You think when they wrote "D++k In A Box" and "J++z In My Pants," Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, and Justin Timberlake (plus Katreese Barnes and Asa Taccone) ever envisioned LeAnn Rimes (sounding VERY Celine Dion), Forest Whitaker, and Chris Isaak singing it back to them in eveningwear accompanied by a full-on string section? I bet they did.

+ Watch the moving, riveting, operatic approach to "D++k In A Box" / "J++z In My Pants" from the 2009 MTV Movie Awards.

... Plus, watch Buzzworthy's interview with The Lonely Island, and find out five more important things about The Lonely Island.

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Passion Pit popped up as a Buzzworthy Obsession back in February, in a post that found the band performing with a children's choir. This time, in an equally Dr. Seussian turn, the band is playing on a boat (and, technically, in a moat).

An MTV News camera crew followed the Brooklyn synth-magicians into New York Harbor for their seafaring album premiere party, and cornered them in the galley (with little Sally) for a quick Q+A.

In another moment of literary inspiration, the band made a metaphor of their maiden voyage, comparing the choppy water of the Hudson River to all the complications they overcame to make their debut LP, Manners, a reality.

Click play below for a chat with the bookish band, accompanied by a whole lotta boat-rockin' indie (hop on) pop.

+ See full MTV News coverage of the event here

+ Related Video: The Lonely Island, "I'm On A Boat"

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"

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Pre-gaming or whatever this gorgeous Friday eve? Before you black out, flash back to the glory days of awesome crap!... Way back to MTV Spring Break 1986 with Martha Quinn, who mixed stripes and a something-or-other-print with reckless abandon. What happened next was that Starship landed, and the power mullets took over and performed "We Built This City" -- Blender (RIP!) named it the worst song ever written, and not for nothin' -- and rest was rock history (probably best left forgotten...)

Also, I think that's Grace Slick in the rolled-up blazer (I'm too afraid to look any closer), and in what's perhaps an ironic harbinger to come, s/he sorta looks like Gabe Saporta in drag! Starship = Cobra Starship connection!

(Staying in this weekend? Watch more vintage videos. And, The Lonely Island time travels back to MTV Spring Break 1988.)

In case you hadn't noticed, The Lonely Island is totally Buzzworthy's boyfriend. Andy, Akiva and Jorma ... Ever since Tamar got them on The 5, we've been obsessed with them. OK, that's a lie, we were obsessed with them way before. So, you can imagine how pumped we are that The Lonely Island are MTV's newest featured artist!

In typical brilliant Lonely Island style, they've broken the mold with a series of videos that we never saw coming. Just in time for MTV's Spring Break 2009 Panama City Beach party, they've mashed up footage of MTV Spring Break '88 with hilarious new (super crappy looking -- see above!) Lonely Island sarcasm. They use some fancy editing to make it look like they're interacting with the mullet-headed, Oakley-faced meatheads that kept the beach interesting 21 springs ago, and they pull it off magically well. Oh yeah, and Andy Samberg's in a Speedo, if that's something that you care about ...

As you know, this all also coincides with the release of The Lonely Island's debut album, Incredibad. If you somehow haven't seen the insane video for "I'm On a Boat" yet, that should be high on your priority list, too. Before you get to that, though, definitely take a few minutes to watch the hilariously bad-haired Spring Beach clips below. They'll pretty much change your life.

+ Much to her record label's chagrin, Island girl Amy Winehouse has sworn off her trademark sultry soul sound for her next album and has instead adopted a more doob-friendly Reggae flavor. As long as it doesn't have the meth-y fresh tingle, who cares? (The Sun)

+ The Lonely Island boys (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone) were recently named to Details' list of "mavericks." And no. Sarah Palin had nothing to do with it. Thank God. (Details)

+ Hollywood darling Anne Hathaway has been tapped to bring Judy Garland's life to the big screen.  (Pop Crunch)

+ Meanwhile, Lindsay Lohan is busy crashing her brand-new Maserati into something stationary. (Radar Online)

+ Fergie's keeping her lady lumps and her baby bumps separate, at least until after her tour with the Black Eyed Peas. (Us Magazine)

+ Speaking of lady lumps and taking dumps, can anyone remember a time ever when Scarlett Johansson wasn't pushing those things in our face? Whatever happened to actually putting models on the cover of Vogue?? (Pretty Boring)

+ Have you seen this sneak peek of The Hills Season Five and all the gloriousness that is Audrina and Brody kind of macking it?? (Remote Control)

You'd like to think you know everything there is to know about The Lonely Island -- the three-dude braintrust behind Saturday Night Live's Digital Shorts/ your favorite viral videos like "I'm On A Boat," the jeans-soilingly hilarious "J--z In My Pants," and the ode to the surprise-inside tradition of gift-wrapping your junk that is "D--k In A Box" -- and their debut comedy album, Incredibad. But just because you know all the words to "Santana DVX" (and just because you camp out outside Akiva Schaffer's apartment, which you should definitely stop doing... oh wait... that's me) doesn't mean you know EVERYTHING about The Lonely Island.

Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg (who's hosting the 2009 MTV Movie Awards!), and Jorma Taccone sat down with me (well, technically I stood), and revealed the videos that inspired Incredibad, from R. Kelly's "Your Body's Callin'," to En Vogue's pants-j-ing "Never Gonna Get It" video, to the blessing and curse that was Snow's "Informer."

Watch them all below, or, if you'd rather click on a link than a button, watch The Lonely Island's Incredibad-inspired videos, with commentary right here.

