[4] The group initially started as a quintet, but soon cut down to four members: vocalist Shaant Hacikyan, guitarist/pianist Jeff Czum, drummer Tom Falcone and bassist/guitarist Fred Cimato.

"[3] Shortly after forming in January 2005, Cute Is What We Aim For began releasing demos through Myspace and PureVolume, which helped the band gain initial exposure.

[4] Czum said their success was brought about by Hawthorne Heights' street team: "Literally overnight we got like 10,000 fans on Myspace and started to get attention from labels.

In the spring of 2005, they won PureVolume's online Battle of the Bands competition, earning them a spot at that year's Bamboozle Festival.

During the recording session, they re-wrote a lot of the bass parts as their original bassist Donnie Arthur had left the band with Cimato taking over that position.

[4] Arthur went on to join the New Tragic, alongside members of From First to Last and Maylene and the Sons of Disaster in April 2006,[7] before forming his own band Talking in My Sleep.

[8] On November 29, it was announced that the band had signed to Fueled by Ramen[9] after their founder John Janick listened to their New York City recording sessions in July.

[11] In April, the band joined Punchline, Valencia and New Atlantic on tour, alongside the Audition and appeared at the HFStival.

[20] From February to March, the band embarked on a headlining US tour with support from This Providence and All Time Low.

[21] They later co-headlined the Alternative Press tour with Circa Survive, with support from As Tall as Lions and Envy on the Coast from March to April.

[22] In April 2007, Marin announced he was departing the group due to "some personal issues with another member," leading to Cimato's return.

[38] Between mid-June and mid-August, the band embarked on a headlining US tour with support from Ace Enders and A Million Different People, Danger Radio and Powerspace.

[1] Between late October and mid-December, the band went on a tour of the US with Secondhand Serenade, A Rocket to the Moon, and Automatic Loveletter.

[45] Melillo spoke about what led up to the band's breakup stating, "the story pretty much is we got off Take Action!, and the idea was to write a record.

[53] In November, they embarked on an Australian tour where the band's line-up consisted of Hacikyan, Novak, Mike Brady and Kevin Scoma.

[49] Cute Is What We Aim For appeared on the Punk Goes Pop 3 compilation, released on November 2, 2010, covering the song "Dead and Gone" by T.I.

[57] On August 18, 2012, the band played an hour-long acoustic set with original members Shaant Hacikyan, Fred Cimato, and Jeff Czum.

Cute Is What We Aim For played a comeback show with The Daydream Chronicles and Fictitious Ray on September 21, at Mohawk Place in Buffalo, New York.

[61] On September 2, the band released another new song titled "A Closed Mind With an Open Mouth" and announced a headlining tour for October.

[67] On November 23, the band was announced to perform at the Slam Dunk Festival in the UK for 2017, where they would continue their 10-year anniversary tour.