to someone in the middle of [I]ndiana without a little help," she wrote. By the following month, Carlton had separated from A&M Records. Carlton explained the situation in an interview with Express in 2007: Weeks before the announcement, PopMatters magazine wrote, "One has to wonder how long it will be before we hear the inevitable "the industry ate me up" stories from Vanessa Carlton. Perhaps when this record fails to outsell her debut and A&M drops her?" The Herald & Review said that Carlton "[became] another one of the new millennium's poster children for what happens when music labels are taken over by accountants and artist development is abandoned." Track listing Standard edition "White Houses" (Vanessa Carlton, Stephan Jenkins) - 3:45 "Who's to Say" (Carlton, Jenkins) - 4:51 "Annie" (Carlton, Jenkins) - 4:48 "San Francisco" (Carlton) - 4:12 "Afterglow" (Carlton) - 3:56 "Private Radio" (Carlton, Jenkins) - 2:59 "Half a Week Before the Winter" (Carlton) - 3:27 "C'est La Vie" (Carlton) - 2:34 "Papa" (Carlton) - 2:39 "She Floats" (Carlton) - 5:00 "The Wreckage" (Carlton) (Hidden track) - 2:17 Bonus track (Japan) 11. "Where the Streets Have No Name" (Bono, U2) - 5:37 12. "The Wreckage" DVD (Japan) Pleased to Meet You - 24:42 "White Houses" (Dance rehearsal) - 3:34 Duet - 1:24 Extended footage - 8:19 Personnel Vanessa Carlton - vocals, backing vocals (tracks 1–4, 8), piano (tracks 1–7, 9–11), keyboards (tracks 3, 7), Fender Rhodes (track 8), choir (track 10) Stephan Jenkins - backing vocals (tracks 1–4, 8), percussion (tracks 1–2, 5), organ, electric guitar (track 4), programming, keyboards (track 6), drums (tracks 7–8, 10), mixing (tracks 9–10), choir (track 10) Mark "Spike" Stent (Olympic Studio, London) - mixing (tracks 1–2, 6) Arion Salazar - bass guitar (tracks 1–6, 8, 10), electric guitar (tracks 1–2, 6) Lindsey Buckingham - acoustic guitar (track 1) Jesse Tobias - electric guitar (tracks 1, 4–6), additional electric guitar (track 2), guitar (track 3, 10), mandolin (track 5) Abe Laboriel Jr. - drums (tracks 1–6) Ron Fair - string arranger and conductor (tracks 1–2, 4–6, 10) Pharrell - backing vocals (track 2) Louis Conte - percussion (track 2) Dave Way (Waystation Studio, Beverly Hills, California) - mixing (track 4) Lior Goldenberg - mixing assistant (track 4) Tony Fredianelli - electric guitar (track 4) Tom Lord Alge (South Beach Studios, Miami Beach, Florida) - mixing (tracks 5, 7) Fernio Hernandez - mixing assistant (tracks