Cate's Brother

"Cate's Brother" is a song by British singer-songwriter Maisie Peters, released on 6 May 2022 as a stand-alone single. It is Peters' highest-charting single in the Republic of Ireland, reaching number 29 in the chart. History Peters has stated that the song, which is about an ultimately fictional relationship with her real life close friend Cate Canning's brother, started out as a inside joke amongst her friendship group after she met Cate's brother at a party and found him attractive. Peters posted snippets of the song onto TikTok for fun, the first of which was uploaded on 25 February 2022. After a positive fan reaction to the first snippet, which was viewed over 10 million times, she posted further developments of the song onto TikTok, before eventually announcing an official single release of the song on 6 May. An acoustic version of the song featuring Matt Maltese, known as "Cate's Brother (Matt's Version)" in reference to the titles of remastered albums by Peters' primary musical influence Taylor Swift, was released onto streaming platforms on 1 June 2022. Composition and lyrics "Cate's Brother" has been described as pop-punk, arena rock and pop rock; Peters stated that she wrote the song on a trip to Stockholm at a time where she "was revisiting a lot of the pop-punk music I grew up listening to", such as My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and All Time Low as well as other rock influences like Arctic Monkeys.