Maisie Peters Shares New Single Kingmaker Featuring Julia Michaels
Wednesday, 22 April 2026
Written by Jon Stickler
Maisie Peters has shared another track from her upcoming third album.
Drawing loosely from Hilary Mantel's 2009 novel Wolf Hall, the breezy Kingmaker features additional vocals from six-time Grammy-nominee Julia Michaels and is described by Peters as "a song about power dynamics".
Further explaining the acoustic duet, she said it's "chiefly about being a woman and feeling like you’ve offered your time, wisdom, talent, and belief to someone who has then taken advantage of it. It’s about the sting of uplifting someone, only to find out they didn’t deserve you in the first place; about giving a man the benefit of the doubt and having it thrown in your face."
On collaborating with Michaels, she continued: "I loved writing this song with Julia, as I think we have both had the experience of achieving success and witnessing the impact that has on the romantic relationships in our lives - on the egos of the men who say they want a strong woman, until it “makes them bitter.” We recorded this song very intentionally as a duet, going line for line instead of verse for verse, so it could really be heard as a conversation between two friends sympathising with each other, which really is exactly what the writing process was like.
"Julia is a hero of mine - her songwriting has undoubtedly been one of, if not the biggest, influences on my own writing, and it is one of the greatest honours of my career to have a song out with her. She has become not only a trusted collaborator but also a real friend, and I really am so excited for this song to be out in the world."
On working with Peters, Michaels shared that "when you write with her you feel completely immersed in her world. You feel like you’ve lived it yourself."
Kingmaker serves as the fifth preview of 'Florescence', due out on May 15, following Peters' earlier singles My Regards, You You You, Audrey Hepburn, and Say My Name In Your Sleep with Marcus Mumford.
Peters is currently winding down a run of global Before The Bloom theatre dates and performs at Los Angeles' Fonda Theatre tonight (April 22). She'll play series of intimate record store shows and also appear at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Sunderland next month before playing Reading and Leeds in August. Tickets are on sale now.
Maisie Peters Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Fri May 08 2026 - ABERDEEN Priory
Sat May 09 2026 - LEEDS Stylus
Mon May 11 2026 - LIVERPOOL Camp and Furnace
Tue May 12 2026 - OXFORD O2 Academy Oxford
Thu May 14 2026 - BRISTOL Trinity
Sun May 17 2026 - LONDON Union Chapel
Mon May 18 2026 - BOURNEMOUTH Old Fire Station
Wed May 20 2026 - KINGSTON UPON THAMES CIRCUIT Kingston (Formerly PRYZM Kingston)
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