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For me, music is a very emotional thing. Sometimes it makes you cry. (Hats off to you, Mumford And Sons.) Other times it makes you want to break s***. (I can't tell you how many times I've blasted The Bronx in my apartment, started a one-person circle pit and accidentally knocked over a ficus.)

Or it can induce a major case of the ha-has. In the last couple weeks, I've put away the weepy ballads and angst anthems in favor of more lighthearted fair. Enough with the tears and shadowboxing. It's time to start LOLing.

I can't seem to get enough "laugh rock" these days, and thankfully I've got Garfunkel And Oates, Bo Burnham, Flight Of The Conchords and The Lonely Island to tickle my funny bone — and a couple other body parts. (Kidding! Sorta.)

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1. Garfunkel And Oates' "Pregnant Women Are Smug": In the past couple of years, it seems like all of my gal pals have either gotten: a.) engaged, b.) married or c.) pregnant. I'm totally happy for their newfound domestic bliss, but the addition of husband and child have definitely changed the dynamics of our bestiehood. This song by Garfunkel And Oates (aka Riki Lindhome and Kake Miccuci) perfectly sums up the sentiment — all with humor and a heaping helping of snark. I first discovered these funny ladies when they opened for Charlyne Yi at the Upright Citizen's Brigade in Los Angeles, and I've been humming their parodies ever since. If you like this tune, I highly recommend you pick up their latest album, All Over Your Face.

Listen to "Pregnant Women Are Smug"

2. Bo Burnham's "Words, Words, Words": Saying that I kinda love puns is like saying Nicki Minaj kinda like wigs, and there's no other comedian musician that masters the art of the double meaning than Bo Burnham. At the tender age of 20, Burnham is already a comedy veteran, having toured around the world, appeared on "Comedy Central Presents" and signed a multi-album deal with Comedy Central Records. Plus, he's not so hard on the eyes, either. What can I say? I'm a sucker for a boy with floppy hair, a razor-sharp wit and the retro know-how to name-drop a character like Helga Pataki from "Hey Arnold!" into his rhymes.

Listen to "Words, Words, Words"

3. Flight Of The Conchords' "The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room)": All a girl ever wants to hear is that she's the most beautiful girl in the room, especially if it's a crowded room, and especially if it's being said by two hilarious dudes from New Zealand. Enter Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. America first met the duo when "Flight Of The Conchords" debuted on HBO in 2007. The series followed the guys struggling to achieve novelty music stardom on the mean streets of New York City. Featuring appearances by fellow funny people like Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman and Aziz Ansari, "Flight Of The Conchords" only ran for two seasons but the band left behind a couple of records containing all of the non-hits from the series. I used to set my alarm to this song every morning, and there's nothing like starting the day with someone serenading you with, "And when you're on the street/Depending on the street/I bet you are definitely in the top three good-looking girls on the street/Depending on the street." It's no coincidence that I try and walk down streets with mostly ugly people.

Listen to "The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room)"

4. The Lonely Island's "Dreamgirl (Feat. Norah Jones)": When I first saw Norah Jonas on the credits for The Lonely Island's debut album Incredibad, I was skeptical. But then I listened to "Dreamgirl," which is an off-kilter ode to a heavenly lady with a whole lotta problems (i.e. nose like a rhinoceros, skin like asphalt, etc.). It was only when I heard Miss "Don't Know Why" belt out the following lines that I changed my tune: "Last week thought I saw you on the street/Turns out it was a bag of trash/Just a big ol' bag of trash/I thought you looked like a bag of trash." Norah, I'm sorry I ever doubted you. I should've known better. Turns out jazz musicians can be funny, too. I wonder if she took lessons from Josh Groban.

Listen to "Dreamgirl (Feat. Norah Jones)"

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The Lonely Island are the hottest trio in tongue-in-cheek hip hop right now (sorry, Das Racist). And they still work at "Saturday Night Live," which is also not so bad. Not since they paired up with Justin Timberlake (for "D**k In A Box" and "Motherlover") and with Akon on "I Just Had Sex" has their collaboration with another artist been so funny. In fact, of all male singers to team up with The Lonely Island, would you have expected Michael Bolton, known for '80s blue-eyed-soul jams like "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You"?

Perhaps that's why "Jack Sparrow," a song that is actually as good as it is hilarious, is such a naturally bonkers step in the right direction. Instead of asking a contemporary crooner like, say, John Legend or Robin Thicke, to lend his voice to a rap about V.I.P. rooms and bangin' and stuff, the boys got Michael Bolton to interrupt their song with choruses about Pirates Of The Caribbean, as well as other movies with which he's obsessed. Turns out Michael Bolton is a cinephile, and he also dresses in drag.

