Seriously, is anyone else amazed by how quickly Panic! At The Disco has taken the music industry by storm.  Barely a year ago, they were a bunch of no-name kids from Vegas.  Nine months ago, no one but the Purevolume kids had heard their name.  A month later, there were rumblings.  The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage started gaining some attention.



But then...then I Write Sins Not Tragedies came out and took the world by force.  By April, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out reached gold status.  By July, it went platinum.  And just last night at MTV's Video Music Awards, the band was nominated for five awards and went home with the biggest award of the night, Video Of The Year.



Whether you're a fan of them or not, it's hard to imagine a band rising so quickly.  I mean, a band that didn't even get the award for New Artist Of The Year (Avenged Sevenfold...really?  So many better choices than them...) managed to outclass some of the most popular acts that have been out there for years.  It truly is impressive.



Granted, it is MTV.  Most people have lost respect for their ability to represent good music, and rightfully so.  MTV cordones off the music to MTV2, MTVU, and any other sub-MTV station they can find, settling for a bunch of Real World and Road Rules ripoffs on the main station that have little or nothing to do with music.  And even the sub-stations that do play music play the same thing over and over!  I kid you not, twice in half an hour this morning I saw two of the same videos (Evanescence's Call Me When You're Sober and The Killers' When You Were Young) being played, about a minute apart, on MTV and MTV2!  Don't get me wrong...I enjoy both songs, but they really could use some variety in their playlists.



All of that being said, however, for a band that has been selling discs for less than a year to win Video Of The Year on their first try with their first video...honestly, how much quicker can one star rise?