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The 2009 VMAs are JUST AROUND THE CORNER, which means many things (late nights, pizza-related breakouts, coffee jitters for a month straight), but one of the most fun things it means is that it's time to talk FASHION and make FUN OF DUMB THING CELEBRITIES WEAR! Except for celebrities who wear cool things, and I'm sorry but when you have a body like Katy Perry -- a body that I have been in extremely close proximity to (seriously, I interviewed her in a dressing room backstage at TRL, and the whole [closet of a] room was completelye jam-packed with Katy Perry's amazing legs, perfect arms, and glorious boobs) you can wear whatEVER you want.

Katy Perry is presenting a Moonman at the 2009 VMAs, which leads me to wonder what the hell she's gonna wear.

Last year at the 2008 VMAs, Katy Perry wore a vintage pin-up girl outfit on the red carpet and a naughty peel-away banana playsuit in which she performed "Like a Virgin."

In the past 10 months alone, Katy Perry's worn a Manish Arora carousel dress to the 2008 EMAs, a massively hardcore Hello Kitty corset (designed by The Blonds), a giant sequined playing card dress by designer Asish in her "Waking Up In Vegas" video, and of course there was all that vintage Bob Mackie that gives me a fashion coronary just thinking about. The full-on sparkly fruit bowl (also by the Blonds) from the 2009 Grammys, and that Matthew Williamson peacock dress, the other peacock dress from the MTV Video Music Awards Japan. Don't forget her mermaid outfit from the Life Ball, and her dice dress from the Today show.

The bar has been set extremely high (or low, depending on your perspective, though I'm a total Katy supporter and apologist when need be), and if I were Katy Perry, I might be a little nervous right now looking at my closet. (I'd also probably look at myself in the mirror A LOT.) Should she pull a Brüno and wear a Velcro outfit with EVERYTHING she owns stuck to her? Go in disguise as Miley Cyrus? Wear Zac Posen on her back? What the hell is Katy Perry going to wear to the 2009 VMAs?

+ Check out more VMA Fashion for more greatests hits, misses, award-winning looks and total disasters. And don't miss the 2009 VMAs live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, September 13 at 9pm!


This weekend, while you:

+ Celebrate the Fourth of July...

+ Engage in or avoid the 218th straight hour of Michael Jackson media coverage...

+ Or burn all of the notebooks you filled with iterations of your name, "Mrs.," and "Kevin Jonas"

Please don't forget that you should be using protection while participating in those activities!

Enter Will Ferrell's own special brand of sunscreen. It's got SPF 30, and it's got an image of Will Ferrell's ass on it (plus, it's made in Germany, and you know the Germans always make good stuff -- actually, it's made in the USA, and I doctored that last part), but most importantly, 100% of the proceeds from Will Ferrell's sunscreen goes to Cancer for College, which funds scholarships for cancer survivors.

Choose from two appealin' flavors -- "Sexy Hot Tan" (shown above), or "Sun Stroke" (check it out below the jump). They're $12 each at FredFlare.com. (Get "Forbidden Fruit" here.)

Will Ferrell sunscreen! It's less superfluous than High School Musical hand sanitizer, and more practical than Brüno manpons. Which they should so make.

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Dudes, if you thought Brüno's balls in Eminem's face at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards was dirty... well... wait... it was... But we here at MTV have seen dirtier stuff before. Like Christina Aguilera in assless chaps. (Need a reference point? See below.) Or Taking Back Sunday covered in tar in their "Sink Into Me" video. The Foo Fighters covered in red paint. Christina Milian covered in God knows what. And some of our favorite bands -- Hit the Lights, The Cab, Mutemath, Weezer, and more -- have gotten covered in food, paint, pie, and more dirty, messy, filthy, in some all-out gross-out videos.

So check out 10 of the dirtiest music videos of all time -- some sexy, some sloppy, and some straight-up sick. (Uh, Primus, anyone?)

