The Academy Is...: The Phrase That Pays [OFFICIAL VIDEO] 

Who’s still listening to this in 2024?

I’ve been obsessed with the academy is… recently, and I quite literally cannot stop listening… William Beckett is just so… 😫

I am still just as obsessed with this as I was back in 2006 when I first heard it. *sighs*

yeah i know! i loved those bands! paramore, the academy is, kill hannah, fall out boy, panic at the disco, hawthorne heights, reliant k, cartel, evan yellow card, and yes cute is what we aim for! your so right! that was my band lol. i miss those days in deed. rock on people. xoxoxo

cries because i just got into them

Bought this album the day it came out... I noticed what year it came out and now I feel even older. 2020 Covid quarantine has me listening to my scene girl playlist.

Anyone still listening in 2019???

Will Beckett was my fashion icon when I was in high school. I thought he was the coolest since Adam Lazzara ❤

Ahh yes, 2005-2007...the era of William Beckett's Capital-V-neck shirts. I miss those days.

The deepest V's of all time...

does anyone else just want to play with his hair of is that just me

It's Almost 2020 and I'm STILL Listening To This Music!

WHY DID I NEVER NOTICE THAT WAS BRITTANY SNOW? I feel like my life is a lie

Jesus, listening to this for the first time since I was 14 and I am going to turn 27 at the end of 2020. I freaking remember still all of these lyrics. Such an underrated band

❌‼️ « ﴾ ❤︎ ᘛ❣︎ ꙳ᘖ𝟶ᘖᘖ꙳ ❣︎ᘗ ❤︎ ﴿ » ‼️❌ Ayyyyyyy Brittany Snow ❄️💙 She was theee cutest in this! For real though. I’m getting fkn O L D. It occurred to me I discovered this song my junior year of high school, back when MySpace, Xanga, Stickam, AIM/AOL Instant Messenger, Tumblr, learning to code, Fuse TV, Warped Tour, Nike Dunks, Classic Era Vans, Dickies, ‘coontail hair extensions (in a fkn PLETHORA of different colors, obviously), the birth of skinny jeans, septum piercings, Sidekick Slide/Sidekick LX late-night texting, show after show after show, screamo, Tila Tequila, “Fer Sure” by The Medic Droid, “Let’s get some shoes”, “Gimme a chicken sammich & some waffle fries…. FO’ F R E E!!!”, hair teased to the skies on babes & sceneboi flip hair on dudes, MySpace as a whole: MySpace aNgLeS • MySpace whore trains • learning how to code for ya layout • Top 8s • MySpace aesthetic • 🔥 songs playing whenever you popped onto someone’s page • Being mortifyingly ~eDgE~/super duper fkn cool by memorizing your URL Profile ID number (and then watermarking all ya pics with it, Photobucket, LimeWire, Illegal downloads in general, the birth of FaceBook (and how different it was at the time!), First being ~tEaM kRiStEn~ or ~TeAm Lc~ when Laguna Beach became alllll the fkn rage/then being Team Adam (Taking Back Sunday) or Team Jesse (Brand New) in their forever long dispute, MOSHIIING bruh, uwu (wack lol), RuneScape, Delia’s, PhotoShop/being a PRO at Photography (again, referencing MySpAcE aNgLeS yeooo), etc etc etc……. Alas, I digress. I could for real go on for a hundred million years with this entire list that’s 100% outdated now tbh 😭 ❥ Tl;dr ➾ Fast forward 15 years. Now I’m thirty•f*cking•O N E (🤢🤮), feeling about a hundred and eight, going to bed early & getting fkn A N G E R Y if anyone tries to fk with my old ppl routine 🥴🤬😤 Where tf did the time go!?!?! Take me back to when it was this simple… 🤍 And for alllll y’all who knew every single solitary iota of what I was referring to above: I know it feels like a lifetime ago, and for some of us, it was. And I know how scary and depressing that can be, for real - I fell into a crippling, brutally debilitating heroin/fentanyl addiction that lasted 12 years immediately after I found this song. I just celebrated 3 years clean, somehow. How? I dunno. Hard work? Maybe. Support? Possibly. Having “Hold Your Head High, Heart Hearts” forever ingrained in my psyche? Most DEFINITELY. 💕💕💕

I don't know if anyone noticed this or not, but is William only wearing socks throughout the whole video?

"Whatever you think you know, you don't, but you do." 1:41

Shout out to the Gabe Saporta cameo at 2:44

Ohh William. You wear less clothing than Pete Wentz while not taking off your shirt.

When I was young I read a lot of fanfics of Gabe (Cobra Starship) and William

Wow. I didn't know Brittany Snow was in this.

william becket reminds me of ryan ross.. they're like brothers ☺️

2006 :,T I miss you.

Whoa almost 9 years.. all the feels this song brings back..

Aw man, I remember seeing this band live in 2008 when they opened for Panic! It makes me sad to think they're not together, they blew my little 13 year old mind

God William Beckett was so gorgeous back then!!

This guy ( the singer ) played the lead vampire in the video for "A Little less sixteen candles" by Fall Out Boy right?

William has such a feminine figure and I love it. He has a bit of a dad bod now, but y'know that makes sense. I'm so sad they split apart and I'm so sad I'm only just getting into them

Yet another split apart band. I can't handle it anymore.

my video production teacher played a song by them and I had to search them up thank god for teachers with good music taste

Emo and punk music used to be the shit during the early 2000's and now, people depend on Chris Brown, Pitbull and Miley Cyrus for great music. It's really pathetic...

now they are playing riot fest this year and doning almost here in full im going to cry

My first concert when I was 17 in 2007. Fallout boy, the academy is. Cobra starship, +44 and some rapper I can't remember Lol. Never will I ever forget!

