The Hardest Button to Button
The White Stripes Lyrics
We started living in an old house
My ma gave birth and we were checking it out
It was a baby boy
So we bought him a toy
It was a ray gun
And it was 1981
We named him Baby
He had a toothache
He started crying
It didn't last long
Because I stopped it
I grabbed a rag doll
And stuck some little pins in it
Now we're a family
And we're alright now
We got money and a little place
To fight now
We don't know you
And we don't owe you
But if you see us around
I got something else to show you
Now it's easy when you don't know better
You think it's sleazy?
Then put it in a short letter
We keep warm
But there's just something wrong
When you
Just feel that you're the hardest little button to button
I had opinions
That didn't matter
I had a brain
That felt like pancake batter
I got a backyard
With nothing in it
Except a stick
A dog
And a box with something in it
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
Uh-oh
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
Uh-oh
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
Uh-oh
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: John Anthony White
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"The Hardest Button to Button" is a 7" single by the American alternative rock band The White Stripes. It is the third single from their album Elephant. The cover of the single is an allusion to the graphics of Saul Bass, seen in the movie posters and title sequences of films such as Anatomy of a Murder and The Man with the Golden Arm.
Jack White says that the song is about a child trying to find his place in a dysfunctional family when a new baby comes. Read Full Bio"The Hardest Button to Button" is a 7" single by the American alternative rock band The White Stripes. It is the third single from their album Elephant. The cover of the single is an allusion to the graphics of Saul Bass, seen in the movie posters and title sequences of films such as Anatomy of a Murder and The Man with the Golden Arm.
Jack White says that the song is about a child trying to find his place in a dysfunctional family when a new baby comes.
The music video for "The Hardest Button to Button" is the third White Stripes video directed by Michel Gondry, after "Fell in Love with a Girl" and "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" (two years later, he would direct the music video for "The Denial Twist").
The video utilizes pixilation animation to create the effect of dozens of drum kits and guitar amplifiers multiplying to the rhythm of the song as Jack and Meg perform. For example, in one sequence, Meg is seen playing the bass drum at a subway station. At every beat she plays, she appears with a new bass drum while the last becomes vacant. This was achieved by first setting up a trail of bass drums. Then, Meg would be filmed performing a single beat on the last drum in the line, followed by the removal of that drum. Meg would then proceed to the next drum, play another beat, and so on. The final video is edited to include the drum beats with the sequence reversed, making it appear as if the drums are being added to the beat, appearing out of thin air. As many as 80 identical bass drums and Fender guitar amps were used in the video.
Much of the video was filmed around Riverside Drive and the Columbia University area near Grant's Tomb and around the 125th Street exit and surrounding neighborhood, - all part of the Upper West Side in Manhattan - New York City. Parts of the video were filmed at the 33rd Street PATH station.
There is a short cameo by Beck about two and a half minutes in as a man in a white suit presenting Jack with a "box with something in it".
This song and a parody of the video features in the episode of The Simpsons, Jazzy and the Pussycats. The White Stripes appear as themselves in the episode, in which Bart learns to play the drums. He is seen playing the drums around Springfeild in the same fashion as Meg in this song's video, ending in a collision and chase with The White Stripes themselves.
Released December 9, 2003
Format CD, 7"
Recorded April 2003
Genre Alternative rock, garage rock revival
Length 3:32
Label XL Recordings
Producer Jack White
Jack White says that the song is about a child trying to find his place in a dysfunctional family when a new baby comes. Read Full Bio"The Hardest Button to Button" is a 7" single by the American alternative rock band The White Stripes. It is the third single from their album Elephant. The cover of the single is an allusion to the graphics of Saul Bass, seen in the movie posters and title sequences of films such as Anatomy of a Murder and The Man with the Golden Arm.
Jack White says that the song is about a child trying to find his place in a dysfunctional family when a new baby comes.
The music video for "The Hardest Button to Button" is the third White Stripes video directed by Michel Gondry, after "Fell in Love with a Girl" and "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" (two years later, he would direct the music video for "The Denial Twist").
