Sharam is mostly known for his epic, atmospheric and romantic trance tracks that he makes as one half of the duo Deep Dish. But for his debut solo album, Get Wild, the Iranian-American producer decided to stretch out a bit.

Take "She Came Along," a charming, mid-tempo track, featuring the relaxed rhymes of Kid Cudi, which combines Nancy-Sinatra-esque torch singing with the kind of pastiche-pop production that catapulted Cornershop to celebrity (albeit brief.)

The "She Came Along" video, which Sharam also directed, is a little bit Spaghetti Western meets Blaxploitation, with an Afro-sporting kid version of Cudi rapping while shoot-outs and quick-draws go down all around.

Check out the video below, and pick up Get Wild, which was released back in March and features vocal contributions from Cudi and Chuck D., as well as a more rhythmic appearance from Tommy Lee.

Here we have Pamela Anderson at the 1999 VMAs, and it looks like we caught her during one of her on-again periods with both Tommy Lee and with her breasts. This outfit is bad, even by Pam Anderson standards, if you could call them standards. The top is like some kind of bastard bridal Renaissance Faire creation. And while her outer-galaxies-go-Middle-Eastern pants are beyond odious, perhaps we should just be grateful that she wore pants in the first place. (This is, after all, the same woman who wore a bikini to her wedding.)

And to top it all off, some poor mall Easter Bunny died for that hat. At the very least though, it helps conceal the bustedness that is all that blue eye shadow. (Seriously, not even your grandma gets a free pass out of that one.)

Meanwhile Tommy Lee looks like a cross between a boozy old flasher and a stoned Inspector Gadget. Go go, gadget PUT SOME FREAKING PANTS ON.

Speaking of pants and stuff, see who looked even worse and who looked better (not hard to do) at the VMAs. And if you're not eating, check out photos of the gruesome twosome sucking each other's faces off at the 2007 VMAs. And then, check out the money shot: Tommy Lee and Kid Rock (who's performing at the 2008 VMAs on Sunday, September 7) throwin' 'bows over Pam later that same night. Easy boys! There's plenty enough Pammy to go around!

Plus:
+ Trashbag Tuesday With Ice-T's Wife, Coco!
+ Michael Jackson's Mayhem Monday!

+ L'Oréal dismisses rumors that they've been intentionally, er, "lightening" pictures of spokesperson Beyonce Knowles. Or, as E! Online puts it, "[T]he French cosmetics giant is adamantly denying that it gave its longtime spokeswoman a case of the Michael Jacksons." (E! Online)

+ Meanwhile, Jay-Z discovers new and inventive ways to rehash his beef with Noel Gallagher. A sample lyric from his new (as yet untitled) track: "That bloke from Oasis said I couldn't play guitar / Somebody shoulda told him I'm a f---in' rock star." (MTV)

+ You know environmental activists are getting the job done when Tommy Lee and Ludacris are officially "going green." (Rolling Stone)

+ Courtney Love has just announced her impending retirement from the music industry. Which is weird, cause we thought she'd stopped making "music" sometime back in the late '90s. (Idolator)

+ Taylor Swift is the official voice sponsor of the 2008 Olympics. Okay, not really, but the Choice Breakout Star's new song, "Change," will be featured during the daily highlight reels. (The Boot)

+ Miley Cyrus says she "bawled for a month straight" after breaking up with Nick Jonas. "I was so sad," Cyrus tells Seventeen magazine. "I just went into this weird funk. And I dyed my hair black...I was like, ‘I want to make my hair black now – I don’t want to look pretty; I want to look hard-core.'" (Access Hollywood)

+ Mary J. Blige is being accused of stealing songs ...to the tune of $2 million. (The Boombox)

+ Apparently, Usher still subscribes to the philosophy that mother knows best. The R&B star has fired his interim manager and rehired his mama, Jonnetta Patton. (MTV)

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We're still mired in debt from last year's VMAs in Las Vegas, so this year we're moving the MTV Video Music Awards to the city that was once known as the City of Angels, but is now known as the hometown of The Hills.

The 2008 MTV VMAs are Sunday, September 7, 2008, and they're not happening in a boring, sit-down theater -- that's for the Oscars! -- but they're going down all over the Paramount Pictures studios lot (cue Robert Evans retrospective!), so we're envisioning lots of jump cuts, movie magic, and golf carts.

Also, you're not just gonna be sitting on your ass this year, ogling Rihanna's outfits, willing Britney to wake up and remember she's performing (and by the way, we're not saying Britney is going to be there again this year, but we're also not saying she isn't either), and wishing Chris Brown was a better dancer. You're gonna be helping decide the nominees, music and more.

