Songfacts®:

• "My Regards" is Maisie Peters' declaration of fierce, possessive pride in her partner. Recorded for her third album, Florescence, it swaps the sad, heartbroken persona of her sophomore record, The Good Witch, for something altogether more confident and playful. The track addresses romantic jealousy and the public's resistance to seeing a formerly brokenhearted artist in a happy relationship, turning that tension into a swagger-filled statement of intent.
  
  "I was inspired by a lot of the country greats and their 'stand by your man songs,' and so I thought I'd write my own modern-day version," Peters told Genius. "However, in this song I get to play the role of fierce protector instead of simpering love interest, which is so often how women have been depicted in relationships throughout history."
  
  She described the song as feeling "powerful, tongue in cheek, sexy and funny, all parts of myself I hadn't really gotten to explore much musically up until this album."
• The title carries a deliberately cheeky double meaning. "It's like a cheeky sign off," Peters told Genius. "It's like best of luck. My regards - I'm in his bedroom. Where are you? Not his bedroom, because I'm in there."
  
  The song was originally titled "My Regards, From His Bedroom" during the writing session before being shortened in conversation, and the shorter version stuck.
• The song's muse is Peters' real-life boyfriend, her high-school sweetheart she reconnected with ahead of recording Florescence. She says the line, "He took me off the market, so I took him to the Ritz," is true - his reward for being her man.
• Peters co-wrote the song with Nick Lobel and co-produced it with Ian Fitchuk. The track was written in a single day at Lobel's Nashville studio, the very first time the two had worked together. "I get to his studio and he plays me this guitar piece and it really inspired me and I sort of immediately started typing,." Peters told Genius.
  
  Lobel later reworked the studio version and sent it back to Peters, who said she "was obsessed with it."
• The underlying chord progression and musical atmosphere were already in place when Peters and Lobel began working on the track. "My producer already had that chordal world when we started writing it," Peters told Billboard. "It was immediately very moody and felt sort of quite country and western and had a Loretta Lynn 'You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)' type of feeling to it."
  
  She added to Apple Music: "I rarely write with minor chords, but I was having fun writing these quite pitter-patter, rhythmic lyrics... I was almost playing this character to not freak myself out that I was even writing these lyrics that, like, my grandma would hear. It's definitely my perspective and my real life but I'm almost putting on this like Dolly-esque persona to sing it."
• The chorus was among the first elements written. Peters recalled getting the line "the best of luck, my regards, from his bedroom" early on, and the song was built outward from there.
• Among her favorite lyrics is a deceptively simple one: "Everybody's calling me but my phone don't work in his."
  
  "I think it's so fun and clever," she told Genius. "There are lyrics I write that are very intelligent and songs that are very complex. And it's funny that your favorite lyrics end up being 'my phone don't work in his.' It's actually not even a full sentence."
• Call me Kevin Costner the way I'm guarding his body
  
  This lyric nods to the 1992 film The Bodyguard. Peters joked: "Kevin Costner's mom really did me a solid when she called him Kevin Costner, because that fit in my rhythmic map so perfectly."
• Comedian Amelia Dimoldenberg directed the music video in her directorial debut. Starring Overcompensating actor Benito Skinner, it puts a comedic, modern spin on The Bodyguard, with Peters cast as a literal bodyguard protecting her partner. "I thought it would be interesting to subvert the 'possessive girlfriend' trope by making Maisie a literal bodyguard," Dimoldenberg said. "It felt like a fun way to heighten the narrative."
  
  Peters described the finished product as a "Grand Budapest Hotel, Mr. Bean, The Bodyguard -inspired fever dream."
• Florescence is Peters' third album and her second to top the UK Albums Chart, also reaching #1 in Australia. The album reflects both the emotional fallout from the relationship documented on The Good Witch and the joy of her new relationship. "My Regards" sits at the sunnier, more playful end of the record. "I love the fun and joy that this brings to the album," Peters told Apple Music.