"Believe" is the second
single
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from English
electronic music duo
the Chemical Brothers' fifth
studio album
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, ''
Push the Button'' (2005). The single was released on 2 May 2005 and peaked at number 18 on the
UK Singles Chart while reaching the top 20 in Italy and Spain.
Kele Okereke, lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the
indie rock band
Bloc Party is featured on vocals. A remix of the song was featured in the 2005 snowboarding video "Flavor Country" by Sandbox.
Composition
John Bush from
AllMusic described: "
he song
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agonizing over an energized electroshock production composed of equal parts
Prince and
Chicago acid house
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."
Critical reception
While reviewing ''
Push the Button'',
Robert Christgau
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called the song along with "The Big Jump", "rock the block." ''Thump'', "an electronic music and culture channel" from ''
Vice'', listed the song as one of the duo's 15 best collaborations, ranked at number 12. ''
Rolling Stone''s Bill Werde wrote that "the urgent yelp of
Kele Okereke from Bloc Party makes 'Believe' a club-anthem-in-waiting."
Music video
The video was premiered on
MTV
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on 18 March 2005. The music video for the song was directed by
Dom and Nic, contains scenes filmed at the now defunct
MG Rover Longbridge plant
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Opened in 1905, by the late 1960s Longbr ...
(now owned by
SAIC) and different parts of London. It starts out with a man watching women in an exercise video dance on a window TV in a store, possibly spoofing the then-recent video for
Eric Prydz's single "
Call on Me". The man turns out to be a paranoid factory worker terrified of the automated assembly robot he operates, possibly under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs or possibly painkillers, as he has a cast on his left arm.
He imagines the machines watching and threatening him, seeing them outside the factory, chasing him before disappearing. Finally, even after quitting his job, the man is pursued to the top of the building by one of the arms, where it lunges at him before disappearing. He runs onto the street, and sees multiple machines lumbering toward him, and his view of the world (in actuality the
Welbeck Street car park) disintegrates into a mess of geometric shapes and colours. He collapses, laughing hysterically as robots disappear once again.
The video won a
MTV Europe Music Award for Best Video
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at its
2005 MTV Europe Music Awards
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Lisbon, Portugal.
The show was opened by Madonna, performing "Hung Up". Other performers included Pussycat Dolls, The Black Eyed Peas, Robbie Williams and Foo Fighters.
P ...
.
Track listings
UK CD1 and European CD single
# "Believe" – 3:48
# "Giant" – 4:32
UK CD2
# "Believe" – 6:20
# "Spring" – 5:27
# "Believe" – 6:23
# "Believe" – 4:22
UK 12-inch single
:A1. "Believe"
:B1. "Galvanize"
:B2. "Giant"
Australian CD single
# "Believe"
# "Spring"
# "Believe"
Charts
Release history
References
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The Chemical Brothers songs
2005 singles
2005 songs
Astralwerks singles
Songs written by Ed Simons
Songs written by Kele Okereke
Songs written by Tom Rowlands
Virgin Records singles