worst britney spears album cover

http://www.musicdigs.net/photos/albums/%5Bbritney-spears%5Dbaby-one-more-time-300.jpg
http://www.musicdigs.net/photos/albums/%5Bbritney-spears%5Doops-i-did-it-again-300.jpg
http://celebirtiessupporter.webs.com/Britney_Britney_Album_Cover.PNG
http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51-dUcyNoOL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://allvpop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/51doT2C3moL-300x300.jpg
http://www.musicdigs.net/photos/albums/%5Bbritney-spears%5Dblackout-300.jpg
http://www.cievan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/britney-spears-circus-300x300.jpg
http://cdn.buzznet.com/media-cdn/jj1/headlines/2011/02/femme-fatale-britney-spears.jpg

(i couldn't do the poll w/the images as options for some reason?)

Blackout all the fucking way

her smile has crept back in over the years I see

the s/t is terrible, but 'my prerogative' is really just out of control

voting Oops!...I Did It Again. I mean really, look at it.

like, between the ridiculous outfit, the hilarious photoshop, the clashing b/w those two things and the random ass lace background

Blackout because Jive had little to work with photo wise. I think with the music on Blackout being "edgy" for pop music at the time, they could've gone crazy with the advertising for it. Something similar to Rihanna's Rated R look.

blackout is probably the hardest to look at
the self-titled isprobably the outright ugliest given that she's tinted piss-yellow and has an inexplicable magenta smudge going through her
the greatest hits looks like it was assigned to a 6-yr-old to do in MS paint
in the zone is certainly the laziest

think about this woman's art budget!!!! how has this happened all these years.

the s/t is terrible, but 'my prerogative' is really just out of control

j0rdan otm

with blackout, given what she was like at the time, i at least feel there was something of an excuse. with the others, there was no excuse at all!

voting Oops!...I Did It Again. I mean really, look at it.

i like oops the best tbh

voted for circus bad porn box art deal

i think the first two are the most defensible aside from the fact that the first one gives me serious http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii154/KonaKea84/400px-Chris-hansen-1.gif vibes

what is that gif???

Chris-hansen-1.gif

no no i mean did that replace some text of yours? & if so what text

voted for In The Zone, perfect combo of meaningless generic title and perfunctory silly color filter & horrible font

no, i put it in there myself

gold & purple colour scheme is nagl in the second - actually, gross mismatching colour schemes seem to be a theme here. and is the beaded curtain supposed to...be...exotic? like she's...in a harem?

the greatest hits cover does not convince me that her head is connected to her body

the whole aesthetic of 'in the zone' is obv horrible but she at least looks pretty on the cover, which is fucking rare in context

ah okay thx j0rdan

lol'd at the chris hansen thing b/c i spent like 4 hours watching an internet creepster catch-em-all marathon the other night

man i remember when the oops cover was one of the standards in the Ben Franklin poster section.

voting for in the zone because whatever the sins of the others that's the only one that is utterly generic.

Blackout cover is great!!

u s steel™

You think with those Rolling Stone covers she has done she would get one of the photographers to do the cover. A matter of fact, for each album she was promoting during that time the accompanied Rolling Stone cover should have been the album cover.

Especially, her very first one for Baby One More Time:

http://britneyspears.ac/hepcj/images/g1/bsac010.jpg

+ this rolling stone cover too!

http://img.listal.com/image/1247851/500full.jpg

when you see these covers and JUSTIN'S rolling stone covers you would definitely think they were the hottest couple ever.

obie trice?

i was exactly the right age for those covers. i think i was 12 when she was 17. now what's striking about them obviously is the ultrablatant barely-legal fantasy but i still remember them as senior-girl fantasies.

voted for circus bad porn box art deal

― Prom Dressantino 2011 (Lamp), Wednesday, February 2, 2011 3:19 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

feel like this applies to the first more than any!

her skin tone on the first cover is weirding me out -- her skin looks... grey?

fwiw this is actually the first time i've seen that cover for the debut - this was the UK one

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jwgEn5VhtjA/R8KNH0GjTeI/AAAAAAAAAUA/jgDW4XHU78w/s400/Baby-one-more-time-international-cover.jpg

I don't think anything beats the ludicrous hair and outfit combo on My Prerogative.

wasn't '99 right in the middle of the great uk pedo freakout?

