Buttons

Album: PCD (2005)
Charted: 3 3
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Songfacts®:

  • The Pussycat Dolls built their brand on controlling men with their seductive powers, and putting them in their place when they didn't behave (they started as a burlesque dance troupe). In "Buttons," they take on a guy who says all the right things but won't make a move, even when they implore him, "I'm telling you loosen up my buttons."

    The guy might think he is being a gentleman, but these Dolls find this behavior timid and would like him to assert himself.
  • He's not on the album version, but Snoop Dogg is featured on single release of this track, making it a Pussycat/Dogg collab. At first, he's bragging to the girls about "What he's gonna do to them," and the lead Pussycat is skeptical. She replies, "I don't see nothing yet." He persuades her that he is serious, and both sides seem to be satisfied at the end of the song.
  • Pussycat Dolls released their first single, PCD, in 2005 with "Don't Cha" as the lead single. That one features Busta Rhymes, and another single, "Beep," is a team-up with will.i.am. They followed this formula by recruiting Snoop Dogg on "Buttons."
  • The video won for Best Dance Video at the MTV Video Music Awards, beating out both "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira and "Hung Up" by Madonna.

Comments: 5

  • Stormy from Northport, MiI love this song.
    Gotta turn it up when it's on the Jeep radio and dance to it when I'm on the floor.
  • Nady from Adelaide, AustraliaI still cant figure out if they are singers or strippers, please ladies put some f*cking pants on. P.S. the red head looks like a bloke
  • Pippin from Rhye, CaTwo years ago (I'm 14, I was 12 then), two of my friends whose musical tastes I could never understand tried to persuade me to get this song. I absolutely did not want to. I thought it was pointless. My mum even said, "If you buy it for them - I'll give you back the dollar." (Because it was on iTunes.) Now, I think that if my mum saw this site and learned what it was about she wouldn't let me buy it. Wish I was into Led Zeppelin and Queen and stuff back then, I coulda struck a deal with them so that if I bought Buttons they'd get Bohemian Rhapsody.
  • Kristin from Yaphank, NyWell I guess for musical purposes people disregard reality a lil' bit...Great, catchy song.
  • Sebastian from Providence, RiWell, this song is as hot as the PCD!!
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