Entrevista con el manager de AVril en la que habla del proceso de grabacion de Girlfriend en todas esas lenguas:
"The chorus to her boppy anthem Girlfriend has been recorded in eight different languages, including Mandarin and Japanese for her largest fanbase in Asia.
Lavigne's song is also available in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese, but attempts at Hindi proved too difficult, says her manager, Terry McBride.
"We tried Hindi twice but the diction and the meter of how you sing Hindi versus the western rhythms just didn't match and we just couldn't pull it off," McBride said in an interview yesterday following a keynote address at Canadian Music Week.
"The hardest one next to that was actually Portuguese."
The former skater girl doesn't speak a second language, said 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.
"It's not perfect, you don't want it to be perfect. You want it to be her interpretation of it," he said.
Lavigne, who isn't slated to tour until February 2008, will have the option now of singing in Mandarin for a Chinese audience, said McBride, chief executive of Nettwerk Music Group.
McBride said Lavigne gained a new appreciation for choreography after seeing fellow Canuck Nelly Furtado strut her stuff on stage. After seeing how much fun the Promiscuous girl had with her fans, Lavigne decided to inject a bit of the party atmosphere into her own performances, McBride said. It started with a lighthearted video for Girlfriend, which includes a choreographed sequence that was harder than it looks, he said.
"She was getting up and going to dance class for two hours, coming and doing interviews -- oh yeah, she worked her ass off," McBride said."
