There are several things that are awesome about Cobra Starship’s new “Guilty Pleasure” video (above), and Patrick Stump’s cameo is most of them. Don’t get us wrong, we’re suckers for Rollerblades, Zubaz, and DeLoreans, but it’s P’s turn as Cobra’s manager — “Rob McFlynn” — which steals the show (and not just because he appears sans hat, for probably the first time ever).

No, we love it because he’s doing a dead-on impression of Fall Out Boy (and Cobra Starship’s) real-life manager, the burly and barrel-chested Bob McLynn. Stump’s no stranger to acting (earlier this year he logged a “Law & Order” cameo), but his McLynn impression is so great — check the bellowing baritone and the wild gesturing — that we have a newfound respect for the frontman. He’s like our very own Rich Little or something.

Anyway, we’re also fired up about the impression because back in March, when we were down in Chile with Fall Out Boy on the whole Antarctica debacle, we witnessed Stump working on his McLynn impression first hand. And we’ve got the video to prove it.

For a rare look inside the mind of a Method actor, watch the clip after the jump. Read more…

OMG, have you heard the new NKOTB song online?? You know the Blockheads are so totes freaking about it! Also, they’re going to sing the song live on the “Today” show in their first performance in 15 years — stop it, you’re killing us!

We bet that’s the song Joey, Mark Wahlberg’s brother, Whoever, and Whoever are getting ready to shoot a new music video for! Hurry up — submissions are due tomorrow, and the audition’s this Wednesday! (Enough exclamation points, people?)

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This in from MTV News producer — and gold-medal video-set visitor — Yasmine Richard. Girl hit the LA shoot for The Game and Keyshia Cole’s collaboration, “Pain”:

Last Friday, when we saw “The Hood” as the location for The Game and Keyshia Cole’s new collabo “Pain,” we weren’t sure to expect. But we were pleasantly surprised to see Keyshia and The Game and about 800 of Game’s closest friends making themselves at home on a really laidback set.

The set-up was pretty simple: The Game rolls up and hops in Keyshia’s black ‘64 rag-top Chevy Impala. But it turns out that was easier said than done, because the first time Key Key put her foot on the gas, we heard a loud crash and saw something fall off from the back of the car. Smooth move, Keyshia!

Check back with MTV News for more on The Game and Keyshia Cole.

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MTV News producer Elena Torres reports on her experience getting roped into MGMT’s “Electric Feels” video in New York:

The last thing I expected two months ago, while I was blasting MGMT in my car with my two best friends, was that we’d spend this weekend in full costume and makeup on the set of their new video.

That day in LA traffic, my friends Abby and Rafael confessed that they had starred in an amateur version of MGMT’s “Kids” video. Being two film-production students, they are strictly behind-the-camera people, not actors, and were pretty embarrassed about the whole thing. They explained how John Salmon, a fellow student from their music video class needed two people to be in his final project at the last minute, and how they reluctantly agreed under the condition that they could wear full makeup and not be recognized.

John later posted the video online, behind their backs, and his final project became an Internet sensation, now with nearly 275,000 hits. Somewhere in that mix, the director of MGMT’s next video saw Abby and Rafael and gave them a call asking them to be in the official thing.

Which brings me to this weekend. I couldn’t pass up this opportunity and decided to be a groupie and fly out to New York to check out the shoot. (Snapshots and more, after the jump.) Read more…