks ago. We're very happy to welcome
0:54.8	the excellent Maisie Peters to the show. Our guest was born in 2000 which means that she was only
1:00.4	11 when we launched this podcast Simon.
1:02.6	God, I'm like one of those crumbling mummies.
1:06.1	Tell me about it.
1:08.0	I feel like a geriatric.
1:09.2	Maisie grew up near Brighton, East Sussex and isn't from a very musical family, but her parents both loved music and she would often accompany her dad to gigs.
1:18.0	She was a voracious reader as a child and at nine was writing her own poetry.
1:22.0	Later, inspired by the likes of Taylor Swift,
1:25.1	Lily Allen, Ingrid Michelson, and Sarah Burrellas. She began writing songs at the age of 12
1:29.5	on a guitar borrowed from a friend and quickly became obsessed with the craft at one point
1:33.5	writing three or four songs a day. When she was 14 Maisie started uploading her
1:37.8	music to YouTube and by the time she was 16 she was learning to establish a rapport with
1:42.1	audiences through busking and regular local
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