“We've Got a Big Mess (Live)” by The Academy Is...

"We've Got a Big Mess on Our Hands" was the first single from Santi, The Academy Is...'s 2007 album on Fueled by Ramen, and it hit radio that March; this is a live take on the song. Alan Ferguson's video pits William Beckett against a nastier, more violent double of himself, who storms out of Beckett's apartment and leaves havoc in his wake. The real Beckett gives chase, charges onstage mid-show and pummels the impostor, and then the crowd and the band vanish, leaving him alone, as if he'd dreamed or hallucinated the whole thing.

The clip even crosses over with Fall Out Boy's "Thnks fr th Mmrs", with Beckett on the phone to Pete Wentz while one of that video's chimps does Wentz's makeup. The song also got brief spots on The CW's Aliens in America and on Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County.

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