Avril Turning Japanese?

March 12th, 2007

Word has it Avril’s hoping to branch out to her international fanbase by releasing new single “Girlfriend” in several different languages.

As a couple of friends and I discussed this past weekend, this isn’t an entirely new concept - The Beatles recorded German versions of songs like “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” and “Saw Her Standing There” back in the day, and Shakira, J-Lo, Celine, and a host of others have done it recently too.

But Avril’s taken it a step further, releasing the single in EIGHT languages: English, Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. Apparently Hindi was attempted as well, but it turned out the language’s pacing couldn’t properly match up with the song’s rhythm.

Avril reportedly spent hours studying each foreign language before going into the studio to record the new versions.

OK seriously - check these out!

Spanish:

Mandarin:

Japanese:

French:

Posted on Monday, March 12th, 2007 at 1:59 pm by Kat and is filed under Blog.

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10 Responses to “Avril Turning Japanese?”

  1. she can speech diffent languages

    By jamiemae on March 14, 2007 at 2:39 pm |

  2. shes so confused, i love how she changed her whole image in a matter of seconds, after she said she wouldnt do that….that the entertainment world for ya! get a life girl.

    By Rachel on March 16, 2007 at 8:46 pm |

  3. I know, what happened to the old avril. The punk rocker…. I would have never expected this big of a change from Avril! :o

    By i<3much on March 22, 2007 at 8:35 pm |

  4. Did she re-write the chorus of her song in those languages, all on her own?

    By Sarah on March 23, 2007 at 3:08 am |

  5. I love the Mandarin one its cool!

    By Tiffany on March 23, 2007 at 5:08 pm |

  6. ok seriously, that mandarin courus is so funny hahah

    Still don’t like the song…

    By DarkRini on March 23, 2007 at 5:56 pm |

  7. Trust me guys, she can’t speak all those languages… I speak english, french and spanish: and her accent in french and spanish is pretty bad, she tried though! (Hate the new image)

    By Andr�e on March 24, 2007 at 4:45 pm |

  8. Trust me guys, she can’t speak all those languages… I speak english, french and spanish: and her accent in french and spanish is pretty bad, she tried though! (Hate the new image)

    By Andr�e on March 24, 2007 at 4:45 pm |

  9. I love how they have to edit the Chinese version so she says certain words fast enough. what is the point of translating the songs, its not like if she goes on tour in those places she will have all her songs translated and memorized for that language, and she definitely doesn’t know those other languages, if she did then the whole song would be translated, I would think!

    By james on May 7, 2007 at 11:17 pm |

  10. she good j’aime avril na ja

    By yves on October 2, 2007 at 3:34 am |

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