Flo Rida's new video "Sugar" -- the second single off his sophomore album, R.O.O.T.S. -- is finally out. You know it's sweet, you know it's sexy, and you know it takes place on a beach, but here are more five more facts you need to know about Flo Rida's addictive new cut.

1.) "Sugar" was shot on Miami's South Beach by director Shane Drake, who also shot "Elevator," as well as a seemingly unending list of other major videos, including Panic At The Disco's "Nine In The Afternoon" and Paramore's "Decode" video. But before "Sugar," Shane Drake directed another beach video -- Shwayze's "Corona and Lime video."

2.) At both the "Corona And Lime" video shoot and the "Sugar" video shoot, Shane Drake took off his shirt, establishing what's basically a pattern -- Shane Drake shoots a beach video, director Shane Drake takes off his shirt. Got that, ladies?

3.) The girl who sings the hook on "Sugar" is R&B singer-songwriter Wynter Gordon, who's written songs for Danity Kane and Mary J. Blige. *Bonus Style Fact: At around 0:11 into the video, Wynter's shown wearing a white enamel necklace by Lia Sophia. Other Lia Sophia fans include Miley Cyrus (she wore Lia Sophia bracelets on Good Morning America), Stephanie Pratt, Audrina Patridge, and Leven Rambin.

4.) Flo Rida samples the song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)," which was an unlikely hit in 1999 by Italian electro-pop band Eiffel 65. Despite the fact that the song was the audio equivalent of waterboarding, it became a #1 hit in 10 countries and earned a 2001 Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording. Quite unfortunately, it was also covered by Crazy Frog, which never should've happened.

5.) While it's unclear if Flo Rida's a big Ian McCulloch fan, it's not a stretch to assume that Flo borrowed the line "lips like sugar" from the Echo & The Bunnymen hit of the same name.

+ Watch Flo Rida's "Sugar" video below, and after the jump, watch Echo & The Bunnymen's "Lips Like Sugar" video.

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Hollywood Undead weren't the first rap-rockers to don masks, shroud themselves in mystery, and frighten small children: First there was Slipknot.

The nine-piece band from Des Moines, Iowa is known for their creepy, horror-movie-inspired masks as well as their hard rock and metal sensibilities infused with the occasional rhyme and melody.

And remember when Slipknot and the Jonas Brothers were both on FNMTV? Wasn't that weird? Yes. Because it totally was. Want more weird? Watch Slipknot's new video, "Sulfur," which just premiered on MTV's Headbangers Blog. Too scary? Jonas cookie.

Lil Wayne's tour bus is dark and cold, and it's not all that easy to tell what's going on. But it makes sense that Weezy likes it like that. Dark and twisted. But it also makes it tough to tell exactly what we got here.

This Buzzworthy video interview, shot before his MTV Spring Break performance, is a Young Money ensemble interview, featuring answers from Jae Millz, Gutta Gutta, Lil Twist, Nikki Minaj, Lil Chucky, and Shanell -- the lyricist behind "Prom Queen."

More importantly, this royal panel puts to rest major questions like, "Who would you like to see in a bathing suit?" And "Who would carry Lil Wayne's Grammys at the beach?" The stand-out moment is when Wayne introduces Shanell, "his Grammy," and gets all soft on the lady MC.

For a little taste of what it's like to live like Lil Wayne, take a look at the video below. For a big taste, tune into FN Spring Break Rules at 8PM EST, tonight!

This is it! The final tour diary from the lovely and amazing 3OH!3. And babies, let me tell you, it sure does deliver. This time around, Nat and Sean are checking in from Panama City Beach, Florida, where they were a major factor in the insanity that is MTV Spring Break 2009. Dive right in (they did!) to your last weekend of 3OH!3, in which they stay up all night, declare their love for men, toss their cookies, and crash their Jet Skis. Must be Spring Break!

PANAMA CITY BEACH your lovely shores are stocked full of hot bodies and no reservations. We were just in Cancun and it was pretty g*ddamn epic, so we were trying to top it here.

