William Beckett - About A Girl (The Academy Is...) acoustic

I booked William Beckett for a house show in Livonia, MI in September of 2012 and never uploaded the videos I took. In honor of The Academy Is reunion, here's About A Girl.
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[@sleepingwithpanicatthedisc7740]

this is actually good quality for a homemade video. great voice William couldn't be any greater or maybe he can...

[@carikintsugi]

Omg I'm from Chile 😭❤️❤️ can't believe he said that

[@isabelia84]

Solo escucho Chile, que dice?? 🥹

[@carikintsugi]

@@isabelia84 dice: ser grande/conocido en Chile es realmente genial, digo, no es "nada". (Se estaba acordando de cuando tocó acá, como que no cachaban que tenían tanto fandom tan lejos)

[@michaelmora9090]

Pocos artistas en el mundo tienen una voz tan privilegiada como la de William y en vivo

[@FranKHatesYou]

Ese tipo es dios, lo he escuchado en shows en vivo y por dios, su voz es increible

[@TaylorPrioloFilms]

YOU CAN BOOK HIM FOR A HOUSE SHOW????

[@Benmon.33]

YES YOU CAN!

[@5sosmemes193]

That was my first exact reaction. I need to know if he still does it.

[@mariateresamadridcardona7652]

Holy shit.

[@kidrobot.]

uh.. you can book almost anyone with money..

[@TheSupart91]

Dam covid id book him in a heartbeat

[@yapyap2373]

I discovered "about a girl" when I was searching for emo punk songs on KZbin back in 2011. Even though I was born in the year 2000, this is the genre of music I will love forever. Now I'm 24 but still listen to emo punk. Here in the Philippines. If someone finds out that you listen to this kind of music, everyone will call you weird. Lol. It's just sad that this kind of genre is now dead

[@andrealara994]

HE SOUNDS FREAKING GREAT!

[@daniloaires-]

From time to time I like to come back here and listen to this version of the song, It brings me back memories.

[@TheSupart91]

Omg his unique trembly voice ❤️❤️❤️🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@grobertroyerramosmarca602]

latinos aqui🇧🇴🇧🇴🇧🇴👌

[@paigelovette8156]

He has a very pretty soothing voice

[@AhsanAli-rd3om]

brings back memories

[@isaacgomez4339]

Mi infancia en una rolita 😢😊

[@samb1232]

"Wooo! Sisky business's part"

[@samb1232]

meme trash jee thanks :-)

[@ladyalfhildrforestofvioletmist]

1:10 Omigosh, so, this was one of the earlier videos I saw when I was first learning about William Beckett/the Academy Is, and the first time I heard that part, I didn't even know who Sisky was! I honestly just thought he said "I'm gonna risky business this part" and I didn't really know what that meant but I knew it was like a movie and I assumed he was referencing the movie somehow. Fast forward, like, a month, and now I've binged all of the TAI TVs in youtube playlists and I just came back to this and went, oh gosh, he's saying Sisky Business's part! How did I miss that? Lol, it's wild looking back and realizing I just straight up didn't know that, and now I can like, tell you the names of Sisky's cats over the years. Anyways, his voice is beautiful here, and this is such a lovely little show :)

[@renmontalvan1665]

I dont understand, care to elaborate? :(

[@ladyalfhildrforestofvioletmist]

@@renmontalvan1665 Oh sure! Okay so William Beckett, the dude who's singing in this video, was the singer of a band called the Academy Is... The band's base player's named Adam T Siska, but as a nickname he'd go by Sisky or sometimes Sisky Business, which was a reference to Risky Business (an old movie). When they preformed this song together as a band, Sisky would do a bit of backup vocals at that spot, like a little "woo!" type thing, but since William's singing this solo here, he's making Sisky's sounds at that part on his own too. Also TAI TV was like this video diary/vlog/sketch series the band did back in the day of fun little videos they made together with everything from fun behind the scenes footage to skits where they pretended to be mafia members. You can still find all the episodes on youtube; it's a fun time, although some of the old videos feel very... high school video project? They're kind of silly but fun. And in some of the episodes you get to meet Sisky's adorable cats, Baby and Little Girl. I also saw from a newer Instagram post of his he now has a little kitty named Mochi. I love all of Sisky's cats very much. Oh, and, bonus fun fact, the band recently announced a reunion! They're going to be playing Riot Fest in Chicago in September, but fans are hopeful there will be a full tour even though nothing beyond Riot Fest is announced yet. So it's a good time to be getting into their music! I lucked out, I started getting obsessed with them like two months before the reunion announcement, so it's a good time for me :) Anyways thanks for letting me ramble about my current interest, I hope this explains whatever you were wondering about but feel free to ask me more :)