Christina Milian -- "Dip It Low" -- Sloppy can be sexy! Christina Milian writhed around in... chocolate fondue? Black paint? Ink?... in her 2004 "Dip It Low" video while teaching you how to "pop that thang."
+ Watch "Dip It Low"

Menomena -- "Rotten Hell" -- Never before has a food fight looked so elegant nor spaghetti looked so beautiful flying through the air in slow motion like in Menomena's 2007 "Rotten Hell" video. Seriously, this is less food fight, more ballet. And that blonde kid had it coming. Dude, gimmie some of your tots!
+ Watch "Rotten Hell"

Christina Aguilera -- "Dirrty" -- "Dirrty" is the granddaddy of the dirty music video! You get Christina Aguilera in assless chaps, Redman bringing up the rear, and a panoply of fantastic, orgiastic attributes, like furries, fighters, and masturbatory moves. Another word for it? WIN.
+ Watch "Dirrty"

Foo Fighters -- "The Pretender" -- Things start out tense but basically okay in the Foo Fighters' 2007 "The Pretender" video, until about halfway through the song, when the po-po get a little too close for comfort, and the Foos retaliate with a s++storm of red paint. Dave Grohl has alluded to the song being politically motivated, but if you play it backwards, you can hear "I hate Courtney Love" (speaking of messes) plain as the nose on your face.
+ Watch "The Pretender"

The Cab -- "Bounce" -- The Cab's 2008 "Bounce" video is basically Art History 101 -- it features a not-so-subtle Andy Warhol (actually a Patrick Stump cameo), and by the end of the video, the set looks like a Jackson Pollock.
+ Watch "Bounce"

Hit The Lights -- "Drop The Girl" --  Skip school, start fights, stay in school, start food fights! Bonus: cleavage, pizza, House Of Holland-inspired message blocky tees! Killer.
+ Watch "Drop The Girl"

Primus -- "My Name Is Mud" -- Primus' 1993 "My Name Is Mud" video is an absolute classic. Just ask Beavis & Butthead. Les Claypool in a lounge lizard suit, hulkin' fat dudes taking mud baths, dead bodies, Bob Cock drinking pork soda, and a seriously nasty drum and bass line. It doesn't get dirtier than Primus.
+ Watch "My Name Is Mud"

Weezer -- "Troublemaker" -- It's no "Buddy Holly" or "Pork & Beans," but Weezer's "Troublemaker" is a three-minute-long parking lot nerd Olympics, complete with a crapton of nacho cheese, 223 people on air guitar, and the world's smallest, and it all culminates in an epic pie fight. Oh yeah, and Rivers Cuomo gets dressed up like Limp Bizkit-era Fred Durst and rhymes "beyatch" with "kids." It's great!
+ Watch "Troublemaker"

+ More dirty music videos after the jump!

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+ Um, apparently YES. People really STILL ARE talking about that little-noticed time Britney shaved her head back in February 2007 and the events that led up to her not-exactly-on-point performance at the 2007 VMAs. A new book called Britney: Inside The Dream (out June 11, 2009), by Steve Dennis, claims to have the REAL-DEAL HOLYFIELD on what REALLY happened to Brits. Read an excerpt at The Mirror. If you didn't already read it in the February 2008 issue of Rolling Stone. (The Mirror)

+ For the LAST time. YES, Eminem was IN on Brüno's butt... I mean the butt of the joke. I mean he was in on the joke at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. Eminem said he went back to his hotel and watched the rest of the show from there. And laughed. (MTV News)

+ The family that Twitters together... tours together! Yesterday, on his Twitter, Trace Cyrus announced that Metro Station's going to be opening up for Miley on her upcoming tour. Cuteness! (Trace Cyrus' Twitter)

+ Eff what you know. The REAL verse of Kanye West's new "Paranoid" video, featuring Rihanna, is ready. (Just Jared)

+ Brokencyde, you're still terrible. DON'T bring chocolate milk into this! (Idolator)

+ Beyonce has less money than Madonna but more than Steven Spielberg. Specifically, she's worth $87 million. Meanwhile, I don't even have, like $87. (Forbes)

+ Whitney Houston will release her first album in seven years this September. The album doesn't have a title yet, but we've got a few ideas, starting with "It's Not Right But It's Okay." (Whitney Houston)

+ Speaking of Whitney Houston, freaking BOBBY BROWN had another baby. A real, actual human child baby! Can you EVEN? (E!)

