Nigerian vocalist, Deborah Oluwaseyi better known as Seyi Shay, has provoked outrage on social media over her comment about a 17-year-old male contestant on singing competition, Nigerian Idol.
The singer who is one of the judges on the show had told the teenage singer that he had no business in the music industry because he is a “terrible” performer. She also said that he will do well as a songwriter, not a singer.
”Somebody lied to you. Somebody told you to come here and audition. You should go back and tell them that they aren’t your friend because that was not a good audition. You have a sweet talking voice and it comes out in your singing voice but your performance is terrible. You are never going to make money being a singer. I love you, you are so sweet but you are not a singer. You are not a singer,” she said.
“For songwriting, hit me up, we could talk but that singing, it is not going to work. Sorry Darling.”
Social media users were quick to push back against and condemn the singer’s comments.
After she started trending on, microblogging platform, Twitter, Seyi Shay took to her twitter page to defended her stance on the teenager’s performance.
She wrote: ”I’m feeling like #JudgeJudy right now. You either LOVE her OR you HATE her, and that’s quite ALRIGHT! Either way, Thanks for the #1 trend tweeps”