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Cobra Starship frontman Gabe Saporta turned 32 on Tuesday, and who better to celebrate with than his 17-year-old and not-yet-legal bud, Justin Bieber? Along with a pic of him and the Biebs eating some vanilla cake, Gabe tweeted to Justin Bieber's longtime manager Scooter Braun, "Yo @scooterbraun why won’t you have some birthday cake w/ @justinbieber & I?!"

A few peculiar things are going down in this photo that we'd like to point out: First, our boy Justin looks really confused. His brow is furrowed, and he's reluctantly pointing at a baked good. This leads us to believe that he forgot it was Gabe's birthday doesn't really get why Gabe is making a big deal of the cake, let alone snapping a pic of the two of them eating it.

Additionally, Gabe and Justin are in a hot and sweaty indoor venue, but Justin is wearing a seemingly warm red winter hat. Justin did just recently break up with his swag coach, so maybe his styling is momentarily off-kilter.

Either way, we feel bad for Scooter Braun! I mean, his two pals are together eating a delicious piece of cake, and he is getting Twitter-blasted for not being there with them. JK, who are we kidding? Scooter probably missed the festivities because he was on a private beach with his girlfriend somewhere remote thinking about all the mother-effing dough he's made off a 17-year-old. Birthday cake, schmirthday cake.

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Cobra Starship is so swag that putting out a regular lyric video is like, not even enough. They have to put one out that's actually shot like real music video and have the words to their new song "Fool Like Me" appear in really cool shades of neon and stuff. Guess Times New Roman just wasn't gonna cut it.

"Fool Like Me" is a cheeky, more laid-back jam for Cobra Starship. Slated to appear on their forthcoming album Night Shades, which drops Aug. 30, frontman Gabe Saporta sings about wanting a chick whose parents just wont have it: "Your daddy always said you should stay away from a fool like me, a fool like me/And when your mama sees me calling on your telephone, she hangs up on me, the b**** hangs up on me.” Yo, parents -- if you hadn't noticed, Gabe has a pretty stable job. And he's famous. Your kid could do a lot worse.

As the lyric video goes on, we see the neon words appear on everything from a concrete floor to a brick building to a rooftop, and finally on a vintage flowery couch. Kinda weird, but also effective -- I can practically recite the entire song by heart now.

+ Watch Cobra Starship's "Fool Like Me" lyric video.

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Cobra Starship is known for bringing the heat when it comes to a party jam. Or in other words, they make "Good Girls Go Bad" (aren't we soooo good at song-title jokes?!).

Cobra's latest attempt at converting goody-two-shoes girls into bona fide party chicks is "#1Nite." Though you have to wait until Aug. 30 to get Cobra Starship's forthcoming Night Shades album, you're all set to karaoke this new jam in your bedroom tonight because team Cobra Starship has put out a handy lyric video for their new song.

"#1Nite" is the quintessential party-pop jam rife with exuberant lyrics urging us to live life to the fullest because who the eff knows what's gonna happen tomorrow. Cobra Starship frontman Gabe Saporta sings, "Tomorrow mornin' we'll be leaving/Let's keep it rockin' til daylight/Gotta live like we've got one life, one life, one life/Gotta live like we got one night, one night, one night."

Come to think of it didn't Ke$ha preach this same message of recklessness pre-world destruction on her "Shots On The Hood Of My Car" demo? Didn't Britney Spears ask us to keep dancing "Till The World Ends?"  Guess these celebs really took The Rapture scare of 2011 to heart!

+ Watch Cobra Starship "#1Nite" lyric video.

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"In this corner, hailing from the land of 'Bad Romance,' the one and only Lady Gaga! And in this corner, the original 'California Gurl,' whipped cream darling Katy Perry! DING DING DING!"

Lady Gaga and Katy Perry will duke it out this Sunday, Nov. 7, at the 2010 MTV EMA, hosted by Eva Longoria in Madrid's Caja Magica, with Gabe Saporta on the red carpet. Each of the pop princesses is nominated for five awards in the categories of Best Pop, Best Song, Best Female and Best Video. Eminem trails closely behind the ladies with four MTV EMA nods of his own: Best Hip Hop, Best Song, Best Video and Best Male.

Also up for Best Male are Usher, and, you may have heard of him, a guy by the name of Justin Bieber. Fans will have to pick between the mentor and his protégé. Tough decision!

Another tough decision will be for joint fans of both 30 Seconds To Mars and Tokio Hotel, as the two groups are both nominated for Best World Stage Performance, alongside Katy Perry, Green Day, Muse and Gorillaz.

Other battles to note: Rihanna's "Rude Boy" up against herself in Eminem's "Love The Way You Lie" for Best Song and the iconic Ozzy Osbourne holds his own against the likes of younger guys like Kings of Leon in the category of Best Rock. And those are only a few of the epic EMA battles!

+ See the full list of 2010 MTV EMA nominees and vote for your favorites! Voting is open until tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 4, at 6/5c. Tune in this Sunday, Nov. 7, and 9/8c on MTV2 to see who'll win an MTV EMA!

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Cobra Starship might sing a song called "Hot Mess," but when the group walked the blue carpet last night before playing a Ford Fiesta Rooftop Concert to celebrate Internet Week in New York, they looked like the total opposite of a hot mess.

