{"id":1298,"date":"2025-05-26T09:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illuminatedmag.co.uk\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2025-06-02T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:40:08","slug":"cmat-responds-to-comments-about-new-song-take-a-sexy-picture-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/illuminatedmag\/2025\/05\/26\/cmat-responds-to-comments-about-new-song-take-a-sexy-picture-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"CMAT responds after BBC had to turn off comments for her new song ‘Take a Sexy Picture of Me’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
[Image by Collin Knopp-Schwyn, wikimedia]<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
While performing a new song at Wide Awake Festival this past weekend, CMAT took a moment to address commenters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“BBC had to turn off all the comments because everyone was calling me a big fat ugly bitch!” She said, before performing “Take A Sexy Picture Of Me”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Previously, in an interview with Radio 6, she revealed that the song itself was inspired as a criticism of people that felt the need to comment on her appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This comes after a successful 2024, when CMATs music was exposed to a wider array of people, not all of whom were fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I started doing festivals and TV appearances”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“So many people were being so horrible about my physical appearance in the replies.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s because I fall outside of the very small box that commercial attractiveness can fit.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having thick skin and being able to ignore online criticism is perhaps an essential trait for an emerging artist to have. But CMAT has had enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I wasn’t too bothered by this, I was happy to just kind of be like, those people are crazy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“But what i realised was it was affecting other people around me so much.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I have so many fans that are 15 year old girls.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Me accepting this type of behaviour – I’m setting a really bad example for them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“And then I was angry because i have no control over that – so i wrote this song.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The song also calls out that discourse around physical attractiveness is dominated by the male-gaze specifically. In one section that has been popular online goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I did the butcher, I did the baker
I did the home and the family maker
I did school girl fantasies
Oh, I did leg things and hand stuff
And single woman banter
Now tell me, what was in it for me?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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@wideawakefestival thank you for dancing with me, CMAT, and the Very Sexy CMAT Band!! thank u once again @Sam Morris !! #takeasexypictureofme<\/a> #CMAT<\/a> #cmatsummer<\/a> <\/p> \u266c Take A Sexy Picture Of Me – CMAT<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote>