A few months back, I was having a nightcap in a classy local dive by the name of Edgefield Sports Bar and Grill when a few of my local-filmmaker pals strolled in. They told me they were gathering for an unofficial wrap party, as they'd just completed production on a Harmony Korine-directed Black Keys video. They proceeded to explain the concept to me — "concept" in the Harmony Korine sense of the word, of course, meaning a very loose set of ideas and visuals presented in a free-form and absurdist fashion — which consisted of The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney strapped via faux Baby Bjorns to giant doppelgangers of themselves. The doppelgangers were portrayed by a couple of Belmont basketball players, and the video also featured a pair of outlandish, girlfriend-sharing, skateboarding identical twins who call themselves
the ATL Twins. Word is The ATL Twins will also appear in
Korine's forthcoming feature, Spring Breakers, alongside James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine.
So it was with bated breath that I awaited the Keys video, which was to be for their single "Gold on the Ceiling." And then, in February, the Keys dropped an official video for "Gold on the Ceiling" (see it after the jump) that featured loads of great live footage, but no Baby Bjorns, and certainly no ATL Twins. So what happened to the Korine video? Well, the Keys did an interview with MTV that illuminated things a bit:
