''Womanizer'' Covers
Britney Spears' eight-Red-Bulls-and-counting dance-floor robo-jam has recently proved to be remarkably fertile material for other artists. Among the best? See below.
Lily Allen
The British indie princess' narcotic, Cockney-accented take (available,
like the others listed here, on YouTube), accompanied by jazzy piano and
bare-bones tambourine playing, is darkly delicious. B+
Ladyhawke
New Zealand singer-songwriter Phillipa Brown, a.k.a. Ladyhawke, imbues
her version with throaty Kiwi angst, projecting raw romantic desperation
over sawing violins and frantic guitar strums, and transforming the song
into a sublime, convulsive dirge. A
All-American Rejects
The multiplatinum Oklahoma emo-poppers recently recorded the song for a
Yahoo! Music studio session, incorporating an itty-bitty accordion, some
beer-bottle percussion, and cheeky lyrical improvs from frontman Tyson
Ritter like ''Look at you, gettin' more than just a re-up/K-Fed,
you/Yeah, you shouldn't sign a prenup'' — plus a nice little mid-song
breakdown into the Turtles' classic ''Happy Together.'' Musically? A solid
B, but the camp factor bumps it up to an A-.
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