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We hipped you to 3Oh!3's "Starstukk" video, featuring Katy Perry a little while back, so you should know the deal already: 3Oh!3 score a Katy Perry feature for this jam about a love that knows no name (because these dudes are not trying to know your name, they are trying to keep it real. Real casual, you know?).

"Starstrukk" is a whirlwind of imagery and emotion. Like a suburban version of LMFAO, 3Oh!3 get dumb by a magical wishing well, taking advantage of its power to draw women to those men with the foresight to pull said gals' pennies out of the water.

There's also some hysterical/stoopit sequences involving the boys eating sushi while mountain climbing and skeet shooting their own records. Also: Katy Perry singing in a fountain. All hail the genius of 3Oh!3.

Wait, you're thinking electro-poppers 3OH!3 already have a video for their infectious track, "Starstrukk," right? Yes, we showed you the clip in the summer, but that one didn't have a little lass named Katy Perry. Well this is the "Starstrukk" reeeeeeeemix, featuring Ms. Perry, that first hit on their MySpace and then was released as an ITunes single in September.

So yes, now they've done a full, brand-new video for the new video/song that we'll be debuting right here on MTV.com on Monday, October 26.

We've got two goodies for you. A 30-second teaser clip of the video itself and a cool behind-the-scenes piece with director Steve Jocz at Laurel Canyon studios where the duo and Perry shot some of the green-screen fantasy sequences in the video. You'll see. The track is also featured in the Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel film, "When In Rome," and the video is apparently a riff on what goes down in that movie. It comes out in January so we don't know yet other than it's a romantic comedy. Katy, who is buds from their days on the 2008 Warped Tour says, "It's a pretty cool idea," so we'll trust her. It's a bit "sultry and sexier than I typically am," she says. Hey, we're sold. Check out the clips and come back Monday on MTV.com to see the entire video.

Earlier today at Radio City Music Hall, while rehearsals for the 2009 MTV VMAs were going on upstairs, I caught up with All Time Low's Alex Gaskarth and Jack Barakat outside of the "gentlemen's lounge," which is just a fancy way of saying bathroom. I like to interview celebrities outside of bathrooms because I like to keep things classy. And All Time Low always keeps things classy,  so we pretty much went straight into talking about puking.

Watch Jack and Alex predict the future and in this case, how they wanna see 3OH!3 win Best New Artist at the 2009 VMAs. Plus, how they might end their night -- with some drinking and barfing.

+ Watch All Time Low's Six Flags Interview after the jump.

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Think dream catchers, feathery roach clips, tie-dye parachute pants, and other New Agey apparel isn't VMA red carpet worthy? THINK AGAIN.

Watch as 3OH!3 takes you shopping with them to find something to wear to the VMAs. First stop? An out-of-the-way mom-and-pop shop, where they stock up on stuff to wear to the VMAs in New York City, where they COULD win a VMA for Best New Artist.

+ See the dumbest/ best thing anyone ever wore on the VMA red carpet, and don't miss the 2009 VMAs live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, September 13 at 9pm!

I love the New York Times, but they've been kinda weirding me out lately. Have you seen this paranoid anti-kid campaign they've been running for the past couple of months? Every week a new article pops up warning parents about the unseen dangers associated with Twitter, Facebook (apparently the sites contribute to sleep deprivation?) and -- I wish I was joking -- hugging.

Anyway, confident as I am that Twitter is no more a threat to the youth of America today than the "S" volume of the encyclopedia was 50 years ago, I sorta hope the NY Times doesn't get their hands on this new Millionaires single ... The name of the song is "Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid," and the video really lives up to its title. What an easy target for the anti-hug brigade!

But there's a whole lot more to this story than three half-naked California girls popping corks and throwing piles of cash around the club. The story of Millionaires is actually pretty incredible (NY Times take note!). The super-abridged version is that one day, sisters Melissa and Allison Green were screwing around on GarageBand with their girl Dani Artaud. The next day they were MySpace superstars. (Their whole story is here!)

Since then, Millionaires have toured the States, played the Bamboozle and shared a stage with Shwayze and 3OH!3. AND! "Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid" is now the official theme song of MTV's Teen Cribs! At this rate, Millionaires are gonna outgrow their name before the year is out. Watch their "Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid" video before they become Billionaires.

The chorus of 3OH!3's manic, pulsating new single, "Starstrukk," goes "L-O-V-E's just another word I never learned to pronounce." Sean and Nat set out to prove that sentiment in their overstimulating orgy of a new video.

