I would like to remind you all that all those songs that made Tedy Afro so gracious infront of the people are not those that are alleged to be taken from other sources…. He might have some taken from other without giving them due acknowledgement (which is plagiarism and not good). However, he still keeps being one of the finnest artists Ethiopia ever had and his many original works of his own will keep shining….. he has done his own share for the togetherness and betterment of Ethiopia as a nation. .. and he has clearly demonstrated exemplary personality (that helps little kids peer in to the future and know how they should tune their future as responsible citizens)….. as for Seifu Fantahun, i have been following all when i was still in Ethiopia and even then after, he doesn’t sound a critic with a positive spirit ..it clearly sounds as a vengeance which we all should avoid as human beings…

those of u who say u love teddy, i’m sure u see that smart side of teddy, so if u like him stick up to him 100% (dont’ be like” i like him but he’s bla bla bla bla…………………) no one’s perfect but u know what, teddy afro might be the first living proof that somethings are perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Point taken. Sistu, too, will live by Abesheet’s suggestion to let sleeping dogs lie (Abe’s phrase which reminded me of her for a long time after she wrote it, mainly because i just couldn’t picture our dog ever being ‘let’ to do anything). And don’t take me too seriously either (if at all). From your last post, it seems like the subject has entered territories that i know nothing about. So i will let myself out of the topic. Again I wish him well, and I especially wish his family well. (who is looking like a saint now, Abesheet?)

but the few questions u asked: mejajal was for myself. I saw that i had gone on until nearly half the alphabets.

“tifozo”?? ere tew Sal.

In any ways, Do u know what I feel about Teddy this moment (He is very young for such moments) …..ohhh am really worried….Have u ever seen a convicing evidence of his being guilty towards the accusation? or to think so???? What do u think??? Has he done it? or this is EPRDF’s jok or a concidence. I pray it is just a concidence.
…………….I don’t wanna lose my Hero nor hear his sufferings!!!!!!
My net searchs are only new things about him….but I hardly find any. (Yaltadelech Hager!!!!!!)

So.. do you know trannies are popping out kids nowadays ?!

I was thinking, like I said, to stop Teddy afro matter and rather keep quite about u, complexam fellas as requested by abesheet……….If sistu wants to continue with it, Well I don’t mind……Coz I still think that my sister’s, sistu’s, reply to me are like ‘ Yetifozo neger, ale adel medegagef….aynet, Supporting each other not a real stand of sistu ‘ c ya

Protests Over Ethiopia Pop Singer

first, you strike me as the kind of person who places things in context (categorize, to use your word).. so i imagine you would need a little background info that covers the following areas:

a: am i a fan? do i fall in the “i like him’ category? a big no and a smaller yes. so i guess that places me in the “dont know what s/he is thinking about teddy” column. But, sirayE wedajE, i think those of us in that category exist mostly because we didn’t see a need to form a strong opinion of him. Some would argue that, in the artistic world, those who do not inspire great feelings (of intense like or dislike) are not truly great. I would have argued the same, but i am a little afraid of your response on that so i won’t.

b: ah, the ’smart guys’ who are created, yes created, with an internal desire to say “mindinew isu”. In my not-so-polite mind, i interpret those as the [inherently] complexamochu. am i right? well, you are right there. we do exist. is it wrong that i was flattered by the ’smart’ label you attached to us complexam people? or did you mean that in the ‘awekin awekin bayoch’ sense?

c: the legend thing. really? you think it’s up to future generations? we disagree there (the “there” is to mislead you into thinking that we have been agreeing thus far) But i do think that if he can’t convince his own generation, he stands little chance of convincing the future ones. Not meaning to turn all philosophical on you but times are different. Music minamin (am trying to avoid saying “art”) is growing fast… its competitive now, its not how it used to be in the good old yirga dubale days when one singer (dare i say Tilahun) could hold the monopoly on the legendaryinet. So i am destined to think that the only way that those future dikalas will ever consider Tedros Kassahun a tilahun-like legend is if we (and that includes the denkaras like myself) agree (right here and right now) to synchronize our “kezefagn andegna tilahun gessess” tunes to fit Tedros Kassahun. So you come up with such a line and we will see if we can tal mareg the line to them polio-kaltefa-aliweledim bay aradoch (a.k.a. future generation) along with stories of the great carnage* the legendary teddy afro caused from piazza to popolaRe in our youthful days. (can you really imagine that happening?) And no, “kezefen andegna Tedros Kassahun” won’t do. People of your parent’s generation might [understandably] take issue with such a line.

d: yeOprahin sim bekentu atansa (and behimamat midir too).

e: the “smart individuals” with their [annoying] practical questions about why he is as big as he is. Complexam hula.

f: by “i don’t like his artificial and patronizing” sentence, i think Abesheet was referring to his smile (i could be wrong… i am operating from memory here)… to be fair her observation was akin to her magat-ing my lib a gan full of kibE. he does have a very annoying smile.

g: this is to the whole of your #3 point. ante Balege. don’t you know this is a child friendly site? (check halo). but in defense of your #3, it was very funny. But I am inclined to think that your uni friend was not served well by his friendship to you (and maybe more of your friends). Indene indene, you may have been harboring some feelings of your own there. i will leave it there

h: i meant to write this on the comments page, but instead of making the journey, let me just… I thought it was very big of you to come back to this blog as an active member of mahbereseb after your rocky start with it. So i genuinely applaud that.

i: Despite what you may be thinking, my intention was not to run this all the way to ‘z’. So i leave it here but pleas be informed that i wish Teddy Afro very, very well. if it comes down to it, i hope he does end up being above the law, since its a case of yefesese wiha.

j: is for wey meJajal.