I think that was the following year but yeah that American cover for the first album would not have been considered cool over here. Better to make her look sexy and grown-up than cute and kiddy.

with a TURNED-UP HEM :o

for some reason the cardigan she's wearing is cracking me up

I want to vote for Circus but she is such a freaking mess on the My Prerogative cover.

Now seeing the UK cover, I'm jealous we didn't get that in the USA. I was in high school when ...Baby One More Time came out and I was freaked out seeing grown men and women deconstructing that cover and song to a more perverse degree than the song suggested.

If we had the UK cover it would have save seeing bad comedians on TV talking like pedophiles for a while.

After staring at those covers for a while some of them start to look like budget label 70s Country or Easy Listening albums which is kind of cool.

The s/t's weird 3rd tier Grunge act vibe is maybe the worst but really they're all winners.

the s/t is so, so bizarre

britney is passing under the radar. it's shitty! the font, everything.

lol xps

I'm not even convinced that's actually her on the cover of Circus. I think the Greatest Hits might be the worst though, it's just awkward and wrong in so many ways.

i kinda like my perogative.

blackout by far
that fucking hat

i really love the blackout cover. it totally represents the completely chaotic clusterfuck that was 2007. her looking as pale as a ghost was way more ominous back then though.

Hang on, what's actually supposed to be in the background of Blackout, beyond the MIND-BENDING OPTICAL ILLUSION-type squares? I can just about make out something with zebra print on it and a traffic light.

i was peering at that cover trying to work out the answer and i think i gave myself a headache

it's this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jwgEn5VhtjA/R8KTLEGjTrI/AAAAAAAAAVo/_Gz1-CUkaxs/s400/Gimme_More_cover_by_Britney_Spears.jpg

they just recycled the "gimme more" cover

these make my eyes bleed

these covers are uniformly generic and terrible. slight lean to my prerogative, which -- despite its title -- makes britney look even more like a vacant, emptyheaded, manufactured popbot than the other covers.

i don't know if this is official or a fan-retouched prototype, but this is the cover i use in itunes for blackout:

http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/helmuth/default/blackout-deluxe-edition-cover--large-msg-120147908482.jpg

also because my sister is awesome, when she got the cd version for me for christmas she printed out that cover to replace the real one.

lol. i had never noticed, but yes, these are all pretty bad ("baby one more time" less so, imo). i voted for the greatest hits.

I think all of these fake covers are better than the real versions:

http://i51.tinypic.com/2i0yr8z.jpg

except for the femme fatale cover where it looks like she's sniffing her hand

does her label even have an art dept or do they just let 12 year olds design her covers

prolego kinda otm in that almost all of those are better

fwiw this is actually the first time i've seen that cover for the debut

Me too, it's weird looking. It looks as if the eyes have been cut out and replaced by cartoon movable ones a la a Terry Gilliam animation.

I quite like the Britney alb cover, in a "there's a new music taking over this country - it's called indie" kinda way.

Never even heard of the Femme Fatale album. Can't see her as a femme fatale at all really, and she doesn't look like one here.

Liking the fan made In the Zone! xps

I quite like the Britney alb cover, in a "there's a new music taking over this country - it's called indie" kinda way.

lol yeah totally has some terrible 90s grunge color scheme

prolego where are those fake ones from?

someone's itunes. but i dunno where they found the individual covers

oh, found the place - coverlandia.net. and tracked down the pics:

http://coverlandia.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Britney-Spears-In-The-Zone-FanMade-Made-By-OTHERcovers-1.png
http://coverlandia.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Britney-Spears-...Baby-One-More-Time-FanMade1.jpg
http://coverlandia.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Britney-Spears-Oops...I-Did-It-Again-FanMade.png
http://coverlandia.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Britney-Spears-Greatest-Hits-My-Prerogative-FanMade.jpg
http://coverlandia.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Britney-Spears-Blackout-FanMade.png
http://coverlandia.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Made-by-Ronaldo.jpg
http://coverlandia.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Panda-1-400x400.png

being a britney fan must be such a hard uphill battle

lol this is the main image on her wikipedia:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Circus_Tour.jpg/220px-Circus_Tour.jpg

It is puzzling how they could all be so bad. Were any of these released in vinyl?

surprisingly, these are worse than i would have thought!

