
It was a huge statement to the entire music community: This is the future. “That video was probably shot for a fraction of what the others were.

“For video of the year, we were up against Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and we won,” Panic! manager Scott Nagelberg told Billboard last year for our oral history of A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out. But the Panic! guys took it in stride and gave an endearing (albeit surprised) acceptance speech, which (of course) included a shout-out their pals Fall Out Boy. Okay, the first funny thing was an angry filmmaker named Sixx interrupting their speech to complain about MTV never giving him a show and shout-out a website that doesn’t exist anymore.

The teenaged newcomers from Las Vegas lost the first three, and probably weren’t too confident about topping Madonna and Christina Aguilera in the night’s final round. 31, 2006. The video for “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” - the biggest hit from A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out - was up for four televised awards: Best Rock Video, Best New Artist, Best Group Video, and Video of the Year.
