PB&J At The VMAs

According to pitchforkmedia, Peter Bjorn & John will be ditching their gigs at Montreal's Osheaga Festival and Toronto's V Festival to attend the MTV Video Music Awards on September 9th. The Swedish trio are nominated for the 'Best New Artist', along with the likes of Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse. They promise to make up to their Canuck fans, stating that 'this is an exciting opportunity' for them.

I'm so proud that my favorite Swede band is nominated and in an award show that usually caters bad music to soulless teenyboppers and D-quality musicians who know very little about true music, and acknowledged by an empire that rarely plays music videos, and instead airs low-rated realty shows. At least one person on the MTV team wasn't smoking crack. I really do hope they win, for their own sake.

But I cannot help but wonder...are they selling out? I mean, it's MTV for Christ's sake, perhaps they are merely trying to attract a new and different crowd? In a musical vortex filled with Fall Out Boys and Panic! At The Discos, would PB&J actually be loved as a great band, or just liked because it's considered 'cool' to like 'indie'? Hell, PB&J are probably not considered indie anymore, much to pitchfork's dismay. I just hope that the guys come back to their original musical roots, and don't attract the wrong attention like Wino.

Anyways, good luck Peter Bjorn and John! Hope you guys win it.

Until then, here's a PB&J song I just can't get out of my head:



(By the way, I find the album version better. Meh. It's still PB&J, damnit! It's all good.)