Went with In the Zone just b/c it's so boring, doesn't have the same car crash fascination.

I can't get past the colors and the way she's sitting in S/T cover.

With her arms hanging down like that it reminds me of the whole 'bigger than a baby's arm' penis jokes.

Worst one is Greatest Hits imo.

"Hey, we need a background element for the negative space."
"What about doilies?"
"GENIUS!!!!!!"

I'm a little miffed at her titling the new album Femme Fatale. She didn't even make the effort to do an old school private eye-style Film Noir photo shoot for it. Missed opportunity for being awesome, Brit. Still miles ahead of "Born This Way" aka "Stripped 2.0".

That My Prerogative is pretty on the nose too. It looks like an advertisement for Hot Topic's "Black Swan" clothing line...and the oil and the BUH?stare. Not working at all.

Ha that is p much why I think it is the best one of these!

Is that a mattress behind her on the cover of s/t?

It is a porch covered in mattresses I think?

Ah, I thought the one on the right was a couch for some reason. Must have been thinking of this porch.

https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/images/medium/diltz_CSNcouch.jpg

They are all awful!

reviewing this, i stand by my in the zone vote on grounds of being boring, but man that greatest hits cover is actually kind of depressing.

I really, really want to have some words with her people. They're all like variations on the same basic design...and she's really an attractive girl but god could they make her look more awkard

awkward is right. the story with britney has always been how weirdly poor her marketing is for someone who is and continues to be That Famous. she became the avatar of an entire genre without ever being as fashionable as christina or justin or even (amongst critics) ashlee simpson. like, everybody thinks that britney is a confused and slightly damaged trend-chaser, even those of us who like her.

actually the reason i love the self-titled album is its awkwardness. that the album with the weird dark minimalist inorganic sex jam called "i'm a slave 4 u" trying to position britney as a Futuristic Grown-Up Who Wants To Do You would be the same album with the "i love rock and roll" cover that could not possibly be more explicit about being an attempt to align britney with Respectable Bad Girls Of The Past. (that cover is actually an inspired choice--people act like it's an embarrassing attempt to play in the big leagues, and britney definitely isn't joan jett, because joan jett is Awesome, but joan jett wasn't joan jett either: when she recorded that song she was a manufactured teen star trying to get control of her own career recording a cover of a song about "classic" "unadulterated" rock, just like britney. honestly, being britney spears and covering that song is in itself a pretty good act of rock criticism.) in 2001 britney was still important enough for there to be something at stake in her maneuvering. plus the album is coincidentally better-written/performed than anything else pre-blackout.

you guys are right about the magazine covers being where all the creative marketing brains seem to have gone, though.

The cover for the new one is almost acceptable. I quite liked the implied no.7 in the title anyway.

voted In The Zone - just hideous, whereas the others are merely inept

I'm a little miffed at her titling the new album Femme Fatale. She didn't even make the effort to do an old school private eye-style Film Noir photo shoot for it. Missed opportunity for being awesome, Brit. Still miles ahead of "Born This Way" aka "Stripped 2.0".

― Has No Shame (MintIce), Wednesday, February 2, 2011 9:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

well her album titles are almost as uniformly unimaginative and perfunctory as the covers

the more I look at it the more I think Oops I Did It Again is creatively unforgivable.

the one for Britney freaks me out, what happened to her arms????

lol this is so easy

i'm freaked out by the ears on in the zone

I can't even look at the greatest hits cover

they used my legs for it

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