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Awoooooo! Talk about barking (and perhaps salivating) at the moon. Shakira's new single, "She Wolf," is a downright libidinous new jam, replete with heavy breathing and panting, but maybe it's just a bit sexier then Ozzy Osbourne's similarly-themed '80s song about wolves and cutting loose. OK, waaaay sexier. Yes, the Colombian pop singer is hot. But no really. Take a closer look -- it's like she's getting even hotter. The video, which features the temptress swinging around in a cage, seems sweaty, balmy ... must stop ... impure ... thoughts.

Check the lyrics: "Theres a she wolf in the closet, Open up and set it free / there's a she wolf in the closet / Let it out so it can breathe." What do they mean? Are we catching a sexual liberation theme perhaps?

The sexiness factor doesn't hurt when you consider the single is a propulsive electro-disco jam seemingly made for a sweaty dance session at da club (as Fiddy might say).

Also, here's an interesting, "did you know?" This track was produced by some unlikely collaborators, Sam Endicott of The Bravery and John Hill, who has turned producer knobs for Santigold. The song will appear on Shakira’s newest English-language album, set for worldwide release in October. The album, her sixth studio effort, was written and produced by Shakira, and features guest collaborators that include Pharrell and Wyclef Jean. A tour is expected to follow in 2010, along with a new Spanish-language album.

Check out this 15-second sneak peek at the "She Wolf" video to hold you over until tomorrow, when MTV and MTV.com will premiere the smokin' new video in full at 8 p.m. ET.

What is a "TV/TV," and why MUST you have one?

1. TV/TV recently recorded with Bleu. Who is Bleu? Bleu is the producer responsible for Jonas Brothers, Boys Like Girls and Hanson. Boom -- there goes the dynamite.

2. TV/TV have already sold out shows at New York City's most exclusive venues --> The Knitting Factory, Mercury Lounge and Bowery Ballroom. ShamWOW.

3. TV/TV have cut their teeth touring with rock role models like The Bravery, Artist Vs. Poet and Anarbor.

4. You're actually already a fan. Not only did lead singer Josh Ocean appear in an episode of MTV's Made, but TV/TV tunes have popped up in the soundtracks of The Hills, The Real World, Living Lohan (SCORE!) and many more!

5. Dude. Look at them.

The studly foursome, who share a tiny apartment in NYC's East Village, have been turning out jam after electro-sleaze jam since 2006, giving you way more than five reasons to be obsessed with them. Listen to their glammed-out, big-city-Kings-Of-Leon-jamming-on-AC/DC sound, and add your name to the list of TV/TV converted!

+ LISTEN TO TV/TV HERE!

The Mission District is a Montreal-based six-piece that combines '80s Brit pop like The Cure and New Order with contagious power-fuzz (just made that up!) pop-punk and churns out one fist-pumping singalong chorus after another. In other words, these clean-cut hipsters make dance music you can mosh to. Armed with unstoppable beats and endless sinister keys, the ex-punks have enough nightclub charisma to put glitter on your chest in a single listen.

Brain-conquering singles like "The Age Of Pretending" and "So Over You" have won them a steady online following (16,000 MySpace friendies and counting), a spot on tour with The Bravery, Elbow and most recently, Nightmare Of You. Oh, and Perez Hilton is obsessed with them ("Hot Sweaty Boys Make Hot Sweaty Music"). No big deal.

Get your hands and ears and everything else on the explosive British sound that's blaring out of Montreal's biggest speakers at The Mission's District's MySpace.

We get plenty goofy on here on Buzzworthy and at MTV, but there are times when we step back to acknowledge something heavy and now is one of those times. Today is World AIDS Day, when governments, organizations and individuals around the globe concentrate efforts to raising awareness of the global AIDS pandemic.

According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, more than 25 million have died of AIDS since 1981 and more than 33 million more are living with HIV, the retrovirus that can lead to AIDS. An epidemic of this proportion simply cannot ignored.

MTV's think community deals in the serious issues of sexually transmitted diseases every day, and today you'll find discussion about getting tested, protection, living with AIDS and much more important information that could save your life, change your mind and get you involved. Now that you're thinking about it, take a look. It's worth more than a little bit of your time.

Here on Buzzworthy, we generally deal with music. And today is no different, as we're going to let the music, make that the musicians (and one esteemed educator), do the talking. Check out videos made for think's "It's Your Sex Life" campaign, featuring Boys Like Girls, the Bravery, Wyclef Jean and Dr. Cornel West after the jump. Read more...

