CMAT says she still gets abuse after Take A Sexy Picture Of Me

Noor NanjiReporting fromGlastonburyGetty ImagesIrish singer CMAT says she continues to be going through abuse after writing a single in response to being fat-shamed over her look at a pageant final yr.Talking to BBC Information at Glastonbury, the 29-year-old mentioned the net feedback are so unhealthy that she doesn’t have TikTok on her cellphone.The singer – actual title Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson – spoke following her Friday afternoon set on the Pyramid stage, which lit up the pageant along with her highly effective vocals and stage presence.An enormous crowd of followers additionally joined the dance to the only Take A Attractive Image Of Me, which pushed again on final yr’s fat-shaming incident and went viral on TikTok.Earlier than performing the music, CMAT mirrored on the abuse she says she acquired final yr.“Numerous individuals would come and movie us on their cellphone. The feedback part was crammed with very nasty feedback about my bodily look,” she mentioned.The group booed at this, whereas I heard a number of individuals shouting out “you’re beautiful” again to her.Following her set, I met her backstage the place I requested her whether or not on-line abuse continues to be one thing she’s going through.“Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I’m not allowed to actually have TikTok on my cellphone or something,” she mentioned.“Each day, individuals will depart horrible horrible feedback below my TikToks and posts and stuff.“However they’ve their full face and full title connected to it. They’re simply saying horrible issues understanding that they’re backing it up with their on-line footprints.”She admitted that to some extent, “we’ve all truly executed it” due to how “desensitised” individuals have grow to be to posting on-line.“I feel lots of people do it unaware that persons are truly studying these items,” she mentioned.Take A Attractive Image Of Me, the second single from upcoming album Euro Nation, charts the challenges of being a lady within the public eye.The monitor begins with CMAT singing about attempting to wax her legs with sticky tape when she was 9, and the way the stress 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 a horny image”.CMAT indicated that she had combined emotions in regards to the response to the music.“It’s simply unhappy that so many individuals are like, yeah relatable, completely get you, actually relate to this music about ageing out of business attraction and other people being imply to me about my bodily look,” she mentioned.“It’s a double-edged sword, like I don’t know if it’s good that so many individuals relate to it however I’m glad that it’s there.”She additionally mentioned she likes the dance routine that was made as much as go along with it.“I feel it’s doubling down on the ridiculousness of the state of affairs, and I like that if you’re somebody who has associated to the music indirectly, you’ll be able to bodily manifest the way you relate to it.”‘It’s taken my total life’CMAT’s efficiency on the Pyramid Stage made followers snort, dance and cry as she went via a string of her hits.Talking just a few hours after, she mentioned she was nonetheless “in shock” on the response to her set.“It’s taken my total life [to get to Pyramid Stage],” she mentioned. “It’s continually grafting.”“I additionally begged Emily Eavis,” she mentioned, naming the pageant’s organiser.CMAT ended her set with an unimaginable second – she parted the group and met followers as everybody belted out the lyrics I simply can’t do it from the music Keep for One thing.It’s solely Friday, however I’m already satisfied this is without doubt one of the moments we’ll keep in mind from Glastonbury 2025.Artists work so exhausting to get to the Pyramid Stage however there’s additionally one thing to be mentioned for the way that stage itself could make some artists’ careers. It felt like we simply noticed that occuring with CMAT.