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Push the Button

Released



2005

Songwriter(s)

Dallas Austin

Keisha Buchanan

Mutya Buena

Heidi Range

Producer(s)Dallas AustinSugababes singles chronology"Caught in a Moment"
(2004)"Push the Button"
(2005)"Ugly"
(2005)Music videoSugababes – Push The Button (Official Music Video) on YouTube
The song received positive reviews from critics, who praised its conception and production. Some critics named it one of the best pop singles of the 2000s. "Push the Button" became one of the group's most commercially successful releases. The single peaked at number one in Austria, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and reached the top five across Europe and in Australia. It was nominated for Best British Single at the 2006 Brit Awards.

Matthew Rolston directed the song's music video, which was filmed in Shepherd's Bush, London. It features the Sugababes flirting with three men in a lift. The Sugababes performed the single at festivals and events such as Oxegen 2008 and the V Festival 2008. "Push the Button" appears on the soundtrack to It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006).hints. And he'd be like, that movie sounds great, let me know what it's like if you go see it. I knew he liked me too but he just wasn't getting what I was trying to say."[1] Austin advised Buchanan to tell the man to "push that button" or she would eventually move on.[1] In a video on her songwriting experiences posted onto her YouTube channel in July 2020, Buchanan said that Austin teased her relentlessly about her crush after an outing by rapping and playing the keyboard; she then returned his bantering and the song instantly developed from there. She also said that Austin encouraged her to imagine she was speaking directly to her crush for the spoken word middle-8 section, and she improvised her speech from there.[5]Mutya Buena, another member of the Sugababes, clarified Buchanan's encounter with the artist to Hot Press magazine's Jackie Hayden, saying: "We all knew there was something going on between them at the time, but we try to give each other space."[6] She described "Push the Button" as a song "with meaning and real life references", and characterised it as having a "street vibe".[7] Austin produced the song, which was recorded at DARP Studios in Atlanta & Home Recordings, London.[8] "Push the Button" was mixed by Jeremy Wheatley at TwentyOne Studios, London, in collaboration with Richard Edgeler.[8] Rick Shepphard engineered the song.[8]Composition and lyricsPush the Button" is an uptempo[10] electropop and R&B song.[9][11] AllMusic's K. Ross Hoffman called it an "electropop club ditty",[11] while Joe Muggs of The Daily Telegraph noted that Austin's production combines "raucous" electropop with "slick" American R&B.[9] According to the digital sheet music published by Hal Leonard Corporation, "Push the Button" was composed in the key of A-flat major using common time, with a fast-paced tempo of 126 beats per minute.[12][13] The song's instrumentation is composed of drums, keys, a guitar and a bass guitar.[8]

The production consists of various computer beats and electronic effects.[14] The song contains an ascending bridge incorporated into the chorus,[15] which consists of the lines: "If you're ready for me boy / You'd better push the button and let me know / Before I get the wrong idea and go."[1] Lyrically, the song is about a woman's sexual frustration of being unnoticed by a man.[1] Joe Macare of Stylus Magazine described Buena's delivery of the lyric "my sexy ass" as "carefree", and noted that the lyrics adapt an "idiosyncratic approach" to the English language.[15] Musically, "Push the Button" received comparisons to the sound of pop group ABBA.[14][16]

Release and reception
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"Push the Button" was announced as the lead single from Taller in More Ways in August 2005.[17] Island Records released it as a CD single and digital download on 26 September 2005 with an accompanying B-side titled "Favourite Song",[18][19] composed by the Sugababes, Cameron McVey, and Jony Lipsey.[20] An extended play was released, featuring a DJ Prom remix of the song, and the B-side "Like the Weather",[21] which was written by the Sugababes, Cathy Dennis, and Guy Sigsworth.[22] "Push the Button" is included on the Sugababes' greatest hits album, Overloaded: The Singles Collection.[23]Push the Button" received positive reviews from many critics. Linda McGee from RTÉ.ie commended the song's beat and melody, and named it the album's best track.[24] The song received a similar response from K. Ross Hoffman of AllMusic, who noted it as one of the album's highlights, and praised its simplicity and effectiveness.[11] The Guardian's Alexis Petridis considered the melody as "sweet and addictive as Smarties",[14] while Kitty Empire of the same publication wrote that the track's "surface simplicity masks a hook that won't let go".[25] Writing for Daily Record, reporter John Dingwall regarded the song as "enormously catchy and retro sounding".[26]