+ Miami-based heavy metal band Black Tide are doing a lot of trash talking about our boys from Tokio Hotel, and guitarist Zakk (uh… right) has gone so far as to put together a playlist of songs he thinks are way better than anything TH could ever do. Sounds like someone’s totes jelly of Bill’s hair (and, oh.. the 40 or so awards like this one they’ve won for being so awesome)?! What do you think about Black… who? (The Rad Report)

+ Hollywood Records confirms that sister act Aly & AJ have officially changed their name to 78 Violet. Huh? (Tommy2.net)

+ This week’s Most Awkward Moment award goes to the barista who works at the Aroma coffee shop in the Valley. Said barista had NO IDEA that the person standing in front of him ordering a chai latte was NICK. JONAS. AGH!!!!! Are you kidding me??? You could recognize that puss a mile away! (Celeb Snacker)

+ Katy Perry is fearless in fashion and is utterly unremorseful — check out this editorial spread she did for Canadian magazine Flare. (Styleist)

+ Even though my Production Assistant was slightly unimpressed by MGMT’s recent concert in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, I’m totally going to check out their recently remastered Time To Pretend EP that was just released. There is NO pleasin’ some people. (The Tripwire)

+ It’s hard not to mention the emotional Michael Jackson memorial service held today at the L.A.’s Staples Center. MTV has the entire show on demand, plus every scrap of MJ memorabilia you could ever want, to help you immortalize the King of Pop. (MTV)

+ ON franSAY, see voo PLAY?! Britney’s in Paris for the European leg of her cash cow Circus tour, and she’s done a lot more than just change her hair color and her pantyhose. (The Blemish)

Last night I got a super-fun invite to the opening party for the brand-new H&M location on 86th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York’s Upper East Side.

I cruised past the free drinks, chicken-curry-pea-wrap things, cross-dresser Andre J in heels and full beard (whatever it takes), Estelle in a peacock dress (hooray!), and lots of look-at-me-type doe-eyed girls dressed like Alexa Chung to get an up-close-and-personal look at Tokio Hotel’s H&M x Fashion Against AIDS collabo t-shirt, which are in stores today, along with more designs by Katy Perry, Estelle, Yoko Ono, Dangerous Muse, N.E.R.D., Robyn, and more musicians, designers, and noteworthy names.

So, here’s the Tokio Hotel t-shirt, in all of its glory!

The shirts say “Rock Hard, F+++ Safe,” and they retail for $16.90. AND, they were right on the same table next to Cherry Tree Records labelmate/ Buzzworthy idol Robyn!

Aside from free condoms (weeeee!), there were also little boxes of pins with Bill and Tom on them. Don’t think for a second that I didn’t swipe a couple of those…

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During a unit on the ’60s, my high school sociology teacher brought in a set of photographs that he’d taken at our school as a new teacher, 40 years before. Each one came with an exaggerated story about cigarettes in the bathroom, girls being sent home for going bra-less and the like.

The photo that made the biggest impression on the class was of a hulking weirdo in a flannel shirt and what looked like shop glasses. Despite his tough-looking shoulder-length hair, he was the biggest goon we’d ever seen.

But Mr. Lemon told a different story. Apparently this guy had been the biggest deal in his class by a long shot, and spent four years being chased by all the ladies. We were blown away. How could a few decades have changed people’s taste SO much?

Well, check out this 26-year-old video, in which KISS — one of the biggest bands of their time — manage to stop all MTV programming and pull an exclusive segment, just by taking off their make-up for the first time. That was 1983. Amazing how fast things change, eh? Can you imagine such a thing making you scream? More importantly, can you imagine what your kids are gonna think when they get a look at Bill Kaulitz? WEIRD!

With no further ado, we open the MTV Vault and travel back in time with (deceased original VJ) J.J. Jackson, to see KISS, unmasked!

Congratulazioni, Tokio Hotel! Your favorite German band won Best TRL Artist Of The Year at the MTV Italy 2009 TRL Awards in Trieste this past weekend.

