Meghan Trainor pens, performs song for new 'Smurfs' adventure

CULVER CITY, Calif., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Meghan Trainor has written and recorded a song for the latest Smurfs movie, Sony Pictures Animation announced.

"I'm a Lady" will be heard in Smurfs: The Lost Village when it debuts in U.S. theaters on April 7. The film will feature Demi Lovato as Smurfette, Rainn Wilson as Gargamel, Joe Manganiello as Hefty Smurf, Jack McBrayer as Clumsy Smurf, Danny Pudi as Brainy Smurf and Mandy Patinkin as Papa Smurf.

"I love the Smurfs and was honored when they asked me to write a song for this new movie. I was so excited – I wrote the whole thing in one evening!" Trainor said in a statement Monday.

Directed by Kelly Asbury, the cartoon adventure follows Smurfette and her best friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty "on an exciting and thrilling race through the Forbidden Forest filled with magical creatures to find a mysterious lost village before the evil wizard Gargamel does," a press release promised.