"Hot Mess" is a song recorded by the American pop punk band Cobra Starship.

[2] The song was written by Gabe Saporta, Kara DioGuardi, Philip Lawrence, Peter "Bruno Mars" Hernandez, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Mike Caren, Oliver Goldstein, Ronnie Wood and Kevin Rudolf.

[3] The music video for "Hot Mess" was released on November 9, 2009,[4] via MTV and was directed by Kai Regan.

[5] It shows Saporta driving a walk-in van (with flashing lights, girls and people in sanitation clothing in the back) through New York City, working for an organization called the Cobra Crew.

The video ends with Saporta lying unconscious on the floor of the van, with "Hot Mess" scrawled on his chest in red make-up.