First of all, if you don't know who The Lonely Island is, I truly feel bad for you. Go watch "Nintendo Cartoon Hour" right this second. It's one of the biggest and best LOLs on the Internet, new or old, and it's actually worth the 2:55 minutes of your valuable Internet-memeing time. When you're done with that, you then need to listen to The Lonely Island's new comedy/ R&B booty jam album Incredibad.

But back to the four of you who don't know who The Lonely Island is, even though you probably do. They're Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, and Jorma Taccone (you've seen him in Gnarls Barkley's "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" video), and they're the comedy writer/performer/ beat-makers behind some of your favorite segments on Saturday Night Live, including, but not limited to "Lazy Sunday" (AKA, the FUNNIEST VIRAL VIDEO EVER... until they created "D--k In A Box" (it won an Emmy!). Remember "Natalie's Rap," featuring a potty-mouthed Natalie Portman dropping rhymes about doing lines and dumping deuces in shoes? They did that too. And, chances are you've also feasted on the fruits of  "J--z In My Pants" and "I'm On A Boat."

Chances are also that you knew all of that and that you already own Incredibad, The Lonely Island's musical debut, which features all of the aforementioned songs as well as an amazing gem about Santana (Carlos, not Juelz) champagne, and cameos by Norah Jones, Jack Black, E-40, T-Pain (more on him in a bit), and unofficial fourth Lonely Islander, Justin Timberlake.

Some more Lonely Island background for those of you just now emerging from your voluntary coma: You've seen Andy Samberg on Saturday Night Live and in Hot Rod, but Akiva Schaeffer and Jorma Taccone write for SNL too, and they're pretty much living the normal guy-BFF dream, since they met in junior high days, spent bro time listening to incredibly bad/ great R&B jams and dreaming of the day Santana would finally make an adult beverage. Eventually they started making comedy videos (again, seriously, watch "Nintendo Cartoon Hour") under the name The Lonely Island. After a few aborted attempts at their own comedy series (thanks FOX... er... and MTV...), they eventually caught the eye of Lorne Michaels, who brought them aboard the SNL mothership, which is how they winded up on a boat... with T-Pain. Who's actually Jewish, it turns out. (Welcome to the tribe, Faheem!)

Recently, Andy, Akiva, and Jorma stopped by Fort Buzzworthy to share four more things you didn't know about Incredibad (five, really, but I already up and spoiled one).

After the jump, hear more secrets of Incredibad straight from the mouths of The Lonely Island in this exclusive MTV Buzzworthy video.

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I stopped into the Times Square Virgin Megastore this morning on my way to work to pick up the Incredibad album (yes, I actually still buy albums and still call them "albums" too), and aside from the fact that this location -- the one where the Jonas Brothers fought their way through massive midnight crowds to buy A Little Bit Longer this past August -- a scene you'll see AND LOVE in Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience -- is closing (thanks, INTERNET!) to make way for a MASSIVE Forever 21.

Anyway, EVERYTHING IN THE ENTIRE STORE IS PRICED TO MOVE, PEOPLE, as the garish orange signs will not allow you to forget for a second. But propped up against the wall in the very back of the store I found the saddest for-sale item -- this $29.00 Notorious B.I.G. doll, marked down an additional 20% off.

Seriously, buy the jokey penis books and "Guitar Hero" keychains and stuff, but not taking Biggie and leaving him here all by himself like this is like killing him all over again. Biggie, Mama's comin' for you! We're still missing you!

+ Vintage video: Diddy, Faith Evans, 112 & Sting remember Biggie at the 1997 VMAs with "Mo Money, Mo Problems / I'll Be Missing You (Live)." (This is one of all-time favorite VMA moments.)

+ Jenny Craig has chimed in on the whole Jessica Simpson weight scandalette... and... they think she looks gorge. And, also they'd like to cordially invite everyone to get back to making fun of Valerie Bertinelli and and Kirstie Alley instead). (Amy Grindhouse)

+ Nick Cannon to world: you will pay attention to me whether you like it or not (NOT). Mr. Mariah Carey is apparently the new host of America's Got Talent. (Pop Crunch)

+ Rumor has it that Zac Efron will be hosting the April 11th episode of Saturday Night Live... and that he might be sporting a Justin-like leotard on said ep (fine... we made up the leotard part, but a girl can dream). (Just Jared)

+ After her show-stopping Grammy performance, Jennifer Hudson announced that she's heading out on her first solo tour! With Robin Thicke! So, uh, not exactly solo, but close enough. (E! Online)

+ We sincerely cannot WAIT to hear what Oprah has to say about Lily Allen living her "Best Life." (Perez Hilton)

+ The Lonely Island -- the guys who brought you "Lazy Sunday" and "J*zz In My Pants" drop their debut album, Incredibad, today, and it kinda makes us wanna do the latter. In a boat. And for the record, "Nintendo Cartoon Hour" is one the funniest videos ever made. (The Lonely Island)

+ Denying you own a restaurant is the new denying you've had a boob job. Justin Timberlake is denying he actually owns New York City restaurant Southern Hospitality. Huh? (Showbizspy)

+ When Twitter turns bitter: Panic! At the Disco's Ryan Ross and Criss Angel are feuding via social networking. OOOOH BURN!

+ Buzzworthy to Courtney Love: please eat any of the items featured anywhere on This Is Why You're Fat. And then, for the love of gawd, please buy yourself a bra. Kthxbai. (The Superficial)