The boys are visible only as faces in a pit of writhing bodies. And while there's ample evidence of the nice legs, daisy dukes, tight jeans and double-Ds referenced in the lyrics, there are also ravers, Halloween skeletons, b-boys, middle-aged men and punk chicks gnawing at each other's fishnets, giving new meaning to the phrase, "put your foot in your mouth."

The "Starstrukk" video, shot in reverse, eventually gets around to explaining how 3OH!3 got themselves into such a fleshy mess. But don't get too hung up on explanations. Enjoy the orgy while it lasts.

"Starstrukk" is the second single to be released form 3OH!3's Want album. Watch the video, a frenzied, foot-fetishist's dream, right here.

+ Dated reference point: U2's "Numb" meets the cast of Daria.

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!

If those 3OH!3 boys have anything, it's class. Class out the ass. In the latest chapter of 3OH!3's much-asterisked European saga, we follow them to Germany, where we encounter cold-shouldered truckers, casual classical quartets, heroic beer pong tourneys and formidable babes (more photos after the jump). Now it's time do what 3OH!3 do in a pinch: kick back, relax and let the handsome do the talking. Boys?

So, we headed to Munich the other day. We chilled at a rest stop for a while eating Burger King and trying to pick up truckers. We failed. Whatever. We feel like we're good looking dudes and we can get it right another time, another rest stop. We got to our hotel and enjoyed a delightful little glass of rouge, whilst listening to the lovely quartet and piano playing Bach in the restaurant, no big deal.

The next day I woke up, got showered and headed into town on foot. It seems like Germany is really clean. People here are tall and handsome. The babes seem like they would rock the s*** out of pigtails. Is that bad that I would like to see the babes in pigtails out here? Nah. Went back to the hotel and made all sorts of beats on my computer. It was hot.

The show in Munich was rad -- It was in this big complex of beer and food and all things that are good. We slammed around as usual and a lot of kids were stoked. After the show I was gonna throw strawberries out our dressing room window at people waiting for Katy outside, but I got scared of Katy's manager and p****ed out like a little b*tch. I'm such a b*tch. I can't even be a bad boy. I was gonna beam some poor fan in the dome and it would have been great, but at the instant I was gonna chuck it at that poor head, I felt all bad for those people and got it in my mind that it would be a s***ty thing to do. What kind of f***ing musician am I? I need to be way more of a BAD BOY.

We drove to Frankfurt this morning. Watched Vanilla Sky on the way. Not a huge fan of Penelope Cruz usually but she is f***ing hot in that movie, man. I would love to just hold her a little bit. Maybe make out for a while who knows?

Here we are juicing before the set here in Frankfurt, trying to get some serious reps in before the show to get nice and swoll-up, you know what I mean. I'm probably yelling something along the lines of "get the f*** up Sean, you little f***ing p***y get that last set in b*tch" at Sean right there. Pretty standard before show material. We preformed in front of a velvet curtain tonight, with spotlights on us. A really nice German fan came up and we talked about it, and he said that it looked a bit High School Musical. I told him that is exactly the f***ing thing that we are going for!

The crowd was great -- maybe the best of the whole tour -- rowdy and ready to party. There were a bunch of Americans who had seen us on Warped. It was rad to meet them.

That's our deal. Tomorrow we are going to be playing beer pong at our merch table in Hamburg. Apparently the other merch people have been getting pissy over the "mess" that is being left at the merch table. We are retaliating by playing a 64-cup beer pong challenge all f***ing night, except for the 30 minutes when we will take the stage. Hamburg will never even f***ing know what hit it.

holler

Nat

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Last time we checked in with 3OH!3's Sean and Nat, they were mugging for photographers at a hipster British nudie mag. This time they're marauding in the streets of Paris, raising hell with Katy Perry and crew, inspiring love in a city full of lovers. Sounds like it could get sticky, eh? Well, judging by the length of this 3OH!3 blog entry, I'm gonna guess it did! Enjoy.

Paris... City of romance... Lovers hold hands in candle-lit cafes...

While just outside, we -- 3oh!3, Katy Perry, and crew -- drunkenly stumble down the cobblestone streets. After a long day of photos and interviews it felt nice to just go out and party.

The Paris crowd, albeit one hard to rile, was massive and fun to play to. It also gave Nat the opportunity to use his French. We head to Munich next. Beer Chuggathon!

Check out more photos of 3OH!3 in Paris after the jump...

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