No way! I could be your girlfriend". And then she says, "I will be your girlfriend. It takes way too long and doesn't fall right. She wouldn't be able to phrase the song right, so you have to give her that, but I do think "I will be your girlfriend" is a little nastier, a little stalker-y.
And there's no explanation for why she couldn't get her mouth around " copine " [the French word for girlfriend]. Kroft : It's confusing, because people say, "Maybe she's saying it in a Canadian way," but if she was, she would have a thicker, [more] guttural accent. She's not French-Canadian.
But she's from Napanee, which is two hours outside of Toronto, two hours from the French border — it's not like she hasn't had any exposure to it. I would imagine, the punky, wild girl that she is, she went and partied in Montreal as a kid. She probably took French in school, but does she look like somebody who studied hard? She took the time, she made the effort. But Avril, when she says "girlfriend" in Portuguese, " namorada, " you have to pronounce every part of the word.
But instead she pronounces like an American would, just reading it, "Oh, namorada. It does have a bit of the gringa accent, but I think you have to appreciate her trying. Kroft : It's like listening to Shakira the first time she sang in English: I don't know what the hell she's singing, but it sounds good. Millard : But when foreign artists have a song in their native language, in their native country, they often do an American version.
Which would you rather have: the song in their native language — the way it's performed in their country — or the bad English translation? The video also featured this Lavigne and her friends dancing in a restroom. Short Comedy Music Romance. Not Rated. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia In , the song became the most viewed video on YouTube, and was the first video on the site to reach million views. User reviews 1 Review. Details Edit. Release date February United States. United States Canada.
Official YouTube. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 4 minutes. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Afterward, it became Lavigne's first song to reach number one on the Hot , in the issue dated May 5, ; her previous highest peak on the chart was with 's "Complicated", which reached number two.
It remained in the top ten for eighteen weeks and has since been downloaded over 3 million times. The following week it reached number-one, and it remained at the top for six non-consecutive weeks, equalling Lavigne's previous number-one single on the ARIA Charts, "Complicated".
After three weeks on the charts, it was certified gold by ARIA, then platinum after seven weeks for sales in excess of 70, copies. It was then certified double platinum, sales in excess of , In , it was certified quadruple platinum for sales of , The song ended as the years 20th biggest-selling single in the UK and spent 27 weeks inside the chart and is Lavigne's biggest hit in the UK to date.
RemixSeven additional versions of the song are available to enhance its worldwide marketability with the chorus sung in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish language. The other parts of the song are in English. According to Lavigne's label, a Hindi version was attempted but Lavigne found it too difficult to record because the correctly pronounced lyrics did not best match the meter of the song.
There is also an edited version for radio, because of explicit lyrics. There are two official censored versions: one blanking the word "motherfucking" in the line "I'm the motherfucking princess" and the other replacing it with "I'm the one and only princess".
However, on other radio stations the entire word is cut out or just the word "mother", as in the version on the clean edition of the album, is said. The official remix was leaked onto the Internet in May and features rap verses from American hip-hop musician Lil Mama.
Lavigne sings the chorus and bridge and Lil Mama's rap verses are substituted for the original verses. The music video of the song was released in mid-October and is a parody of the original Girlfriend video, with Ali playing the "Bad Avril" and Matty playing the good one.
It resembles numerous situations that occur in the original video, but with a more comic sense into the video. I don't like your girlfriend No way! No way! I think you need a new one Hey! I could be your girlfriend Hey! I know that you like me No way! You know it's not a secret Hey! I want to be your girlfriend You're so fine, I want you mine, you're so delicious I think about you all the time, you're so addictive Don't you know what I can do to make you feel alright?
Don't pretend, I think you know I'm damn precious And hell yeah, I'm the motherfucking princess I can tell you like me too and you know I'm right She's, like, so whatever You can do so much better I think we should get together now And that's what everyone's talking about Hey! I want to be your girlfriend I can see the way, I see the way you look at me And even when you look away, I know you think of me I know you talk about me all the time again and again And again and again and again So come over here and tell me what I wanna hear Or, better yet, make your girlfriend disappear I don't wanna hear you say her name ever again And again and again and again Because she's, like, so whatever You can do so much better I think we should get together now And that's what everyone's talking about Hey!
I want to be your girlfriend In a second you'll be wrapped around my finger 'Cause I can, 'cause I can do it better There's no other, so when's it gonna sink in? She's so stupid, what the hell were you thinking?
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