* after writing it, i realized the word might have a literal meaning after all so I apologize to anybody who might think i am making light of a heavy matter.

It seems that u are a fan of Teddy Afro ,or a kind of ” I like him”, U said it so…some of ur phrases describe such. But some are difficult to catagorize.
Well, this appears on everybody who doesn’t know what he is thinking about teddy. These days some ‘ smart guys ‘ are being created with an internal desire to say ” Teddy afro ‘mindin new ‘ who is he after all? “…..
What initiates these guys to think differently about Teddy? Well it is apparent that all , almost all, of Ethiopians adore him, love him and are completely obsessed with his talents. He is having marks to became a legend, I didn’t say he is. But it is upto the future generation, with us, who will decide this . But the way history makes people a legend atleast starts from where Teddy afro is. By a legend, am saying a music legend, atleast as what we think of Tilahun Gessese. By this, am not equating the two…that is an equation to be solved with a time variable. But look the way we think of Tilahun, I was not on the earth when he sang, I don’t know that moments’ passion towards his musics. Neither do I like some of his works, nor does some of his styles, on the style case it may get higher. That happens not becouse he is not gifted, but due to the generation gap we had. Every generation couldn’t think the same…so our tests differ. However, When I hear some of his works, I really get touched. I am also flushed with what my papa’s, mama’s, big bros’ and siss’ sayings about his being # 1. Shortly,I grow up singing ‘ ” Kezefen andegna tilahun Gessese ”. That is why, even now, I consider him as our legend. That is the way history makes persons legends. The way of making a legend is continous, ‘ welad be dibab tihid ‘. So what is being happening to Teddy afro a similar pattern…almost all of Z Habesha adore him to death.
Does he deserve this? Is that not a little exaggerated?
Is he to that extent perfect?. ’smart individuals’ like abesheet could ask such questions coz, u know, they don’t simply accept what peoples spontaneously agree. Yah these guys donot adore like everybody does…ha the want to ask these practical question. Before I try to answer mine let me put the answers these ’smart individuals’ argue….(abesheet views are in double brackets,…down here)

((1. I knew what Teddy Afro represents was bigger than Teddy Afro the man. 2. I don’t like his artificial, and rather patronizing…. 3. I don’t find his ears adorable 4.once costing me a good 25 bucks for a non-CD he non-released 5.“Tiibit yetemola”, Esu manewina? Yemir! Yetignaw askuala gebto new yetignawin ewket yechebetew ? Anawqewim ende, 12 plus “chich” ))

My personal views to the 5 points of abesheet,
1. Well, he may represent more than he deserves. I haven’t ever heard how to measure what one deserves. But still think that, we know Teddy afro being Teddy afro…and that Teddy afro desrves what Teddy afro is….that it. That is how it works, no one is there to measure and give what one deserves. Does oprah gets what she deserves?…I would say yes, but I can’t demonstrate it. Neither a person saying she doesn’t, could verify it. Whyyy??? Coz Fame is like this, it is this way it works in the world…U will just be born to get it…If u once get it, then it is already a ‘ done’ thing ha…Finished (amnot saying that fame doesn’t crumble, though). So he really represent what Teddy afro is. He should be another person to be more than ‘Teddy afro’…He can’t be more than Teddy or less than Teddy. What he is, is what he is now…We shall swallow this and accept it.
2. It’s true that some, very little, of his works lack some originality. Well he works many jobs with original ‘ethiopiawinet’ and if he needs to work some others in an opposte way….well he can. He is the only one who can drive his mind…his creativity is his own..either original or not. Those of us who lucks creativity, but who needs to create some original things should use our minds. How can you want to creat any **** work with other person’s mind? So what we can do is judge his original works from the view point of originality and artificial works with an artificial mode. ‘ ende.. ende ‘ art is not only original…even it is more tasty when it has some artificial addings.
3. Not getting to Adore his ears,…..well this is a serious issue for those ‘ Smart individuals ‘. As for me it is like, when you lose something gadem of somebody u could say…such words….’ Adoring ears ‘………..ohhh I searched articles about human sensitivity to ears…ahhh I hardy find any except some sex stuffs abouts points to be found with tangue, with some search around ears. Still difficult to adore those with eyes. May be, I am trying to see hot chixx’s ears this week to experiment, if I could feel anything ahhhhh. But the thing reminds me my campass life. A freind loves a girl to death…she was very beutifull, too perfect. He asks her…yooo she says nooooo!!! it was very difficult for his freinds, for us, to think that she will agree to be with him. She was extremely gorgeous and u know she was a kind of upper class. Guess what we do then, We planned to make him forget her. To do so, with what part of her could we mock??? We tried to find, we tried and tried…almost ‘hule negerua’ can’t let us say a gadem word about her. So finally we said ” Entilua yastelal”…who can prove it !! ‘ man yimotal ‘. I will finish this issue some other time, for now, let me stop here…

Thank you Seifu Fantahun and “Tegorde”