

Inhoud 1 Het nummer 2 Videoclip 3 Tracklisting 4 In de hitlijsten Het nummer Push the Button is een uptemponummer, geproduceerd door Dallas Austin. In Nederland reikte de single tot de 3e positie in de Top 40. The Sugababes performed the single at festivals and events such as Oxegen 2008 and the V Festival 2008. Push the Button is de eerste single van het vierde album van de Sugababes, Taller in More Ways. It features the Sugababes flirting with three men in a lift. Matthew Rolston directed the song's music video, which was filmed in Shepherd's Bush, London. It was nominated for Best British Single at the 2006 Brit Awards. 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. "Push the Button" became one of the group's most commercially successful releases. Some critics named it one of the best pop singles of the 2000s. The song received positive reviews from critics, who praised its conception and production. Musically, "Push the Button" is an electropop and R&B song with various computer effects. Composed by Dallas Austin and the Sugababes, it was inspired by an infatuation that group member Keisha Buchanan developed with another artist.

Two months after its release she quit the band ahead of their next single Red Dress, a song Mutya later said she "hated".Įlsewhere on the Official Singles Chart the week Push The Button landed at the top, Sugababes had dethroned the debut single from The Pussycat Dolls, Don't Cha, down to Number 2, and the rest of the Top 40 was a heady mix of genres: Kanye West had scored his biggest hit to date with Gold Digger (4), Katie Melua's scienfitically questionable Nine Million Bicycles was in the Top 10 (7), Charlotte Church had just released her gaudy pop extravaganza Call My Name (10), and S Club's Jo O'Meara blink-and-you'll-miss-it solo career began and ended with What Hurts The Most, a new entry at 13."Push the Button" is a song by English girl group the Sugababes, released as the lead single from their fourth studio album Taller in More Ways (2005). Listening to the song and watching its hi-gloss accompanying video, there was always something off about Mutya Buena shaking her "sexy ass" at a man who was obviously not her type and - gasp! - being ignored.
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Its total chart sales to date (including physical, download and streaming equivalent sales) stands at 638,000. Push The Button debuted at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart 14 years ago this week and spent three weeks at the summit, selling 78,000 copies in its opening week and earned the group their fourth chart-topper. MORE: Sugababes' complete Official UK Chart history The result was a dancey, joyous singalong that immediately stood out for sparse electropop production, and even drew comparisons to ABBA.

The song - written by the group about Keisha's failed flirting with another singer - was produced by US hitmaker Dallas Austin, who had turned out global hits for TLC, Pink and Janet Jackson. MORE: Original Sugababes lineup reforming to celebrate 20th anniversary Their sullen attitude and deadpan delivery that had become the trio's signature style was still largely in tact, but the sound and image had undergone a significant primp and preen. However, the release of Push The Button marked a significant shift in the Sugababes brand. There was room for both: Girls Aloud were neon-bright, quirky and reckless, while Sugababes offered something moodier, often R&B-tinged and killer harmonies. Back in the Noughties, when it came to British girl groups, there were only two that mattered - Girls Aloud and Sugababes.
