Avril Lavigne: killing my opinion of Canadians since 2007.
Written By: Due-East on June 16, 2007
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 I can’t believe we’re exporting this garbage to other countries. |
| I came across a video on YouTube earlier that really grates on my nerves. It’s Avril Lavigne trying to sing her song “Girlfriend” in Chinese, and it’s bad. Really bad. Her accent is kind of almost good, but at the same time still really, really bad. There are other videos of her covering the song in other languages, but I couldn’t bring myself to watch any of them because this one was just too painful. She obviously couldn’t sing the lines all in one take, so they had to perform some [not-so] creative editing to get her words to fit with the song, and the result is a really choppy vocal “performance” in which she sounds like a drunk, stuttering computer. Did I mention that it’s bad? Now, Chinese isn’t the easiest language to speak, but it’s not hard to sing in Chinese because you don’t have to worry about tones. I just can’t believe that someone would actually sign-off on this version of the song and say, “Yep, that’s what I want people to hear from me in that foreign country.” |
| Normally I would be much kinder about this kind of thing in the interests of building people up and being positive, but the song’s vulgar, too, so I feel justified totally bashing it. Any song that says “mother f***ing” in it shouldn’t be translated in any way into any other language. Granted, only the chorus of the song is actually sung in Chinese, but that doesn’t make it any less crappy to send it overseas. Couldn’t they have picked a non-profanity-spewing song to dub into other languages? I just think it’s really, really trashy for your one foray into a foreign culture to come along with that phrase. And she’s married, anyway, so why does she need to sing a stupid song like this? |
| Should you choose to watch the video, you can safely stop at about 25 seconds and see what I’m talking about before any English (and then profanity) comes in…that is, if you can make it that far before it grates on your nerves so much that you stab pencils into your ears. |
| Link to crappy video. Feel free not to watch it. |