The video utilizes pixilation animation to create the effect of dozens of drum kits and guitar amplifiers multiplying to the rhythm of the song as Jack and Meg perform. For example, in one sequence, Meg is seen playing the bass drum at a subway station. At every beat she plays, she appears with a new bass drum while the last becomes vacant. This was achieved by first setting up a trail of bass drums. Then, Meg would be filmed performing a single beat on the last drum in the line, followed by the removal of that drum. Meg would then proceed to the next drum, play another beat, and so on. The final video is edited to include the drum beats with the sequence reversed, making it appear as if the drums are being added to the beat, appearing out of thin air. As many as 80 identical bass drums and Fender guitar amps were used in the video.
Much of the video was filmed around Riverside Drive and the Columbia University area near Grant's Tomb and around the 125th Street exit and surrounding neighborhood, - all part of the Upper West Side in Manhattan - New York City. Parts of the video were filmed at the 33rd Street PATH station.
There is a short cameo by Beck about two and a half minutes in as a man in a white suit presenting Jack with a "box with something in it".
This song and a parody of the video features in the episode of The Simpsons, Jazzy and the Pussycats. The White Stripes appear as themselves in the episode, in which Bart learns to play the drums. He is seen playing the drums around Springfeild in the same fashion as Meg in this song's video, ending in a collision and chase with The White Stripes themselves.
Released December 9, 2003
Format CD, 7"
Recorded April 2003
Genre Alternative rock, garage rock revival
Length 3:32
Label XL Recordings
Producer Jack White
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[Verse 1]
We started living in an old house
My ma gave birth and we were checking it out
It was a baby boy, so we bought him a toy
It was a ray gun, and it was 1981
[Verse 2]
We named him 'Baby', he had a toothache
He started crying, it sounded like an earthquake
It didn't last long, because I stopped it
I grabbed a rag doll and stuck some little pins in it
[Verse 3]
Now we're a family, and we're alright now
We got money, and a little place to fight now
We don't know you, and we don't owe you
But if you see us around, I got something else to show you
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 4]
Now it's easy when you don't know better
You think it's sleazy? Then put it in a short letter
We keep warm, but there's just something wrong with you
Just feel that you're the hardest little button to button
[Verse 5]
I had opinions that didn't matter
I had a brain that felt like pancake batter
I got a backyard with nothing in it
Except a stick, a dog, and a box with something in it
[Chorus]
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
Uh-oh
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
Uh-oh
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
The hardest button to button
Uh-oh
Sox Celts
This idea required that Gondry track down 32 identical Ludwig drum
kits, as well as 32 amplifiers and 16 microphone stands. The crew would
erect all the kits at once and Meg White would scoot from set to set as
Jack walked in front of a new set of amplifiers for each shot. Each time
the pair moved forward, the last set of instruments in line would be
peeled off and brought to the front. The amps were rented, but the drum
kits had to be purchased. (The band donated them to a music school after
the shoot, fearing they’d end up on eBay if they got back into
circulation.)
The laborious process made for three 16-hour days of shooting, all of
which had to be completed during daylight hours, per Gondry’s
specifications. “We didn’t hire any lights, so we had to do it all with
natural light. I had it very carefully planned out, though I realized
Jack was doing different expressions for each take and I didn’t correct
him. I initially told him to watch it, but I realized the result would
be very electric because each frame would jump around with different
expressions.”
In the finished video, White’s facial contortions heighten the feel
of a stop-motion nature documentary, even though the film was shot
continuously. Gondry said the stop-motion effect was created in the
editing room after the fact.
KingJellalTV
Can we just appreciate how much time, effort, and energy this must have taken to do one music video?
Alejandro Venegas Heresi
yup!!
oppp opp
back when art was still apreciated...if its not 30 second fuggggggatiaboutttiiiittttt
williamsun shakemospherically
better be atomic with your appreciation! terra-xcellent!
Deadly Mouse
Fuck yeah
onlythingicouldthink
@Richie2dicks according to Wikipedia, "Gondry used 32 identical Ludwig drum kits, 32 identical amplifiers, and 16 identical microphone stands during the shoot. The drum kits were donated to a music school after the shoot.[2] There is also a short cameo by Beck, who plays a man in a white suit presenting Jack with a "box with something in it"."
Elizavieta
Esta canción es lo máximo pero al ver el vídeo no puedo evitar reír un poco porque me acuerdo del capítulo de los Simpsons en que aparece la banda😁
BLACK DEAD
I'm also here for the simpson xD
leandro saldivia
rre si amigo
Sage Lam
I just watched that episode and reminded me of this song 😀