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...

+ More photos after the jump...

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Tokio Hotel's new album is STILL not out yet (alas!), but at least you can get a little piece of the guys when they release their new use-a-conner t-shirts for H&M.

Tokio Hotel, along with Katy Perry, Estelle, Yoko Ono, Robyn (Robyn!!!), N.E.R.D., and more -- like Rihanna last year -- were tapped to designed safe-sex t-shirts as part of H&M and Designers Against AIDS' Fashion Against AIDS 2009 campaign.

The shirts, which are available in male and female versions (but feel free to change that up depending upon your gender-bending preferences), will hit H&M stores worldwide (great news!) on May 28. Twenty-five percent of the campaign's proceeds will fund HIV/AIDS youth awareness projects.

Lovingly, Tokio Hotel's shirts say "Rock Hard, F*** Safe." Gotta respect that kind of forwardness. Oh, and Tokio Hotel was photographed for the campaign by Daniel Jackson. Because I know you keep track of that sort of thing.

I will now leave you to your fantasies...

Put on your little white gloves, kinder, and, if you haven't already, meet the German boy toyz of Cinema Bizarre -- Shin, Yu, Kiro, Romeo Nightengale, and, my favorite, Strify. (Seriously, I LOVE a guy who's not afraid to wear little white gloves!) See how Lady Gaga handpicked them to open for her on her famed Fame Ball tour and get their thoughts on coming to America for the first time and discovering MONSTER ketchup dispensers. Sigh. These guys and their anti-love songs kill me.

And hello -- they're Cherry Tree labelmates with Tokio Hotel (AND Robyn! AND Feist!)!!! The thought of a Tokio Hotel-Cinema Bizarre-Robyn collabo might melt my circuitboard. Or various components of the Tokio fandom. So I won't even get started on how Tokio Hotel and Cinema Bizarre have lots of the same fans but are SO NOT similar (except they ARE both grosses kino) and how Cinema Bizarre isn't really technically visual kei. See? I already started. Okay. Watch Cinema Bizarre because you can't NOT watch them.

+ PS: Cinema Bizarre met Justin Tranter at his Fetty party in New York the other night! I'm so sad -- I was supposed to go but I was sick! Blast and DAMN! Oh well. Check out how amazing the photo is, and watch Justin Tranter's Buzzworthy Style File video!

VMA nominee voting for "Best Female Video" ends at 11am ET tomorrow, so hurry up and vote for the layday you think deserves a "Best Female Video" nod. Vote here, vote NOW, and watch FNMTV this Friday to see who the nominees are!

A few Buzzworthy favey faves:

+ Robyn, "Konichiwa Bitches" -- Robyn dressed as sushi!

+ Gwen Stefani, "Early Winter" -- Classy black-and-white pouty Gwen lensed by Sophie Mueller. It's a sleeper hit but a classic.

+ Mariah Carey, "Touch My Body" -- Girl hired Brett Ratner, Kenny the Page AND a unicorn!

+ Alicia Keys, "No One" -- Sexy, suggestive piano grindin!

+ Tori Amos, "Big Wheel" -- Speaking of piano grinding... total MILF montage action from the ageless auteur.

+ Leona Lewis, "Bleeding Love" -- Hottest thing to hit Times Square since the Naked Cowboy.

+ Janet Jackson, "Feedback" -- Got milk?

+ Kid Sister, "Pro Nails" -- The Chicago MC and Kanye get on that acrylic tip.

+ Katy Perry, "I Kissed a Girl" -- Duh.

+ Jennifer Hudson, "Spotlight" -- A sophisticated approach to wack relationships.

+ Erykah Badu, "Honey" -- Like 20 videos in one, plus a salute to indie record shops!

+ Duffy, "Mercy" -- Skip Duffy? Have Mercy!

+ Estelle, "American Boy" -- We're likin' this British import so much we wanna claim her as our own.

+ Solange, "I Decided" -- We decided we're absolutely, undeniably obsessed with Beyonce's sassy little sister.

More VMAs here.

Besides blink-182's seminal Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, Aussie folk-pop singer Sia (she's responsible for Zero 7's haunting female vocals) has one of our favorite album titles ever: Some People Have Real Problems. And in her new video, "The Girl You Lost," Sia herself suffers from a few conundrums, not the least of which is what to wear. Which is why she goes through more costume changes than Victoria Beckham on a publicity trip family outing to a soccer match.

Our favorite costume -- from what we gather, it's a Captain Jack Sparrow/Flavor Flav mash-up, but we're not 100% sure. Second fave: Howard Stern/ Strawberry Shortcake. Most psychologically frightful: scantily clad bride who slightly resembles both Jonathan Davis of Korn and Chyna Doll. Also, the whole thing makes way more sense when you realize that the uncensored version of the single is called "The Girl You Lost to Cocaine." (Maybe she and N.E.R.D. should get together and swap war stories.)

+ Bonus: Stereogum has Sia's version of Britney's "Gimme More."

+ Double Bonus: Sia's up for a 2008 New Now Next "Kylie" Award for Next International Crossover, against Robyn, Leona Lewis, and Duffy. Choosing just one of those artists is unfair and IMPOSSIBLE and there oughta be a U.N. regulation against it or something.

We loved Robyn back when she pure bubblegum. A pre-trainwreck Britney Spears. And if you were born before 1990, you also probably know (and secretly love) her breakthrough single, "Show Me Love," a sleek, slickly produced I-wanna-know-what-love-is sugary pre-sexual awakening, teenage banana split of a song.

Now, over a decade later, the Swedish star -- who remixed Snoop's "Sexual Eruption," wrote about her experience with abortion, who sings about her "cookie jar," and who, in the video below, references both balls and the c-word and employs the word "bitches" as clear as day in the song's title -- is more spicy wasabi than pop rocks. We saw her show at the Grand Ballroom above Hammerstein earlier this month, and the one-woman style council with Christina Aguilera pipes and David Bowie hair, hooked us with her pitch-perfect electro-raunch performance.

Watch her Pee Wee's Playhouse-style "Konichiwa Bitches" video (all that's missing is Chairy and the secret word), watch her personalized tour of the video's props in her MySpace video below, check out Robyn's exclusive MTV photo gallery, and whatever you do, do not sleep on her self-titled album.

We squeezed ourselves into NYC's steamy, packed-to-the-gills Highline Ballroom the other night to crane our necks over bobbing heads to see Robyn, the Swedish popster who made a splash in the late-'90s with "Show Me Love" and lent backing vocals to Britney Spears' "Piece of Me." And while her recent dance hit "With Every Heartbeat" and an accoustic version of "Be Mine" were the highlights of her performance, running into Jake Shears from the Scissor Sisters was the highlight of our night ... especially since he confirmed that the group is hard at work on a new album. He promised us it would be just as fabulous as their previous albums, but these things take time, folks ... and he clearly didn't have a clue as to when it might be finished. Sigh.

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