Keyboard Matt

About

#KeyboardMatt is a series of audio-dubbed parodies featuring a video clip of American professional wrestler Matt Hardy playing the piano in a scene from a promotional video for his wrestling tag team, The Hardy Boyz, set to a variety of pop songs for comedic effect in the vein of inappropriate soundtrack remixes.

Origin

On June 1st, 2016, TNA Impact Wrestling uploaded the director’s cut of a promotional video for The Hardy Boyz, a professional wrestling tag team comprised of brothers Jeff and Matt Hardy, to its YouTube channel. Within one week, the video gained over 355,000 views and 2,700 comments. The following day, Redditor Min_thamee posted the video to the video to the /r/SquaredCircle^[1] subreddit.

That day, Twitter user Jessica Hudnall^[2] (@LegKickTKO) posted an edited clip from the piano scene with the song 1989 hip hop song "Just a Friend" by Biz Markie playing in the background (shown below).

what on earth have i done pic.twitter.com/ZCRscmFYwe

— Jessica Hudnall (@LegKickTKO) June 2, 2016

Spread

Over the next 24 hours, Hudnall posted an additional 22 remixes of the piano scene. On June 3rd, Matt Hardy tweeted links to two of the remixes, referring to them as "blasphemy" (shown below).^[7][8] Over the next 72 hours, Hudnall posted over 20 more remixes.

On June 4th, TNA Impact Wrestling released a parody of the contract signing promo video on YouTube (shown below). That day, the video reached the front page of the /r/SquaredCircle^[4] subreddit.

On June 5th, the wrestler Graeme Stevely (a.k.a. Grado) tweeted a remix of the video in which he is shown dancing during a piano cover of the 1989 pop song "Like a Prayer" by Madonna (shown below). Within three days, the tweet received upwards of 300 likes and 145 retweets. Meanwhile, other Twitter users posted additional remixes under the hashtag "#KeyboardMatt,"^[6] including @ChrisManley2013,^[12] @RawDestroyer,^[13] @Elizigan,^[14] @MattyClough2^[15] and @sonic_the_comic.^[5] In the coming days, several news sites posted compilations of the remix videos, including UpRoxx,^[9] WrestleZone^[10] and 411mania.^[11]

#BrotherNero #ItsYersel pic.twitter.com/x25nMOsedS

— GRADO (@gradowrestling) June 5, 2016

Various Examples

Good grief! #KeyboardMatt is at it again pic.twitter.com/Cz4DC866bb

— MT (@risingtied) June 6, 2016

#KeyboardMatt knows that SashaBanksWWE is the legit boss. MATTHARDYBRAND pic.twitter.com/RjqOdJpSjT

— Angle Hero (@AngleHero_TV14) June 5, 2016

Search Interest

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