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[theducks]

I have a confession. I like some pretty damn horrible and inappropriate music. This will probably not come as a surprise to many of you.

Anyway, stephiepenguin mentioned that Avril Lavigne had done a cover of Girlfriend in Mandarin Chinese. Which was news to me, since I didn't think she could speak Mandarin. According to Stephie, she can't and even doing it phonetically, she's horrible.

And then I found the french version of Girlfriend. See, now while I can't blame Avril for not being able to accurate re-create a tonal language such as mandarin, I expected better for the french version, since, y'know, she's from Canada, and actually has a french sounding name. I wouldn't have thought that actually being able to sound slightly french wouldn't be too unreasonable to expect. Yeah, not so much. It's grating and horrible. This clip actually has her respond to a question from an interviewer in french.. let me say.. OH GOD THE PAIN.

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[luyer.livejournal.com]

While I don't understand Spanish, I often find myself listening to a bay area latino radio station, since they have great reception and pretty damn good music. Anyway, Imprescindible, the Spanish version of Irreplacable, does sound rather nice. No idea if it is in fact good Spanish. However either way, it's a bit of a surprise at first to hear Beyonce in Spanish.