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It is 27 years since Jamie Oliver<\/a> first appeared on TV as The Naked Chef, bish-bash-boshing his way to cultural ubiquity thanks in part to his rock\u2019n\u2019roll credentials: his band Scarlet Division provided the show\u2019s theme tune, and his love of Toploader made their cover of Dancing in the Moonlight a monumental hit. Since then, music has, for better or worse, dwindled in Oliver\u2019s now-global brand \u2013 an unwieldy commercial force that inadvertently inspired one of 2025\u2019s best songs.<\/p>\n Last year, Irish pop star CMAT put out her third album, Euro-Country<\/a>, whose highlight was an ecstatic indie epic called The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station, released just before her standout set at Glastonbury<\/a>. The lyrics recall the singer being at one of the Shell garages that sell Oliver\u2019s line of salads and sandwiches, and losing the plot at the sight of the chef\u2019s face. \u201cI needed deli, but God, I hate him,\u201d sings CMAT (AKA Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson), though it is less a weird diss track, and more about her relationship with irrational hatred in a confusing world: critic Dorian Lynskey praised it as a \u201ctragicomedy of misdirected anger\u201d.<\/p>\n The first time Oliver heard it, he wondered: \u201cWhat have I done wrong?\u201d he told the Guardian. \u201cI couldn\u2019t really work it out.\u201d Then his phone started buzzing. Contrary to the song\u2019s lyrics about how CMAT<\/a> knows she shouldn\u2019t be \u201ca bitch \/ The man\u2019s got kids and they wouldn\u2019t like this\u201d, Oliver\u2019s daughters and their friends all loved it.<\/p>\n