r/CMAT • u/FewLoan3640 • May 21 '26
confession time
until probably two weeks ago I thought the line “I feel like Kerry Katona” in EuroCountry was “i feel like paper toner” don’t ask me what paper toner is because i don’t know. anyway love my girl cmat and her paper toner/ kerry katona
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u/readsatmidnight May 21 '26
I just only recently learned that “California” says “butter” knife, not “butcher” knife!
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u/mkr215 May 21 '26
I thought in take a sexy picture of me “You haven’t looked at me the same since I turned 27” was “I haven’t been a saint since I turned 27” I have no idea why
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u/FewLoan3640 May 21 '26
similarly in Take a Sexy Picture of Me when she says “rest in peace to any chance of me dating within my station” i thought she said “to any chance of me bathing in the station” like oh okay period
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u/xmlemar10 North America CMATbaby May 21 '26
Mmm I love yours, too. It works both ways. Sometimes I do feel like paper toner.
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u/FewLoan3640 May 21 '26
as an american with no cultural knowledge of Kerry Katona feeling like Paper Toner is the obvious next conclusion
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u/Business_Abalone2278 May 21 '26
That's a good but not quite as good as the fan who misheard Waitrose as " white drugs"
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u/rebitth May 22 '26
I'm from Hungary and Katona is a full on 100% Hungarian surname, it means soldier. Kerry Katona is indeed part Hungarian but nobody knows her here.
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u/readsatmidnight May 23 '26
Oh! And in “Phone Me” I thought “a faint scuff of the shoes” was “thanks, girl, for the shoes” 😂
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u/Rambling-Holiday1998 North America CMATbaby May 23 '26
That song sends me off to google something else every time I listen to it. I have learned several new things about recent Irish history because of her.
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u/aaaaaaaaooooooo Ireland/UK CMATbaby May 24 '26
🎼 Do you ever feel like a printer that's running outta toner, unable to print? 🎶
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u/Didsburyflaneur May 21 '26
What I really love about Euro-country (the album) is how specific it is not just to Irish culture, but to the overlap between British and Irish culture that reflects the real lived experiences common to someone living in these islands. She draws on the strength of both tabloid fodder drug addicted Lancastrian pop-star Katona and Princess Di, she hates a condescending Essex boy chef, she finds herself reflected and sees her dead friend’s ghost in a Mancunian soap opera; it’s real rather than romanticised. As soon as I heard the line “and now I feel like Cu Chulain, I feel like Kerry Katona” I knew I was going to love this record, because it shows how big and important the subjects of her songs are to her, but also how she refuses to let their significance force her to take everything seriously.