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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…

50 albums that changed music

So says The Observer. Of course I’m thrilled my fave band makes #1, but tell me, people, when the fuck will Sgt. Pooper finally drop off this kind of list? No one’s seriously amazed by that album anymore, are they? Yes, I get the gist of the list and yeah, OK, it “changed” music, but sometime, somewhere, that album, along with the overrated Pet Sounds, and most certainly Nirvana’s Nevermind will cease to exist on a popular albums list of this type.

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?

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