 " Womanizer " has been covered by many artists from a variety of music genres , as well as a great number of amateurs . Clark Collis of Entertainment Weekly explained that " the song has been covered by other artists with an enthusiasm only matched in recent times by musicians ’ desire to remake Radiohead ’ s ' Creep ' in their own image " . On December 8 , 2008 , New Zealand singer Ladyhawke performed a cover at BBC Radio 1 's Live Lounge . The song was covered by American band The All @-@ American Rejects on the Yahoo ! Music Pepsi Smash show in December 2008 . It was performed in an acoustic version , in which the band members played percussions with beer bottles . The cover also included an excerpt from The Turtles 's " Happy Together " . British singer Lily Allen also covered the song , because " simple really , I love Britney and I love the song " . Her cover was a stripped down version , that according to Nick Levine of Digital Spy , " might provoke those who reckon it doesn 't have much of a chorus to revise their opinion " . Allen also performed the song as the encore during her 2009 tour . French singer <unk> cover was deemed as an " indie makeover " . He would later be the opening act of the second Paris date at The Circus Starring Britney Spears . 