We met up with our boy Benny Blanco at the airport in Atlanta on the way -- he came down from NYC to hang out and DJ for us. If you don't know, Benny is the illest beatmaker and producer in the world right now. His s**t is insane. He's done Britney, Spank Rock, B.o.B. and I co-produced "Don't Trust Me" with him. We are in love with him. He's in love with us. It's one of those things. Don't judge.

We got into the hotel and worked on the set until we couldn't keep our eyes open any more.

Wake-up call. We went to the beach to record a bunch of interviews for the different MTV networks. We said some dumb s**t probably, maybe some smart s**t intermingled in there. Probably mostly dumb s**t. Over to the beach to check out the stage and soundcheck. It was a rad setup -- mad people already and they were going off for our sound check. I threw cookies out to the crowd for some reason. People seemed stoked.

We started the show and s**t went OFF!!! There were something like 6-7,000 people on a BEACH... in FLORIDA... under the SUN... with all sorts of cameras and loud speakers. It was so much fun out there. We went crowd-surfing with our little pink and blue inner-tubes. Benny killed the set.

We got done and went straight to renting Jet Skis. Good idea. We crashed going like 45.

MTV SPRING BREAK ---  I love spring break now. So much. Man, that was a fun day...

+ See it all for yourself, tonight at 8pm ET, on FN Spring Break Rules!

I had a conversation recently with one of the bands who played MTV Spring Break 2009 -- probably better not to tell you which one -- and among the glory stories, was one of waking up on the beach between two beautiful women, both of whom were rubbing his head affectionately. If that's what the morning is like at Spring Break, can you imagine the night?!? Well, you won't have to imagine anything much longer. Tonight FNMTV returns to take you directly to the thick of this year's Spring Break at its baddest!

I can't promise that you'll get your head rubbed. That's up to you. But I can absolutely guarantee that you'll be throwin' elbows and your head back as the crowd gets down to live performances by...

Lil Wayne

Asher Roth

Jim Jones

Kid Cudi

N.E.R.D featuring Santigold

Flo Rida

All-American Rejects

3OH!3

You'd have a hard time coming up with a lineup that good on the bestseller rack at a record store. But then, I guess you'd also have a hard time finding a record store! OH SNAP! But who needs one when all the hottest action on earth is cookin' out in that Panama City Beach sunshine, just waiting for you to join in?

Keep an eye on Buzzworthy next week for more tastes of what's to come, including exclusive reports from Lil Wayne, Young Money, Asher Roth, Kid Cudi, Jim Jones, and 3OH!3. Then tune in tonight at 8pm ET to see what it's all been building up to! And just because I know you're a glutton for instant gratification, here's Jim Jones doing "Na Na Nana Na Na," live from Panama City Beach!

In the year 2008 alone, the Jonas Brothers did more in 365 days than 365 people do in 365 years. There were their "Look Me In The Eyes" and "Burning Up" tours. The release of Camp Rock and A Little Bit Longer. They even let us hang out with them for two (exhausting) days straight during MTV's "Jonas Brothers: Live & Mobile" event. There were those billion and six awards shows, including the VMAs. TV appearances like FNMTV. Their Burning Up book. Public appearances. More appearances in places that require appearing at, which require travel and getting up early. And those Jonas Brothers videos -- they shot "Burnin' Up," "Lovebug" and "Tonight" in 2008 alone -- don't just make themselves.

Fast forward to a new year -- it hasn't even been 2009 for like, five seconds, and already the Jonas Brothers have performed on the Grammys, performed on Saturday Night Live, shot their Jonas Brothers Experience MTV special, released their 3D movie, the soundtrack, and flown EVERYWHERE in a jet and surprised EVERYONE who wasn't dead or already being surprised by the Publisher's Clearinghouse Prize Patrol.

Still, they've got their new Disney TV show, J.O.N.A.S. at the ready. Camp Rock 2 is coming up, AND they're planning a 2009 world tour. AND, according to M Magazine, the Jonas Brothers are prepping their fourth studio for release in June or July 2009.

