The performances at the 2009 MTV Europe Awards were like hitting "shuffle" on your iPod... except exponentially more intense. Shakira and Beyonce, Jay-Z, Leona Lewis, U2, Green Day, Foo Fighters, and Tokio Hotel -- all celebrated popular music's bounty, from U2's timeless unifier, "One," to Shakira's box-fresh "Did It Again."

Watch each and every live performance from the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards now.

The 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards are just around the corner. If you haven't booked your ticket to Berlin, well, you're probably screwed. But fortunately Buzzworthy's gonna give you a first-hand look at all of the international stars, performers and performances, and fan-picked awards on Thursday, November 5.

Here's what you need to know about the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin.

+ Katy Perry's hosting! Fun and fashion are expected... if not DEMANDED!

+ Rock royalty Foo Fighters and Green Day, hip-hop kingpin Jay-Z, the lycanthropic Shakira, and the gorgeous Leona Lewis will all perform too.

+ ... And Hometown heroes TOKIO HOTEL will perform! LIVE. Digest that.

+ U2 will hold a special musical performance in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.

+ Pete Wentz will be hosting the online show with exclusive backstage access.

+ And THE JONAS BROTHERS AND BACKSTREET BOYS are presenting! It's like boy bands' greatest hits go to Germany!

+ More presenters include the darling Miranda Cosgrove, and the empirically bananas-hot Bar Refaeli, Joss Stone, and more.

It's like the VMAs but with a more impressive passport.

Stay tuned to the MTV Buzzworthy Blog for more 2009 EMA info, AND to stream the entire show as it happens, live in Berlin.

Feeling ready? Almost? Not quite? Vote for your favorite EMA nominees, watch Katy Perry battle Hans the creepy German puppet, check out this greatest hits video of EMAs past, featuring Justin Timberlake, Snoop, Wyclef Jean, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue and more, to see what you're in for, and watch Tokio Hotel perform "Automatic" live on MTV.

Foo Fighters have been fighting the Foo fight for going on 15 years and seven albums now. So cut them some slack if they've slowed things down a bit on "Wheels," the first single and video off their greatest hits album, Foo Fighters: Greatest Hits, due out November 3.

"Wheels," which the Foo Fighters debuted on the lawn of the White House this summer, is a mid-tempo, adult-contempo, chorus-dominated track, and while director Sam Brown helmed both, "Wheels" is a far cry from the full-frontal assault of "The Pretender." Sometimes dudes just gotta slow their roll.

Perusing the MTV Video Yearbook for 1999 a few things jump out at you. One, several artists who were on top of the world ten years ago are now in the throes of their comebacks (Eminem, Blink-182). Two, some artists who were on top then never made it back to those pre-millenial glory days (Len, 702). But the most striking thing about this year was clearly the fact that bands wore fake mustaches in their music videos and, perhaps more perplexing, we found it hi-lar-i-ous. Like...it's funny. But it's not so funny that you'd say, "let's hang the the success or failure of this expensive music video on the humorous effect cause by a dude wearing fake facial hair." Oh, "Sabotage," you have so much to answer for.

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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It's hard to imagine there was ever a time when Foo Fighters would freak out over hearing their song on the radio. It's not like Dave Grohl was any stranger to musical super-stardom when the band started out -- ever hear of Nirvana?

That's why, watching the clip below, you have to wonder what exactly has Foo Fighters so worked up. Could it be... something... liquid? Who can say?

Return to the year 2000, where Grohl, Taylor Hawkins and Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer (/Will Ferrell dead-ringer) Chad Smith are introducing an MTV segment from outside a bar when "Learn To Fly" comes on over the speakers inside. All three of them completely lose it.

Follow them back into the bar for floor spins, freakouts and impromptu karaoke (mostly by Smith who, again, might as well be Will Ferrell). When that's over, check out the incredible official video for "Learn To Fly" after the jump. You really can't ever see it enough times.

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Recently in the Twitterverse, Spectacular star Simon Curtis (@simoncurtis) showed Avan Jogia (BOTH Buzzworthy crushes!) how to use Twitter! @MTVBuzzworthy teaching Avan how to Twitter -- Simon is totally Web 2.0, and Avan is totally 2.NO! Avan, get ON THE TWITTER TRAIN! CHEW CHEW!

