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"

Nellie McKay canta "Clonie"

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La cantante y compositora Nellie McKay canta la casi seria canción "Clonie" -- acerca de cómo crear la mejor compañera.
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But anywayde todas formas, this is about the evilsmales of scienceciencia, so I think it’s perfectPerfecto.
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Pero de todos modos, esta se trata acerca de los peligros de la ciencia, así que creo que es perfecta.
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♫ My oh my, walkingpara caminar by, who’s the applemanzana of my eyeojo? ♫
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♫ Chispas, pasando frente a mí. ¿Quién es la niña de mis ojos? ♫
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♫ Why, it's my very ownpropio ClonieClonie. ♫
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♫ Pero si es mi propia Clonie. ♫
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♫ Oh, if I should strollpaseo the hoodcapucha, who knewsabía I could look so good ♫
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♫ Oh, si paseara por el barrio, quién diría que me veo tan bien ♫
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♫ just talkinghablando on the phoneteléfono to ClonieClonie. ♫
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♫ nadamás hablando por teléfono con Clonie. ♫
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♫ We are palsamigos, it's coolguay, 'cause'porque we're not lonelysolitario, ♫
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♫ Somos amigas, es divertido, porque no estamos solas, ♫
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shallowsuperficial genegene poolpiscina is nothing to my only ClonieClonie. ♫
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♫ acervo genético superficial no es nada para a mi única Clonie. ♫
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♫ Me and you, hustlingempujando throughmediante, holdingparticipación on throughmediante thickgrueso and thinDelgado, ♫
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♫ Tú y yó, sobreviviendo, mateniéndonos de pie en las buenas y en las malas, ♫
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♫ just day by day, our DNAADN, so the OlsonOlson twinsGemelos got nothing on us. ♫
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♫ sólo día a día nuestro ADN, al fin que los gemelos Olson nada tienen en contra. ♫
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We'llBien survivesobrevivir, sidelado by sidelado. MotherMadre NatureNaturaleza, dondon’t you call her phonyfalso, she’s my ClonieClonie. ♫
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♫ Sobreviviremos, lado a lado, Madre Naturaleza no la llames falsa, ella es mi Clonie. ♫
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♫ Was wealthyrico, but not healthysaludable, had no one to dwellhabitar with me, ♫
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♫ Era rica pero no saludable y no tenía a nadie quien viviera conmigo, ♫
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♫ so look who I got bornnacido -- ClonieClonie. ♫
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♫ así que mira a quién hice nacer -- Clonie. ♫
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FarLejos from brokerompió, boredaburrido, richRico folkgente, we don't need no naturalnatural yolkyema de huevo -- ♫
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♫ Lejos de la bancarrota, aburrida de la gente rica, no necesitamos yema natural -- ♫
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♫ our babiescriaturas come full-formedfull-form, ClonieClonie. ♫
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♫ nuestros bebes nacen bien formados, Clonie. ♫
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We'llBien be huggableabrazable, get a publicistpublicista
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♫ Seremos apapachables, consigue un publicista ♫
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♫ and showespectáculo them, be the mostmás lovableamable thing sinceya que fuckingmaldito EminemEminem. ♫
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♫ y demuéstrales, sé la cosa más adorable después del despreciable Eminem. ♫
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♫ Oh my friendamigo, multiplymultiplicar, we’rere a franchisefranquicia, like WaltWalt DisneyDisney or HannibalHannibal LecterLecter. ♫
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♫ Oh amiga, multiplícate, somos una franquicia como Disney o Hannibal Lecter. ♫
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♫ We can tell our cancercáncer cellsCélulas are more benignbenigno than oldantiguo PhilPhil SpectorSpector. ♫
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♫ Podemos decir que nustras células cancerígenas son más benignas que el viejo Phil Spector. ♫
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♫ We’llll survivesobrevivir sidelado by sidelado, should have signedfirmado with VerveBrío insteaden lugar of SonySony. ♫
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♫ Sobreviviremos lado a lado, debimos haber firmado con Verve y no con Sony. ♫
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♫ You’rere my ClonieClonie. ♫ "Oh ClonieClonie, how I love you."
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♫ Tú eres mi Clonie. ♫ "Oh, Clonie, cómo te amo."
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"HaDecir ah, I'm the only personpersona I ever lovedamado."
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"Ja, soy la única persona a la que he amado."
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GeeCaramba, that's swellhinchar. I guessadivinar you're just my fatalfatal attraction-ieatracción-ie. You’rere my ClonieClonie. ♫
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Eso está bien. Creo que eres mi atraccionie fatal. Tú eres mi Clonie.
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Thank you.
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Gracias.
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(Aplausos)
Translated by Luis Puente Aceves

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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