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"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.

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