Britney Spears showed her roots — literally, Justin Bieber touched his fans — figuratively, Amy Winehouse made faces while riding shotgun and more.

In today’s Star Spotting, we find Ke$ha, taking a break from her opening slot on Rihanna’s Last Girl On Earth tour, to host an event at the Moorea Beach Club at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas.

Mindful of the notoriously conservative crowd who usually attend such Sin City events (heh), or perhaps feeling a bit of the Vegas heat, which reached upwards of 108 degrees this weekend, Ke$ha opted not to don her patented animal headdress to the event. As anyone who has ever sported a headdress in July and in Vegas knows, it can get a little humid under there.

That did not stop her from being photographed with these two gentlemen. Whether the above dudes were Ke$ha’s personal animal headdress assistants, furthering the cause of her burgeoning trend, or simply big-time Ke$ha fans showing their support the best way they know how, we’ll never know.

What we do know is that these dudes deserve our respect, a round of applause and likely a hydrating IV drip. When you sport furry animal headdresses in plus-100 degree weather, you really are going beyond the call of duty.

Watch Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK” video below. Stay cool out there, people.

We The Kings just hit the road for this summer’s Vans Warped Tour, with Motion City Soundtrack, Hey Monday, and Anarbor. And how hard would it rule to see We The Kings play EVERY show of the tour? Well guess what. You can. Kind of. Because MTV is following We The Kings the whole month of July on Posted.mtv.com. We’ll have behind-the-scenes videos, tour blogs, and photos. Basically, we’re inside of their brains. Plus, We The Kings will be answering your fan questions, so leave them in the comments of this post, and We The Kings may answer your most pressing questions. (Note: Please keep it clean. If you want to proposition them, that’s on you, but we’re not getting involved.)

Anyway, stay tuned all month long for exclusive Warped Tour updates from We The Kings, Motion City Soundtrack, Hey Monday, and Anarbor. And check out the latest Kings’ Carriage video, featuring a cameo from Ke$ha!

The boys of 3OH!3 keep it pretty simple in their music. Their songs rock like Def Lep, rap like Run-D.M.C. and have beats even the most “Jersey Shore” phobic among us could beat up. But what about the men behind the music? Well, you’ve come to the right place, it’s the Buzzworthy exclusive Q&A with Boulder’s baddest, 3OH!3.

In this chat, Nathaniel and Sean talk about working with both Katy Perry and Ke$ha and how the two new-pop queens differ. They mention a meeting of the celebratory minds between themselves and Andrew W.K. And they also give some details about the Boulder dance scene and how it shaped them and their music.

Check out the Q&A, as well as 3OH!3’s video for its new single, “My First Kiss,” taken from its new album, Streets Of Gold, which came out today.

+ Ke$ha continues her fascination with random head wear, rocking what we can only hope is a fake, panda-looking fur on the cover of Paper Magazine’s July issue. (JustJared)

+ Charice, the YouTube sensation and mini-Celine Dion, will be joining the cast of Glee. (Idolator)

+ Rumor has it Drake was flirting with the Jersey Shore’s Snooki backstage at the MuchMusic Video Awards. (TheFabLife)

+ Jay-Z and Eminem performed on the roof of the Ed Sullivan theater last night. Their performance will air Friday on The Late Show with David Letterman. (MTV News)

+ Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s unborn child received a blessing at a traditional Zulu ceremony in South Africa. (ThatGrapeJuice)

Hard to believe, but the young blond lady above, rocking a shark mask with a bloody arm hanging out, is none other than Ke$ha. Actually, what am I saying? It’s incredibly easy to believe. It’s Ke$ha! I mean, this girl really likes wearing weird stuff on her head!

I guess this is the “Blah Blah Blah” singer’s way of subverting the image of celebrity? Or maybe she just wants to give paparazzi photographers a hard time by not showing her face? Maybe she just likes wearing weird stuff on her head! Yeah, I’m gonna go with that one.

