Idolator

Our second entry in the "Bad Photoshop" bracket of our Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament pits dance pop against prog rock, Auto-Tuned studio magic against Berklee-trained musicianship, and most importantly, a dazed divorcee in a fedora against the might of the insect kingdom. In the one corner, the disorienting orangey-yellow and fuzzy-pink of Britney's Blackout, a cover created by scientists for the purposes of secret epilepsy studies. In the other corner, there's the equally orangey-yellow and "mysterious" skyline of the "special edition" sleeve to Dream Theater's Systematic Chaos. You know, you would have thought a post-apocalyptic world where the evil ants have taken control of the traffic lights would seem a little scarier than Brit's hypnotic, insectoid stare.