Tokio Hotel beat out the Jonas Brothers (sniff!), Sonohra, Marco Carta, and hometown heroes Lost (the band, not the TV show) to win Best TRL Artist Of The Year. No, Tokio Hotel wasn’t on hand to accept the award (are you kidding? Do you really not think I wouldn’t have been WALLPAPERING Buzzworthy with new Tokio Hotel photos if the guys were there in person?), but Bill Kaulitz himself, wearing a beanie with just a few dreads peeking out and looking decidedly pixie-like (though definitely different from the look that inspired the Bill Kaulitz Buzzworthy makeover), sent a pre-recorded message. In English! With hints of Italian! Your boy speaks like EVERY language!)

Read Bill Kaulitz’s acceptance speech for the Best TRL Artist Of The Year Award — it’s no giant Premios tongue, or rollin’ deep in a monster truck (loud and dangerous wins the race!), but it’ll certainly do.

+ Plus: Check out Tokio Hotel’s H&M Fashion Against AIDS t-shirt. And, can you BELIEVE Bill made Buzzworthy’s glammest guys list?

With everyone all is-he-or-isn’t-he-ing over American Idol finalist Adam Lambert’s sexuality, we here at the MTV Buzzworthy Blog are firmly entrenched in Team Glambert and could care less if he’s gay or not as long as he keeps keeping his glam gun set to stun.

But friends, Adam Lambert wasn’t the first man in music to get glittery and glossy, wield an eyeliner pencil, nor keep his skin positively pristine.

And so, to celebrate Adam Lambert, the most glam man (or woman!) on TV, let’s take a look at some of the glammest guys in music history!

From Prince to Perez, from the Backstreet Boys to the most glam Jonas Brother of them all, see who else made the list!

Boy George: The godfather of early ’80s glam, Boy George and the Culture Club — their 1982 single, “Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?,” off the album Kissing To Be Clever, went to #1 in a dozen countries — were never afraid to play with musical genres, gender, or with makeup, obviously. Unfortunately, Boy George tumbled for drugs and false imprisonment of a male escort and is currently in prison. Whoops! Video: Culture Club | “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?”

Marilyn: One of Boy George’s contemporaries, British pop star Marilyn, born Peter Robinson, also saw brief gender-bending fame in the ’80s. Marilyn was featured on the 1984 all-star Band Aid jammy-jam “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” had a massive falling out with Boy George, and claims that he had an intense affair with Gavin Rossdale back in the day. Gavin denies his involvement with Marilyn, but one thing that’s undeniable was that Marilyn was the master of the perfectly arched brow — the killer app in any glam guy’s tool kit.

Backstreet Boys: The liberal use of lip gloss, eyeliner and, hair products that the Backstreet Boys featured in their 2005 video, “Just Want You to Know,” was strictly due to the fact that they were portraying fictitious ’80s hair band, Sphynkter… or was it? And I defy you to find something NOT glam about zebra car seat covers. Video: Backstreet Boys | “I Just Want You To Know”

Freddie Mercury: No one pushed the glam envelope (glamvelope?) harder or farther than the late, great Freddie Mercury. Known as one of the most commanding, theatrical, and flamboyant performers of all time, even David Bowie considers him one of the edgiest performers ever. Equally at home in a tight t-shirt and jeans or a skin-tight court jester’s catsuit and a crushed velvet cape, Freddie Mercury popularized the cop ’stache and ambiguous sexuality while unintentionally paving the way for Lady Gaga to appropriate her namesake from Queen’s 1984 hit, “Radio Gaga.” Video: Queen | “Radio Gaga”

Bill Kaulitz: Please. As IF we would leave Bill Kaulitz off a list of glam guys. The trademark hair and makeup alone are award-worthy, as is the fact that his life is one big series of angular, intense, and amazing poses. Also, Bill deserved his own giant tongue just for the makeup he wore to the MTV Tr3s Los 2008 Premios Awards. Video: Tokio Hotel | “Monsoon” Live on TRL

Perez Hilton: Though he’s worn a most un-glam tenty Sherlock Holmes cape… thing… and a Hello Kitty shower cap… and shorts that looked a lot like lederhosen, the self-proclaimed Queen of All Media earned back tons of glam points when he wore an ARETHA HAT, designed by Mr. Song Millinery, to his South By Southwest party in March 2009.

