As you’re obviously aware, Honor Society just departed on their epic cross-country tour with the Jonas Brothers, and their Full Moon Crazy Tour within a tour… tour. And because Buzzworthy and Honor Society are thisclose, the guys are gonna be sending tour diaries, photos, hopefully even TWEETS from the road all summer long. Here’s Honor Society’s first dispatch from the road! Read on, won’t you?

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Last week, we officially kicked off the Summer with an amazing show at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium! It was truly an incredible experience to play in front of 50,000 fans… it’s something we’ll never forget.

We got to Cowboys Stadium early in the day and moved into our first tour bus! Last summer, we were touring in Alex’s mom’s minivan, so the bus is a HUGE upgrade. It’s our home for the summer and we’re pumped to hit the road.

We spent most of the day rehearsing and mentally preparing for the concert. Just before the show, Alex was jumping rope in the dressing room, while the rest of us were running through vocal warm-ups. At 6:45, we gathered just off stage, where Nick, Joe and Kevin gave us some amazing advice and words of encouragement. It was such a powerful moment…it was time to take the stage, we felt great…so energized…we were ready to rock!!

It is so hard to put into words how it felt to perform in a brand new stadium for so many awesome fans. We played “Over You,” “Full Moon Crazy,” “Nobody Has to Know,” and “See You in the Dark.” At the end of the show, we came back on stage for our final bows with the Jonas Brothers, Jordin Sparks, and Big Rob, and celebrated our first summer show.

At the end of the night, we boarded our bus, climbed into our bunks and hit the road. We just arrived in Tulsa, Oklahoma and can’t wait to meet some cool new friends in a city we have never been to.

We’ll be doing a lot more of these blogs as the summer continues, so stay glued to the Buzzworthy Blog for more updates, pictures, and videos… We want you to be a part of this. We want to see all of YOU on the road this summer!

+ Check out more Honor Society tour photos after the jump!

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I KNEW when I got that “Hot Mess” tattoo inside my lower lip that it would one day serve the greater good. Now look at me, Ma! I’m on the cover of Cobra Starship’s new Hot Mess album, out August 11.

By the way, the Buzzworthy Blog Cobra Starship fan interviews are COMING SOON, mkay? Be patient, because, like Christmukkah, it’s worth waiting for. Check out this sneak peek of Gabe, Ryland and Alex until then.

And also, no, that’s not me. That’s Bim, who’s a friend of the band, and yes, it’s real.

It was either the French, the Afghans, Mario Puzo, or the Quentin Tarantino who said “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” Were they right? Who knows? Everything I needed to know I learned from pop culture and music videos, which have taught me that when it comes to getting even, nothing beats the ass-kicking, window-smashing, good old-fashioned REVENGE video. (And leaving a horse head in someone’s bed.)

Check out 10 classic videos where artists get mad, get even and get revenge by trashing their ex’s place, taping themselves in naughty situations (right, Justin Timberlake?), putting the hurt on someone else’s credit cards, or howling like a she-wolf in the middle of the desert like your name was Alanis Morissette. (Exactly like that, actually.)

PUBLIC DISPLAY OF REJECTION

Alanis Morissette — “You Oughta Know”
Nothing says “woman scorned” like the wrath of Alanis Morissette and all. that. hair. Her 1995 video, “You Oughta Know,” quickly became a b+tchfest manifesto for the maligned and scorned the world over. Thinking of getting “exploratory” in a movie theater? Um, yeah. Don’t. Also, learning corner: Flea and Dave Navarro played on the original recording!
+ Watch “You Oughta Know”

BREAK STUFF!

Carrie Underwood — “Before He Cheats”
If you cheat on Carrie Underwood, you’ve got an even bigger problem than the major hike in car insurance you’re about to experience once you discover she’s beat the LIVING S+++ out of your truck. In her 2006 “Before He Cheats” video, Carrie Underwood not only takes aim with a baseball bat, but she also BLOWS THINGS UP WITH HER MIND, bringing new meaning to “smash hit.” Ever see Carrie the movie? Coincidence? I think not.
+ Watch “Before He Cheats”

Lily Allen — “Smile”
Crafty Lily Allen recruits a band of local thugs and no-goodniks to mug her ex — played by EastEnders‘ Elliott Jordan — wreck his place, smash his records, and stuff his shirts in the toilet in her 2006 video, “Smile.” Also he gets mugged and a horbs case of the Hershey squirts after Lily spikes his coffee with Ex-Lax. Smooth moves all around!
+ Watch “Smile”

