Australian singer Tones & I has revealed a whole new look, leaving fans reeling at her transformation.
The star, known for the 2019 record smashing hit Dance Monkey, has previously been known for wearing baggy clothes, caps, and very natural hair and makeup.
In a new Instagram post, the singer, 30, unveiled a glam new look, sporting a gown and coiffed hair, inviting an influx of shocked comments from fans and celebrity friends.
User @doyrabolves wrote: ‘So glad you got rid of the cap, sunnies and oversized clothes, you are beautiful and now so stylish.’
‘Hot, talented, beautiful, gorg etc etc,’ wrote singer Thelma Plum. Dannii Minogue also chimed in, calling the singer a ‘goddess.’
Many fans commented that they could barely even recognise the singer with her new look. User @royaksnes commented: ‘Ok, I have always loved this girl and have been around here since she released Dance Monkey, she was always gorgeous to me but wtf happened to her!!!!???😲🤯……I can barely recognise her!’
The singer, real name Toni Watson, broke a jaw dropping record in February when Dance Monkey passed 3 billion streams on Spotify, making her the first female artist in history to hit that number.
Tones recently revealed in an interview that insecurity previously prevented her from embracing her fame.
‘Honestly, I just think that when everything happened at the start of my career, people were just making so much out of nothing and mention my name was just something everyone did at a certain point in time, and I just hated that feeling,’ she said on Brittany Hockley and Laura Byrne’s Life Uncut podcast.
She vulnerably continued: ‘It made me feel so disgusting and so like I didn’t like it. I wanted to stay underground and I felt dirty when people made up s**t about me and I felt gross.’
Tones went on to say that the sudden fame that came with her hit song also meant she was suddenly being scrutinised for her looks.
She said: ‘I was so out of my comfort zone, I looked like I just crawled out of the gutter. I didn’t have an aesthetic or a style, I was a chubby little girl from the street. You just put me up and then you just smash me so far down, like I didn’t have a say in anything.’
She continued: ‘With me specifically, people were so offended by how I looked that I started pre-empting what people would think before anything was even out. And I judged myself as harsh as I could so I was really prepared for all that criticism. Then it wasn’t a tactic anymore.
‘I started hating myself so badly that anything I did, I just couldn’t see a positive reaction to anything.’
Tones’ transformation comes just in time for her headlining Australian tour in August, following her stint as an opener for P!nk on her Australia and New Zealand tour earlier this year.
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