Kanye West: Aside from hanging out with a guy who wears an Aretha Hat and spending an inordinate amount of time fantasizing about models, when he’s not ruining awards shows or claiming he’s not gay, Kanye West spends an inordinate amount of time discussing fashion, attending fashion shows, and basically giving himself over to fashion. And being very very fashionable. He also changed his name to Martin Louis The King, Jr. and was recently named hip-hop’s best-dressed man. Video: Kanye West | “Gold Digger”

George Michael: Shown here catching a nebulous orb of glam, George Michael’s been and stayed glam throughout the years. Whether prancing about in nut-huggers and a pro-life t-shirt and doing the jitterbug (see: the entire “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” video) during his Wham! days, or being all James Dean-y as Faith-era George Michael, George wrote the prescription for the perfect rugged-glum look: well man-icured facial hair, sculpted brows, sunglasses, and earrings. And speaking of prescriptions, George Michael’s affinity for drugs and public toilets led to some majorly un-glam photo opps. Whoops! But, hiring Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, and Naomi Campbell for his 1990 video, “Freedom ‘90,” was one of the glammest moments in guy-glam history.  Video: George Michael | “Freedom ‘90″

++ CHECK OUT MORE GLAM GUYS AND SEE WHICH JONAS BROTHER IS THE GLAMMEST AFTER THE JUMP!

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Holy Tokio Hotel fandom insanity. Numerous sources are reporting that Tom Kaulitz allegedly threw a lit cigarette at a girl at a gas station, and the girl then put out the cigarette on his car, prompting Tom to hit or punch her. And the whole incident was allegedly caught on camera, and NOT in the Tokio Hotel Caught On Camera way you all know and love.

Apparently the girl Tom Kaulitz allegedly punched is involved with a small group of French fans who call themselves “Les Afghans on Tour,” who’ve stalked Bill and Tom Kaulitz and even attacked their mother.

There are still many unknowns and a lot of room for conjecture, but many Tokio Hotel fans are siding with and defending Tom, assuming that he snapped. My opinion: While it’s true that artists do give up their privacy in exchange for fame (and stalking can be a really unfortunate and scary side of life in the public eye), true fans know that the best way you can show your love for an artist is to give them as much privacy and space as possible. No matter how badly you want to have their babies. These girls got the attention they’re looking for. Now let’s ignore them, please! And please, Tokio Hotel, if you don’t already have it, get some SERIOUS 24/7 security. And some restraining orders.

Seriously, EVERYBODY just needs to chill the eff down and LEAVE TOKIO HOTEL ALONE, okay? No, punching people in the face is NOT cool no matter what. Yes, the entire thing is effed. What’s also effed: The cheese slices (look below the jump) and the Hollywood Undead masks or whatever.

Seriously people, drop the keffiyehs and Scream masks (Scream the movie, not the Tokio Hotel album) and, in the words of Mary J. Blige, let’s embrace a no-more-drama lifestyle when it comes to Tokio Hotel, shall we?

+ WTF-SERIOUSLY-cheese-on-steering-wheel pic below the jump.

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YOU GUISE! YOU GUYZE! Bill spoke! BILL KAULITZ HIMSELF SPOKE! Not in person, but via an essstra special message posted on his U.S. label, Cherry Tree Records.

Yesterday Cherry Tree posted a greeting from the Tokio Hotel frontman, basically in an effort to calm the frayed, frazzled nerves of Tokio Hotel fans anxiously awaiting (to put it QUITE mildly) the band’s upcoming album.

I’d have posted Bill’s message sooner, but I was busy dying yesterday.

Listen to BILL himself speak! Hee! He makes “Cherry” sounds like “Sherry!” BEYOND cute!

Did anyone make Bill’s message their ringtone yet? Has anyone REALLY fangirled out and made… a TALKING plush BK doll/ Webkin/ puppenjung, where, like you pull a string and this message comes out? AWESOME idea, so SOMEONE get started on it! Also, did anyone else do a Bill Kaulitz makeover? Also, GIVE US THE NEW ALBUM ANYMORE! I’M ABOUT TO TAKE BACK WHAT I SAID BEFORE ABOUT BEING PATIENT AND WAITING FOR A GOOD STEAK!

Around the beginning of March, there was a great and mighty gasp heard ’round the Tokiosphere when, on top of his new black-and-white dreads that replaced his signature lion’s mane, Bill Kaulitz revealed another brand-new look. Gone were the kohl-ringed, heavily lined (and lined… and lined… and lined again) cat eyes, pale lips, and matte skin. In their place, Bill revealed a rust-colored smokey eye, glossy lips, and skin that shined in all the right places in all the right ways.