[@renmontalvan1665]

@@ladyalfhildrforestofvioletmist Wow thats a very complete explanation!! Thank you very much ^^

[@ladyalfhildrforestofvioletmist]

@@renmontalvan1665 Oh no problem! I wasn't completely sure which part you wanted explained but I was having fun explaining so I just went for it :)

[@JmelBst]

@@ladyalfhildrforestofvioletmist Thank you from me for explaining and the user above for asking. I'll have to go see those vlogs. It IS a great time to be getting into their tunes. I'll be doing recommendations moreso now.

[@gudryansamuel9685]

Bring this times back♥♥♥

[@chudley7821]

he's so cute stop

[@Princess0fAwkward]

i've watched this so many times

[@morganmurphy9876]

HOW THE HELL DID YA BOOK HIM BOI TEACH ME YOUR WAYS

[@Alf_176]

Rolon que recuerdos

[@tiejanamckayla]

YOU CAN BOOK HIM????? WHAT?!!!?!?! I WANNA SEE HIM

[@intagiblemist9676]

love

[@caramason56]

Most excellent 😃❤️🎶😃❤️🎶

[@davidaquino8805]

31/03/2018 and always , the best song !

[@andrealara994]

This never gets old.

[@TheReverendTholomewP]

awww this song

[@hectordariobautista4987]

Buelvan quiero su hermosa musik.. de Colombia un fan..

[@macj3021]

Woahh! I love this song! Thanks for uploading it

[@clarotorresrangel2323]

i loveeeeee

[@araujoizar]

i'm trying trying my best not to cry

[@milagrossthefania3459]

me enamore 😢

[@andrealara994]

Imposible no amar a BECKETT

[@venanciozaragozaIII]

@@andrealara994 imposible no amarte a ti ❤

[@laurarsrio5663]

Él es gay ? Porque yo estoy enamorada de él ❤️🥰

[@Diosesmisalvacion-er3ot]

@@laurarsrio5663 NO es gay. Está casado y tiene 2 hijos actualmente.

[@pvtjoey5371]

still the bestt

[@maxjuarez5019]

sos un genio

[@CriyssBu]

Muy bueno

[@pseitrends1435]

Is he the vocalist of the academy is?

[@alan181090]

Yes

[@goodputin4324]

Was 😂

[@mandana1403]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Villa10.0.0.0]

WOW

[@mattew507]

Alguien habla español?

[@fromero]

yo hablo español

[@ptolemaea111]

yo

[@luisangel8781]

:v

[@bomberzakarias9962]

Yo prro

[@andrealara994]

Yo, seamos amigas :p

[@soul2squeezy439]

anyone knows the chords?

[@majandra9799]

❤❤❤

[@simplykaitastrophie]

I WANNA BOOK HIM WTF

[@99solangel]

2020

[@fernandajaramillo6885]

Hey, would you mind me using your video for an editing experiment? I'd like to show it to you as soon as I'm done

[@inagi5877]

i need the chords

[@FranKHatesYou]

Yes

[@alexanderlaureta270]

From what i know its D E C#m F#m and chorus is A C#m D E

[@venanciozaragozaIII]

@@FranKHatesYou yes what???? Pendejete

[@venanciozaragozaIII]

@@FranKHatesYou quitate la mugre del cuello primero

[@_K_y]

Is he available for parties these days?

[@DCTVStudios]

nice

[@Mayo_Mane]

What does he say at the beginning?

[@MutantRobot602]

What I heard is “being big in Chile is pretty awesome…I mean, it’s not nothing, right?” And if that’s what he says, I agree, that’s pretty awesome

[@mayconsilva451]

SDS:3

[@Jordensband]

:'D

[@maximryzhkov1864]

ah crap i was thinking it was nirvana . nice singing though

[@Rose_M98]

Uh yum?