Mae Stephens
Mae Stephens is on a UK tour in Spring 2026 including a date at Sneaky Pete's Edinburgh on Saturday 21st March!
About Mae Stephens
| 21st March 2026 | |
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Sneaky Petes 73 Cowgate, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 1JW |
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£17.60 Find Tickets |
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If you’ve opened TikTok even for the briefest of moments, you’ll likely have heard ‘If We Ever Broke Up’, the funky, attitude-filled alt-pop bop sweeping the app. Its creator, Kettering musician Mae Stephens, has been bombarded with messages to release the song in full and, now, the alt-pop hit of 2023 is here.
Before she woke up on New Year’s Day to some of the more than 200 million TikTok views that the track has now racked up, Mae was finding solace and sanctuary in her music-making between working shifts at her local Asda. A songwriter since the age of 12, she’d used music to guide her through the hardships of teenage life, pouring her heart out in emotional, impactful songs penned at her nan’s old piano.
The target of cruel bullying, Mae’s school years were far from easy, with her at first picked on for being the “loud, quirky kid”. When her classmates found the YouTube channel she uploaded her original songs and covers on, every video she shared would prompt more hate and spitefulness to be sent her way. “It did almost push me to quit because I thought if I couldn’t deal with that then how was I going to be able to deal with press later on, people asking me questions or people commenting with hate,” she says. “It was a massive setback but I think it gave me the hard exterior I have now. I don’t condone bullying at all, but it did make me the person I am now, and so determined to push forward and prove a lot of people wrong.”
One of her biggest influences also helped her to embrace what makes her unique and learn not to care about other people’s opinions. “I’ve always listened to Queen, but Freddie Mercury is a big inspiration for me, not just musically, but also in life,” Mae says. “He was so determined. He just did not care what people thought. He did his own thing and never changed for anyone. He was a big morale booster for me.”
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