Never change, Ke$Ha. Never. Change. We now leave you with a double shot of Ke$ha/3Oh!3 collaborations: “My First Kiss” and “Blah Blah Blah.”

3OH!3’s “My First Kiss” made a smashing No. 9 debut on the Hot 100, and now the party-pop duo has unveiled the song’s sensory-overloaded video, complete with a gold lipstick wearing Ke$ha. 

When 3OH!3 and Ke$ha meet in the video for “My First Kiss” (the lead single off of 3OH!3’s upcoming album, Streets of Gold) you get a lot of what you’d expect from this meeting of the minds: a grab bag of imagery on top of a wave of innuendo.

Directed by Isaac Ravishankara, the clip features taxidermy, makeout sessions, 3OH!3 in all their ’80s fashion glory (satin jackets with the sleeves rolled up) and Ke$ha rocking gold lipstick. Bottom line? It’s exuberant as all get out.

Let’s face it: The video had to be mind-boggling to match the energy of the song. Produced by pop wizard Benny Blanco, “My First Kiss” features “We Will Rock You” drums, power chords and gang vocals. If this was playing during my first kiss I’d be way too distracted by the jam in the background to seal the deal.

Check out the premiere of 3OH!3’s “My First Kiss,” featuring Ke$ha, below. Streets of Gold is out June 29.

+ Ke$ha managed to wear a totally subtle outfit to the MTV World Stage VMAJ 2010 Awards. She really is single-handedly trying to make headdresses a “thing.” (Idolator)

+ Taylor Swift will hold a 13-hour meet and greet with her fans. The event will take place in Nashville on June 13, in conjunction with the CMA Awards. Is she going for a record or something?  (LimeLife)

+ Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg have a smash hit on their hands with “California Gurls.” According to Perry, when she first met the Doggfather, she likened him to “the smoke monster from ‘Lost.’ ” Whatever could she mean? (TheFabLife)

+ Miranda Cosgrove is taking a break from promoting her solo album, Sparks Fly, to return to “iCarly.” The Nick show returns June 4 with a special episode called “iPsycho.” (JustJaredJr)

+ Paula Abdul will take home the “Always Next, Forever Now” icon award at the NewNowNext Awards. The show airs June 17 on Logo. Straight up! (NewNowNext)

3OH!3’s music is fun, fratty, virile and vulgar. So it’d be pretty surprising if they spent their time backstage before shows reading The Notebook or Twilight and drinking herbal tea or practicing meditation. Thankfully, that is the exact opposite of what 3OH!3 does backstage.

In this new slice-of-3OH!3-video we have for you here, we get to see how the Colorado band gets down before one of their many shows on the Too Fast For Love tour. Mirth is had, and many a band-member’s coolness is called into question.

As a bonus, we’ve also included a few videos that document the creative three-way love affair between 3OH!3 and their sister in partying, Ke$ha. In the first clip, 30H!3 discuss working with Ke$ha on “Blah Blah Blah” and “My First Kiss,” which will be featured on 3OH!3’s upcoming new album, Streets of Gold. Sweetly, Ke$ha joins in on the backslapping, returning 3OH!3’s love and highlighting their shared love of irony and sarcasm.

Check out the three videos, as well as Ke$ha and 3OH!3’s “Blah Blah Blah” video below.

(Credit: Jun Sato/WireImage, Getty Images)

Ke$ha Kaulitz, is it? Hmm???

Call us crazy, but when the “Tik Tok” singer walked the red carpet at the MTV Japan Music Awards this past weekend with a hair-rasing new ‘do, we were instantly reminded us of the classic look Tokio Hotel singer Bill Kaulitz used to sport.

Ah, the good ol’ days.

Ke$ha, please tell us you’re NOT going to follow this up with braided dreadlocks. We’re still trying to recover from seeing Bill — and NSYNC’s Chris Kirkpatrick — rocking that look.

While you consider the Sonic The Hedgehog look, watch Tokio Hotel’s epic “World Behind My Wall” video — it features our (current) favorite Bill hair.