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After The Bravery polished their sound on their sophomore album, The Sun and The Moon, they decided to "re-imagine" (aka rework) the album's 12 tracks. The two-disc The Sun and The Moon Complete was born, with disc two taking the band back to its rough-around-the-edges electronic roots. Not like they needed to retool things -- they easily avoided the dreaded sophomore slump when "Believe" bested their catchy 2005 breakout hit "An Honest Mistake" on Billboard's Modern Rock chart (#4 and #12, respectively).

We chatted up Sam Endicott, Anthony Burulcich and Michael Zakarin to find out why they went back into the studio and what happens when you toilet paper another band's van.

Buzzworthy: What's the most fun you've ever had on tour?

Sam Endicott: We opened for Depeche Mode for three months in Eastern Europe, which was really cool.

Anthony Burulcich: Martin Gore is, like, a semi-professional foosball player and they would always have a foosball table backstage.

SE: For, like, the past 20 years...

AB: Every band they play, it gets very competitive. We got better over the course of the tour.

SE: I think we're the only band that's ever beaten them.

BW: That's impressive...

SE: They were pissed, and we were really nervous we were going to get kicked off the tour. But I think they respected us for it.

AB: Yeah, it was just so much fun to, like, play a game every night with such an iconic band.

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After an exhausting European tour, from which they diligently sent Buzzworthy video dispatches from the road, the Spill Canvas is safe and sound back here in the States and touring up a modest s---storm.

But according to the band, all that touring abroad put a strain on their chops. Which is why, in a move reminiscent of the Bravery's Artist of the Week stint, they brought in, um, "Coach Ferguson" (who's like a very Tenacious D-esque combo of Fire Marshall Bill and Tom Anderson -- not be confused with Tom Anderson of MySpace -- who was, if you recall, the old-dude neighbor on Beavis and Butt-Head) to help them re-focus on their craft.

We know we're uncomfortable, and chances are, you will be too.

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A year after The Bravery trimmed out a more-than-respectable place for themselves on the musical landscape with their impossible-to-forget single "An Honest Mistake," they dropped their sophomore album, The Sun and the Moon -- a more grown-up, de-synthed, rocked-out response to their 2005 self-titled debut.

And not long after that, they returned to the studio to chase it with a follow-up album of reworked tracks. The new album's due out this spring, so start thinking classic-rock meets-power-pop with the histrionics of The Cure, the fist-pumpage of Bruce Springsteen and the arena balladeering of U2 laced throughout. It's a heroic effort on every level, culling from the band's own musical heroes and influences and showcasing their maturity into a band with staying power.

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We'll admit it: We slept all day yesterday. Didn't take a shower until dinner, and for that, we ate some toast before going back to bed, where we found we'd been using Perez Hilton's velvet jacket as a pillow. Hey, if you spent your New Year's Eve drinking in Tila Tequila's New Year's Eve Masquerade 2008, you'd have done the same.

And perhaps you did. Maybe you celebrated in your own way and it put you in bed sometime around sunrise and you didn't bother to do anything but watch bowl games during the part of the day you managed to be conscious. We understand.

But today we're back in action and trying to reconstruct all of the details. Luckily, our party was recorded and is available for viewing on demand anytime, and we're really glad for that, cuz a lot of it is really fuzzy in our collective brain. Turns out that Paramore was as great as we remembered they were. And Fabolous was fabulous. Plus, Kid Rock brought down the house, the buzz on Flo Rida is worth it, Good Charlotte still has it, Boys Like Girls are a helluva lot of fun and The Bravery rock.

You can check out all kids of video and photo highlights of Tila's Times Square MTV throwdown over on MTV.com. And below you can watch Paramore's performance of "Crush Crush Crush."

Meanwhile, we'll be napping for a good part of today. Seems that we're not quite fully recovered -- and we can't remember what happened with us and Perez. Maybe it's better that stays lost in the night.

  

As IF the VMAs in Vegas couldn't get any hotter, it's pretty much exactly 145 THOUSAND degrees up in Fall Out Boy's suite in the Palms. Whether that's due to their scorching run-through of their upcoming performance of "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" or due to teh fact that Gym Class Heroes, The Bravery and Ne-Yo are all hanging out here. Yes, tonight, folks, Buzzworthy's the fly on the wall of celebrity... and we LOVES it, y'all!

Also... we can hardly HANDLE the fact that we're MINUTES away from Britney's performance! And... is it just us or did Paris Hilton's hair look like an old-school Nancy Reagan 'do? Oh well. Least her dress looked hot.