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The Black Eyed Peas are not strangers to corporate synergy, as their current album The E.N.D. has been attached to both Target and Pepsi. You can add BlackBerry to the list, as frontman Will.i.am was on hand in Australia yesterday to help launch their newest smartphone, the Curve 8520. The rapper/producer is a self-confessed BlackBerry addict, and he says he doesn't like the iPhone because its touchscreen prohibits him from texting.

Will wasn't just on hand for the BlackBerry launch, as his group is moving through Australia on a tour that will keep them down under for another few weeks. All the promotion for The E.N.D. has certainly paid off, as the album's two singles — "Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling" — have spent 26 consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which is more continuous time than any other artist in history.

Will wasn't the only famous person hitting the streets yesterday. New couple Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom sported their new rings in public, while Khloe's sister Kim dropped in on "The Late Show with David Letterman." Click here for these photos plus the entire "Spotted!" archive, which includes candid shots of Madonna, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Shakira, Mariah Carey, the Jonas Brothers and the casts of "Gossip Girl" and "New Moon"!

The end of summer is officially here, which means it's time to tack an extra day onto this weekend. But fret not, as the MTV Newsroom blog will be back on Tuesday to start counting down to the Video Music Awards as well as the release of "The Beatles: Rock Band." Until then, hit up a barbecue, crack open a cold beverage and let the summer wind blow through your hair one final time in 2009. In between rounds of volleyball in the pool, gorge yourself on the highlights from this week's dispatches.

» Michael Jackson was finally laid to rest, but not before a birthday party in Brooklyn that celebrated what would have been his 51st birthday.

» Whitney Houston paid a visit to "Good Morning America" and turned in a performance that can only be described as ... complicated.

» DJ AM was memorialized in Los Angeles this week. Many of his friends came forward to mourn, including the Black Eyed Peas.

» Paramore's Hayley Williams suggested that if you're headed back to school, you should really pick up some vests designed by Miley Cyrus.

» Speaking of Cyrus, she really does have an amazing Twitter.

» In VMA news, it was announced this week that the cast of "New Moon" will be there to present an extended version of the trailer to their upcoming movie. In order to prepare, you should watch a Backstreet Boy turn into a werewolf.

» This week's big lesson: The only reason to have 19 children is if you're developing a Polyphonic Spree tribute act.

» Jay-Z certainly made the rounds, hitting up a Grizzly Bear concert with wife Beyoncé, stopping to give details on his September 11 concert to MTV News correspondent Tim Kash and taking a spin through all of his old album covers.

» Madonna released the new video for "Celebration" this week, which inspired us to dig into the archives and unearth this crazy piece of tape featuring Jim Cantiello as a safari guide.

» TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe told us the band is taking a break for a year to work on other stuff.

» Beyoncé celebrated her 20th birthday. Did you remember to sign the card?

» We laughed when Missy Elliott got hit in the head with an umbrella in at 2006's version of the show, but what are your favorite "WTF?" VMA moments?

» Finally, the NFL season kicks off next Thursday, which gives the Miami Dolphins plenty of time to sign Willy Zoom (also known as Will.I.Am).

The start of the NFL season is just around the corner (MTV News just had its fantasy football draft last night), but there are still a handful of people not named Brett Favre who want to get in on this season's action. Take Will.I.Am, the Black Eyed Peas leader who wrote a blog post and created a video appealing to Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross to grant him a tryout with the team. In the post, Will talks about looking up to his uncle Lynn Cain, who played pro ball for the Atlanta Falcons and the Los Angeles Rams in the '80s. "You might ask, 'Why the Miami Dolphins? You're from L.A.," Will wrote on his blog. He explains that L.A. doesn't have a team and that he's been a dolphin all his life. "When I was in the tenth grade, I played football for the Palisades Dolphins," he said. "I was a tailback. My name was Willy Zoom, because I'm fast. Ask Reggie Bush."

