Fans question Karabo Mogane's win on Idols SA after premiering new music video
A new music video by 2015 Idols winner Karabo Mogane has spawned harsh criticism on social media, with some users claiming that he did not deserve to win the singing competition last year.
Karabo's video for Ngifuna Lo, in which he appears shirtless, was shown on the first Idols SA season 12 live voting show on Sunday evening.
While he might have stolen the hearts of many South Africans when he took the Idols crown in November 2015 after securing the lion’s share of the 74 million votes cast over the season, it appears that his latest music video has left fans underwhelmed and expressing their voter's remorse.
Please do not let down Noma like you did Mmatema. Karabo is mad average. I'll never understand why he won!#IdolsSA
— ❄Queen in the North❄ (@BossladyMsibi) September 4, 2016
South Africa voted for Karabo instead of Mmatema and he's giving us this nonsense. Vote wise mzansi
— Samurai (@PeteniZama) September 4, 2016
Karabo wa lona mara can we reverse last year's results and give it to Mmatema #IdolsSApic.twitter.com/f8fw3yYVJQ
— Naphtally phasha (@Notlo6) September 4, 2016
Seeing Karabo's music video makes me wonder what South Africans use as a criteria to vote for #IdolsSA winners. Mmatema must be gutted still
— Katleho Motloung™® (@jazzynova85) September 4, 2016
Mmatema stil the Best,Karabo,what was that tjoooooo #IdolsSA
— Selinah Molibeli (@Molibelipina) September 4, 2016Apart from the overall video and song garnering negative criticism, some Twitter users took shots saying that he is "too skinny" and "flat chested" to be appearing without a shirt in the music video. Many others took aim at his close-up facial expressions, with Fikile Mbalula turning one of them into a side-splitting meme.
When you realize tomorrow it's Monday and you have to wake up early. pic.twitter.com/lgXfNfJUNF
— RSA Min of Sport (@MbalulaFikile) September 4, 2016