Want further proof that change is sweeping the nation? Look no further than MTV's trailer for the new Real World, Real World: Brooklyn. Rather than advertising the show as a relentless, vodka-infused fuck party, as it has for years now, the station is attempting to sell the upcoming season as one of introspection and growth. ("What are you hiding?" asks the clip.)

Let's get real: Real World: Brooklyn is going to be nothing more than an excruciating, vodka-infused fuck party – this time with stressed out war vets handling knives!!!!!! – but it is interesting that MTV is suddenly trying to pretend there's still some meaning to its anemic pet project.

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SHIRT HAPPENS The ultimate awful t-shirt, on a Polish youth just minutes ago in Brookyln's Greenpoint neighborhood: "Most Likely to Wear a Stupid T-Shirt." Meta! Horrible, but meta!

• Christina Aguilera's new perfume ad inspires us to vomit. [Yeeeah]

• As of right now Amy Winehouse is back in rehab. Not sure how long that's going to last, but the facility is right next to Blake Incarcerated, which sounds like a bad idea. [INO]

• When Ellen DeGeneres blogs, we listen. [PS]

• Jon Voight has some harsh words for Roseanne. [DListed]

• Heidi Montag is now claiming she's a virgin. Uh, did she forget all those interviews she gave talking about having sex with Spencer — and the infamous Season 2 pregnancy test? [ICYDK]

• The Real World: Brooklyn reportedly sucks, and it hasn't even finished filming yet. We could have told you that. [CityRag]

So, new reports say that Real World: Brooklyn may not be all skinny jeans and hip hangs in Williamsburg like the whole world expected. According to an article in today's New York Times, the show's producers are looking further south, to downtown Brooklyn, for the new home of seven strangers picked to have their lives taped. Turns out even the locals think that might be a bad idea:

Danny Perez, 37, works at Gallery Religious Supplies, which sells, besides the anti-jinx soap, candles and bath salts that claim to attract money or love and dispel evil. He knows the neighborhood as well as anyone … 'They'd be jeopardizing their safety,' he said of the cast members. 'Too many side streets.'

And will the cameras irritate the natives? Only some of them, says one barbershop owner: "It will annoy people that are wanted …"

As a fairly new Brooklyn resident myself, the best piece of advice I can give the new cast members, whoever they may be, is what was screamed at me by three teenage boys on my second week here: "Don't get blam blammed, you fucking bitch!"

Some horrible, but completely expected news from the Roommate Newswire: "i heard on npr this morning that the choices for real world bklyn are ft. greene and williamsburg."

… this morning MTV announced it has greenlit the 21st season of The Real World. It will be filmed in Brooklyn, the reigning home turf of post-teen drama, and broadcast in 13 one-hour episodes in early 2009. No word yet regarding in which neighborhood the attention-seeking hopefuls will reside …

Please, please, please, please, please let it be Brownsville. It could be the first accurate use of the titular "Real" in the show's history.