Avril Lavigne singing in Mandarin again
bazza
October 31, 2008, 07:00 AM posted in General Discussion
qingdaossadventuresdotcom
November 19, 2008, 05:23 AMRough translation, without looking at the actuall English lyrics;
You make me fill warm,
I must immediately quench my thirst for you,
You really cant accept it,
You really dont understand it,
Again, I am not able to breath
You make me want to scream,
Your really incredible,
You do me well!
Haha, Coooooorny, cant believe I ever enjoyed pop! Give me Carsick Cars and feedback! Is my translation far off?
light487
October 31, 2008, 11:09 PMThanks for this, I am always curious how a westerner throws in mandarin to their songs. I have been wanting to write my own songs in mandarin for some time now. Not that most of my music has lyrics to begin with but it would be a good exercise to write a song purely in mandarin.. I like how she does both.. fascinating.
tvan
November 01, 2008, 12:07 AMlight487, a quick Yahoo resulted in this article, which gives some background into her Chinese recording. It sounds like she knew she had lots of overseas fans, so she recorded version the chorus in different languages. The article seems to imply that a lot of people thought her Chinese was bad but, if you go to YouTube, there were lots of thumbs down on those comments.
Hey, I understood it and give her an A for effort. She has an overseas fan base and, with that kind of effort, I thinks she'll keep it.
xiaohu
November 01, 2008, 12:46 AMTvan,
那篇文章说，因为《艾薇儿》在中国尤其是在北京那么受欢迎的所以她把这个中文版本录下来了。是为了充分利用她在亚洲的流行。其实我也觉得她的普通话唱得不标准，总之艾薇儿向中文的粉丝表示感兴趣。而我觉得她普通话带口音不是那么的。最重要的问题就是，你为什么用 Yahoo 搜索呢？
calkins
November 01, 2008, 01:31 AMI thought her 对 duì sounded like duey...rhymes with Huey. Pretty bad!
bababardwan
November 01, 2008, 03:59 AMI'm not able to comment on how good her Mandarin was ,but I did think A for effort also.Calkins,don't forget that English pronunciation by native English speakers can be sometimes deliberately distorted in songs too.Henry Higgins would probably be turning in his grave at the pronunciation of a good percentage of rock n roll singers.
uh_huh_her
November 01, 2008, 07:10 AMher pronunciation is not that bad compares to the part of lyrics in Mandarin...XD
tvan
November 01, 2008, 01:18 PMOne of the comments on YouTube was that the lyrics were dumb. Pop music... dumb lyrics... Noooooo!!!!
Xiaohu, 我听说 Yahoo 的算法比 Google 的好一点的，所以我平常用的搜索引擎就是 Yahoo.
xiaohu
November 01, 2008, 04:35 PMTvan,
你有没有把雅虎和谷歌的算法认真的比一比过？ 虽然真的有 Bai-Google-Du 可惜没有 Ya-Google-Hu。如果有 Ya-Google-Hu 这种搜索引擎的话你可以在一页上自己看雅虎的算法没有谷歌的那么好。百闻不如一见，你愿意的话你可以去雅虎然后谷歌搜索同样的关键词自己比比看，雅虎和谷歌相比之下哪个搜索引擎的搜索结果相关度强。
xiaohu
November 01, 2008, 05:24 PMI watched the Japanese version as well as the Chinese and to be honest, I feel kind of gypped! It seems the sound engineers spent alot more time on the Japanese version, layering Avril's voice with harmony's, perfecting the balance, effects, blending the main vocal track with backing tracks, music, etc.
The Japanese version sound like a professionally produced song, while the Chinese version sounds alot more like Karaoke.
Perhaps this is because the producers know where to spend their money and efforts, in that they will SELL CD's in Japan as opposed to having to fight against piracy of their intellectual property in China?
Just kind of wondering.
Has anyone else had a chance to compare the two versions?
qingdaossadventuresdotcom
November 19, 2008, 05:14 AM你是我感到热，
我马上要解渴
你真受不了，
真是听不了
我不能再呼吸
你使我大声叫
你真是了不起
你真是对我好
calkins
November 01, 2008, 04:03 AMI definitely give her props for doing something like that. Shows that her fans mean a lot to her....or it shows that she realizes that Chinese populate a fifth of the world....money money money :)
xiaohu
October 31, 2008, 07:15 AMNO WAY!!!