The music video for "Walk Away" was developed from a treatment Clarkson had written and was directed by
Joseph Kahn. The video was voted 30th 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 an alarm clock waking up at several times and video is shown Clarkson singing her song live. Other people shown are a man showering, a woman at an office, a little girl in her bedroom, twin brothers in the sports hall changing rooms, a
football player, a man cleaning his house with a vacuum cleaner, a hairstylist, a waitress and a cleaning man at a café, a man on the road in the traffic, men in the restroom (one of the men was played by Clarkson's brother, Jason Clarkson) and an officer standing by a car all, lip-syncing. 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 and dancing like
David Lee Roth with her band. At one point, Clarkson stops singing and rolls her eyes while smiling when it’s shown that one of the cameramen is lip-syncing. During the final chorus, glitter falls on Kelly Clarkson and her band. As the song ends, a man from the bathroom stall looks at the other guy dancing, who walks away, only for him to start dancing, with other scenes showing the lady still dancing in the office with the camera showing a confused boss looking at her, the cleaning man being looked at by a disguised waitress, who shakes her head and walks away from him, and the little girl dancing before the camera reveals her older sister watching her. After her performance, Clarkson walks away, knocking her microphone stand down and shows the officer giving the driver a ticket. ==Live performances==