Britney Rejected! The All-American Rejects One-Up "Womanizer"
"Womanizer"
has undoubtedly been very, very good to Britney Spears. In October 2008,
her comeback single skyrocketed from #96 to #1 on the Hot 100 chart, amazingly
becoming her first #1 hit since 1999's "Baby One More Time" and
reviving a career that was all but over. Finally, with "Womanizer,"
Britney was doing well.
But you know who can do it better? The All-American Rejects.
This intrepid powerpop combo recently entered the Yahoo! Music/Pepsi Smash studios with just an arsenal of toy instruments and a simple, all-American dream: to one-up Britney and perform "Womanizer" their way. A better way. And they succeeded.
So this is the latest Pepsi Smash Cover Art created for
Yahoo!, and it's a totally compulsively watchable, totally viral insta-hit,
maybe the most ingenious Cover Art yet. Not only is frontman Tyson Ritter's Ted
Bundy-ish gaze at the camera lens even more bone-chillingly memorable than the creepy-crazy
glint in Britney's eyes on the infamous evening she shaved her head; not only has
AAR created "pirate rock" music using found objects (a cheapo plastic accordion, empty beer
bottles) that somehow sounds more sophisticated than the over-Autotuned, over-Protooled
pop fashioned by uberproducers in Britney's million-dollar studio; not only
are AAR's adlibbed shoutout to K-Fed and sly inclusion of the soundalike
Turtles classic "Happy Together" totally inspired...but it's a Cover
Art that makes previous awesome entries (like New Found Glory's version of Justin Timberlake's
"Cry Me A River" or Bowling For Soup's remake of Fergie's
"London Bridge") seem about as staid and serious as, say, Bob Dylan
covering Leonard Cohen.
And yes, it is better than Britney.
people, try to figure it out. this isn't a "radio release" song - this is a parody. they are having fun with it. learn how to have a laugh!
Britney, is just Britney...
this was very clever guys.. but uh, go back to writing your own tunes.
britney is so much better
Britney rocks!!!
Why is it that those stupid gang sign throwing, peace sign up with the tongue in the cheek and dumbass facial expressive white girls who save up for 6 months while working at Subway and living with 3 roomates or still with their parents just to buy a pair of Bvalgari shades in an attempt to be ... whatev
lol, loosen up kids. I'd bet Brit herself would chuckle at this.
Props yo!
It was creative, and it was funny as hell but his voice is very nice and it's just to make fun! I still like Britney's song more but this is really cool.