Walk This Way (album)

Walk This Way
Studio album by The White Tie Affair
Released	April 22, 2008 [1]
Genre	Dance-rock [2] pop neon pop punk
Length	35:19
Label	Sony
Producer	Matt Mahaffey, Jeff Turzo
Singles from Walk This Way
"Candle (Sick and Tired)" "Allow Me to Introduce Myself... Mr. Right" "The Letdown"

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Absolutepunk.net	67% link
AllMusic	[2]
Melodic	[3]

Walk This Way is the debut album released by the White Tie Affair. The album contains the singles "Allow Me to Introduce Myself...Mr. Right" and "Candle (Sick and Tired)". Produced by the collaborative team behind Wired All Wrong (Matt Mahaffey and Jeff Turzo), Walk This Way was recorded at Annetenna Studios in Burbank, California.

Promotion

In February and March, the band went on tour with Secondhand Serenade, Making April and Automatic Loveletter. ^[4] In July and August, the band went on tour alongside Innerpartysystem, Kill Hannah and the Medic Droid. ^[5] In October and November, the band went on tour alongside the Higher, Just Surrender and the Morning Of. ^[6] As well as this they served as the opening act for Lady Gaga's The Fame Ball Tour. ^[7] Between late June and late August, the band performed on the Warped Tour. ^[8] The band performed at various Six Flags locations as part of the mtvU VMA Tour. ^[9] They appeared at The Bamboozle festival in May 2009, and performed on the Warped Tour between June and August 2009. ^{[10] [11]}

Singles

• Candle (Sick and Tired) is the lead single off the album it has peaked at number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100. ^[12] The music video made its debut on No Good TV, an internet TV website. In May 2008, the music video for "Candle (Sick and Tired)" aired on MTV's TRL. The Uncut/Director's Version of the video has reached 400,000 views on YouTube, and was the most watched YouTube video on March 29, 2008.
• Allow Me to Introduce Myself... Mr. Right was also released as a single. It also has its own music video.
• The Letdown is apparently the next single. In May 2009, a Radio Edit of the song was released to the iTunes Store, Amazon, Rhapsody, and other popular online media services as a single download. ^{[13] [14] [15]} It was released to Amazon and Rhapsody on May 12, 2009, however on the iTunes Store it states that it was released on May 26, 2009. It is unknown if a music video for the song will be filmed or released, or if it has been filmed yet. The Letdown has had a considerable amount of praise. When "Walk This Way" was first released to the iTunes Store, "The Letdown" was one of the most popular songs from the album, peaking at number 93 on the iTunes top songs chart. On the popular music site, Last.fm, The Letdown has 46,348+ plays and has 8,165+ listeners, coming in at number 4 for the top songs of The White Tie Affair. It even has more plays and listeners than their most popular song, the second single from the album, Candle (Sick and Tired). ^[16]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Allow Me to Introduce Myself...Mr. Right"	2:59
2.	"The Letdown"	3:39
3.	"Candle (Sick and Tired)"	3:50
4.	"Scene Change"	3:35
5.	"Watching You"	3:23
6.	"The Enemy"	2:50
7.	"Take It Home"	3:20
8.	"Price of Company"	3:42
9.	"If I Fall"	3:36
10.	"The Way Down"	4:25

^[1]

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Distributor
United States	April 22, 2008	CD, digital download	Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Notes

1. "Walk This Way by the White Tie Affair". iTunes . April 22, 2008.
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3. Roth, Kaj (April 30, 2008). "The White Tie Affair - Walk This Way". Melodic. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
4. "AP Exclusive: The making of Secondhand Serenade's new video". Alternative Press. January 28, 2008. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
5. "Innerpartysystem heads out to the UK, then back to the US". Alternative Press. June 14, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
6. "The Higher enter studio for LP3, announce tour dates". Alternative Press. September 11, 2008. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
7. "Universal Music Group".
8. Paul, Aubin (March 26, 2009). "Warped Tour 2009". Punknews.org. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
9. Madison, Tjames (August 10, 2009). "All Time Low gets 'Personal' on fall trek". LiveDaily. Ticketmaster. Archived from the original on March 14, 2010. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
10. Paul, Aubin (March 12, 2009). "Bamboozle adds more bands". Punknews.org. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
11. Paul, Aubin (March 26, 2009). "Warped Tour 2009". Punknews.org. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
13. "The Letdown (Radio Edit) - Single by the White Tie Affair". iTunes . May 12, 2009.
14. "The Letdown". Amazon.
15. "Rhapsody MP3 Music Downloads: The Letdown by the White Tie Affair". Archived from the original on May 29, 2009. Retrieved May 26, 2009.
16. "The Letdown — the White Tie Affair". February 3, 2023.