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.
Seems Brit fans can take a joke though __ Its just a PARODY. as in, NO HARM NO FOUL. Geez.
smmfh....
I've never heard the original, as I can't stand that pop-trash bull [profane]. And its almost as tough to stomach these guys. but this, I will say, was well done.
I liked the medley in the middle at the bridge. Nicely done. Britney fans, chill out. She'll be back to filling your lives with more crap than you can puke out of your own mouth soon enough.
(on a side note, brit fans. You see what they're doing, its called harmony. Playing instruments, singing together. Not overtoned pre-fabricated crap that gets touched up in the studio. Let see brit pull this off without cracking her voice like always. but why am I telling you. you're brit fans, you wouldnt know the first thing about how music is made, nor what it souds like)
I think it was pretty funny myself.
P.S Twilight RULEZ even though this has nothing to do with it.
way better than britney
BEST FEMAL MUSIC KILLA EVER!