--- description: The clip is a real feather in this cockatiel's cap title: This Bird Nails Lip-Syncing Nelly’s ‘Dilemma’ Featuring Kelly Rowland image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Bird Nails Lip-Syncing Nelly’s ‘Dilemma’ Featuring Kelly Rowland  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Sep 3, 2015 7:21 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Sep 3, 2015 7:21 PM CUT In a clip uploaded to YouTube on Aug. 15, footage of a cockatiel named “Patrick Jane” has been made to look like the bird is lip-syncing to Nelly’s R&B hit “Dilemma,” featuring Kelly Rowland. It is the latest bird to go viral for “singing” popular music, from the 2010 clip of a [parrot singing](https://youtu.be/-UX1t9n7IXw?t=1m52s "undefined") the theme song from the Nickelodeon show _SpongeBob SquarePants,_ to the 2015 video of a [parrot singing](http://time.com/3976593/parrot-everything-is-awesome-lego-movie/ "undefined") — more like shrieking — “Everything Is Awesome” from the 2014 blockbuster _The LEGO Movie_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4021811/cockatiel-lipsync-nelly-dilemma-kelly-rowland/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4021811/cockatiel-lipsync-nelly-dilemma-kelly-rowland/"},"headline":"This Bird Nails Lip-Syncing Nelly’s ‘Dilemma’ Featuring Kelly Rowland","datePublished":"2015-09-03T19:21:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:16.494Z","description":"The clip is a real feather in this cockatiel's cap","url":"https://time.com/4021811/cockatiel-lipsync-nelly-dilemma-kelly-rowland/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4021811/cockatiel-lipsync-nelly-dilemma-kelly-rowland/","name":"This Bird Nails Lip-Syncing Nelly’s ‘Dilemma’ Featuring Kelly Rowland"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4021811/cockatiel-lipsync-nelly-dilemma-kelly-rowland/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4021811/cockatiel-lipsync-nelly-dilemma-kelly-rowland/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```