The Black Keys received their “Breakthrough Video” MTV Video Music Award Friday for their song “Tighten Up” and were surprised to find the statuette’s label credited “The Black Eyed Peas” instead of the Black Keys!
Oh snap!
The band posted the above photo on their Facebook account with the caption, “We are super proud of fergie!!!” (Click photo to enlarge)
Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney reveals to Rolling Stone that this isn’t the first time MTV has confused the two bands telling the magazine,
“In 2003 they played our video for ‘Set you Free’ on TRL labeled as the Black Eyed Peas. It’s fitting for us that when we win our first award it’s mislabeled. Hopefully we win their Grammy as well one day! We actually don’t give a sh!t about this, though. It’s funny.”
Here’s the “Tighten Up” video that won the VMA performed by the Black Keys, who apparently did not:
So what in the world is MTV thinking?!? Why can’t they distinguish between the Black Keys and the Black-Eyed Peas? Starcasm put its empathologists to work on trying to understand why the networks continues to confuse the two bands and they came up with this startling graphic that seems to explain it perfectly.
Here is what a piano keyboard looks like to employees of MTV:
