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Sadly yes, it probably is, having been officially confirmed by People.
But how many fake Blackout covers are floating around on the Internet? About a billion at last count, and even with the People confirmation, you'd be forgiven for assuming that this is just another fake. Could this this orange and yellow and fuzzy pink grotesquery actually have been OK'd by Zomba? Let's take a closer look:
NO WAY THIS IS IT:
1.) It apparently uses a photo that's been lying around for months. (Dead giveaway?)
2.) Any art director who approved this many competing Photoshop filters would be busted down to mail clerk and not allowed near a pack of Crayolas.
YES WAY, THIS IS IT:
1.) The "proof" offered at Oh No They Didn't: a series of screenshots taken from Sony/BMG's press website, using this very cover to advertise the album's new 10/30 release date. (Either that, or they're insanely detailed fake screenshots by someone with way, way, way too much time on their hands. Which would be the only thing scarier than this cover.)
2.) It is hurlworthy and weirdly hypnotizing and yet really no uglier than any other Britney Spears album cover.
Frankly I'm still torn, but I wouldn't be surprised to see this staring at me from the racks at Best Buy in three weeks.
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I love album covers that explain the title.
"Which wig do you want for the photo shoot?"
"Hmmm... Get the black out."
It's real. Jive sent out a press release this morning, which also has full album credits. Looks like B. Spears only gets two co-write credits, one of which is on, yes, "Freakshow."
For some reason, the press release also included credits for stylist, makeup, "prop stylist" and manicurist.
For my money, this is my favorite "Blackout" cover...[tinyurl.com]
Best Buy still sells CDs?
No this is [www.ashra.com]
i'm disappointed it's not the fake where she's looming over manhattan like she gonna eat the empire state building :\
this album cover would benefit from britney emerging from a smokey bible.
The cover reminds me of those flyers for "college nights" at suburban clubs where RockStars are half off and "booty dance" contests are a must.
What the hell is that font and what is it reminding me of?
And I couldn't find work in what I wasted money and time studying in college. Graphic Design. I guess my mistake was that I wasn't making things ugly enough, using giant clumsy fonts, and centering everything. DAMN ME!!!
"Please Say No?" For why? You expected it to be, what? Tasteful? You do know who Britney Spears is, right?
@misskarina: I'm totally with you on this. How is this any worse than oh, every cover of every album she's ever released?
Rudolf Schenker is spinning in his coffin.
@narymary: Or any major label songstress, for that matter? Keyshia Cole? KT Tunstall?
There's something very early 90s about the font and design of this. It looks like an old Paula Abdul album cover!
I think the fact that it is an old photo is actually a point for the "Yes, Way, This is It" column. Considering how trainwrecky her photo and video shoots have been lately, they probably figured it would be easier to use an old photo.
@Ned Raggett: Miami.
DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE BRITNEY, y'all. She's horrifyingly hypnotizing!
I can't wait to hear her cover of "Da Rockwilder".
Is there really any objectivity left after the "troubled Britney" tabloid orgy railroads everything? Because it seems like the villagers are a bit overeager to light up the torches here. While I've personally never understood how Britney Spears is considered of any better quality than any other Willa Ford or Jojo that takes a stab at teen pop, in reality this art only upholds the standard of bland, tacky aesthetic awfulness we've come to expect from Britney Spears albums. Observe:
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I am wondering if everyone missed:
"2.) It is hurlworthy and weirdly hypnotizing and yet really no uglier than any other Britney Spears album cover."
Just because you're used to someone having terrible aesthetic sense (the girl was wearing beaded stonewashed jeans for a long time) doesn't mean you can't, you know, hope for something better.
P.S. If you don't think this is uglier than both K.T. Tunstall and Keyshia Cole, then you mad. Tunstall's is no prize and Cole's is indeed ugly, but it was lazy ugly. This took a little more effort to be so...wrong.
@Nicolars:totally. there's a really specific one floating round in the back of my memory that i can't quite fully bring into focus. the Spin Doctors maybe? Arrested Development? someone used that exact same font BITD...
@Ned Raggett:
The font looks like Chalet...or at least Chalet's retarded cousin.
Looks like B. Spears only gets two co-write credits, one of which is on, yes, "Freakshow."
You mean isn't an album chock full o' the gems Britney Spears, acclaimed songwriter, is famous for turning out?
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