Ke$ha wielded a creepy doll head, Adam Lambert dressed down, B.O.B. put the deuces up and Jason Derulo looked sharp at the KIIS FM’s 2010 Wango Tango Concert in L.A.

Nashville may be the country music capital of the world, but at a time when its struggling to rebuild from devastating floods, its billing as Music City has never been as fitting.

(Credit: Liza Chrust)

When I saw Keha perform last weekend at The Bamboozle in East Rutherford, New Jersey, my heart was totally beating like a native drum. Her set was bonkers, and I’m still picking the glitter out of my teeth. (Gross but true.)

Unfortunately, Ke$ha’s boozy onstage banter left something to be desired. Come to think of it, my favorite pop “Backstabber” has never really had the firmest grip on the English language. But that’s part of why I love her! Just when you think she’s reached the end of a verbal diarrhea-inspired tirade, she unleashes another nugget of “WTF?”-induced wisdom that manages to both stupefy and amaze. Check out the following gems.

Without further adieu, here are the our top 5 dumbest Ke$ha quotes.

1.) “Like, I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace there’s a possibility of me … being psychic.” (Interview magazine via Idolator)

2.) “I like to scuba dive, and I’ve done it all over the world. I’ve doven … Doven? … Diven? I’ve been diving with whales and sharks and into shipwrecks and into caves. I’m pretty much a pirate.” (MTV Buzzworthy)

3.) “If you come to a live show, it’s a sensory assault. You will leave covered in sweat, beer, glitter, and, just maybe, you’ll get a special edition Ke$ha condom. If it breaks, you have to name your daughter or son after me.” (Billboard)

4.) “If I smear glitter on my face, you don’t have a choice — you will be more attracted to me.” (EW)

5.) “I actually don’t read anything, because I feel like the haters really like to hate out loud, [and] that people who love sometimes love quietly. So I don’t really listen or look at anything. [But] in general, f— the cynics. Go be cynical … I’m having a good time. Like, who would you rather hang out with? That cynical dude or, like, me with my laser beams?” (MTV News)

(Credit: Liza Chrust, Insaneclownposse.com)

Our good buddies over at Idolator have unearthed a new Ke$ha track called “Lost Weekend” — and we’re completely smitten! The song is laced with ’80s-inspired dance beats reminiscent of “Electric Youth”-era Debbie Gibson.

In other words, the song is a total G-rated party jam — minus one or two F-bombs thrown in for good measure. At long last, the “Tik Tok” singer has taken a break from chugging Jack Daniel’s and decided to lay out in the sun and sip a bottle of Bartles & Jaymes — metaphorically speaking, of course.

Oddly enough, at the end of the song, it sounds like Ke$ha keeps repeating the word “Faygo” over and over again. Does this mean what we think it means? Is Ke$ha an undercover Juggalo*?

[Puts hands together and starts to pray.]

To hear the newly found Ke$ha song “Lost Weekend,” head over to Idolator and keep your ears peeled for the not-so-hidden soda reference toward the end of the track. To see the unintentionally hilarious video for Insane Clown Posse’s “Miracles,” watch it here IMMEDES.

* That’s an Insane Clown Posse superfan, for those not familiar with the Dark Carnival.

Travie McCoy has gone from going by the name Travis and making backpacker/punk jams with Gym Class Heroes to going by “Travie” and making tongue-in-cheek pop on his own. “Want U Bad” is the second single from McCoy’s upcoming album Lazarus, his solo debut.

With a stomping, glam rock beat, Travis brings Ke$ha into the fold for an auto-tuned, sing-along chorus (“I love the crazy things you do/Because tonight’s the night for me to play the fool”).

The track (spotted at Idolator) is a raw, lusty anthem. Given the flirtation and boy-girl interplay of the track, we can’t wait to see how Ke$ha and Travie interact in a video. Lord knows he owes his ex, Katy Perry, a case of jealousy after that 3Oh!3 video she did (“Starstrukk“).

