These are songs that contenders write themselves and provide with beats to perform own lyrics along side. By the look of things, this stage is very critical and it really proved that being an artist is no child's play. The task of being one's own songwriter and singer kick tarted with Stephanie Johnson who, despite being showered with positive comments for the first song, got the opposite for her brainchild. Master Dee told Steph, as dearly called by the audience that a song needs to have a hook and melody aspects that hers lacked. It was at this point that he said task songs mark the commencement of the competition and called for hard work and dedication. The other judge Sydney Sid Baitsile simply said he expected disaster from her and got just that.
The going is getting tougher as the clich says. Gone are the shiny days when contestants had to sing other artists' songs before the loyal audience that throngs the Botswana television auditorium not only in numbers but style. Only one contestant, who was nearly sent packing on Sunday, had Master Dee and Sid not buried Kgomotso Tshwenyego's decision of saving Atamelang Mmopi over the contender in question, Gaone Ditirafalo.
