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Maisie Peters: 'My universe is something for me to destroy and build up again'

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Ed Sheeran’s 22-year-old protégé is writing music in the vein of her idol Taylor Swift. Maisie Peters describes her work as existing for dreamers with imaginary boyfriends, the people who live in a fantasy, the ones who don’t quite get what they want. As she gears up to release 'The Good Witch', Peters explains it’s music for overly invested romantic girls like her

The fairytale dies hard for a certain type of woman. We feel helpless against the pull of limerence; those days when the object of our affections only knows our outline, or maybe doesn't know us yet at all. Even when we're in a relationship, it takes concerted effort to stop colouring that person in as we want to see them; someone kinder, faithful, more able to meet our needs. If you're a bonafide romantic who will follow gentle delusion to its injurious end when it means you're allowed to spend extra months, years, or much of a life in situations charged with the emotionally significant, you'

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