AYO TECHNOLOGY

Justin Timberlake — “Cry Me A River”
What happens when you cheat on Justin Timberlake? Nothing creepy or anything. Duder just pulls up to your driveway with Timbaland in the car, sneaks into your house when you leave, films himself banging an INCREDIBLY HOT CHICK, and leaves the evidence rolling and ready for you to watch when you step out of the shower. No big deal. (It’s extra creepy if you happen to look like Britney Spears. ALSO: Fun fact — the girl who plays Britney in the video is Lauren Hastings, who dated Shia LaBeouf. She also claimed that Lindsay Lohan stole an $11,000 coat from her.)
+ Watch “Cry Me A River”

Backstreet Boys — “The Call”
Now pay attention because the Backstreet Boys‘ 2002 video for “The Call” may confuse people less intelligent than me. In the “The Call” video, one if not ALL of the BSBs are progressively cheating on their girlfriend/s, who MAY or may not have SET UP the guy/s to cheat on them in the first place. Total BSB sting operation! With a girl who may or may not be a transvestite. (Note: that’s speculation on my part, but she kinda does look like a drag queen. Which is FINE if she were a tranners, but it’d take the video in a totally different direction.) Anyway, they’re all cheating, or it’s symbolic cheating or whatever, and the old-school 2002 cell phone (hence the phone sound effects!) becomes THE VESSEL through which the cheating travels. Symbolic BSB girlfriend however PWONES and sets up the whole operation to completely fail, thus flipping the script and using the cell phone and “the call that changed my destiny” as the vehicles that drive the whole sordid affair into the ground. Technology wins, cheaters lose! (Not-so-fun-fact: In 2003, AJ McLean revealed to Oprah that he first tried cocaine the night the “The Call” video was shot.)
+ Watch “The Call”

MURDER WAS THE CASE

Kanye West — “Flashing Lights”
Spike Jonze directed Kanye West’s 2008 “Flashing Lights” video, which is his most dramatic and definitely his most gruesome to date. While the song and lyrics are haunting, they completely belie the video’s drastic measures: Playboy model Rita G shoves Kanye in a car, duct tapes his mouth shut (ahem!), and beats the life out of him with a shovel. All for the leaving the toilet seat up!
+ Watch “Flashing Lights”

+ Ashley Tisdale, Aerosmith, and credit card revenge after the jump!

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You know what, All Time Low? F+++ you too. Just kidding. Love you, mean it, love your hair. And I really do love the promo poster All Time Low and Hopeless Records sent out — dudes (or someone purporting to be them) SIGNED I can’t even imagine how many posters with a loving, heartfelt “eff you” message promoting their upcoming album, Nothing Personal, which comes out July 7. It’s funny, cheap (and recession-friendly!) music marketing, and it works. Thanks, All Time Low. And happy birthday, Jack. And eff you too. (And I meant it that time.)

Today’s news that Jeff Archuleta — father of Buzzworthy idol David Archuleta — was arrested for soliciting a sex act at a not-really-focused-on-relieving-your-back-pain massage parlor was nothing short of completely shocking and extremely sad. We’re extremely protective of our little Arch Angel and wish him lots of love and… whatever else you wish a person when they (and the whole world) find out that their Mormon dad got busted for a happy ending. By the cops.

With that, here are five more celebrity dads who will absolutely give me another heart attack if I find out they went to an “unlicensed spa.”

KEVIN JONAS, SR.
Paul Kevin Jonas, Sr., father of Kevin, Joe, Nick, and Frankie is a former pastor and manages his sons’ career (they’re in a band called “the Jonas Brothers”) which is a full-time job. Also, I’ve met the man, and he’s a saint. I JUST KNOW in my happy little heart that Kevin Jonas, Sr. is just not capable of such indiscretions. It’s just impossible.

BILLY RAY CYRUS
Miley’s “Thrill Billy” daddy does have the whole out-of-wedlock thing on his side (come on! it was the free-wheelin’ ’90s!), and then there was the Vanity Fair/ almost-naked pix thing, but he’s still a true family man who’s biggest crime, in my opinion, is the highlights.

PETE WENTZ
Pete Wentz already aired all of his dirty laundry (and more!) before he settled down with Ashlee Simpson, who cranked out super-cuters Bronx. And even though he’s hung with the occasional stripper, he’s got a totally hot piece at home. Plus, they’re one of those couples who sorta looks like they do it all the time. VIVA LA SIMPSON-WENTZES!

