here she is playing with Chinese toys and she looks miserable

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svDAai_0ajU




Here is her version of "Girlfriend" in Chinese to capitalize off her success in China

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N13DLrRdr4



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Avril Lavigne’s new single, “Girlfriend” from her new album The Best Damn Thing is already a hit, currently sitting at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the U.S. What makes Avril’s newest song unique is that she recorded an alternate version of the song partially sung in Chinese. In order to capitalize on her popularity in (East) Asia, she recorded the chorus of the song in Mandarin, as well as Japanese and five other European languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese. Hindi was attempted, but alas it proved too difficult for the Canadian singer. The chorus of the Chinese version is a direct translation from the English version of her song, which goes “I don’t like your girlfriend / You need a new one / I want to be your girlfriend / I know that you like me / It’s not a secret / I want to be your girlfriend”.

According to her manager, Terry McBride:

In order to get the intonation and meter just right, she spent hours studying recordings by foreign language singers. Once Lavigne felt comfortable, she headed into the studio with a tutor and spent "a couple of hours nailing it," McBride said in an interview Thursday following a keynote address at Canadian Music Week.

Appealing to China and its massive market is of particular concern for those who manage the 22-year-old's career. McBride said analysis of online traffic suggests the largest chunk of her fans is in Beijing and two other Chinese cities.

"Her consumption is greater in Asia than what it is in all of the Western Hemisphere combined," McBride told an audience earlier Thursday at the annual music industry conference. "And some of those cities outweigh some of the biggest countries as far as the demand of consumption."

The manager did not specify which other two Chinese cities contain a large chunk of her fans. Should her popularity in Asia continue to soar, Avril’s management is showing signs that she could possibly tour China sometime in 2008.

Lavigne, who isn't slated to tour until February 2008, will have the option now of singing in Mandarin for a Chinese audience

The international appeal of the song has already struck a chord, or at least in Japan. The Japanese version of “Girlfriend” debuted at #1 on Japan’s international and domestic charts, something “unheard of” for an English-speaking singer. As for her potential success in China, the future remains unknown. With hints from her management that she might tour China, Avril’s efforts to reach out to Chinese consumers could pay off … or maybe not. Here is a sampling of some of the YouTube comments of her Chinese version of the song:

it is weird, her mandarin isn't good at all.

She massacred Mandarin.

made out some of her retarted chinese...
you want a new girlfriend?can't i be your girlfriend
with a really crappy accent

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YouTube clip of (a moody) Avril playing with Chinese traditional toys
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ohh heyy she's on that show my parents sometimes watch lol..yeah she looked a bit bored on the show, like she didn't wanna play with the toys lol. And her Manderin ver. of Girlfriend sounded horrible, maybe she tried her best since it was her first time recording in a different language.

her mandarin sounds awful... if i didnt know i would have no idea she was singing chinese.
its nice thats shes trying to branch out and all but she should learn the language better before she trys to sing in it.

She can't sing in both languages! Awfully bad.

Haha I heard of those versions and mannnnn She sucks at languages. Kudos for the attempts but it was just plain weird in the end. The German one and Portugese one had me in stitches! lol! She should stick with the english version.

WHAT is up with the dude's hair??? looks like chia pet

she sang it in a bunch of other languages too and they all sound questionable lol~ I'm glad she's trying to branch out but she does need to learn the language first instead of just doing a half a**ed job and calling it a different language song.

it annoys me how she always has to give us the finger

avril looks so bad noww..

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edit - I just noticed that a lot of Taiwanese variety shows go waaay overboard with sound effects.
Can't really comment on her Mandarin, but it sounds weird.

Maybe she thinks she is cool like that.
Ok, she could point the finger at the person to who took the pic/whatever....but she does give fingers a lot.
I thought she was good before....now just O_o

- apoptos dolor

am I wrong for laughing really hard?

i agree. those sound effects drove me insane .


anyway, Avril didn't really look like she wanted to be there (taiwanese show)... well judging from the first few minutes of it anyway...

you're not

cuz i am too

and i thought my mandarin was bad o__o.....

at least she's trying? :\

In Chinese, Japanese, and all those other languages? Wow. O_O That's a lot to memorize?

nope. she sucks in every language she sings in, even english.

"I created punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. Thats what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation."

umm yeah, uh huh.

The first time I listened to her song, I was a bit hopeful because of the many languages she was singing it in.

