No, Pete Wentz doesn't *necessarily* die in Fall Out Boy's highly hush-hush new video "What A Catch Donnie" and no, "What A Catch, Donnie" isn't *necessarily* their last video.

"What A Catch, Donnie" is all Patrick Stump's Elton John-ian vocal acrobatics (and Elvis Costello's guest vox, don't hurt), set against a misty, wistful Hemingway/ Decemberists backdrop of nautical metaphors. It's kind of like the movie Castaway but with 100 percent better art direction and no volleyball or whatever that busted thing was.

The "What A Catch Donnie" video was shot off the waters of Los Angeles by Alan Ferguson. Speaking of cameos, watch for Panic! At The Disco's (SO... hard to remember whether or not to use the "!") Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith.

Okay, watch "What A Catch, Donnie" now because I don't wanna spoil anything else for you and get thrown overboard.

+ It's Pete Wentz's birthday today! He just turned dirty 30! May he drink Bacardi... and Caprisun... like it's his birthday. (Twitter)

+ Electrik Red assure you that they're not corny, like the Spice Girls. That'd better be a promise. (Bossip)

+ Soulja Boy Tell' Em is JUST NOW getting around to "getting" Jay-Z. Better late than never, I guess. (MTV News)

+ Method Man and Redman have some choice words for Kanye West. (Buzzworthy)

+ Toronto Raptors' Chris Bosh will be releasing a CD compilation of his favorite songs and music by new artists. Ballin'! (Baller Status)

+ British Band the Horrors blame blogs and Facebook and everything else FUN for ruining EVERYTHING. You know what? SCREW 'EM. It's not like they're reading this anyway! (Independent)

+ Pour some out for polka -- the Recording Academy pulled polka from its list of Grammy categories. We hardly knew ye! (New York Times)

+ Poison, Dolly Parton, AND Elton John will all be performing at the Tony Awards this Sunday. And LAAAAAAYYYYDIES, keep your eyes a-peeled for Constantine Maroulis, who's up for Best Actor in a Musical. Best. Tonys. Ever? (Billboard)

+  Eminem did a lot of reaching out when he was addicted to drugs. Reaching out to people he has things in common with. People who understand the lifestyle he leads. People like Elton John. (MTV News)

+ There has been a lot of good buzz about Depeche Mode's new album "Sounds Of The Universe" and the subsequent world tour this summer. Sucks that singer Dave Gahan is having really bad stomach problems, forcing them to cancel tons of shows. (The Tripwire)

+ Looks like that Rihanna and Lady GaGa track we told you about Tuesday was a fakity fake. Ugh... it's always too good to be true. (Singersroom)

+ Our favorite feline Kitty Purry (Katy Perry) brought the lolz on last night's American Idol when she managed to piss off anyone from middle America who is not voting for little "Lamchop" (Adam Lambert). What didn't bring the lolz, however, was how flat she was. Give a girl an earpiece! (Neon Limelight)

+ Speaking of things that AREN'T flat (and no, we're not talking about Katy Perry's boobs) -- have you seen her new video for "Waking Up In Vegas?" She took us behind the scenes as only KP can do. (Buzzworthy)

+ DMX has evidently found Jesus (by Jesus, we mean the Son of God, not Madonna's love sponge Jesus Luz) and you'll never guess where -- in jail of course, while the rapper was doing time for animal cruelty and sundry other indiscretions. (NME)

+ If it's really true that actress Bette Midler wants to collabo with 50 Cent, then we really WILL be able to eat Dippin' Dots in hell. (The Hip Hop Chronicle UK)

Dive into the soft and smoky vocals of up-and-coming R&B force, Skye Taylor. The Brooklyn prodigy, whose bio boasts that she's been singing longer than she's been walking, has been a professional singer since age 11. She's shared stages with Michael Jackson and Elton John, which is just insane. I mean, think about it. That puts her on a very short list. Is Macaulay Culkin on that list? Think so...

Listen to "Blessed" -- a ballad dedicated to all the ladies who've been cheated on -- and see if you can pick out that undeniable spark of soul genius in between the whispers. Highly recommended for fans of Teairra Mari, Jazmine Sullivan, and Rihanna.

Any good Lily Allen fan will tell you -- 2007 and 2008 were crap years for Lily. There was the O.O.M.W.H.A.F.D. incident (Oversharing On Myspace While Having A Fat Day), her miscarriage in early 2008, the demise of her relationship with the Chemical Brothers' Ed Simons, and her catfight with Elton John, which was actually pretty great, because Elton needs to be taken down a few pegs every now and again.

That her first single, "The Fear," off her upcoming album, It's Not Me, It's You (out February 10 in America), is a pensive, paranoid reflection on overinflated celebrity culture and super-human expectations is far from surprising. Nor is it surprising that the finally-all-grown-up Alice In Wonderland-themed clip is Lily Allen's best -- and most mature -- video to date.

It's directed by Nez, who's also worked with The Streets and British rapper Kano, and shot "The Fear" in Bedfordshire, England.

+ Watch "The Fear" below, find out more about "The Fear"'s video shoot, and get more on the cute PPQ bow dress Lily wears in the video.

