ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nellie McKay - Singer/songwriter
Nellie McKay sings, croons, raps, grooves and -- barks? -- to glowing critical acclaim.

Why you should listen

Playful, quirky, hilarious, endearing: not attributes of your typical political agitator. But singer-songwriter-producer-activist Nellie McKay merits the description. Her music is whimsical, colorful, catchy and as engaging as it is restless. Toying with antique genres and yet undeniably contemporary, it flirts with multiple styles of delivery while maintaining a sharp social conscience.

For these and other eccentricities, McKay has gained a devoted fan following. On stage and off, she's an outspoken advocate of animal rights, a friend and ally to any arch political quip and -- lucky for us -- artistically uncompromising. After cutting two major-label records, her own indie label, Hungry Mouse, produced her latest, Obligatory Villagers.

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Nellie McKay: "Clonie"

Neli Mekkej (Nellie McKay): "Kloni"

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Kantautorka Neli Mekkej izvodi poluozbiljnu pesmu "Kloni" - o tome kako stvoriti idealnog partnera.
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Nellie McKay sings, croons, raps, grooves and -- barks? -- to glowing critical acclaim. Full bio

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But anywayУ сваком случају, this is about the evilszla of scienceНаука, so I think it’s perfectсавршен.
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Kako god, evo pesme o zlima nauke,
tako da mislim da je savršena.
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♫ My oh my, walkingХодање by, who’s the appleјабука of my eyeоко? ♫
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♫ O bože, prolaziš,
ko je zenica oka moga? ♫
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♫ Why, it's my very ownвластити ClonieClonie. ♫
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♫ Pa to je moja Kloni. ♫
00:33
♫ Oh, if I should strollšetnja the hoodHud, who knewзнала I could look so good ♫
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♫ Kada bih prošetala krajem, ko bi znao
da ću izgledati tako dobro ♫
00:37
♫ just talkingпричају on the phoneтелефон to ClonieClonie. ♫
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♫ pričajući na telefon sa Kloni. ♫
00:40
♫ We are palsпријатељи, it's coolхладан, 'causeJer we're not lonelyусамљен, ♫
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♫ Drugari smo i to je kul,
jer nismo usamljeni ♫
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shallowплитко geneген poolбазен is nothing to my only ClonieClonie. ♫
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♫ nizak genetski fond je ništa
za moju jedinu Kloni. ♫
00:48
♫ Me and you, hustlingmuvate throughкроз, holdingдржање on throughкроз thickдебео and thinтанак, ♫
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♫ Ti i ja, borimo se, provlačimo
kroz sito i rešeto, ♫
00:52
♫ just day by day, our DNADNK, so the OlsonOlson twinsBlizanci got nothing on us. ♫
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♫ dan po dan, naš DNK, bliznankinje Olsen
nisu nam ni blizu. ♫
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We'llCemo surviveпреживети, sideстрана by sideстрана. MotherMajka NaturePriroda, donDon’t you call her phonyprevarant, she’s my ClonieClonie. ♫
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♫ Preživećemo jedno uz drugo, prirodo,
ne zovi je lažnom, to je moja Kloni. ♫
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♫ Was wealthyбогати, but not healthyздрав, had no one to dwellboraviti with me, ♫
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♫ Bila sam bogata ali ne i zdrava,
nikog nisam imala sa mnom da obitava ♫
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♫ so look who I got bornрођен -- ClonieClonie. ♫
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pa vidi koga sam stvorila - Kloni. ♫
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FarDo sada from brokeсломио, boredдосадно, richбогат folkfolk, we don't need no naturalприродно yolkћumance -- ♫
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♫ Daleko od siromašnih, dosadnih, bogatih,
ne treba nam prirodno žumance - ♫
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♫ our babiesбебе come full-formedpun-oblikovan, ClonieClonie. ♫
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♫ naše bebe su potpuno oformljene,
Kloni. ♫
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We'llCemo be huggablepun sebe, get a publicistpublicista
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♫ Bićemo za grljenje,
nabaviti publicistu ♫
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♫ and showсхов them, be the mostнајвише lovableljupka thing sinceОд fuckingјебено EminemEminem. ♫
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♫ pokazaćemo im da smo najmilija
stvar jeste još od Eminema. ♫
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♫ Oh my friendпријатељ, multiplyмножи се, we’rere a franchiseфраншиза, like WaltVolt DisneyDisney or HannibalHanibal LecterLektor. ♫
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♫ Prijatelju moj, množi se, franšiza smo
kao Volt Dizni ili Hanibal Lektor. ♫
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♫ We can tell our cancerрак cellsћелије are more benignБенигни than oldстари PhilFil SpectorSpektor. ♫
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♫ Znamo da su nam ćelije raka
bezazlenije od Fila Spektora. ♫
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♫ We’llIi surviveпреживети sideстрана by sideстрана, should have signedпотписан with VerveElan insteadуместо тога of SonySony. ♫
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♫ Preživećemo jedno uz drugo, trebalo je
da potpišemo za Verve a ne za Soni. ♫
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♫ You’rere my ClonieClonie. ♫ "Oh ClonieClonie, how I love you."
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♫ Ti si moja Kloni. ♫
"O, Kloni, kako te volim."
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"HaHa, I'm the only personособа I ever lovedвољен."
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"Ha, ja sam jedina osoba
koju sam ikada volela.
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GeeBože, that's swellSjajno. I guessпретпостављам you're just my fatalфаталан attraction-ieatrakcija ie. You’rere my ClonieClonie. ♫
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♫ To je super, valjda si ti moja
fatalna privlačnost. Ti si moja Kloni. ♫
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Thank you.
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Hvala vam.
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(ApplauseAplauz)
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(Aplauz)
Translated by Mile Živković
Reviewed by Anja Saric

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nellie McKay - Singer/songwriter
Nellie McKay sings, croons, raps, grooves and -- barks? -- to glowing critical acclaim.

Why you should listen

Playful, quirky, hilarious, endearing: not attributes of your typical political agitator. But singer-songwriter-producer-activist Nellie McKay merits the description. Her music is whimsical, colorful, catchy and as engaging as it is restless. Toying with antique genres and yet undeniably contemporary, it flirts with multiple styles of delivery while maintaining a sharp social conscience.

For these and other eccentricities, McKay has gained a devoted fan following. On stage and off, she's an outspoken advocate of animal rights, a friend and ally to any arch political quip and -- lucky for us -- artistically uncompromising. After cutting two major-label records, her own indie label, Hungry Mouse, produced her latest, Obligatory Villagers.

More profile about the speaker
Nellie McKay | Speaker | TED.com