Bill’s look has been divisive amongst fans, but I personally love it and think it’s mature, graceful, and more grownup. I know a lot of Bill Kaulitz fans miss the lion’s mane. But Bill essentially matured overnight when he revealed his new look. And I applaud Bill’s willingness to change his look and keep things interesting — who among us hasn’t grown bored with our hair or overall look? And love or hate Madonna, but she’s stayed relevant for DECADES by changing her style more often than most of us change rolls of toilet paper.

So, inspired and intrigued by Bill’s new makeup, and knowing that a lot of Tokio Hotel fans like to dress like Bill, I got in touch with my friends over at M.A.C. and arranged for a step-by-step makeup tutorial with senior M.A.C. makeup artist Keri Blair, who’s worked with Katy Perry, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, and Disturbed.

I can’t bring you a new Tokio Hotel single, a sneak preview of the new album, a studio visit, or another sit-down interview with Tokio Hotel and a bag of yummy gummi candy (yet!), but hopefully I can ease the pain of the excruciating wait for Tokio Hotel’s new album with this entertaining and informative video that shows you how to achieve Bill’s brand-new look.

Watch me transform from Tamar to the lost Tokio sister (not really, but I did take one for the Tokio team), and learn how to get Bill Kaulitz’s new look.

And thank you, James, MTV.com’s production coordinator, for volunteering to be our male model, MTV video editor Toby for his handiwork, Jesse for the T-Pain wig, and, of course, our glam friends at M.A.C.!

PS — I totally wore my Bill makeup on the walk to the train and all the way home. I felt a little weirded out for a minute or so, until I passed a girl dressed like a cross between Molly from Neuromancer and Tank Girl, and I breathed a little sigh of relief.

Hardcore Tokiophiles, before you get your knickers all knotted, keep in mind that there ARE some fans out there who HAVEN’T heard of the Puppenjungs (German for “doll boys”) — a pair of twin puppets created in the likeness of Tokio Hotel’s Tom and Bill Kaulitz.

The highly lifelike puppets were created by a 26-year-old Austrian Tokio Hotel devotee who goes by “Ziggy,” who handcrafted the 24-inch-long (go ahead and smirk at that… I’ll wait… okay… ) polyurethane versions of Germany’s most famous rock twins. A year and a half, and over $1,000 later — doll parts ain’t cheap, right Courtney Love? — Bill and Tom Puppenjungs were born, just in time for the real Bill and Tom’s 18th birthday.

Since 2007, the Puppenjungs have traveled with Ziggy and her Monsun Magazin Tokio Hotel fanzine co-editor, Onerva, seeing Tokio Hotel shows and the sites of Europe — What? You’ve never seen the Eiffel Tower? Puppenjung Tom has!

Tokio Hotel fans, you know I’ll do anything that doesn’t violate professional boundaries or good taste to get you as close to Tokio Hotel as possible, but until I can get you even closer to actual Tokio Hotel, check out this “interview” I managed to score with the Puppenjungs! Rrr… right, so it’s actually with Ziggy, but read on, because the process of making the Puppenjungs and their jetsetting lives are pretty interesting. Plus, check out the new issue of Monsun for more Tokio coverage and more on the Puppenjungs! And check out more photos of the Bill and Tom Puppenjungs after the jump!

Buzzworthy: You made a Bill and a Tom Puppenjung. Why aren’t there Georg and Gustav dolls?
Ziggy: I was actually considering doing a Georg and Gustav doll too, but to be honest, the fact that’s so much fun about the Bill and Tom doll is that the “original” boys do look somewhat like dolls (oh god, Tom is gonna HATE me for that!… the Gs… not so much — good for them, i guess!) I have a feeling they just wouldn’t be looking very good as dolls. And actually, Bill and Tom are taking up all of my attention anyway. They’re like the real ones — always in the spotlight!

