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2003 single by the White Stripes

"The Hardest Button to Button" is a song by American alternative rock band the White Stripes, released as the third single from their fourth studio album, Elephant (2003). Jack White said that the song is about a child trying to find his place in a dysfunctional family when a new baby comes. 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. The cover also alludes to White's then broken index finger and his obsession with the number three. "The Hardest Button to Button" was first released to US alternative radio on August 11, 2003, and was issued commercially in the United Kingdom on November 17, 2003. Upon its release, the song reached number 23 on the UK Singles Chart and number eight on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song's music video, directed by Michel Gondry, shows Jack and Meg White performing the song while pixilation animation is used to create the effect that numerous duplicates of their instruments appear with every beat.

"The Hardest Button to Button" is an alternative and garage rock song that runs for a duration of three minutes and thirty two seconds. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes. com by Universal Music Publishing Group, it is written in the time signature of common time, with a moderate rock tempo of 128 beats per minute. 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". 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. Jack White appears with a cast on his hand, after he had broken his index finger in a car accident while on tour.

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref. (Reference)United States2003 8 11Alternative radioV2 Records, V2, Third Man Records, Third ManUnited Kingdom2003 11 177 inch vinyl, CDXL Recordings, XL, Third Man

The song and video concept is used/spoofed in The Simpsons episode "Jazzy and the Pussycats", with The White Stripes guest starring as themselves. Bart Simpson starts playing to the song, imitating the video routine, until eventually crashing into Meg's drumkit. She and Jack chase Bart until he leaves them suspended in midair over an open drawbridge at the end of a riff, and they fall onto a garbage barge. The song is a playable track in Rock Band 3. The song was used on a trailer for the Justice League movie. Previously another White Stripes song, "Icky Thump", was used for a trailer of the same movie.