I KNOW that the Jonas Brothers are living the dream and everything, but their lives are starting to look like one long movie montage where people go shopping, except instead of shopping, they keep flying places, hugging crying fans, and promoting new products and iterations and extensions of the Jonas Brand almost every single day. And instead of a movie, these are the Jonas Brothers' real lives. I'm really starting to understand why a lot of Tokio Hotel fans petitioned to have the band take a break in late 2008.

So, you tell me -- do you think the Jonas Brothers need to take a breather, lest Burnin' Up becomes burnin' out? Or are you ready for that new album, no matter what? (And, BTW, I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that that Chris Brown track isn't going to make it on the Jonas Brothers album. Just assuming here.)

Company Of Thieves is a band out of Chicago made up of Genevieve Schatz on vocals, Marc Walloch on the guitar, and Mike Ortiz playing drums. Their sound is kinda Feist-y. Soft, throaty melodic vocals over jagged, bluesy riffs and rhythms. Just a pinch of attitude.

But before you get to all that, you're much more likely to hear of Company Of Thieves as the band behind "Oscar Wilde," basically a musical remake of Rushmore with the band cast in all the leading roles. Lady-in-chief Genevieve Schatz plays Max the choirmaster, JV boys' basketball manager and kung-fu yellow belt, to name a few. The video is so engrossingly true to Wes Anderson's quirky masterpiece that you'll have to watch it twice before you even hear the song. Why don't you go ahead and do that right now?

+ Vampire Weekend love Wes Anderson, too.

Last week we (and the whole rest of the Internet) leaked the new Sixten-inspired album art for Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown, and we've been making out in alleys all over the city ever since. Well, that is, if you consider our minds to be alleys... Which we definitely do. Anyway, since us Buzzworkies have been so wrapped up in other people's mouths, that grouchy genius FNMTV panelist / MTV News anchor James Montgomery beat us to the album preview. And it's a good thing he did! That guy really knows how to put a sentence together, I tell you what. Here are a few choice clips:

["21st Century Breakdown"] takes off on a multi-sectional sprint, featuring big, clean guitar chords (played windmill-style, à la Pete Townshend, one imagines) one minute, cacophonous drum breakdowns the next — not to mention a "We Are the Champions"-style interlude. Armstrong yelps couplets like, "Video games of the towers' fall/ Homeland Security can kill us all," before the whole song comes crashing to a close with him singing, "Oh dream, America, dream ... / Oh, scream, America, scream."

"Restless Heart Syndrome" starts with piano, and Armstrong sings "I've got a really bad disease/ It's got me begging on my hands and knees." He keeps going — again reaching that upper register — as the song picks up a swing tempo, eventually interrupted by a buzz-saw guitar section and some lock-step bass and drums. "21 Guns" — which, if it's not Breakdown's final song, really ought to be — is a cell-phones-in-the-air anthem...

Hungry for more? Yeah you are! What did I tell you about that Montgomery? That guy is GOOD. Read his full analysis of the 21st Century Breakdown preview, and realize how bad you been missing Green Day since American Idiot!

Also, Billie Joe turned 37 on Tuesday! Whoa! Check out this clip of Green Day playing the amazing "Christy Road" on 120 Minutes back in '94 to see how far he, Mike and Tre Cool have come in 15 years.

Picking just five fantastic things about the Jonas Brothers' new "Tonight" video is like trying to pick the PERFECT curl off of Kevin Jonas' head -- it's almost impossible because they're pretty much all perfect. But five REALLY great things about "Tonight" are...

5.) JOE'S ROCK MOVES! They're totally Mick Jagger meets The Karate Kid, and they're in FULL effect!

4.) Joe's "Burnin' Up" Shirt! Whether he's talking about the song or the book (or the FNMTV performance -- more Jonas on FNMTV photos here and here, BTWs), he's totally building the brand... AND living the dream.

3.) JONAS CHOPPER! There's no better or faster way to spirit away three of the hardest-working brothers in the biz than by helicopter. It's also the perfect place for a Jonas power nap before it's on to the next big gig.

2.) SEGWAYS! Easier to use backstage than helicopters.

1.) Run, Jonas, Run! Between the brothers hauling butt and their fans giving chase, everyone's putting in more miles than a pack of super-marathoners, all in the name of OJD! (I should know, because I pretty much still have shin splints from running with them too!)

