Like a splash of rock opera Aqua Viva to the face, this new Fall Out Boy song, "Alpha Dog," from their forthcoming Believers Never Die: Greatest Hits collection is sure to wake you the hell up.

It being a Fall Out Boy song, you can expect the following: breakneck pace, guitars that change lanes without signaling, cocksure choruses, and singer Patrick Stump's voice hopping all over the map, spitting out Pete Wentz's personal/political lyrics.

Listen to "Alpha Dog" here. Fall Out Boy's greatest hits compilation drops November 17.

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.

You know you're in the presence of top-notch marketing when an "ad" not only absorbs you into its highly-produced, trippy video love-in, but the spot also gets away with omitting its brand name. Watching the new Coca-Cola segment -- part of the company's 2009 "Open Happiness" campaign -- I see big-name performers, I see fantastic production, I see a wacky-ass drug trip (whoops!), but I don't see "Coca-Cola" anywhere. Ah, the powers of branding...

Like Coke's legendary "Hilltop" commercial (watch it from last week's "Open Happiness" preview, if you're unfamiliar), this up-with-people number goes far beyond "jingle"; in this case, with producers Polow Da Don and Butch Walker (who co-wrote the "Open Happiness" track with Cee-Lo Green).

Yeah, it's all fun and "happiness" until Travis McCoy gets smacked in the face with a jump rope, isn't it?

OK, that's only one element of this 'toon-time craziness, directed by Alan Ferguson, which you should definitely watch below. Be prepared to follow a zebra-printed Cee-Lo down a yellow brick(ish) road, encountering a Newsie-clad reporter in the form of Panic at the Disco's Brendon Urie, along with Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump. And last up is crazy-hip schoolteacher Janelle Monae, who gets down with her similarly-coiffed students after her lesson.

You're probably too young to remember this, but in 1971, the "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)/ I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" ad campaign blurred the line between advertising, propaganda, and pop music, and made the entire globosphere DESPERATE for an icy-cold soda. (I'm not old enough to remember it PER SE, and GOD KNOWS if I were old enough to remember it, I'd be running off to my weekly Botox appointment later today.)

Anyway, the songvertisement, also known as Coca-Cola's "Hilltop" commercial, sold over 1 million copies in a year, was donated to the Library of Congress in Washington DC in 2000, and was selected by British TV channel ITV as the greatest TV ad ever made.

Fast foward to now, and "Open Happiness" -- a collaborative Coca-Cola spot recorded by Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo Green, Panic! At the Disco's Brendon Urie, Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, Janelle Monae, and Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes -- could be this generation's "pop" music (excuse the pun) for the offspring of "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" set.

Will "Open Happiness" have the same monumental impact of its predecessor? We're about to find out.

Watch a 30-second sneak peek of the "Open Happiness" video, directed by Alan Ferguson, starring Cee-Lo Green, Brendon Urie, Patrick Stump, Janelle Monae, and Travis McCoy, and stay tuned for the full-length video, coming soon.

+ Watch the 1971 "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) commercial after the jump!

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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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Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz, along with Yellowcard's Ryan Key star in the upcoming short film Moustachette, and if "King of Voiceovers" Don LaFontaine hadn't gone to that great big screening room in the sky, he'd have been the BEST at reading Moustachette's "Quest for truth in a blanket of stupidity" tagline in a booming, awe-inspiring voice.

Patrick, Pete, and Ryan, you guys had me at "blanket of stupidity." And penguins.

+ Watch the Moustachette trailer, and catch Fall Out Boy on the mtvU Movies & Music Festival with Cobra Starship (feel better, Gabe!), Hey Monday, All Time Low, Metro Station, and 50 Cent.

MOUSTACHETTE TRAILER #1 (HD) from MOUSTACHETTE MOVIE on Vimeo.

+ The unlikely pairing of Lil Wayne and Fall Out Boy on his latest album "Rebirth" (Oof.  All I hearz is Patrick Stump yodeling) makes me wonder if L Dub will "Phone Home" some BBerry pix of his netherbits.   (Rap-Up)

+ She's like the wind: Some cute pics of Lady GaGa bein' an easy breezy girl doin' easy breezy things with her friends (no "disco stick riding" here).  Amaaaazing what a blonde Janice-from-the-Muppets wig, a French-cut unitard, and a celebrity blogger will do for your career. (PerezHilton)

+ OOF! Estelle! Girl better WERQUE that football jersey. (Go Fug Yourself)

+ Buxom "Barbed Wire" babe Pam Anderson came a two-steppin' down the runway to close out Richie Rich's Wednesday night fashion show (flanked by Roller Rich himself). Kind of annoys me that his muse (and my personal thinspiration) Amanda LePore got the shaft quicker than you can say hep-A. (E! Online)

+ Ok. How great is it that Felicia "Fe" Culotta and Britney Spears have been reunited again, seen here tooling around town in a Mini (when did Brit get that??).  Oh, how i have MISSED Fe's lil Southryn lisp and high school bangs.  Welcome back, lady.  P.S. JoBros gots to be PISSED, yo. No??  Who will keep Big Rob company??? (Pink is the New Blog)

+ Our favorite little strawberry muffintop Clay Aiken apparently got the boot from his record label, RCA.  Personally I don't mind his voice (however Contempo-Christian it may sound), but he'll get no sympathy from me until I see next steps from sexpot Katharine McPhee. Yes.  I still have McPheever. DEALWITHIT. (Jaded Insider)

In the half-animated, super-saturated video for "America's Suitehearts," Fall Out Boy takes the whole Hollywood media circus to new levels with their hyper-literal interpretation. Decked out in skeleton suits and flaming hats, the boys greet visitors from "Normal World" and watch as their faces are transformed into pizza-y cartoon monstrosities by paparazzi flashes.

