Beyonce’s brand-new video, “Sweet Dreams,” off of I Am… Sasha Fierce, is less video, more post-modern art — are those costumes not a reimagining of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis? And do I even hear a subtle homage to the King of Pop in that sexy synth strut? (“Beat It,” anyone?)

In “Sweet Dreams,” you get a double dose of both good-girl Beyonce AND naughty-girl Sasha Fierce, and together, along with back-up dancers Ebony Williams and Ashley Everett, the combination more than makes up for the lackluster “Ego” video.

And while there are brief shades of Rihanna’s performance in Kanye’s “Paranoid” video, Beyonce — all woman, all the time, makes that look like child’s play.

Watch the Queen of R&B’s latest video, “Sweet Dreams,” directed by Adria Petty.

“Sweet Dreams” is one of the illest and most interesting, sickest and sexiest singles off of Beyonce’s I Am… Sasha Fierce double disc, and from what I can tell after watching this 30-second Buzzworthy Blog preview of Beyonce’s “Sweet Dreams” video, it looks like could be one of her hottest videos since “Suga Mama.” And “Beautiful Liar.” And “Crazy In Love.”

Watch the 30-second “Sweet Dreams” clip, shot in Brooklyn and directed by Adria Petty (The Veronicas’ “4Ever,” Duffy’s “Mercy,” and Anjulie’s “Boom”), and stay tuned for the full-length video, coming soon.

+ Watch Buzzworthy’s “Sweet Dreams” sneak peek after the jump.

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+ A brand-new Britney Spears video, “Radar” leaked online today. One word: boring. (MTV News)

+ On the trashy TV front, Hilary Duff gets to exercise her acting chops once again as she joins the cast of Gossip Girl for the October season premiere. (EW.com)

+ Congratulations to the Photoshop genius behind Madonna’s new Louis Vuitton ad campaign for making her look like the Svedka robot (or just herself 30 years ago, made out of marzipan). (PopCrunch)

+ Check out what a bunch of Warped Tour bands had to say as they reflect on the influence Michael Jackson had on their music. (Buzznet)

+ Demi Lovato took quite a spill onstage during a recent concert but got up and laughed it off like a true pro. (Blogamole)

+ Former Destiny’s Child member LeToya Luckett had nothing but nice things to say about Beyonce, when the two ran into each other at the BET Awards this past week. (Rap-Up)

+ In case you missed it, there was TOTAL DRAMS at last night’s Much Music Video Awards in Canada. It was QUITE the spectacle: Lady Gaga had her poker face on, and she had a couple of flamethrowers for boobies.  You won’t believe it. (Much Music)

+ Later on in the night, after doing an onstage bit with the Jonas Brothers and then being badgered throughout the night relentlessly by Fergie and Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas about saying mean things on his blog, Perez Hilton allegedly got attacked by the Peas’ manager (though we’re not really sure why beating up Perez Hilton would make anyone feel better). (Associated Press)

+ Meanwhile, back in the States, Beyonce/Sasha Fierce was kicking off the North American leg of her tour to a packed house at NYC’s Madison Square Garden. (Socialite Life)

+ Oh. And just one day after Father’s Day, Chris Brown struck a plea deal by pleading guilty to beating the crap out Rihanna back in February. A little probation and some community service? Sure. Why not? (MTV News)

+ This mom hates her life right now: (as if the Universal Music Group needs any more money), a Minnesota mother of two was just ordered by a federal jury to pay $1.92 million to several record labels for illegally sharing 24 songs online. It’s like it’s 2001 ALL. OVER. AGAIN. (NY Times)

+ Madonna recently doled out some unsolicited career advice to Adam Lambert: “Keep your eyes on the prize.” In Madonna’s case, prizes are small children in Africa. (E! Online)

+ And as we all pretty much assumed, Amy Winehouse filed papers to permanently park her bony ass in St. Lucia. Do we care?? (NME)