Buzzworthy: Would you ever sell the Puppenjungs?
Ziggy: I keep getting offers for the boys… There’s big “NO I DON’T SELL THEM” notes everywhere I post pictures of them, but people just don’t read that I suppose. The weirdest offer came in on MySpace from a girl who wrote me a message that said something like “Okay, I wanna buy them, and I have money, just let me know how much. Tom would be sufficient for now and I’ll come and get Bill later on.” And when i told her that no, sorry, I’m not selling, she was all “Okay, so where do you LIVE??” as if she’d just come over to pick them up!

Buzzworthy: Do the Puppenjungs ever fight?
Ziggy: Of course they fight! What siblings don’t? Bill kept stealing Tom’s sneakers, so I had to get him a couple pairs of boots, and there’s more peace on the dolly-shelf now. Generally, Bill likes posing better than Tom, which has something to do with the fact that Tom’s not as well strung as Bill — there are rubber bands going through the boys’ bodies so that they can pose. So Tom tends to be the lazy one. He likes sitting down more than Bill and sometimes when I’m not careful, he’ll fall back and sit his ass down in the dirt on the floor and i have to do doll-laundry!

Buzzworthy: Where do Puppenjung Bill and Tom sleep?
Ziggy: They’re sleeping right now, actually! I had to take them apart for cleaning and getting their faces fixed up because after the last year, they’ve been a bit on the dirty side, so they’re sleeping right now for until their heads are done; then they’ll be back in action. There’s also been some changes to their faces. And I think they’re looking even better now!

Buzzworthy: Have Bill and Tom ever met their Puppenjungs?
Ziggy: During the tour last year, a friend of mine had a photo of the Puppenjungs signed by Bill and Tom, and she’s reported back that Bill said he absolutely loved his doll but sadly, the boys haven’t seen “their” dolls in real life yet. Oh well, maybe on the next tour.

+ More Bill & Tom Puppenjungs photos after the jump!

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Recently I was sent some super-duper posh and shmancy soaps by Venezuelan artist/ filmmaker David Foote. Foote, who directed A.R.E. Weapons’ “Weakest Ones” video and also lives under the immense burden of having been named one of the 50 most stylish people in the WORLD (In the WORLD!) by Fashion Week Daily, recently collaborated with a handful of lifestyle brands to launch a pop-up shop where you can buy all sorts of luxury products, all of which benefit St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Anyway, as I said, I get the Jaboneria Marianella soaps (he and his mother own the small boutique company) in the mail, and they’re an intoxicating all-natural combination of almond, coconut, sandalwood, and fig, the latter two give it an extra sexy zing. Seriously, the ish smells like sweet, sweet sexy time. I keep one at my desk at work. Not because I’m a pre-vert, but because they smell like some kind of naughty-and-nice heaven. Like Madonna’s “Human Nature” video, but not as raunch. Anyway, they’re $20 each (the soap, not the sexy time or Madonna’s “Human Nature” video), and they’re totally NOT your dad’s soap. Unless your dad’s really effing hot.

So I open the box, and after nearly having a SENSUAL SEDUCTION moment on account of the sexy-time smell, my TOKIO HOTEL RADAR starts blipping and bleeping off the charts, because I immedes notice the packaging they’re wrapped in — David Foote’s “New Girls” black ink and white paint series (warning: don’t click if you can’t handle a few boobies) — looks like it’s covered in countless little Tim Burton-esque Bill Kaulitzes! (!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!)

Now, I doubt that David Foote was inspired by Bill Kaulitz or Tokio Hotel when he crafted his astoundingly intricate “New Girls” series or his soaps. But you can’t help but notice the similarities: The ringed cat eyes, heavy brows, the intense jet-black hair, the razor-sharp cheekbones! IT’S SO BK! AND, the soap is striated into beautiful black-and-cream lines. (Think old-fashioned ribbon candy… old-fashioned ribbon candy INSPIRED BY Bill Kaulitz?) Also, I don’t really recall Bill Kaulitz smelling like much of anything — no nasty cologne, and I don’t remember him smelling like candy or anything, but if I could attribute a scent to Bill, I’d have to say that the earthy-sexy, gender-bending (you reading this, Travis McCoy?) combination of sandalwood and fig do the job.

If you’re busy living every moment until the new Tokio album finally comes out, you’ve got $20 to spare, and you’re in the market to take a shower and make a charitable donation, check out David Foote’s “sehr” Bill Kaulitz soap. Stay clean, Tokio fans!