But dare we say that Michael Bolton has never sounded better? Like, we're going to buy a song with Michael Bolton featured on it, and it's not even 1993. Job well done, Lonely Island.

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The thing about The Lonely Island is that one of their songs will come on at a party and you'll just start Dougie-ing to it like it's a "real" hip-hop song. That is until you tune in to the lyrics and hear something like, "Huge turtleneck and my chain so skinny/Beer light, all night, stand up, get dizzy." Then you look around all, "Oh, I totally knew this was a joke song." Got us again, Andy Samberg.

Comedy super trio The Lonely Island released a new track, "Turtleneck & Chain," off of their upcoming sophomore album Turtleneck & Chain, due out May 10. Snoop Dogg is featured on the song, which not only legitimizes The Lonely Island's true musical talent, but it also brings the song to a whole new level of LOL. "The fatter, the puffier, the fluffier, the bigger the turtleneck, the more gangsta it is," Snoop informs us. You know what they say -- you learn something new about turtlenecks every day.

We already knew The Lonely Island could make us laugh (see: "The Creep" and "I Just Had Sex") but now they're soliciting sartorial advice, too. Turtlenecks and chains, y'all. Summer trend 2011.

+ Listen to The Lonely Island featuring Snoop Dogg on "Turtleneck & Chain."

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+ Eminem, the Foo Fighters and Coldplay are confirmed to headline this year's Lollapalooza. Other performers include Buzzworthy faves Lykke Li, Crystal Castles, Best Coast and Kid Cudi, to name a few. (MTV News)

+ Boo! No junk food or ice cream backstage on Britney Spears' Femme Fatale tour! Also on her rider: humidifiers at every arena and Michael Jackson's albums playing repeatedly in her dressing room. (Buzznet)

+ Ugh, we're so sick of all of these perfect photos of Beyoncé. Totally JK. Even in these ads for ridiculous looking headphones, Bey somehow still looks impeccable. (ONTD)

+ The Beastie Boys: the gift that won't stop giving. Listen to their new album, Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2, in full, streaming now on their website. (Rolling Stone)

+ The funny men of The Lonely Island aren't just bringing the LOLZ. Their latest album, Turtleneck & Chain , features some seriously heavy hitters: Rihanna, Akon, Justin Timberlake, and Beck, among others. Check out the full track listing here. (Idolator)

+ After recently being named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People, Bruno Mars has another reason to celebrate. His debut album, Doo Wops & Hooligans, was just certified platinum. (Rap-Up)

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The Lonely Island, the comedy trio of Andy Samberg and longtime friends and "Saturday Night Live" writers Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, are back, and they brought their d***s! We're not just trying to be gratuitously crass. The guys debuted their new song and video on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" last week, and it is... morally corrupt AND HILARIOUS. The song's called, appropriately, "We're Back (To Share Ridiculous Facts About Our D***s)," and they do just that: rap about their triumphant return (following their last album, Incredibad), and also how gross their d***s are.

"We're Back" continues in The Lonely Island's grand tradition of very funny, sometimes dirty meta-raps that parody themselves while actually being good songs. When they recorded "I'm On A Boat" with T-Pain, The Lonely Island were basically holding up a mirror to mainstream rap, laughing at the excessive, cliche imagery in hip-hop.

Now, the dudes are providing some excellent commentary on the state of hip-hop by simply telling us about their genitals, which is by no means uncommon in the game. It's just that, between Andy, Jorma and Akiva, their d***s are particularly unappealing.

+ Watch The Lonely Island's new video, "We're Back (To Share Ridiculous Facts About Our D***s)." (NSFW)

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It's Friday, y'all.  That means it's time to slip into some sweatpants a party dress and get our Twitter wrap-up on.

Rihanna turned 23 years young this week and took to Twitter to wish herself a very deserved "Happy Birthday." Katy Perry showed us her preconcert snack ritual, and Justin Bieber sent the tweet heard around the world: "Thinking about getting a haircut....hmmmmmm." We all know how that turned out.

Also this week, Ke$ha shared the joys of traveling, and Lady Gaga spread the love after her sold-out Madison Square Garden show. Kanye West tweeted a photo of his "new beat protégé," which just so happens to be Justin Bieber, and Andy Samberg and the rest of The Lonely Island bros showed us some album art they're working on. Spoiler alert: it ain't right.

