"Walk Away" is a pop

Pop music

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-dance

Dance music

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 song co-written by Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette

Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

, Leslie Howe

Leslie Howe

Leslie Howe is a musician and record producer born in Ontario, Canada.He has been a member of the bands Mainstream, One to One, Sal's Birdland and Artificial Joy Club, and produced Alanis Morissette's early pop music albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time .In 1986, Howe was nominated for two Juno...

, Louise Reny

Louise Reny

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 and Frank Levin, and produced by Howe for Morissette's debut album Alanis

Alanis (album)

Alanis is the debut album by Alanis Morissette, released only in Canada in April 1991 by MCA Records Canada . Morissette recorded the album with Leslie Howe, who produced her second album Now Is the Time , and it was certified platinum.- Background and recording :John Alexander, head of A&R for MCA...

(1991). Its protagonist sends a warning to her boyfriend who "never think[s] twice before [he] break all the rules", telling him "I'll walk away and say good bye if you don't want me anymore ... if I don't get the love we had before". It was released to radio and television as the album's second single

Single (music)

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 in 1991 (see 1991 in music

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), but it was not given a commercial release. The single's video

Music video

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 features Matt LeBlanc

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 as Morissette's boyfriend who arrives late for a date with her, and it includes scenes in which Morissette dances. The promotional single for the song includes a radio edit

Radio edit

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 only. The song charted at number 35 in Canada.

"Walk Away" was one of the demo recordings Leslie Howe and Morissette created with keyboardist Serge Côté in the studio, after Howe and her entertainment manager Stephan Klovan had decided to try to secure a record contract for her.

Music video

Howe and Klovan funded an expensive promotional video for the song that was filmed in Paris, France; it featured Morissette playing in a fountain near the Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

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. In 1988 Howe sent the video to Alexander, who was impressed by it and subsequently helped secure publishing and record deals for Morissette.

Personnel

• Produced, engineered and mixed by Leslie Howe
  Leslie Howe
  Leslie Howe is a musician and record producer born in Ontario, Canada.He has been a member of the bands Mainstream, One to One, Sal's Birdland and Artificial Joy Club, and produced Alanis Morissette's early pop music albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time .In 1986, Howe was nominated for two Juno...
  
   for Ghetto Records
• Keyboard
  Electronic keyboard
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  s by Serge Côté
• Drum programming, guitar
  Guitar
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   and additional keyboards by Leslie "Bud" Howe
• All vocals by Alanis Morissette
• Recorded at Distortion Studios in Ottawa
  Ottawa
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  , Canada
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