Oh! And, the VMAs are also turning 25 (that's older than the Jonas Brothers!), which means that we'll be celebrating 25 years of live performances, low-cut dresses, Courtney Love drunk, and unplanned arrests -- 25 is the new 21, y'all!

We'll be bringing you tons more info, exclusive access and bloggage about all the big VMA plans, performers, and more, and we'll show you the glamorous and not-so-pretty side of planning for the VMAs. But for now, we've gotta go work on our spray tan.

+ Check out photos, videos, fashion flashbacks, and more from the 2007 MTV VMAs in Vegas, get behind-the-scenes Buzzworthy highlights from the 2007 VMAs, and watch two of our all-time favorite VMA moments -- Kid Rock and Tommy Lee's spontaneous brawl on the floor of the Palms Casino, and Courtney Love and Madonna's bitter red carpet exchange from 1995.

No disrespecting the amazing, inimitable M.I.A., but in case you're still missing Artist Of The Week ex-officio Alicia Keys, check out Entertainment Weekly's Alicia Keys cover story, which details her emotional and spiritual journey to becoming a "Superwoman" (or as close as anyone's ever gonna get), including the illness and ultimate death of a family member, the support of her long-time boyfriend, and a late-2006 head-clearing trip to Egypt.

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You know how some people honestly cannot help gaining weight, and they're just really prone to it and they seriously just can't help it? Okay, well maybe it's like Alicia Keys just CANNOT HELP getting hotter -- case in point, her new video, "No One," from her upcoming album As I Am, out November 13. And you can't buy that shiz (the hotness, not the album) or get it in a bottle either (and you'd better believe we would if we could.)

It's hard to say which is more amazing: Alicia's voice or Alicia herself. And she certainly didn't need much help in either department, which is why we can't help being completely astounded by her magic powers of hotness-upping.

Oh, and as much as we love curly hair, we've seen it go slightly awry before: Beyonce's two-tone, too-tight curls in her "Work It Out" video; Eve's messy mop; Lauryn Hill's Little Orphan Annie 'do; Christina Aguilera's fright-night Dee Snider situation; Jennifer Lopez usually does it right (except here, of course, though we'll let it slide for the sake of homage), but Alicia just brought curls to a whole new level.

Anyway, enough of our gushing. Go check out her new video, "No One" it's the same song she performed -- along with George Michael's epic anthem "Freedom" -- at the 2007 MTV VMAs, when the infamous Kid Rock-Tommy Lee fight broke out. She sounded amazing then, but the video does the song even more justice. OMG OMG OMG we love her. (Sorry. We're done now.) Watch it.

(Um, did we lie?)

We already knew Kid Rock likes strippers. A lot. But the Kid-centric cover story of the October 18^th issue of Rolling Stone taught us several things we didn't know about the Rock Jeebus.

1.) His brother has one leg, has suffered from various substance addictions and is now becoming a yoga instructor. Awesome.

2.) He and ex-wife Pam Anderson -- whom he notoriously ran into with then-on-again boyfriend/ baby daddy/ ex-husband Tommy Lee at the VMAs last month, (and who just got remarried the other week, certainly not for the last time) -- went to couples' counseling before they split. Of all of the walls on which to be a fly… can you even image what kind of conversations went on in that room? Perhaps they went something like…

Therapist: "So, how did things go this week for the two of you?"

Pam: "Okay. Not bad, not great. I woke Kid up again yesterday around four in the afternoon in a pile of his own Cabo Wabo-soaked barf again. His white faux fur jacket is totally ruined! I'm pissed. And also, I'm thinking of getting more boobs."

Therapist: "Kid, how does that make you feel?"

Kid: "Boobs."

Check out Kid Rock's "colorful" new video, "So Hott." It's his ode to the female anatomy. And check out Tim Kash's video interview with the Rock himself, where he breaks down the entire elbow-throwing incident.

First he gets bitch slapped by Kid Rock and now he's been drop-kicked by Motley Crue?! Man, it's been a rough week for Tommy Lee! While pouring through some legal docs from that lawsuit the Crue filed against their manager (who's still Tommy's manager), our eagle-eyed MTV News staffers spotted a reference to the drummer "resigning from the band." Wha? That's it? There was no big beer brawl blowout like the good ol' days? He didn't sleep with someone's wife? Did he at least knock down Mick Mars and steal Vince Neil's weave? Anything? Just don't tell us that he "resigned" like a normal person! This is rock and roll dammit! Bah! Where's Kid Rock when you really need him...