But she completely sucked at Mandarin, it sounded so gross.

Wooow, I wonder how the Chinese liked it.

Oh...my goshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Her mandarin is horrible!!! IT sounds like she's singing in some unknown robot language. Hah!??!

wow, that song is really annoying! how on earth did it get to #5???????

^ agreed . I dont hate the girl,....just a bit O_o as to why she ever got popular.

bring back the old avril PLS
even if her image back then sucked
at least her songs then were tolerable

I felt sad watching that video for some reason.

She looked so bored; like not happy. ):

But still, Avril=

Why does everyone keep saying she sucks now? Her style changed a little bit, so what? She's still Avril.

"I didn't realize until after my album was done, that I totally evolved and went to the next level. And that's, like, what the fans are waiting for. They want me to be me, but they want some new stuff- I want to do some new stuff. I've matured and I want to experiment more, try new beats. I've gone from rapping, to swearing, to yelling in my songs, because I like to do new stuff. It's me. " -Avril Lavigne.

Well I'm random.

I know her whole gimmick/image is "FU I don't care...", but I really didn't like her attitude on the show. I mean, she's trying to promote herself in asia and a pissed off look is not the best way to do it. I find some of her songs to be pretty POP for someone who disses Britney and Christina.

sadly, she looked so out of it in that show... no enthusiasm at all...

The song's annoying and her singing is terrible in Mandarin, not to mention in English too.

rofl wtf?

nice try though o_o

the song is annoying as hell

She looks horrible on the show and her Mandarin is pretty hilarious. Never liked her much.

I though she was really disrespectful.

That's not the cutest pose ever for a picture.. Haha.
I like the color of her eyes. They're pretty and stand out. ^___^

Yeah, she looks a little bored. Like, "yeah, okay". Haha.
My parents watch that show sometimes, aha.
I wanna play with that Chinese top. Looks fun. XD

The other versions of the songs in the other languages sounds funny.
The only one I think sounds okay is the French one, haha.
The other ones sound a bit rushed.

she looked so bored at the chinese show. how sad. and her fans were so crazy holding up signs.

lol thats what i was thinking. she looked like she just woke up from a 10 hour nap and just decided to go out like that.

haha her voice is so annoying in english and any other lanaguge.

the chinese version is terrible!
im so glad its not the whole song, just the chorus
and she looks absolutely miserable on that show. its like she didnt want to be there and would rather stay in bed or something

Avril SUCKS... why couldn't she just get lost after getting married?

hey its that show
she looks like she doesnt even want to be there....

i thoughti was the only one who didn't like this song.

i dont hate her nor love her. shes alright
i just think that her song is kinda aimed at pretweens.
her old songs sound way better.

her image screams ssagaji

her mandarin isn't that bad i understood it after like 5 times listening to it

Oh Avril...That's all I can say, stop trying to be so angry...

agreed, she KILLED the chinese....destroying our mother tongue...>.<

wow she's baaaaaad. But I give her props for even trying an Asian language. So far I've only heard American singers do romance language variations of their songs.

some people were saying that the international version of her song was computerized.. but to show that she really attempted it.. LOL
the mandarin version makes me laugh the most. lol

isn't that a little rude to be like that at a variety show?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA >_< im sorry but that was absolutely hilarious :x
i cant stop laughing HAHAHAHA >__<

Yeah.. she was sooo rude on that Taiwanese show.. =.="
She couldve at least looked a LITTLE bit interested =P

And Re: her mandarin...
Well.. u cant expect her to be great at mandarin considering she hasnt spoken it b4 in her entire life...but... it sounded terrible anyway...
The Japanese Version isnt as bad... but pffftt.. i dont know Japanese to tell whether shes murdered that language as well...

S2 HaiKi

Avril isn't an ugly girl; she just has ugly music.
And I don't speak Chinese, but I spend like half my whole week talking to a Chinese couple in broken English and that did NOT sound like Chinese...it sounded like a rapper on an acid trip yodeling really fast...then hooking back into English.

Her speaking an Asian language is like Asians trying to speak English. Total. Complete. Trainwreck...But without the genuine effort Asians display.

Bah.

it sounds horrible in mandarin
and i thought my mandarin sucked..

Eww, that Mandarin version of girlfriend is just so horrible! It was like she was slurring her lines...and not in a good-Jay-Chou-type of swearing...like, really inaudible slurring >_<