ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jill Sobule - Singer/songwriter
Jill Sobule isn't just another singer-songwriter with catchy tunes and smart lyrics, she's one of the more insightful satirists of our age. Each of her fanciful songs captures an issue or irony, an emotion or epiphany that helps us understand what it's like to live now.

Why you should listen

Jill Sobule first found her place in music history with the controversial 1995 hit "I Kissed a Girl." The song's silly sweetness masked its significance: It broke new ground as the first Top 40 hit to deal with overtly gay themes.

This approach -- packaging hard-hitting social commentary in a wrapper of whimsy -- has defined Sobule's career. Her endearing story-songs veer from fanciful storytelling to forceful satire and back again, covering a wide range of political and social issues from climate change to prostitution; anorexia to anti-semitism. Her winning combination of memorable characters, clever lyrics and catchy tunes has inspired comparisons that range from Burt Bacharach to Gertrude Stein. It also makes her performances and recordings a delight.

Sobule's candy-coated commentary can be found on her Huffington Post blog, as well as in her steady stream of stand-out albums, including Jill Sobule (1995), Happy Town (1997), Pink Pearl (2000) and Underdog Victorious (2004). Lately, Sobule has performed regularly with comedian Julia Sweeney (the two met at TED2006). They put on the "Jill and Julia Show," an utterly endearing evening of stories and songs. She's also recording an album with the string quartet Ethel (another TED2006 match).

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Jill Sobule | Speaker | TED.com
TED2006

Jill Sobule: Global warming's theme song, "Manhattan in January"

Джилл Собул: Пісня про глобальне потепління "Манхеттен в січні"

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Весела пісня про глобальне потепління від Джилл Собул.
- Singer/songwriter
Jill Sobule isn't just another singer-songwriter with catchy tunes and smart lyrics, she's one of the more insightful satirists of our age. Each of her fanciful songs captures an issue or irony, an emotion or epiphany that helps us understand what it's like to live now. Full bio

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Гаразд.
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StrollingПрогулюючись alongразом in CentralЦентральний ParkПарк
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♫ Прогулюючись Центральним парком, ♫
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Everyone'sБетме out todayсьогодні
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♫ всі сьогодні на вулиці ♫
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♫ The daisiesромашки and dogwoodsDogwoods are all in bloomцвісти
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♫ Ромашки і кизил в цвіту ♫
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♫ Oh, what a gloriousславні day ♫
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♫ О, який чудовий день ♫
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♫ For picnicsпікніки and FrisbeesFrisbees and rollerролик skatersфігуристи, ♫
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♫ для пікніків і фрісбі, і катання на роликах, ♫
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FriendsДрузі and loversкоханці and lonelyсамотній sunbathersлюбителів позасмагати
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♫ друзів, і закоханих, і тих, хто самотньо засмагає ♫
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Everyone'sБетме out in merryвеселий ManhattanМанхеттен in JanuaryСічень
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♫ Всі на вулиці у веселому Манхеттені в січні ♫
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(LaughterСміх) (ApplauseОплески)
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♫ I broughtприніс the icedз льодом teaчай; ♫
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♫ Я принесла чай з льодом; ♫
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♫ Did you bringпринести the bugпомилка sprayспрей? ♫
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♫ ти взяв засіб від комах? ♫
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♫ The fliesлетить are the sizeрозмір of your headголова
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♫ Мухи завбільшки з твою голову ♫
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NextНаступний to the palmпальма treeдерево, ♫
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♫ Поряд з пальмою, ♫
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♫ Did you see the 'gators' gators
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♫ ти бачив алігаторів ♫
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♫ Looking happyщасливий and well fedгодували? ♫
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♫ таких щасливих і вгодованих? ♫
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Everyone'sБетме out in merryвеселий ManhattanМанхеттен in JanuaryСічень
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♫ Всі на вулиці в веселому Манхеттені в січні ♫
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(WhistlingЧайник зі свистком)
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EveryoneКожна людина!
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Всі разом!
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(WhistlingЧайник зі свистком) (LaughterСміх)
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♫ My preacherпроповідник said, ♫
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♫ Мій проповідник сказав, ♫
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♫ Don't you worryтурбуватися
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♫ не переймайся, ♫
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♫ The scientistsвчені have it all wrongнеправильно
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♫ вчені помиляються ♫
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♫ And so, who caresтурботи it's winterзима here? ♫
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♫ Ну то й що, що зараз зима? ♫
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♫ And I have my halter-tophalter-Top on ♫
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♫ А я вбрана в коротенький топ ♫
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♫ I have my halter-tophalter-Top on ♫
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♫ Я вбрана в коротенький топ ♫
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Everyone'sБетме out in merryвеселий ManhattanМанхеттен in JanuaryСічень. ♫
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♫ Всі на вулиці в веселому Манхеттені в січні ♫
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ChrisКріс AndersonАндерсон: JillДжилл SobuleSobule!
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Кріс Андерсон: Джилл Собул!
Translated by Halyna Ryfyak
Reviewed by Khrystyna Romashko

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jill Sobule - Singer/songwriter
Jill Sobule isn't just another singer-songwriter with catchy tunes and smart lyrics, she's one of the more insightful satirists of our age. Each of her fanciful songs captures an issue or irony, an emotion or epiphany that helps us understand what it's like to live now.

Why you should listen

Jill Sobule first found her place in music history with the controversial 1995 hit "I Kissed a Girl." The song's silly sweetness masked its significance: It broke new ground as the first Top 40 hit to deal with overtly gay themes.

This approach -- packaging hard-hitting social commentary in a wrapper of whimsy -- has defined Sobule's career. Her endearing story-songs veer from fanciful storytelling to forceful satire and back again, covering a wide range of political and social issues from climate change to prostitution; anorexia to anti-semitism. Her winning combination of memorable characters, clever lyrics and catchy tunes has inspired comparisons that range from Burt Bacharach to Gertrude Stein. It also makes her performances and recordings a delight.

Sobule's candy-coated commentary can be found on her Huffington Post blog, as well as in her steady stream of stand-out albums, including Jill Sobule (1995), Happy Town (1997), Pink Pearl (2000) and Underdog Victorious (2004). Lately, Sobule has performed regularly with comedian Julia Sweeney (the two met at TED2006). They put on the "Jill and Julia Show," an utterly endearing evening of stories and songs. She's also recording an album with the string quartet Ethel (another TED2006 match).

More profile about the speaker
Jill Sobule | Speaker | TED.com