CMAT track impressed by being fats shamed at Radio 1 Huge Weekend

Irish nation singer CMAT says her new single was written in response to being fat-shamed over her look at a pageant final yr.

Throughout her efficiency at Radio 1’s Huge Weekend in Luton final yr, the singer-songwriter eliminated a shirt to disclose a special outfit beneath.

The BBC disabled feedback on an Instagram clip of the second – and CMAT says a few of the insults impressed her new observe – Take A Attractive Image Of Me.

“I used to be simply sporting garments and everybody was very aggravated at me for that,” she tells Radio 1’s Jack Saunders.

Take A Attractive Image Of Me, the second single from upcoming album Euro Nation, charts the challenges of being a girl within the public eye.

It is one thing the singer, Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, says not applies solely to celebrities due to social media.

“This occurs to everybody on a regular basis,” she says.

“Everybody is consistently being judged on whether or not or not they’re commercially engaging and the place they fall inside these actually bizarre objective posts.

“I simply was aggravated, and I needed to jot down a track about being aggravated about it.”

The observe begins with CMAT singing about attempting to wax her legs with sticky tape when she was 9, and the way the strain to be engaging has meant she’s “been having a horrible time of late”.

However the lyrics are contrasted with poppy hooks and the tongue-in-cheek resolution of getting somebody “take an attractive image”.

“The factor with this track was, I needed it to sound joyous and uplifting to sing but in addition to be a little bit of a rallying cry,” she says.

“If we’re coping with a track that is as darkish as this, and as grim as this, now we have to make it a bit humorous.”

It is not the primary time CMAT’s been focused for her look.

On the 2024 Brit Awards, she wore a revealing gown and advised the BBC: “The backlash was loopy.”

“I had lots of people that have been very indignant that I’d do such a factor.

“They have been horrified, and other people have been actually indignant and aggressive in feedback, telling me I needed to go to the fitness center,” she mentioned on the time.

“I believe [my outfit] brought about a stir as a result of it is massive and since I am a measurement 14 versus a measurement six.”

CMAT fan Ada-Mae Tasker tells BBC Newsbeat the the singer’s lyrics in her new observe “hit dwelling”.

“It completely summed up female rage in a single track,” the 23-year-old from Cornwall says.

“Society places a lot strain on women particularly to look a sure means and I’ve undoubtedly had my very own experiences with that.

“It is simply one thing you are introduced up to consider always – your weight, the way you look to different individuals, however you simply need to attempt to be assured sufficient to dam out the noise.”

With CMAT addressing the problem head on, Ada-Mae’s hopeful it can begin a dialogue.

“I believe it is so wonderful for different individuals who’ve possibly by no means thought of how ladies are perceived by society to listen to that track and take into consideration how they see ladies as nicely,” she says.

Talia Burnton says she might actually relate to Take A Attractive Image Of Me when she first heard it on Wednesday.

“I actually wrestle with having individuals take my photograph as a result of I’ve fairly a troublesome relationship with my physique picture,” the 17-year-old from London says.

“Having an artist who’s actually necessary to me talking about a problem so massive to me trying again on her teen years, it made me really feel actually seen.”

Within the track, CMAT sends a message to “celebration women dragged out by their ankles”, singing: “I am right here should you want me, deep in your afters”.

“I needed the track to behave as a assist group for everybody who goes by means of this type of factor,” she tells Radio 1.

“As a result of it is utterly outdoors of my management.”

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