CLAY AIKEN
Clay Aiken is far too busy… wait, what’s Clay Aiken doing these days? Oh, going to the airport! Anyway, yay! He has a cute baby! Yay!

CHARLIE SWAN
BELLA’S DAD commit a crime? PUH-LEASE! What crime could the CHIEF OF POLICE OF FORKS possibly commit? I mean, sure, he’s sometimes a little emotionally unavailable, and he can’t cook to save his life, and true, he’s still a bit hung up on his ex-wife, but you CANNOT say that  Charlie Swan doesn’t love his daughter. Probably the only crime Charlie Swan is guilty of is BEING BORN A HUMAN.

+ Now, speaking of fathers and crimes, watch George Michael’s “Father Figure” video.

Gabe, Ryland, and Alex occupied the Buzzworthy couch today (no, that’s not Nate running away in the background — he and Victoria couldn’t make it) to answer your Cobra Starship fan questions. Video of the whole surreal experience will be coming soon, but here’s a little teaser to get you in the appropriate mental zone.

+ First, Thai food was ordered.

+ Then, it was noted that several people in the room were wearing boat shoes, so we had to talk about that as well as the deleterious effects of the rain on Jewfros (myself and Gabe + NYC monsoon = unhappy Jews.)

+ Next, Ashley Tisdale was… “discussed.”

+ Guy Ripley mentions were made.

+ Gabe Saporta personally applauded Joe Jonas’ “Single Ladies” dance.

+ The color purple (the actual color, not the 1982 book by Alice Walker or the 1985 movie starring Whoopie Goldberg) and the term “epic fail” were both deemed DONE. (Sorry, everyone who still uses it. And I probably still will because I’m lazy.)

+ Also discussed: camping, underwear, going peepee in your pants.

Okay. Stay tuned for the video! It’s currently in “post.” Until then, watch the sneak peek of the “Good Girls Go Bad” video, featuring Leighton Meester. Again.

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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If you’re low on friends, one great thing you could do would be to print out one of these exclusive new Mandy Moore photos, glue it to a ruler or a mannequin and practice making small talk and casual plans and so on, with your own personal Mandy. It is a particularly good idea to use the Amanda Leigh artist’s likeness because, despite what her cold-hearted single, “I Could Break Your Heart Any Day Of The Week,” may lead you to believe, Mandy Moore’s got one of the kindest, girl-next-door faces you’ll ever stare at for hours and hours and hours and hours on end.

Hey! If you cue up her interview on “The 5,” it would even be like she was talking back to you! And if you need additional musical motivation, download Mandy’s new album, Amanda Leigh, or watch “I Could Break Your Heart Any Day Of The Week,” after the jump!

+ MTV Exclusive: New Mandy Moore Photos!

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As you may remember from last week’s interview, Chrisette Michele’s got the ADHD, and she’s got it BAD. So bad that she can’t get anything done if she’s not doing five other things at the same time. But that didn’t stop her from sitting still long enough to knock out a new set of exclusive MTV photos when she was here. She must have been doing math in her head.

Looking like just as much of an “Epiphany” as her latest jam suggests, Michele is seen steezed out in J Brand “Curvy Girl” jeans and a Marc by Marc Jacobs jacket. Get a good long look at the smoldering soul machine with the vintage sound in MTV’s exclusive Chrisette Michele photo flipbook, then pop back to Chrisette Michele on “The 5″ to find out where she gets all that easy style.

+ MTV’s Exclusive Chrisette Michele Photo Set

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Aww. Doesn’t Taking Back Sunday look like one big happy family in these brand-new exclusive MTV photos? And can you BELIEVE the wingspan on Mark O’Connell? Impressive! And doesn’t Adam Lazzara seem like a proud, doting dad, just gazing into Matt’s eyes like that? Can you handle all that sweetness? More importantly, can you handle the wait for New Again? (You’re doing great! Not even a week left! It’s out June 2nd! Patience is a virtue!) Can you handle more photos of Adam and his perfect hair? Because seriously, you guys had a lot of questions for Adam about his hair… Like a lot.

+ After the jump, check out brand-new MTV photos of Taking Back Sunday, watch their exclusive Buzzworthy fan Q&A interview (ANSWERED: Your questions about Adam’s hair!), and see why Matt Rubano’s position on prom is firmly thanks-but-no-thanks.

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