- 2025-07-23
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CMAT Premieres New Song “EURO-COUNTRY” On BBC Radio 1
Irish singer-songwriter CMAT premiered a new song “EURO-COUNTRY” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is the title track from her upcoming third studio album “EURO-COUNTRY”, which is set to be released on August 29, 2025.
The track reflects the financial crisis in 2008 and references the hardships people faced in Dunboyne and Ireland.
CMAT told The Irish Times last month, “I was about 12 and it all happened around me, it didn't really happen to my family directly. Everybody else on the estate we lived in worked in construction, or in shops, and they all lost their jobs. Everybody became unemployed. Then, in the village I grew up in, there was a year or 18 months where loads of the people I went to school with, their dads started killing themselves because they'd lost everything in the crash.”
It was written and produced by Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson and Oliver Deakin.
The accompanying music video was directed by Eilis Doherty.- BBC Radio 1 did not air the opening 40 seconds of the Irish-language segment of the song.
CMAT said, “I just want to say really quickly that it was not my decision to have the Irish language edited out of the first ever play of Euro-Country on radio. I don't know if it was a mistake or what happened, however, they have just gotten in contact and said they are going to play the Irish language intro full version tomorrow to make up for it I don't know who edited that out but it was crazy. Yeah, not my decision but they're fixing it!” -
CMAT told Jack Saunders about the song, “Specifically that I think there's something in my psyche that is in the psyche of the Irish people, which is this notion of trying to make something of yourself and trying to be bigger than what you are. And it's kind of me in the song, I'm kind of questioning it and being like, 'Oh, I don't know if this is a part of myself' that I like so much, the ambitious, like pop star person that I've become, because I think it's literally fine to be from a village and just have your community and, like, not ever need for anything more than that, because I don't think that life is about much more. But then why as a country overall, and then as me, as a person, why are we always trying to do something bigger and better, like what is there.”
She continued, “The grass is never greener. But then again, you can stay somewhere and not strive for better for yourself at the same time. But I think the kind of sheen that I putting on it is that the making something of yourself is often associated with money and making more money and being a person that has more capital and like, more affluence. And that's where everything is getting mixed up, and that's where all the problems I think are coming from. So it's kind of I'm guilty of it, and everybody is guilty of it. Everybody is guilty of always wanting to be a bigger, more impressive person. And it as an Irish government tactic. It's the thing that killed the country. So it's just me asking a lot of questions without having a single answer, because I'm not that smart.” - source : BBC Radio 1
