Music Video
The music video for "Walk Away" was developed from a treatment Clarkson had written. She relied on Joseph Kahn to direct it. The video premiered on British music channels on March 6, and on TRL and MuchOnDemand on March 7. Of the fifty days it was eligible for the TRL top ten video countdown, it was at number one nineteen times, including on its last day, June 1. The video was voted thirtieth in VH1's "Top 40 Videos of the Year" for 2006. Kelly wrote the treatment for the video, even writing in a scene for her brother and one of her friends. She shot the video in Los Angeles. Clarkson said of the music video:
"The last two were a bit darker, so I decided to write a happier treatment. I usually tell the story, like with 'Hazel Eyes' and the same with 'Because of You,' but this one we wanted to make a bit more fun. I don't want to give it away, but it's a very funny video."
It opens with alarm clock waking up at serval times and video is shown Clarkson singing "Walk Away" live. Other people are shown: a man showering, a women at an office, twin brothers in the sports hall changing rooms, a football player, a man cleaning his house with a vacuum cleaner (hoover), a lady at a burger bar (café), a man on the road in the traffic, men in the toilets and an officer standing by the car all singing along. During the bridge section, a man gets out the car and dances by the traffic and singing along. Another man sings along in a car, and he eventually gets out of the car to dance, holding up traffic. The video is intercut with shots of Clarkson performing the song with a band.
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