In the blog, Will also claims to have beaten former NFL running back Jamal Anderson in a foot race and said he would like to go stride-for-stride with Olympic champion Usain Bolt. He insists that his desire to play football is genuine, and at the end of the video he makes a direct plea to the Dolphins owner for an opportunity. "So Mr. Ross, I'm just asking you: Let me try out. Punt returner. I ain't playing. This ain't no joke. What's the worse that's gonna happen? I don't make the team, or I smoke your defense?" Even if he doesn't get a tryout, he'll still get to be a part of the NFL, as the Black Eyed Peas are performing prior to the season's first official game next Thursday, September 10.

So, after having a full 12 hours to digest last night's Bob Dylan/Will.I.Am Pepsi commercial, I have come to this conclusion: It certainly could have been worse.

Which also means that it's probably the best thing Will.I.Am has ever done. But let's not let my feelings for the man cloud the issue: For all the hype, the Pepsi commercial — dubbed "The Refresh Anthem" — was not nearly as terrible as I expected it to be. It took Dylan's "Forever Young" (from his '74 album Planet Waves) and, uh, "mashed" it into a duet with Will (or, more specifically, he raps a verse), and the end result was a surprisingly satisfactory hip-pop tune, not — as I had feared — a pornographically harrowing violation of a treasured artist's legacy, as is usually the case with these sort of things.

Still, while I am (relatively) at peace with the song, there's one thing about the spot that still bugs me: the sentiment. Are we asked to believe, just because they trade verses — and a pair of Ray-Bans — that Will is this generation's Dylan? That he is the voice of our times, a rambling, shambling wordsmith who battled injustice and unrest with his songs? If that's the case, then is "Let's Get it Started" the answer to "Blowin' in the Wind?" Read more...

FROM MTVNEWS.COM: Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.I.Am celebrated Barack Obama’s victory in the studio, recording his third ode to the now-president-elect.
Will stopped by "Oprah" Friday to debut the new celeb-filled video for the track. He'll also be posting the clip to the site Dipdive. The video flashes pictures of Obama on election night and crowds celebrating the Illinois senator's victory, alongside images of historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Tubman.

And it wouldn't be a Will.I.Am video without some celebrity appearances. This time around, he's rounded up his bandmate Fergie, as well as actors Olivia Wilde, Jonathan Schaech and Kerry Washington.

See the full "It's A New Day" video at MTVNews.com...

· Will.I.Am refuses to take part in the human-rights boycott of China, saying the Black Eyed Peas have no problem playing there.

· OMG, maybe Heidi and Lauren from “The Hills” do have something in common after all! They both love John McCain.

· Talent from “The Simpsons” and “Arrested Development” are creating a new animated show -- and you know it’s got a good chance of being amazing.

· Behold the Jimi Hendrix sex tape -- um, alleged, of course.

· No one is saying you shouldn’t go see Jay Reatard live, but it might not be a bad idea to wear a helmet and shoulder pads.

· Keith Richards has 3,000 guitars and has played only ten of them. Insert joke about other things he has in large quantities.

· What producer wears a 12-inch top hat and parties with 45 bottles of premium champagne?

· If you live in Pennsylvania, Michael Moore wants you to vote for Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton, not so much.

· Will.i.am. has just posted his promised second Barack Obama tribute clip, with cameos from Jessica Alba, Ryan Phillippe, George Lopez, Zoe Kravitz, John Leguizamo and Theo Huxtable!

· Finally, the “American Idol” finalists can stop massacring songs from the '60s and '70s and move on to something important, like off-pitch, drunken cabaret versions of songs from the Lennon-McCartney portfolio.

· Just weeks before being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Dave Clark Five singer Mike Smith died on Thursday.

· He’s got no label and no new record coming out, but Ruben Studdard has Kenny Loggins [ Hollywood Reporter]

· Here’s the thing. Shia LaBeouf feels like a real “nincompoop” about that whole getting arrested and refusing to leave a drugstore thing in Chicago a few months back. Nincompoop? Was he arrested in 1956?

· New mom Nicole Richie has been offered the role of Roxie Hart in the Broadway production of "Chicago," Us Weekly reports. Ashlee Simpson played the same role when she starred in a London production of the long-running musical last year.