CMAT Says Radio 1 Big Weekend Abuse Left Her in Deep Sadness
CMAT said the abuse after her radio 1 Big Weekend set in Sunderland left her in “deep sadness.” After the posted clips of her Sunday performance on Instagram, the comments on those videos were so vile that they were disabled.
“It’s been very hard to try and describe how difficult the last few days since the bbcr1 big weekend have been,” she wrote yesterday. The reaction was aimed at her body, and clips from the same festival featuring smaller-bodied female performers still had comments turned on.
CMAT and the Big Weekend backlash
The 23-year-old singer said the commentary cut hard enough to change how the clips could be shared publicly. That is the practical consequence here: the festival performance stayed online, but the discussion around it had to be shut off.
This was not the first time. CMAT said she went through exactly the same thing two years ago at the same festival, and her breakthrough song Take a Sexy Picture of Me came out of that body-shaming experience. She also posted then, “I didn’t realise it was illegal to have a huge ass! I am guilty as charged. It is time to lock me up and throw away the key.”
Rodrigo and the styling line
Olivia Rodrigo made a similar point yesterday, saying comments about her clothes were upsetting after a concert in Barcelona where she wore a puffy floral number. “That’s been making me so upset,” she said, and added, “but me fully covered up in a dress that people deem to be childlike was inappropriate.”
Rodrigo also said she had performed in a bra and shorts “to no outcry,” then been criticized when she dressed more covered up. “Don’t wear that because then a man is going to sexualise your body and it’s your fault,” she said of the message girls are fed from a young age.
What the comments changed
The pattern links two pop stars with different looks but the same audience policing. CMAT’s case is the sharper one for Radio 1: the ’s response shows how quickly online abuse can force a broadcaster to limit engagement on festival clips, even when the performance itself remains visible.
