By Emma Jane Cooke
The pop sensation that is CMAT has just released her newest single Take A Sexy Picture Of Me. CMAT herself has described this piece as one of the best songs she has ever written with hard hitting themes and subject matter.
With an upbeat intro that is immediately recognised as CMAT’s singing style, the song deals with the issue of how women are depicted and treated among social media platforms from a young age which will follow them through life.
The song opens up with the lyrics, Ever since I was a little girl, I only wanted to be sexy. Immediately CMAT establishes the origins of this song and the need that younger girls feel to appear older than they are, due to values and standards that have been set within society.
The last two lines of the course she sings, Take a sexy picture of me, And make me look sixteen. Here, she is assumingly the age she is now but yearns for a photograph where she looks like she is in her teens, contrasting with the first two lines of the first verse.
You haven’t looked at me the same, Since I turned twenty-seven, are the lyrics that start off the bridge where she emphasises that there is no cure to this epidemic and not even a doctor nor Pope can resolve this disease. She states that she’ll still be at the party no matter what age she is, possibly grasping at the idea of freedom and youth. Although CMAT is only 29, it truly shows the affects that online discourse can have on a woman who believes she is getting older and must be within a certain age gap to be perceived as the beauty standard.
CMAT’s emergence onto the Irish music scene has truly been sensational and inspiring to witness, not only as someone who follows Irish media but as a woman who has also had early access to media from a young age. CMAT takes her position as an artist gaining rapid traction online and is not only producing music with topical themes but also uses her platform to discuss in depth, women’s rights and also disability rights. She is a pure example of making the right person famous!