+ It’s a big day in blogland today, particularly for Miley Cyrus. First, she’s been Tweeting a trail of tears all over the place about her alleged breakup with boyfriend Justin Gaston after recently leaving town to go shoot a movie in the South. (Twitter)

+ Then, her EX-ex-boyfriend Nick Jonas confirmed that he and Miley did indeed record an alternate version of a song originally sung by The Jonas Brothers. (Twist)

+ …though it seems that Nick might have a had a little more to do with the split than they’re letting on, as reports surface that the former couple were recently seen goofing around on the set of a music video, and also “writing” a song together in a dark movie theater. Hmms…. (E! Online)

+ If you can believe it, soul goddess Adele (also aMAYzing as MTV’s first artist in the resurrected Unplugged series) actually canceled her first tour — for booze and a boy. (ICYDK)

+ Oh yeah. Adam Lambert is gay. (MTV News)

+ And he had a mancrush on Kris Allen. (MTV News)

+ Photoshop moment of the day: Beyonce hustling hard in these Japanese water ads. (Bossip)

+ If Simon Cowell has his way, Zac Efron will play the lead role in the remake of Saturday Night Fever. How anyone could think John Travolta’s performance could be matched, we will NEVER know. (Limelife)

When Joe Jonas did Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” dance — which blew up Twitter and brought down the Jonas Brothers’ YouTube for a few hours last week — he learned something I (and millions of other females) have known for years — that heels hurt. (Doing the “Single Ladies” dance in Beyonce’s bejeweled Stuart Weitzman shoes from her “Ego” video would’ve been even harder.)

See what else Joe Jonas revealed about his foray into Beyonce territory (and a leotard) in this MTV News interview with the Jonas Brothers.

+ Plus: Watch the Jonas Brothers’ new video, “Paranoid”, and after the jump — watch a man who really feels a lady’s pain…

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What’s a politically correct way of saying what we’re thinking about Beyonce’s new video, “Ego”? (Watch it below if you haven’t seen it yet.)

It’s um… not “Single Ladies“? Okay… “Ego” looks like the dress rehearsal of “Single Ladies.” In drag. I’m sorry, but it’s just that “Single Ladies” was SUCH perfection. And there’s a reason Joe Jonas did the “Single Ladies” dance and not the “Ego” dance. And did we even need ANOTHER black-and-white Beyonce video after “Single Ladies,” “If I Were A Boy,” “Diva,” “Flaws And All” AND “Still In Love”? AND “Suga Mama.” And that’s coming from a serious Beyonce fan, and I’m talking back to the “No, No, No,” days. I even had the soundtrack to Carmen: A Hip Hopera.

Anyway, while the ’80s horns-and-organ vibe delivers some throwback flavor, I’m not feeling the circa-2002-Christina-Aguilera curly wig or the satin prom gloves. And the boob grabbing is a little too gratuitous. And when Beyonce says “It’s too big, it’s too wide, it’s too strong, it won’t fit, it’s too much,” I’m not even positive that she’s really referring to an ego. It all just makes me wanna watch “Single Ladies” yet again out of frustration and “Single Ladies” adoration.

But, I will say that “Ego,” which Beyonce directed with her longtime choreographer, Frank Gatson Jr., (he was the creative director behind “Single Ladies” — surprise surprise) did one thing ridiculously right and that’s the shoes that Beyonce and her backup dancers wear — they’re Stuart Weitzman’s “Peepers,” and they’re $575, which is a lot (but what price 3.75″ crystal Deco heels, I ask you??), though keep an eye on them, as Stuart Weitzman shoes tend to go on sale pretty frequently. Also, maybe $575 is more than that wig cost. I’m sorry, I LOVE Beyonce, but maybe it’s true. (Because it’s true.)

+ Get Beyonce’s Stuart Weitzman “Peepers” heels at Zappos… And do the “Single Ladies” dance in them. I said it.

Jordin Sparks isn’t just all growed up and gorgeous. She’s also armed with one of the most dangerously powerful pop tracks and videos to hit us in a minute. “Battlefield” is an absolute banger — exploding with enigmatic pop power, it’s the type of song that takes Jordin out of the juniors department and into the diva leagues.

