‘Push The Button’ is a collision between The Chemical Brothers and Kylie. It’s a pop song with an eerie, modern sound. It just might a comment on the mass media. It just might be a comment on the flirting rituals of modern times and modern man. ’Push The Button’ is the pinnacle of pop panache. The lyrics are catchy and the tune is a “bump and grind moment” if ever there was one. This new single is nowhere near as sickly as the drivel the girls offered up as their addition to the ’Love Actually’ soundtrack. ’Push The Button’ recalls the energy and drive of ’Round, Round’. The are back. They’re sexy, sophisticated and one of them is blonde. All that would be more than enough to invite pleasure and satisfaction into the belly of your height. If it were not for one tiny matter yet to be resolved. ’Overload’, our first glimpse of the young musical princesses, was the first and last time we heard the Sugababe’s unique sound. It wasn’t pop. It verged head-first into an Indie lilt. The voices meant everything and the music possessed a gentle, wry edge to its humour. What changed? Sibhoan Donagy.
Without the flame-haired beauty with a voice which dispatched shivers imbued with the ferocity of ice, the began to drown in the fickle nature of popular music. ‘Push The Button’ is an awesome track which will have them dancing in the aisles. But only until the sun comes up and the boredom kicks in.
Record Label: Universal Island Records
Release Date: September 26th 2005
Words By: Martin Drury
