Lily Allen Covers "Womanizer"

Did you watch Britney Spears' For The Record "documentary" a few weeks ago? The pop star came off sad and confused like a character in a Christopher Guest movie ("People shave their heads all the time..."), but hey -- she looks great. (So good at exercising, that girl.) While Britney was never far from public consciousness, Circus' catchy comeback single "Womanizer" (written and produced by the Outsyders) is actually the singer's first #1 hit since "...Baby One More Time." So only a matter of time before HypeM is flooded with winking acoustic versions a la "Toxic." Leading the pack is Lily Allen, whose own new tune "The Fear" pokes fun at celebutards. Her jazzy barroom version was premiered by mate Mark Ronson on East Village Radio's Authentic Shit last night. Gigwise quotes him: "As promised, Lily has a habit of making some great bootlegs, remember her '[Nan, You're A] Window Shopper' send up? Check me out, I have a Lily Allen song you've never heard." Actually he said "Check me out Stereogum, I have a Lily Allen song you've never heard." Showoff.

Lily Allen - "Womanizer" (MP3)

Thanks Pigeons And Planes for the heads up.

Lily's It's Not Me, It's You is out 2/10 via Capitol.

UPDATE: Lily blogs...

now some of you may be wondering why i covered "womanizer", simple really , i love britney and i love the song , it wasn't my intention for it to have whizzed round the world like it has, mark ronson asked me for something no one had heard to play on his radio show and womanizer was the only song i had as an attachment on my blackberry and i couldn't get home to send him anything else in time. i had asked him to talk all over it so it wouldn't get ripped, but he didn't , thanks mark for getting me in serious trouble with my record company.

Posted at 7:33 PM by Scott in MP3
Tags: Britney Spears | Lily Allen | Mark Ronson

25 Comments

oh oh your blog is now mainstream.

Posted by: predictor at 12/13/08 8:50 PM | Reply
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Stereogum jumps the shark

Posted by: JRstone at 12/13/08 9:09 PM | Reply
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lily allen...she just keeps getting better.

Posted by: johnnytantan at 12/13/08 9:52 PM | Reply
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"Womanizer" is actually great pop song. Though check out Lily's cover of ELO's Mr. Blue Sky, that's much better.

Posted by: Dan at 12/13/08 10:12 PM | Reply
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I rate both versions

Posted by: Jacob at 12/13/08 11:48 PM | Reply
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Nice version, I like it.

Posted by: anggit at 12/14/08 12:28 AM | Reply
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LadyHawke 's version is better, clever and at least current.
WTF is going on between Ugly Allen and Stereogum ? Does she have files on you and she threatens you with them if you do not talk about this boring has been piece of crap from tabloids ?

Posted by: Assanis at 12/14/08 3:12 AM | Reply
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i'm also curious to know what is going on between my Gummy and ms.Allen. i'm jealous now! there's something about her.

Posted by: vig at 12/14/08 7:20 AM | Reply
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Lily Allen is a celebutard!

Posted by: jjazznola at 12/14/08 11:21 AM | Reply
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I usually get really annoyed when people cover pop songs, but it's usually when they take a good one and then sing it slow with their acoustic guitar and think they have made the world a better place by doing so. Womanizer was not particularly good in the first place. The jazzy piano is a nice take on the original.

Her second album doesn't seem to be shaping up to be as good as her first, but this cover is kinda cool.

Posted by: BBooms at 12/14/08 12:15 PM | Reply
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Case in point: Rihanna's 'Umbrella', performed by Marie' Digby.

Posted by: Blu in reply to BBooms's comment at 12/14/08 3:02 PM | Reply
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FUN.

Posted by: sarahspy at 12/14/08 12:32 PM | Reply
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I dont know why this song remenber me rihanna SOS song

and if your hear the last shadow puppets cover is the same thing at least for me

Posted by: Mario at 12/14/08 6:19 PM | Reply
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ehh. lately i've become a bizarre creature...the fear is nice (go lily), but b. spears does this one better, im afraid.

Posted by: lindsey at 12/14/08 9:21 PM | Reply
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She sounds like a man. I don't like it.

Posted by: Julie at 12/15/08 11:19 AM | Reply
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Interesting take on the song. Anyway, I hope its OK that I link to your site. Ü

Posted by: mj at 12/15/08 12:59 PM | Reply
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I don't care who covers it, repeating the same word 15 million times is a recipe for annoyance.

Posted by: Calliwell at 12/15/08 2:01 PM | Reply
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really? that's why I like it. dick.

Posted by: eb at 12/15/08 8:03 PM | Reply
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what's with the douchebags that have to wrap their idiot voices into these mp3's?

Posted by: Joe at 12/17/08 2:38 PM | Reply
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I like it, but I don't love it.

Posted by: Megan at 12/17/08 2:42 PM | Reply
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I haven't heard Britney's version, but I like this! Thanks for the mp3.

Posted by: Myr at 12/18/08 7:38 AM | Reply
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wow great cover!!
Thanks
Joe

Posted by: Joachim at 01/09/09 1:04 AM | Reply
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I dont know how anyone could possibly think Lily Allen sounds like a man. She has a very soft voice.

Posted by: and1lpfan at 02/03/09 4:12 PM | Reply
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I thing this version MUCH better them Britney.
Thanks Lily

Posted by: Breckenridge at 04/22/09 12:36 AM | Reply
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I thing this version MUCH better them Britney.
Thanks Lily

Posted by: Breckenridge at 04/22/09 12:38 AM | Reply
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