In fact, Cobra Starship looked so swank, so perfectly put together, that we decided they should all collectively share the title of Buzzworthy Style Star Of The Week.

Sure, usually we're skeeved out by denim tuxedos, but Gabe Saporta manages to make it work, Tim Gunn-style. Our favorite Cobra look though has got to be drummer Nate Novarro (far left). Homeboy's rocking those Sebagos like it's his primary source of income. Either way, we love the look of Docksides and rolled-up jeans. It's so Hamptons hipster chic. Curiously, though, Guy Ripley was not in attendance. Weird.

To see more Cobra stylishness, watch their "Hot Mess" video right this very minute.

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Cobra Starship was obviously all partied out from the original "Hot Mess" video, which was basically a rolling soiree that ended at a late-night taco joint and Gabe Saporta getting drawn on with lipstick. Which is why Cobra's "Hot Mess Remix" video, off of the I'm A Hot Mess, Help Me - The Remix EP, features backstage footage, B-roll, and joke shots, including one not-so-funny clip of Pete Wentz and his mysterious busted face. As you probably already know, the "Hot Mess Remix" (the Suave Suarez On Pleasure Ryland version, specifically) features some tongue-in-cheek verse from Travis McCoy. Think of the video as the afterparty to the original "Hot Mess."

Watch the "Hot Mess Remix" video here.

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+ Now that it's the highest-grossing film of all-time, everyone is adopting Avatar chic. Check out your favorite pop stars rendered as indigenous people of Pandora. Holler at Na'vi Justin Bieber! (Rolling Stone)

+ Katy Perry discovered her sadistic side judging American Idol's Los Angeles auditions. She had so much fun making contestants cry, she is (jokingly) considering giving up the stage for the judges' table (MTV News)

+ Joe Jonas went to the Edge Of Darkness premiere. Naturally, if you're Joe Jonas and you're going to a film about the revenge a father takes on the killers of his daughter...you wear an entirely plaid suit. (People)

+ Following the astronomical success of the Hope For Haiti Now benefit album, Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli will be performing Simon and Garfuknel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" at Sunday's Grammy Awards. The track will be made available for download and proceeds will benefit the Red Cross. (E! Online)

+ Speaking of the Grammys, Sunday night's broadcast will mark the premiere of Michael Jackson's "Earth Song," a 3D mini-movie that was to have been shown during Jackson's This Is It tour. A 30-second preview of the film is already circulating. (Rap-Up)

+ VMAN Magazine has a useful how-to feature. No, it's not how to install a shower head. They've recruited Justin Bieber, Adam Lambert, Cobra Starship's Gabe Saporta and a few other slick characters to show you "How To Dress Like A Pop Star." (Idolator)

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In some divine combination of the Hal9000 talking computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey and KITT, the talking car from meets Knight Rider, Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz and Cobra Starship's Gabe Saporta are doing their part to make your life stranger and more futuristic.

Gabe and Pete are part of CarStars, a sort of car stereo concierge service (again, meets David Hasselhoff's heyday.) CarStars users can listen to tailor-made celebrity playlists based on preference and environment. The choose-your-own-adventure experiences are accompanied by the voices of Pete Wentz and Gabe Saporta's (as well as other celeb stereo hosts like Train's Pat Monahan and Cartel's Will Pugh). Eat your heart out, Hof!

How exactly this will work with people's talking GPS systems, I have no idea. I foresee a lot of problems with a calming female voice telling you to take a left at the next light while Wentz is suggesting you listen to "The Take Over, The Break's Over."

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Last week we gave you a sneak peek at Cobra Starship's "Hot Mess" video. Now, we're threading the needle and delivering the full package.

Now, I'd initially thought, based on the preview, that this would be about Gabe Saporta and the crew rolling through a city and working on infrastructure and potholes and stuff, making the world a better place, brick by brick. I don't know why I thought that, given Cobra Starship's pre-occupation with glitz, glamor and gaudiness.

Cobra's "Hot Mess" video -- the song is the theme song to the new MTV show, Styl'D, by the way -- follows the Starship in their repair van. What are they repairing? Busted-up ladies who've had too much of the devil's nectar and find themselves cast as the girl that everyone is pointing at and whispering, "Damn, she is a drunken harlot."

Rather than fix up these wayward souls, Cobra Starship provides a safe space for them to abandon their own dignity. Watch "Hot Mess" now.

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God bless Cobra Starship's Gabe Saporta. He might be the only member of a key-tar-wielding band who can get away with the lyric, 'I'm gonna make you my boo,' all while rocking a pencil mustache and dressing up as an electric company worker.

All that and more appears to be going down in this video, a behind the scenes look at Cobra's forthcoming video for "Hot Mess" (the second single from Cobra's album of the same name).

Personally, I hope the Con Ed jumpsuits the band's wearing are an homage to the scene in Ghostbusters II when Egon and Ray discover the river of slime beneath New York City, but I digress.

Not only can you catch the full "Hot Mess" video this weekend, when it debuts on November 8th, but you can hear it anytime you tune in to the new MTV reality show, Styl'D (because it's the theme song, you stylistas).

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