CMAT wrote new song after being fat-shamed over festival show

Irish state vocalist CMAT says her caller azygous was written successful effect to being fat-shamed implicit her quality astatine a festival past year.

During her show astatine Radio 1's Big Weekend successful Luton past year, the singer-songwriter removed a garment to uncover a antithetic outfit underneath.

The BBC disabled comments connected an Instagram clip of the infinitesimal - and CMAT says immoderate of the insults inspired her caller way - Take A Sexy Picture Of Me.

"I was conscionable wearing apparel and everyone was precise annoyed astatine maine for that," she tells Radio 1's Jack Saunders.

Take A Sexy Picture Of Me, the 2nd azygous from upcoming medium Euro Country, charts the challenges of being a pistillate successful the nationalist eye.

It's thing the singer, Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, says nary longer applies lone to celebrities acknowledgment to societal media.

"This happens to everyone each the time," she says.

"Everyone is perpetually being judged connected whether oregon not they're commercially charismatic and wherever they autumn wrong these truly weird extremity posts.

"I conscionable was annoyed, and I wanted to constitute a opus astir being annoyed astir it."

The way begins with CMAT singing astir trying to wax her legs with sticky portion erstwhile she was nine, and however the unit to beryllium charismatic has meant she's "been having a horrible clip of late".

But the lyrics are contrasted with poppy hooks and the tongue-in-cheek solution of having idiosyncratic "take a sexy picture".

"The happening with this opus was, I wanted it to dependable joyous and uplifting to sing but besides to beryllium a spot of a rallying cry," she says.

"If we're dealing with a opus that's arsenic acheronian arsenic this, and arsenic grim arsenic this, we person to marque it a spot funny."

It's not the archetypal clip CMAT's been targeted for her appearance.

At the 2024 Brit Awards, she wore a revealing formal and told the BBC: "The backlash was crazy."

"I had a batch of radical that were precise aggravated that I would bash specified a thing.

"They were horrified, and radical were truly aggravated and assertive successful comments, telling maine I had to spell to the gym," she said astatine the time.

"I deliberation [my outfit] caused a disturbance due to the fact that it's large and due to the fact that I'm a size 14 arsenic opposed to a size six."

CMAT instrumentality Ada-Mae Tasker tells BBC Newsbeat the the singer's lyrics successful her caller way "hit home".

"It perfectly summed up feminine rage successful 1 song," the 23-year-old from Cornwall says.

"Society puts truthful overmuch unit connected girls particularly to look a definite mode and I've decidedly had my ain experiences with that.

"It's conscionable thing you're brought up to deliberation astir perpetually - your weight, however you look to different people, but you conscionable person to effort and beryllium assured capable to artifact retired the noise."

With CMAT addressing the contented caput on, Ada-Mae's hopeful it volition commencement a discussion.

"I deliberation it's truthful astonishing for different radical who've possibly ne'er thought astir however women are perceived by nine to perceive that opus and deliberation astir however they spot women arsenic well," she says.

Talia Burnton says she could truly subordinate to Take A Sexy Picture Of Me erstwhile she archetypal heard it connected Wednesday.

"I truly conflict with having radical instrumentality my photograph due to the fact that I person rather a hard narration with my assemblage image," the 17-year-old from London says.

"Having an creator who's truly important to maine speaking astir an contented truthful large to maine looking backmost connected her teen years, it made maine consciousness truly seen."

In the song, CMAT sends a connection to "party girls dragged retired by their ankles", singing: "I'm present if you request me, heavy successful your afters".

"I wanted the opus to enactment arsenic a enactment radical for everyone who goes done this benignant of thing," she tells Radio 1.

"Because it's wholly extracurricular of my control."