Our favorite tweet this week goes to Maroon 5's Adam Levine, who declares his love for one of our faves here at Buzzworthy, Adele: "D---, she can sing..." We know! She's the best!

Check out all of this week's celebrity tweets below and catch up with us at @MTVBuzzworthy.

+ RIHANNA // @rihanna -- Go grawl....its ya birthday!!!! Rah Rah Rah!!! Mo fyah!

+ KATY PERRY // @katyperry -- Preshow ritual snack, fresh cotton candy! YUM! http://twitpic.com/41xn69

+ JUSTIN BIEBER // @justinbieber -- thinking about getting a haircut....hmmmmmm

+ USHER // @UsherRaymondIV -- a daily dose of swag http://twitpic.com/42encw

+ LADY GAGA // @ladygaga -- Just pulled out of MSG, tears streaming down my face. Turned radio on + Born This Way was roaring. Believe, + catch your subway to destiny.

+ KE$HA // @keshasuxx -- The elderly man on the airplane next to me is wasted.

+ KANYE WEST // @kanyewest -- My new beat protege http://twitpic.com/42rob8

+ TAYLOR SWIFT // @taylorswift13 -- Toured Asia + had my camera with me = I made a video blog. http://tinyurl.com/4z3f9ul

+ THE LONELY ISLAND // @thelonelyisland -- Rejected album cover! #THISALBUMCOVERISOBVIOUSLYAWINNERWHYDOESNTOURLABELGETIT?! http://yfrog.com/h2vz9pbj

+ MAROON 5's ADAM LEVINE // @adamlevine -- Listened to the Adele record. What a lovely album. D--- she can sing...

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Just as you've perfected your Dougie, the guys of The Lonely Island teamed up with Nicki Minaj during this weekend's "Saturday Night Live" to bring us "The Creep" -- a Frankenstein-like dance perfect for your inner weirdo, stalker and...creep. Don't worry, this one's not too difficult. Even Barbara Walters might be able to master it.

The skit showcases Andy Samberg and company dressed in their uncomfortably accurate creep attire -- ill-fitting suits, pencil mustaches, geek glasses and Brylcreem (patting myself on the back for referencing Brylcreem). They "creep" on girls in the club, at the ATM and in the tree outside of their neighbor's window. Nicki Minaj, aka "Point Dexter," shows up trying to get her "creep" on too, but she actually just looks like an adorable nerd.

Well, pretty adorable until the end when she tries to kiss a dead guy -- "When you sneak into a wake and you see a beefcake/Do the creep, do the creep." Gross! But just like she does on every other guest spot, Nicki steals the show. I want some of that mojo.

And maybe we're alone here, but creep or no creep, we still wanna marry The Lonely Island. Like, collectively. And Nicki Minaj, too, but that's obvious.

+ Watch Nicki Minaj do "The Creep" below.

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I know, we're so Saturday night on a Tuesday afternoon, but it took us some time to wrap our brains around the Google-minded genius of The Lonely Island (the guys behind "Saturday Night Live"'s digital shorts) and Akon's latest digital short "I Just Had Sex." Well, let's be real with each other: First we had to come to grips with the fact that our mega-crush Andy Samberg was ACTUALLY saying the word "sex" on TV. We'd simply been subconsciously hearing it come out of his mouth every time he says, you know, anything. Like "the."

THEN we stumbled upon this blog post discussing the SEO (that's search engine optimization, BT dubs) GOLD that is a music video featuring patented hotties Blake Lively and Jessica Alba with the word "sex" in the title. What "Maxim" man HASN'T done a little "research" on the topic?

The video itself is full of subtly hilarious gems that manifest as you watch it multiple times. For starters, a be-tube-socked Blake Lively and Jessica Alba, with a side pony (hilarious in and of itself!) respectively, looking totally disgusted. Andy Samberg emerging from the ladies' room inexplicably, saying, "Oh hey, didn't see you there, guess what I just did? Had sex..." Jorma Taccone making a postcoital phone call to his parents from Jessica Alba's landline. The fact that Andy Samberg felt the need to specify that he did it with his penis. Last, we heart the part when the guys ponder over pedis about why their female counterparts even wanted them to do it (doesn't really make sense?).

And Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer--if you guys ever need some SEO guidance from a seasoned gal of the Interwebs--you know, don't be strangers, OK? Pretty sure we'll all never go back to our "not-having-sex ways of the past."

Watch "I Just Had Sex" (again) and tell us what you think!

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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

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