An Advice to Oromo singers
Posted: 19 May 2023, 15:35
All Oromo singers should take their time and reconsider carefully about the lyrics of their songs, if they care about themselves (and about the country itself).
You sing, among others, also to earn an income by selling your talent. For this you need a market, ready to receive your "product". In such case there is a preliminary premise that you shouldn't bring your goods to a market where it is already saturated with.
You look for a market where your commodity is rare, you will then also find a readily absorbing market.
Today's Ethiopian music market (and the country as a whole) needs somebody who praises PEACE and peace is an overall rare commodity in the country.
In your songs praise peace, tolerance and accomodation, not the same way you used to sing during the so called "Qeerroo Revolution". That role has been overtaken by others now, you shouldn't add yourself in more antagonizing lyrics by singing the same old music of your "revolution". The time of revolution has passed, it no more attracts the wider public's ears for your lyrics.
Praise peace and call for peace, if you want to remain relevant. People are tired of any sort of a "revolution" or any sort of [deleted]-for-tat attitude!
You sing, among others, also to earn an income by selling your talent. For this you need a market, ready to receive your "product". In such case there is a preliminary premise that you shouldn't bring your goods to a market where it is already saturated with.
You look for a market where your commodity is rare, you will then also find a readily absorbing market.
Today's Ethiopian music market (and the country as a whole) needs somebody who praises PEACE and peace is an overall rare commodity in the country.
In your songs praise peace, tolerance and accomodation, not the same way you used to sing during the so called "Qeerroo Revolution". That role has been overtaken by others now, you shouldn't add yourself in more antagonizing lyrics by singing the same old music of your "revolution". The time of revolution has passed, it no more attracts the wider public's ears for your lyrics.
Praise peace and call for peace, if you want to remain relevant. People are tired of any sort of a "revolution" or any sort of [deleted]-for-tat attitude!