It’s every artist’s dream to make it big and to have their work mean something to people. However, one byproduct of success, Irish singer CMAT is learning, is that one’s art becomes fodder for news. And with news comes thinkpieces.

Hours before we hop on a Zoom, the 29-year-old singer (born Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson) released the lead single for her third studio album, Euro-Country . CMAT has always been outspoken in her music, her songs regularly lambasting the patriarchy. (When she faced online vitriol and body-shaming after Radio 1’s Big Weekend festival in 2024, she penned the biting “ Take a Sexy Picture of Me ” about performing sexuality to suit men’s desires.) But with the blatantly political “Euro-Country”—a bilingual Irish and English track that references colonization, cor

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