- Push (song)
Infobox Single |
Name = Push
Artist =Matchbox Twenty
from Album =Yourself or Someone Like You
Released =May 27 ,1997 (US)
Format =CD single / Audio cassette
Recorded = 1996
Genre =Alternative rock Post-grunge
Length = 3:58
Label = Atlantic
Producer =Matt Serletic
Last single = "Long Day " (1996)
This single = "Push" (1997)
Next single = "3 A.M. " (1998)"Push" is a song by the group
Matchbox Twenty . It was their breakthrough single. After landing "Long Day " on several radio stations paving the way, "Push" hit the top of theModern Rock Tracks . The song, while seeming to be about physical abuse, has been stated by Rob Thomas to be about emotional abuse. Fact|date=February 2007When the song came out initially, feminist groups were outraged and claimed the song was about abusing women, until Rob explained that the man in the song (either himself or fictional) was the one being abused, either emotionally or physically. [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,289309,00.html]
Music video
The video for "Push", directed by
Nigel Dick , starts and ends with Rob Thomas playing with a puppet. Throughout the song, the band is seen playing in an alley. A couple of scenes feature Thomas chained to a wall. Another scene is of Thomas holding onto an electric wire fence while the band stands in the background. He gets zapped by the fence but keeps putting his hands back on it. Thomas is also seen in a room containing a clock and a bed, though no windows are shown.Chart positions
Inclusions in Other Musics
An extract of the song was used in
"Weird Al" Yankovic 's song, "Polka Power!", off the album "Running with Scissors ".References
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