Many songs on the album were originally from their EP, The Virgins '07.

"Private Affair" was chosen as the first single for the album.

The song "Hey Hey Girl" was used in the trailer for the movie Miss March, while the song "Rich Girls" was used in the movie 17 Again, in the trailer for She's Out of My League, an episode of Castle (Ghosts) and in a Rugby Ralph Lauren fall 2010 promotional lifestyle film.

The songs "One Week of Danger", "Rich Girls", "Fernando Pando", "Radio Christiane", and "Love is Colder Than Death" were also used in the TV show Gossip Girl in the episode "Seventeen Candles".

The song "Hey Hey Girl" also appears in The Vampire Diaries in season one episode eighteen.