Ashlee Simpson (@ashwentz) is mesmerized by baby Bronx: i wish i could record every amazing thing bronx does, and watch it over, and over.

Meanwhile Pete Wentz (@ztnewetep) wants to fly to the Congo and see what's up for himself.

Oh, and the INTERNET thinks that Twitter caused Jennifer Aniston to dump John Mayer (@johncmayer). Picky, aren't we?

Furthermore, Dave Navarro (@davenavarro6767) is drinking coffee and is either bored or on a message bored: Having coffee, lurking on the bored, up WAY too early

... And if this is really Dave Grohl (@davidgrohl), then I wish he'd Twitter more.

Also, if you too send me this albeit hilarious (and painfully true) Current TV Twitter video today, you will be the 123848b'thousandth person to do so, mkay?

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+ Buzzworthy's Ultimate Guide Twitter Celebrities!

Back in '91, before all the glitz and graphics and manipulatively salacious voiceovers, all we had at MTV were great bands, board games and a huge amount of lard. That's no clever wordplay. I literally mean that we had a ton of Crisco on hand. Or so it would seem from the very lo-fi production below, in which Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic strips down to briefs and gets a full body Crisco massage from Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl, before playing slippery Twister with Smashing Pumpkins.

Billy Corgan has long hair. I forgot that was even possible. Also, pre-peroxide James Iha looks so nervous, it's amazing he didn't die. Watch as a very lively (read: alive) Kurt Cobain playfully launches globs of Crisco across the room as a quiet audience inexplicably barely looks up from their beers and cigarettes. It looks like it's about one in the afternoon. What?! The nineties officially made absolutely no sense.

+ 50 Cent is happy to report that Kanye West is definitely not gay. He's just sensitive. (Perez Hilton)

+ New trainwreck of a couple alert: Courtney Love + Mickey Rourke are a couple? Um, VH1 reality programming execs, are you ON TOP OF THIS???. (Pop Eater)

+ Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, on the other hand, isn't afraid to fly his rainbow flag...even if it's just for moral support. (Towel Road)

+ Oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh!! New/old David Archuleta song? "It's All About Love"!?!?!? (Team Archie)

+ Based on the recently leaked pics from the March ish of W magazine, we think Madonna and boy toy Jesus Luz make a pretty smokin' couple. We have no idea if the rumors about those two crazy kids are true, but for Madge's sake, we sincerely hope they are. (Hard Candy)

+ Mandy Moore and Ryan "Call Me Bryan And I'll Freak" Adams are engaged. Dorky dudes, there IS hope! (People)

+ File under interesting (read: potentially catastrophic) career choices: Jewel and Lil' Kim are on the next season's cast of Dancing With The Stars. (Stupid Celebrities)

+ Don't call it a comeback! Ciara's in Enrique Iglesias' new video, "Takin' Back My Love." (That Grape Juice)

+ Q: Guess who DIDN'T get nominated for a Country Music Award? A: Jessica Simpson. And we're sending you a an e-hug Jess, cause DAYOM, you had a rough coupla weeks. (Us Magazine)

Of course they're awesome, they're the Foo Fighters, after all. And the Dave Grohl-led group has a long and storied MTV Video Music Awards history.

Prior to this year, the band has 14 nominations to their credit. In 1996, their "Big Me" was up for five Moonmen and they walked with the Best Group Video honor. Much deserved, mind you, because of its most excellent send-up of classic Mentos commercials, not to mention Dave's braids. (Watch it after the jump.)

Since then, despite netting two nominations in 1997 for "Monkey Wrench," three in 1998 for "Everlong," two in 2000 for "Learning to Fly" and two in 2005 for "Best of You," they haven't been able to take home the hardware again.

Will that change this year as they go up against Paramore, Slipknot, Linkin Park and Fall Out Boy for the Best Rock Video honor? They've got the Sam Brown-directed "The Pretender" in the running, so it's entirely possible that they will finally add another Moonman to the shelf so that the first one will finally have someone to canoodle with on long winter nights. Read more...