But you probably already know that. The video's been in circulation for a minute now. What I wanna know is, is Fall Out Boy mocking the overblown music scene that they've come to represent? Or are they celebrating it? Sure the video has an ironic tone. And it's pretty standard for bands who go big to immediately bite the hand that feeds them. But Fall Out Boy isn't just any band. And, sarcastic as they may be, they also sing, over and over again, "I'm in love with my own sins." Love? That sounds pretty positive. So, tell me... When they sing "Let's hear it for America's Suitehearts," do they really mean it?

Patrick? Pete? Anyone? Watch "America's Suitehearts" and look for answers in Pete Wentz's MTV News interview after the jump!

+ See Fall Out Boy in the MTV Inaugural Ball Photo Album.

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+ Rumor has it, Rihanna's been keeping Chris Brown on a tight leash, holding her "friend" to rules like "no girls past midnight" and no unsupervised visits from members of his female entourage. Sheesh, possessive much? (Scandalist)

+ Rapper Lil' Kim's character plays a big part in the Biggie documentary, Notorious. But that didn't stopped the Queen Bee from blasting the film, skipping the premiere, and waging war with Biggie's widow, Faith Evans. (MTV Movies)

+ More praise over Britney Spears' "comeback!" This time, critics credit Brit with looking "toned" and "stunning" for her brother's wedding. Not mentioned: the fact that her plunging neckline stops about two inches above her belly button. (The Sun - UK)

+ Fall Out Boy's still up in arms over the Blender cover story that depicts Pete Wentz as a "paranoid, pill-popping narcissist" and claims Patrick Stump nearly killed himself over a football game. (MTV News)

+ And speaking of Wentzes, Bronx Mowgli can officially sleep easy tonight knowing that there's a celebrity baby out there called Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa. (Huffington Post)

+ After 11 years of marriage, three years of separation, and some kiddie porn charges, R. Kelly's marriage to now-ex-wife, Andrea, is officially over. (MTV News)

+ Forget what you heard -- The Hills' Holly Montag will NOT be rushing into a quickie engagement/wedding anytime soon. Unlike some OTHER Montags we know... (Remote Control)

+ It's official: Miley Cyrus admits she still dreams about the Jonas Brothers. (Fashion ie)

+ Wanna win tickets to SXSW? Lucky, for you, Ebony Bones is just GIVING them away! (Newsroom)

+ Watch Taylor Swift rehearse for her appearance on this weekend's SNL! And yes, that's Neil Patrick Harris (a.k.a. Doogie Howser, M.D.) she's standing with. (Just Jared Jr.)

+ Justin Timberlake's newest track, "Follow My Lead," (featuring Esmee Denters) is available only on MySpace Music. Listen for free, or download it for a great cause -- all proceeds will go to the Shriner's Hospital For Children fund. (MTV News)

+ There are days when Britney Spears would rather be a prison inmate than an international celebrity. "Even when you go to jail you know there’s the time when you’re gonna get out," says the singer in her upcoming MTV documentary, For The Record. "But in this situation, it’s never ending. It’s just like Groundhog Day every day." (The Sun - UK)

+ Miley Cyrus and her new much-older boyfriend Juston Gaston have been writing songs together! Awww, they're just like a modern-day Simon & Garfunkel, except with kissing! And no turtlenecks.(Usmagazine.com)

+ Ever wondered what Prince wears around the house? Now The New Yorker has your answer! "Prince padded into the kitchen, a small fifty-year-old man in yoga pants and a big sweater, wearing platform flip-flops over white socks, like a geisha." (The New Yorker)

+ 50 Cent explains the real reason why he pushed back his album release date for Before I Self-Destruct: "I'm just looking for the opportunity to present more of my material," he says. "["Get Up"] is not the strongest effort on my album; it's just a great start for me." Sexy MFer indeed! (MTV News)

+ Meanwhile, elsewhere in the universe, Prince is accused of being a stinky perfume promoter...to the tune of $2.5 million. (Associated Press)

+ Check out the trailer for Metro Station's new video, "Seventeen Forever," then tune in on December 5th (mark those calendars!) to catch the VP on FNMTV. (PopDirt)

+ Pete Wentz's fellow Fall Out Boy, Patrick Stump, says he has no idea whether there's a wittle Wentzlee wunning awound. Either way, Stump says he's way psyched about "the first Fall Out Kid." (MTV News)