Music Video
The music video for "Push the Button" was directed by American director Matthew Rolston, who collaborated with the Sugababes on the videos for their singles "Hole in the Head" and "In the Middle". It was filmed in Shepherd's Bush, London, during July 2005. The men who appear in the video are models and dancers, and were selected based on their dancing talent. Buena described the video as "really cheeky" and stated that it "turned out really great in the end". Some clips were removed from the final product because of their sexual content, although Buchanan admitted that she wanted it more suggestive.
The video features Range, Buchanan and Buena on separate floors of a lift. Three men separately enter the lift and are each taken to a different floor, where they meet a member of the Sugababes. The first man, described by Buena as 'Mr Shy Guy', arrives on Range's floor, and the two begin flirting with each other. Meanwhile the second man, 'Mr Too Cool', enters the lift and is taken to the floor where Buchanan is. Buchanan is shown flirting and dancing with him. 'Mr Perfect', the third man, enters the lift with an umbrella and arrives on Buena's floor. When he exits the lift, Buena takes the umbrella and throws it away, and she soon begins flirting with him.
"There were a few short scenes when my shorts rode up too high and I have lots of young relations and young friends and I didn’t want them to think I was making a stripper video or a porn video so I had those bits cut out."
—Mutya Buena commenting on the video's sexual scenes.Towards the end of the video, Range bends over 'Mr Shy Guy' in a seductive manner, Buchanan pushes 'Mr Too Cool' to the floor, and Buena gives 'Mr Perfect' a lap dance. The Sugababes are shown dancing in the lift throughout the video. Daily Mirror's Gavin Martin wrote that they "throw caution aside and present themselves as voracious maneaters" in the video. He compared Buchanan's dancing to American girl group Destiny Child's in the video for their single "Bootylicious". Madeline Crisp of the same publication described the Sugababes as having a "60s look". The video peaked at number one on the UK TV Airplay chart for two consecutive weeks. In Australia, the clip reached number three on Rage's top 50 video countdown.
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