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No wardrobe malfunctions, please

Budding graphic designers, take note: Janet Jackson wants you to design the cover for her new album, “20 Years Old,” to be released September 26.

According to Yahoo:

The Design Me contest requires participants to download images of Janet, create proposed album covers, and to post the creations on the contest page. Contestants will vote for their favorite submissions, and Janet will select her top four favorites, which will be used for the first one million copies of the album.

Sounds great, huh? Well, okay, there’s also this tiny bit of fine print:

Each Grand Prize winner will receive an autographed copy of his/her design for his/her personal, private use only and not for resale and winning design will appear in selected publicly distributed copies of Janet Jackson “20 Years Old” CD, subject to the Sponsor’s absolute right not to use one or more winning designs on any copies for any reason in its sole discretion.

So, Janet might use your winning design, if she feels like it, unless she doesn’t want to.

But still: a pretty cool opportunity, if you’re good with PhotoShop…

The kids want K-Fed

You heard right. The kids want K-Fed! What, did Kreskin come in and hypnotize them or something? K-Fed continues to eke out his “career” by closing the Teen Choice Awards this year. OK, so maybe they don’t really want him, and will only be cheering because they’re seriously joking and are just glad he was put on at the end while they can amble out of the place and not worry about a traffic snarl. Fed’s gonna be dropping his new tune “Lose Control” from his upcoming debut disaster. About his previous single, “PopoZao,” K-man had this to say:

“At first, when I put out ‘PopoZao,’ people were kinda laughing at me,” he said earlier this month. “I did it on purpose so people would look at me exactly the way they did. That way, when I come out with my real s–t, people are f—ing blown away.”

Blown away or blowing chunks?

News to make The Chauffeur giddy…

…not to mention the Mayor of Simpleton:

According to RememberTheEighties.com, the Human League’s “Louise” has reportedly been covered by Robbie Williams for a forthcoming Pet-Shop-Boys-produced album entitled 1974. The dance-inspired album is also said to contain a cover of Williams’ songwriting partner, Stephen Duffy’s biggest solo hit, “Kiss Me,” as well as homages to Madonna and David Bowie.

Jesus, if they could’ve worked in references to Scritti Politti, Prefab Sprout, and Tears For Fears (I’m counting Stephen Duffy as an indirect Duran Duran reference), The Chauffeur might well have passed dead away from sheer bliss.

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