The Miley Cyrus/ Perez Hilton Twitter wars, which have been going on since at least April, continue to continue. This morning, Miley Tweeted about waking up early and feeling like her brain wasn't turned on...

Perez Hilton Tweeted back...

@mileycyrus Do you ever feel like eating your own s+++?

Sad trombone sound. Dude, Eminem getting a faceful of Brüno's sack is funny. But asking Miley if she eats her own doodoo doody? That's just uncalled for. Miley's just a TEENAGER! Can't you just let a girl live and let her Tweet about Jesus and hardcore big it up to God ("hellloooooooooooooooh!?") and hug Lil Wayne when she wins an MTV Movie Award? Don't hate. Appreciate! (Especially since you have more followers than Miley anyway!)

+ Follow Miley Cyrus on Twitter at @mileycyrus

+ Follow Perez Hilton on Twitter @perezhilton

+ Follow Buzzworthy on Twitter at @MTVBuzzworthy

Eminem ripped last night's show wide open with a medley that included "We Made You," and "Crack A Bottle," (which, come to think of it, was not the only "crack" that Eminem got into last night). Squinting ferociously out from under the brim of a low-slung baseball cap, Eminem dropped in on last night's MTV Movie Awards (before Brüno dropped in on him) to show the world just what a career relapse looks like.

Stuntin' out in front of a jumping brass band, the slimmed-down Shady (who announced his weight as 175) made it hard to believe he'd ever been gone. Watch his performance below, and catch an encore of Brüno's crotch-first crash-landing, after the jump!

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+ So the big moment that everyone is talking about today is from last night's MTV Movie Awards, when Brüno flew down in what looked like a feathered jock strap and nearly sat on Eminem's face. Let's just say Em didn't wait around to see Zac Efron win for Best Male Performance. (MTV Movie Awards)

+ P.S. Megan Fox doesn't really give a s*** what you thought about her hairdo at the Movie Awards. Suck her Tweet! (US Magazine)

+ Golden Popcorn winner and resident it-girl Miley Cyrus just renewed her Hannah Montana contract for a fourth season with Disney. GIrl ain't no fool! Make that money, honey. (Pop Crunch)

+ Joss Stone is willing to pony up millions of dollars to be let go from her recording contract with label EMI. Add her name to the list of bands or musicians who have left the label since 2007, including the Rolling Stones and Radiohead. (NME)

+ Shy crooner Susan Boyle came in second on Britain's Got Talent, then promptly checked herself into the hospital for going a little exhausted from all the media attention. Get better, Susie. (ICYDK)

+ P!nk slammed Kanye West recently for showing up to a Stella McCartney fashion show wearing fur and talking about how he wished designers used more fur (all while the VP of PETA was sitting in earshot). Whups? (Bossip)

Come on. Admit you laughed when Brüno's bare ass landed on Eminem's unsuspecting face last night during the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. You laughed a little? Well if you didn't laugh during MTV Movie Awards host Andy Samberg's "cool-guy action heroes blowing stuff up" homage, then you probably need to check your neck for proper blood flow. Or you need to see more movies.

+ Watch the "Explosions" digital short video from the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, featuring Will Ferrell and J.J. Abrams in an AMAZING jacket that may or may not have belonged to Randy Jackson from his Journey days. (Or Kanye West next week.)

+ 2009 MTV Movie Awards: Videos, Photos & More