As "the voice of his generation," a prolific blogger, self-proclaimed religious figure, and Pee Wee Herman impersonator, we wondered when the hull Kanye West ever finds time to make any music. But then we saw this video mashie of every single song Kanye's ever sampled in the history of ever, and we finally figured it all out: like a girly-girl at the makeup counter at the mall, the dude is addicted to samples.

So, here are the top 5 reasons why Kanye CANNOT stop sampling other people's goods:

5. What's old is new again: Kanye recognizes that you've got look back in order to look forward. And the best way to do this is to, you know, not reinvent the wheel. So he likes to channel the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix and Curtis Mayfield, since he sampled the hell out of "Move On Up" for "Touch the Sky."

4. Girls, girls, girls: Sampling songs helps you get in with a whoooole lotta model chicks (and if there's one thing we know about Kanye West, it's that he lurves model chicks). For ex, he sampled Marvin Gaye's "Distant Lover" (Marvin Gaye = instant panty-droppin' "in" with the femmes) for his "Spaceship" jam, probs in the hopes that it would help him track down "the right girl" (or maybe other scantily clothed hunnies for his blawg or amazin' asses for his videos).

3. If award ceremonies are "fixed," you may as well up your chances of winning by sampling songs that have already gotten some metal, right?

2. It doesn't hurt the whole legend status thing: when you're laying down beats by Chaka Khan -- he parlayed "Through the Fire" into "Through the Wire" -- or Elton John -- Kanye used "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" on "Good Morning" -- over your own music, it's a pretty good way to remind everyone that you're a legend in your own mind. So, in case anyone missed it: Jesus walks ... and poses for the cover of Rolling Stone.

1. The more songs he samples, the more superstars he meets = WAY more stuff to blog about.

In summary, if sampling works for Costco (did you ever try those little eggrolls the old ladies hand out with the little toothpicks!? TDF!), it works for the Louis Vuitton don.

Also, sampling leaves loads more time for "normal people stuff" like Twittering ... and interning.

(Credit: Gregg Delman)

True confession time: I haven't paid a ton of attention to Brandy since the "The Boy Is Mine" -- her 1998 dueling duet with Monica. And allow me to tangent for a second and declare that aside from Elton John and George Michael's "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me," Warren G and Nate Dogg's "Regulate," and Mariah Carey and Jay-Z's "Heartbreaker," "The Boy Is Mine" is one of the finest duets of the 1990s.

Anyway, shame on me for sleeping on Brandy, because she's hilarious, has a passion for Skittles akin to that of Tokio Hotel's most hardcore fans, and is as addicted to "World of Warcraft" as your ex-boyfriend. For realsies.

Watch this exclusive MTV interview with Brandy to find out more about her upcoming album, Human, out December 9, check out some brand-new photos of the model-turned-singer-turned-gamer -- and watch her latest video, "Right Here (Departed)," after the jump.

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He may've retired "Sexy Back," but TRL founding father Justin Timberlake will be returning to TRL for the final show of all time this Sunday, November 16 at 8pm ET. (Tears!)

More just-announced celebs also include Christina Aguilera, Travis Barker, AND JC Chasez!

Plus, see which others stars will be attending -- and performing! -- at Total Finale Live, and check out classic clips of Justin during his many TRL appearances -- Justin being a sorta-regular guy, Justin talkin' about sex -- animal sex! -- and Justin interviewing Sir Elton John.

+ More Justin video clips after the jump!

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We blew the dust off two completely bizarre videos you've either never seen before or probably haven't thought about in years. (You're welcome!) They're both Elton John videos (stay with me...), yet neither features Elton himself, thankfully, some might say. Instead, in an odd confluence of the pop music of the early 2000s and the cinematic releases of Q2 and Q3 2008, they both feature stars of two summer movies -- Robert Downey Jr. and Justin Timberlake -- and lots of lip-synching and slow walking.

In 2001's "I Want Love," off Elton's Songs From the West Coast, a wide-eyed, pre-Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. soberly wanders through a palatial mansion, containing only bad memories and no furniture, lip-synching to Elton John and -- understandably -- looking slightly sheepish and remorseful about that decision. The video appears to be one continuous shot, but it's pretty hard to get through the entire thing, so don't quote me on that.

Then, in "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore," Justin Timberlake fakes a receding hairline -- far worse than the messy curls he wore in The Love Guru -- and, again, lip-synchs as early-'70s Elton, complete with fake toof gap and everything. It's depressing, and the whole thing may be a metaphor for erectile dysfunction. Regardless, it's weird stuff, but it's better than watching Elton pop up in those cringe-inducing novelty piano glasses in his "I'm Still Standing" video.

Throw the Doobie Brothers, the Clash, the Thompson Twins, pre-1985 Elton John, the Scissor Sisters, Electric Six, Mika, and an eyeliner pencil into the dryer and in about an hour, out will tumble Jean, an electrifying, genre-ambiguous Brit dance-rock band that makes us want to do backflips down the hall (in theory), shoot spiderwebs out of our wrists (also in theory), and punch our computer screen just to see which colors come out.

As of now, it looks like they still don't have an album in stores (or a label or even a website), so you gotta listen at their MySpace. Unmissable tracks: "Dirty Old Bed" and "Chelsea Girl." More love for Jean here. You're welcome.

And, just because: