Maisie Peters is ending 2023 with a notable relationship soft launch. On Friday, December 29, Peters, 23, took to Instagram to share a list of nine highlights from her year, accompanied by photos for nearly every entry.
“The best parts of my year. Thank u for being a part of it,” she captioned the post.
The British pop star, who is signed to Ed Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Records, highlighted several significant moments from 2023.
These included the release of her album The Good Witch, her performance at the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival, opening for Sheeran, 32, on his Mathematics stadium tour, and filming her “Lost the Breakup” music video in Japan.
Peters listed these moments in a carousel on her social media, with the exception of No. 3. “Wait did I skip a number?” Peters playfully remarked in an Instagram comment.
The third slide in her carousel was a Polaroid photograph showing Peters kissing an unidentified man. To keep his identity concealed, Peters had placed her hand over the side of his face during the kiss.
In her Instagram Story on Friday, Peters directly mentioned the kissing photo. “What’s ur favorite slide? Mine is 3,” she wrote.
“I thought I was ur boyfriend,” joked Heartstopper actor Sebastian Croft. Singer Jensen McRae added, “The launch I’m losing it.”
Peters has traditionally kept details about her relationships private, though her experiences often inspire her music.
“As I get older, I’ve tended to draw on my own life more frequently, but that’s not necessarily always chronologically accurate,” she told Rolling Stone UK in a November cover story.
“I’ll write about something that happened four years ago like it was yesterday — it doesn’t matter to me. I am The Good Witch; I make what I want out of the things that are happening.”
Peters released her sophomore album, The Good Witch, in June, featuring tracks such as “Two Weeks Ago,” “Run,” and “Lost the Breakup,” which reflect on the end of a relationship.
“I really do write for the girls. I really made a whole album based on a relationship that lasted for one month and maybe two weeks,” she shared.
“I wrote this album about that time in my life. It depicts the same six months with, give or take, a few different songs.”