Watching in 2015! XD

The energy radiating from William Beckett gives me mega Adam Lazzara vibes... Friggin' love it. Love both those bands!

I loved this band growing up and I am so stoked I will be seeing then on tour with Fall Out Boy this summer! ❤

Getting into bands late is a hobby of mine.

hold your head high heavy heart

Music was great until 2010. Even pop and rap music around the early to mid 2000s and before was so lovely! Listening to this song makes me want to cry. It makes me feel so nostalgic and I really miss my childhood now, when everything was so much easier and fun-filled. Life is so complicated and hard now. The only good music after 2010 is a few pop acts and some pop punk rock acts and a lot of indie rock, but mostly heavier stuff, as in hard rock, post-hardcore, and quite a bit of metal or as many like to call anything that has some form of screaming or growls, "screamo" music in my opinion. There are some nice pop songs still coming out, and some great rap songs, but right now, I'll stick to heavier stuff. But I will NEVER forget bands/artists and songs like these that were truly wonderful, as well as older acts such as Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Enya, Sting, the Eurythmics, Corey Hart, Natalie Imbruglia, Coolio, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Judas Priest, Motley Crüe, and so many great bands and artists spanning many different genres. They moulded and shaped my life. They are some of my fondest memories. It's just so depressing that life sucks so much now and there isn't as good music anymore.

2003~2007 was a time of great music: ( the good bands have all disappeared and now we're left with miley, gaga and crap...

Petition for TAI to make a comeback in 2020

I never knew Brittany Snow was in the music video for this.

Man, this is the song that did it for me. Such a great band with really great guys, my heart explodes in agony... forever TAI.

does he ever wear shirts that are long enough every time he lifts his arm you see half his stomach

Hold your head high, heavy heart

Wow... When I was a young teenager listening to this, I never imagined I'd have multiple chronic illnesses that truly debilitate my life, physical and neurological. This has me pretty emotional, but in a good way. I'll keep holding my head high. Thanks many years later, TAI

Anybody else feel like his voice doesn't fit his face? it looks like it should come out of someone else...

Certified Hood Classic 💯🔥😤

In 2006, we were able to confirm the age old question: Can white girls dance? The answer: No, no they cannot.

was that Brittany snow at the beginning??

1:04 What's that? Could you sing a little louder? I don't think the mic's even plugged in.

14 years later and I still love them!!!

Nah who still listening in 2020

Anyone here older than like 20 and actually remembers this band/ album? Or how MTV2 used to play this non stop on rotation? Never got sick of it somehow, even though the song/video played about 3x a day for a good 2 years.

THE NURSE IS BRITTANY SNOW

the lead singer kinda reminds me of adam lazzara from taking back sunday

GUYS. HE SAYS "YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING, BUT I DO." THAT'S WHAT HE WHISPERS.

My love for this fucking song never ever goes away.

I'm gay for William Beckett

why none of these videos are not in high quality ?

im pretty sure at the end it implied that it was an assisted suicide or murder on the nurse's part

Saw them on their Reunion tour, I really hope they go on tour for their Santi album like they did for Almost here. that would be amazing.

huge taking back sunday influnce

I was 18 when this video came out. I saw William perform last year and oh how I wish he sang some of the academy is.. songs.

William's V neck is lower than my self esteem :)

So grateful I got to see these guys and meet them back in 2010. Still one of my favorite bands to this day!

AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNOWS THAT GABE SAPORTA WAS IN THIS

I just noticed that Brittany Snow is in this. 9 years later... wow.

2 in the morning and I'm down the 2005-2009 of pop punk rabbit hole 😂😂 I miss this time

Still here in 2020. Fuck yeah

Love this song! Have it on replay

And we can all simultaneously live in 2007 it's fine

It's 2021 and I'm still jamming to this

Gabe Saporta jumpscared me

Geez such luxurious hair... O_o I want to pet it. Is it too much to say that he is just heart-breakingly beautiful?

Hard to believe this is 8 years ago, miss the days

imagine if COLABS where as big as they are now in the 90-early 2000's .............. there'd be so much music that'd NEVER be able to be compared to. more than there already is

Seeing this live made my little teenage heart explode ❤️

I had this video downloaded on my first gen ipod video and would watch it on the way to school on the bus when I was 14

I'm 2006 so yeah I'm surprise,i Find this band year 2022 and i already inlove to their songs😩💗

fast forward a couple of years later and I still can't figure out what William whispered to the nurse. so happy theyre back btw! :D. but does anyone know what he whispers to her?

Brittany Snow is so gorgeous

2023 and I'd still pay anything to see them live

Oh the early stages of the wave of neon pop Punk 2004-2007 where my favorite time frame

Yup 2020 and I’m now 30 years old. I most likely commented on this very video like 12 years ago. Woah.

William becket is so beautiful ;-;

this brings back memories, love this song.

when i look at William i don't know whether i want to be him or with him

Literally please come back.

THIS VOICE. I think this is still one of my favorite TAI songs. I miss them :( Thank goodness William Beckett is doing solo stuff!

about 2 years ago I first discovered them and immediatly fell in love. I couldn't stop listening to their music and wanted to see them live as soon as possible. You should've seen my face when I found out that they split up... 15 year old me was DEVASTATED :( and I couldn't even go to one of their reunion concerts because suprise sadly I don't live in the US ugh (I'm still sad)

he's so perfectly thin

2020 anyone?

i love this song and i am gonna be 11 is that weird?

2018 and still so fucking good!

I can't with that scarf lmaoo

How is this song not more famous

I forgot all about this band and I'm disappointed in myself for it lol. I all of a sudden remembered and I regret the last 10 years where I neglected their music.. the early 2000s were the best for music.

This is on my Coronavirus playlist

god he is beautiful