BBC says it didn't cut the Irish language intro to CMAT's new song during debut airplay
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IRISH ARTIST CMAT's highly anticipated new single 'EURO-COUNTRY' had its first ever play on BBC's Radio 1 yesterday evening – but there was confusion as the British national broadcaster appeared to have edited out the Irish intro to the song.
The song's first 40 seconds are sung in Irish before it continues in English.
Yesterday evening, it debuted on the radio station at 6pm. Shortly afterwards, CMAT took to her Instagram story to say that it was not her decision to have the Irish portion of the song 'edited out'.
'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,' she said. 'It was not my decision and I don't know if it was a mistake or what happened but that was not my decision.
'However they have just got in contact and said that they are going to play the Irish language intro full version of Euro Country tomorrow to make up for it
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'I don't know who edited it out. That was crazy of them. They also did a crazy editing out of the line 'I was twelve when the das started killing themselves all around me' but I guess that's more understandable.'
BBC Radio 1 said that it did not edit out the Irish language from the single, but 'broadcast the radio edit of CMAT's new song Euro-Country that was supplied by the record label.'
It said that it will play the full version that includes the Irish language intro Radio 1′s on 'Rickie Melvin and Charlie', 'Going Home', and Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
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The song focuses in on the
effects of the Celtic Tiger and the crash
, with the teased line 'All the big boys/All the Berties/All the envelopes/Yeah they hurt me' receiving widespread attention online.
The single has been released ahead of the album of the same name, which is expected on 29 August.
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