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Special Delivery: 5 Artists Who Could Be the Future Face of Pizza Boxes

Recently my partner in crime and I decided to have a pizza night. This is pretty typical for us, but what wasn't typical was the question Papa John's asked me while I was ordering: would I like to add a copy of Taylor Swift's new album Red to my order for only $13?

I said no -- who pays $13 for CDs these days? -- and assumed that was the end of it. I was wrong. When I got to the storefront to pick up my thin-crust double pepperoni with extra cheese, I found myself looking at a pizza box with a giant Taylor Swift on the lid.

Welcome to corporate sponsorship in 2012, and now that the line has been crossed, it's only a matter of time before more people get in on the action. Here are five acts that may be coming to a pizzeria near you.

5. Justin Beiber

Recommended Order: Deep dish triple cheese

This listing really should come to the surprise of no one; conspiracy theories aside, we're ultimately talking about a guy who is so well-liked by the buying public he can put out a singing toothbrush. Whether his fans are waiting all day in line to get into his show or having a slumber party, they'll need food.

I imagine they'd be pretty stoked to get a pizza box with the Bieb's face on it. Sure it might get a little gross after it's been tacked to the wall for a few months, but it's a small price to pay to gaze upon him every night before bed.

4. KISS

Recommended Order: Your choice of four toppings, each covering its own quarter of the pizza

Somewhere Gene Simmons has heard about Taylor Swift on a pizza box and is fuming because he didn't think of the idea first. Unofficially KISS has been on a pizza lid before, as evidenced by the pizza box put out by some enterprising entrepreneur in the above screengrab, but there's no official KISS pizza box.

I don't have to remind you that there's already KISS branded everything, so why stop here? Sure those extra pizzas are taking their fans one step closer to their eventual burial in a KISS coffin, but rock and rolling all night causes sleepy eyes and hungry bellies.

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Cory Garcia is a Contributing Editor for the Houston Press. He once won an award for his writing, but he doesn't like to brag about it. If you're reading this sentence, odds are good it's because he wrote a concert review you don't like or he wanted to talk pro wrestling.
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