While some Fortune 500 companies are still waking up to the idea of having a multilingual website, the pop singer Avril Lavigne has decided to record her latest pop song in seven different languages—Japanese, Portuguese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Mandarin.

"Mandarin and Portuguese are really hard; French is easy and Japanese was the easiest one," says Lavigne, who spent two challenging days working with the translators, trying to get all the syllables to fit the melody and ensure she was singing them correctly. "One day I did four languages; one day I did three."