+ Listen to Travie McCoy, featuring Ke$ha, “Want U Bad.”

(Lady Gaga Photo Credit: Vanity Fair Italy)

Just because M.I.A. been quiet musically doesn’t mean she ain’t got her opinions. And in a recent interview with the NME she shared some of them; dissing “Twilight,” Ke$ha and Lady Gaga and killing all of our dreams in the process.

According to M.I.A., Gaga pimps the system. The fiercely political, politically active singer may have “sold out” in the past, but according to the “Paper Planes” pilot, it’s always for a good cause. When she gets a fee to play a corporate show (even one for MTV), she claims the proceeds go towards, “building a school in Africa.”

So she’s got no time for what she sees as Gaga’s brazen commercialization of her music, especially in the video for “Telephone.”Are they even interested in making money from music anymore? Lady Gaga plugs 15 things in her new video. Dude, she even plugs a burger.”

M.I.A’s no fan of Gaga’s music either: “None of her music’s reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza music… But she’s a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I f++++++g do!”

On the top of Ke$ha, M.I.A. makes the oft-made assertion that the “Tik Tok” singer has been biting the style of hipster-dance princess Uffie.

M.I.A. saves her last dart for the the “Twilight” franchise, claiming she dodged the bullet of having to contribute to the soundtrack when label boss Jimmy Iovine intervened and spared her from the chore. Who knew contributing to soundtracks was such a tough gig?

Interesting points all around. You can check out the transcript of the chat here. But it’s really nice out and we’d rather ride out to the below video for “Boyz.”

Rihanna will hit the road this summer for her “Last Girl On Earth Tour” and she’s tapped on two of her famous lady friends to join her: Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha.

(Credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

Yesterday, Rihanna finally announced dates for her long-awaited “Last Girl On Earth” tour this summer. [Does running-man in place!] Plus, not only will “Tik Tok” trash queen Ke$ha be opening up the show, but so will Barbie herself, Nicki Minaj.

Details about the tour’s sets and production are still under wraps, but we wouldn’t expect anything less than a total spectacle from the Barbados-born Bettie.

Tickets go on sale April 9 at LiveNation.com. See a full tour itinerary after the jump!

July 2 – Seattle, WA @ White River Amphitheater
July 4 – Vancouver, BC @ General Motors Place
July 6 – Calgary, AB @ Pengrowth Saddeldome
July 9 – Sacramento, CA @ ARCO Arena
July 10 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View
July 14 – Albuquerque, NM @ Hard Rock Casino Albuquerque presents The Pavilion
July 15 – Denver, CO @ Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
July 17 – Las Vegas, NV @ Mandalay Bay Events Center
July 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Staples Center
July 22 – Phoenix, AZ @ Cricket Wireless Pavilion
July 28 – Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena
July 30 – Tampa, FL @ Ford Amphitheatre
July 31 – Miami, FL @ American Airlines Center
August 3 – Indianapolis, IN @ Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis
August 5 – Toronto, ON @ Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
August 7 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
August 8 – Boston, MA @ Comcast Center
August 11 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
August 12 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
August 15 – Wantagh, NY @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
August 18 – Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center
August 20 – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
August 21 – Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium
August 22 – Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
August 25 – Chicago, IL @ United Center

• OutKast’s Big Boi has inked a solo deal with Def Jam so release his long-delayed Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty, the AP reports. Exactly one year ago, the MC told RS Jive Records was holding up the disc, which will feature “electro, funk, blues, some of everything.”
• Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s Doghouse orchestral composition is currently streaming on the BBC’s website.
• Slash, Dave Grohl and Lemmy Kilmister are teaming up to perform Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” at Revolver’s Golden Gods Awards. The show goes down April 8th at Los Angeles’ Club Nokia.
• Ke$ha has apologized to Justin Bieber over Twitter after calling the young star a “baby” earlier in the week. “u r obviouslyso talented andi would never mean to offend u.i think u r rad,” she wrote.