Watch Jordin Sparks navigate love’s landmines in her artful, cinematic new video, “Battlefield” — off her upcoming album of the same name — directed by Philip Andelman (Jonas Brothers’ “Lovebug,” Beyonce’s “Halo,” and Miley Cyrus’ “Fly On The Wall”).

+ Um, apparently YES. People really STILL ARE talking about that little-noticed time Britney shaved her head back in February 2007 and the events that led up to her not-exactly-on-point performance at the 2007 VMAs. A new book called Britney: Inside The Dream (out June 11, 2009), by Steve Dennis, claims to have the REAL-DEAL HOLYFIELD on what REALLY happened to Brits. Read an excerpt at The Mirror. If you didn’t already read it in the February 2008 issue of Rolling Stone. (The Mirror)

+ For the LAST time. YES, Eminem was IN on Brüno’s butt… I mean the butt of the joke. I mean he was in on the joke at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. Eminem said he went back to his hotel and watched the rest of the show from there. And laughed. (MTV News)

+ The family that Twitters together… tours together! Yesterday, on his Twitter, Trace Cyrus announced that Metro Station’s going to be opening up for Miley on her upcoming tour. Cuteness! (Trace Cyrus’ Twitter)

+ Eff what you know. The REAL verse of Kanye West’s new “Paranoid” video, featuring Rihanna, is ready. (Just Jared)

+ Brokencyde, you’re still terrible. DON’T bring chocolate milk into this! (Idolator)

+ Beyonce has less money than Madonna but more than Steven Spielberg. Specifically, she’s worth $87 million. Meanwhile, I don’t even have, like $87. (Forbes)

+ Whitney Houston will release her first album in seven years this September. The album doesn’t have a title yet, but we’ve got a few ideas, starting with “It’s Not Right But It’s Okay.” (Whitney Houston)

+ Speaking of Whitney Houston, freaking BOBBY BROWN had another baby. A real, actual human child baby! Can you EVEN? (E!)

Finally, FINALLY, after months of begging, pleading, probably even some PRAYING on the part of Jonas Brothers fan, and Joe Jonas FINALLY did Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” dance yesterday. (Watch it here. Again.)

Now when I started watching it (after 17,000 people simultaneously sent it to me at once — seriously, as I was watching it, it was IM’ed to me another 3,000 or so times), I was expecting just a few seconds of a couple shimmy shimmy shakes. But NO.  Noooooo. NOOOOOO. Joseph Adam Jpnas proved that he has, well, balls. Dude stepped OUT, Liza Minnelli style, in an old-school dance leotard and HEELS, revealed a pair of legs to rival Jay-Z’s wife’s, and, while he didn’t fully memorize the lyrics to “Single Ladies,” I think he went above and beyond the Beyonce call of duty, fully taking one for Team Jonas and their next album, Lines, Vines And Trying Times, out June 16. (So SOON! Yet… NOT SOON ENOUGH!) I totally admire that kind of dedication and willingness to be humiliated for the sake of a good LOL.

So, was Joe Jonas’ “Single Ladies” dance better than Beyonce’s? Um, no. Are you kidding? Beyonce ROCKED that almost as hard as Gwen Verdon in the “Mexican Breakfast” original (though the Unk “Walk It Out” Fosse mash-up will always hold a special place in my heart, and I’d like to believe that Joe Jonas also based his dance off of that too.) But is Joe Jonas hiding harboring some secret Bob Fosse skills? MAYBE!

+ What did YOU think of Joe Jonas’ “Single Ladies” dance? (Aside from “Awesome!” “Hilarious!” “OMJ!” and “DYING!”) Should Joe go solo and go back to his Broadway roots and pursue a dance career? Stick to rock? Become Beyonce’s backup dancer? Lemme know! Plus: Go behind the scenes of the Jonas Brothers’ new “Paranoid” video!