Call me a hater but I'm gonna say this anyway...!!! Plus it's been a while since I threw a tantrum over nothing so here goes....
Everyone who reads my blog knows I love SABC 1 mara heish, these days nje, I don't know what's going on.
I got really upset while channel surfing on Saturday night and came across Puff Johnson doing red carpet interviews at the SAMA's for Music Lounge, the Fo Sho late night music show.
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I understand it when we (people) act like groupies mara when it's a Television Station from a broadcaster that claims that they are "Broadcasting for Total Citizen Empowerment" then we have a problem!.
Okay, so why do I have a problem with it? Well...first of all, who is Puff Johnson and why is she relevant to SABC 1?
Really why is she relevant?
We've just been told that Emzini We Zinsizwa won't be recommissioned because the show is NOT relevant to the station anymore, so my question is, uPUFF JOHNSON yena, why is she relevant?
She last released an album in 1996, the same year we won the African Cup Of Nations so getting her is like asking Helman Mkhalele, Linda Buthelezi or Mark Fish (who is actually 2 years younger than her) to do red/yellow carpet interviews for SABC 1.
Okay, let me stop exaggerating....my problem is this:
- We have a lot of young people in SA who are talented and would love to be on Televsion. Now this "former" RnB singer leaves America (where she probably doesn't get invited to award shows coz she really just faded into obscurity) comes to SA and is now this super A list celeb that the SABC 1 (or production company or whoever is responsible) gives a presenting job to!
The thing about it is that she's American, she didn't know a thing about the people she was interviewing so obviously the interviews were a lil' awkward...
.......couldn't we get the Yo TV kids to do those interviews?
.......Or even went back to Khanyi and Chomee like last time?
.......Or gotten the Metro FM competition winner who co-presented an award with Adil to do it?
.........or ran a competition on Fo Sho for someone to do it? For Free?
In all honesty, Ms Johnson was not horrible, she was actually quite sweet and down to earth (ibingekho ezakumphakamisa kakade) but the bottom line is that if she got paid then I have a problem with it....
The most painful to watch was her interview with "Rhythm Elements"! Kwa kwa kwa kwa imagine Puff with her american accent and R.E with their Pitori accent...sjoe, that was a killa!
Hayi, someone send an email to Natasha @ YBF and tell her to come get her sister!
(NB: If Puff Johnson was NOT paid for that job then I take it half of my complaint back!)
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