The subject of my girl Jessica Simpson is not the most cheery for me right now... That said, this vintage TRL video temporarily sent me to a happy place. First off, Jessica's outfit will put a smile on your face; I had to hit pause just to savor the image. I mean... just watch it. The glittery pink eye shadow, the crimped hair, the leather pants... what a difference nine years makes.

Yes, it was a simpler time, a happier time, when Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson were still together. While the duet of "Where You Are" from Jessica's 1999 debut, Sweet Kisses, showcases Jessica's fantastic voice (she also knows to turn her head before a belt, sparing Nick's eardrums), my happy moment was short-lived.

Why can't it just be like this again? Vanessa's gone; Tony's gone; John Mayer's gone (wait -- Mayer might not be gone; did you hear that rumor?), so couldn't Nick and Jessica offer each other the perfect comfort? So say her Tweets, Jessica's just sleeping with her mom and dogs and listening to Olivia Broadfield songs right now. Help her! Let the rumors of a reconciliation be true...

Watch the duet from the good ol' days below, intro-ed by a "lonely and untalented" Carson Daly.

Okay, remember how TRL ended? Okay, well yesterday I was downstairs in the MTV Studios yesterday waiting to ask Soulja Boy Tell 'Em your questions, and I noticed a sad, sad thing: the iconic, legendary TRL photo booth -- where famous butts of ballers like Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Fergie, *NSYNC, Usher, No Doubt, Tokio Hotel, Vanessa Hudgens, and even John McCain and, um, Poo Baby and the Scream mask guy once perched to have their photos taken -- is broken! Weep! That's a little piece of history right there... I'll keep you posted if I see it's back and up and running. Until then, check out these bazillion photos taken in the legendary booth.

Beyonce may have put a ring on it as she waved bye, bye, bye to a pop culture phenomenon on tonight's Total Finale Live farewell to TRL, but nothing -- not even a diamond -- is forever.

TRL is officially dunzo, but you've still got hours of live performances, behind-the-scenes photos, interviews, and more to relive.

So you go do that.

Goodnight, Taylor Swift! I didn't get to sign your yearbook, but hopefully we'll have a class together next year.

Thnks fr th Mmrs, Fall Out Boy -- Sisky, you were the best fake-Pete ever.

Goodnight, Kid Rock. You make cigars seem sort-of cool, even if they smell like rotten old man.

Goodnight, Nelly. Thank you for finally losing the Band-Aid.

Good night, Miley Cyrus in the photo booth. Be careful what you do with those photos, 'kay?

Goodnight, William Beckett's hair and Andy Hurley's F+++ City stickers and hoodies, which I constantly have to get digitally blurred out of photos and videos before I can post them.

Goodnight, Quddus. You've aged like the finest of wines. I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to talk.

Goodnight, people still drinking while I soberly, sorely blog at 4:38am.

Goodnight, my bed. I wish I were in you!

Goodnight, Jesse Camp, wherever you're sleeping tonight, if you sleep, if you're not actually an 8th Street vampire or something.

Goodnight, "Baby One More Time." Hearing you always feels like the very first time, every single time.

Goodnight, Kevin Jonas, even though you weren't there.

And don't forget -- BUZZWORTHY PLAYS VIDEOS!

He wasn't using it at the time, so Fall Out Boy and I comandeered Carson Daly's dressing room backstage at Total Finale Live.

Watch Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman, Andy Hurley, and "Pete Wentz" (who mysteriously grew a few inches and started to embody a strange Wes Borland look), talk Tool, Britney Spears, Stephen Colbert, opening up a Times Square Angels & Kings offshoot, and, most importantly, *NSYNC.

Then see The Academy Is...'s Sisky lob the love back to Fall Out Boy and Pete and Ashlee.

While Total Finale Live was getting live for last time (and tipsy too!) just a few feet away, I got a chance to talk to Joel and Benji Madden about growing up Good Charlotte throughout the years on TRL.

See what the Madden brothers had to say about coming back to the show for the last time and the way the show acted as a social network in the days before Facebook and MySpace even existed (can you IMAGINE?).

Remember that time Heidi Montag "rapped" on TRL and made everyone watching only less uncomfortable than, say, walking in on their parents doing it? So does Nelly, who treated the Hills star's foray into hip-hop diplomatically before he resurrected his classic hit "Hot In Herre" on Total Finale Live later on.

From his ideas about the future of MTV, to white ladies on TRL, hip-hop mogul 50 Cent -- who also said running into Madonna was one of his top TRL moments and that Eminem is the best rapper out there and that people don't know just how close they really are -- explains it all and tells MTV News about his upcoming album backstage before his performance on Total Finale Live.

As you probably heard, Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz wasn't able to perform with Andy, Joe, and Patrick on Total Finale Live, but the show must go on, as they say, which meant The Academy Is...'s Adam Siska, better known as Sisky, got to be a Fall Out Boy for a day.

Watch Sisky lovingly wish Pete and Ashlee a happy baby-having and pay tribute to the network that helped him plant his musical roots.

I caught We The Kings' Travis Clark and Danny Duncan hanging out in the back hallway during Total Finale Live, and I had to corner them with the Flipcam. The results -- several minutes of sweet, starstruck We The Kings ramblings about their backstage spottings: Taylor Swift, Snoop, and Kid Rock, who became the target of their photographic aims after we finished the interview and cornered Bobby Rock for a photo on Travis' iPhone. Watch the video and check out the photo below!

Backstage at the finale, Kid Rock took some time out to reminisce about the good times on TRL.  Take a look at our interview, where the Detroit rap-rocker talks about watching his videos climb the Countdown with his son.