+ I told you my favorite parts. What are your favorite parts of the "Tonight" video? (Besides "everything"?)

PLEASE tell me you watched the Kids' Inaugural: We Are the Future show tonight. If you didn't, we're not even friends anymore. You did? Okay. Friendship BACK ON!

Okay, so, a few thoughts, courtesy of Buzzworthy:

+ Indeed, Miley Cyrus' dress was NOT her best look. Not the worst, but not the best. My Cy looks great in everything, but that granny gown/ Very Barbie Christmas dress was WAY too formal and WAY too old for her. Like Nancy Reagan-too old. Inaugural thematic t-shirt, peace sign necklace, and black skinny jeans for "Fly On The Wall" = Ahhhh. Much better.

+ HOW is Jamie Foxx STILL hyping Ray??? You KNOW those kids are like "WHERE ARE THE JONAS BROTHERS already?" (Or at least I was...) And please... leave the beatboxing to... nevermind. It's even annoying when Justin Timberlake does it.

+ Demi Lovato performs live and DESTROYS it! Which is when I realize that if, for some bizarre reason, I had to choose, I think I'd rather be Demi than Miley: Demi plays guitar and piano, performs in higher heels, likes metal, and has a much better relationship with the Jonas Brothers, who produced her debut album, Don't Forget. (But you knew that.)

+ Woah! Jill Biden goes by "Nana" too! Does Spencer Pratt know this?

+ I, like much of America, fell in love with Michelle Obama when she spoke at the DNC back in August, but watching her address an auditorium full of kids makes me realize all over again that I kinda want her to be my mommy.

+ Lucy Liu = Seriously? ZzzzzZZzzz. That's great that she's doing stuff with UNICEF, but the only thing she really ever did for me was show up in Destiny's Child's "Independent Women Part 1."

+ Corbin Bleu = Dude, you sound like Usher, yet you dress like Michael Jackson. And I'm sorry, but I just can't get behind that hair. I mean, well, literally, I probably could get behind that hair and you wouldn't even see me. But, you brought kids up there with you, so I'll have to retract my claws a little, because everybody loves kids.

+ Bow Wow's back. Again. But what does "Marco Polo" have to do with Obama? And "Thank You" is like eight years old! Though I JUST now realized that Bow Wow samples The Cars' "I'm Not the One" on that track.

+ One of the best parts of the entire event: Usher taks the stage and a camera pans to a little girl who literally fell to her knees, threw her hands above her head, and about fainted over Ush's very presence.

+ OMJ! The Jonas Brothers are backstage! And they're saying SOMETHING about some kinds of ways to get involved! Only you can't really hear what they're saying because (of course), the roar is DEAFENING! Finally, the JBs take the stage, and IT'S ON! Nick had his green guitar and was all asmiley-smiles during "S.O.S." (I have to say, Kevin's leather jacket -- wasn't feeling it. Leather jackets are best left to David Archuleta.) Anyway, every human being in the entire Verizon Center seemed to know the words to "Lovebug," and the Jonases took that one to church real quick but also let the audience be the stars of the performance. Meanwhile the Obama girls shot the Jonases on their Flipcam and digi. So tech-savvy, those two. Next, the Jonas Brothers performed "Tonight," (also their brand-new video -- yay!!!). "Burnin' Up" was the fourth and final song, and Big Rob was in a tux! (Note: um, is anyone else worried Big Rob's getting even bigger? I know it's kind of a job requirement, but eep. I'm a little concerned.) So then Joe Jonas pull off a total Jonas-Obama-Biden jammy jam when he pulls the First Girls on stage. And basically, I make like the Usher girl (or the "Kevin Touched Me!" girl) at the very sight of the three cutest boys and the cutest girls together on the same stage ushering in a new era. YES THEY DID!

'Kay. It's late! I have to get up early, and so do the Obama girls! Big day tomorrow, and all! So get Obama’s Inauguration Day schedule, and don’t miss all of MTV’s historical coverage of “Be the Change: Live From the Inaugural."