Where to after the screen saver...

I was checking out an apple tv for purchase at an apple store, and I couldn't get an answer about this from anyone working there.
I noticed that once the screen saver was going while playing music, any button pressed, for example to pause the music, would exit the screen saver and automatically return to the main menu.
So, I would go to some playlist, start it, wait two minutes for the screen saver to kick on, then press pause to see what song was playing, and I was back at the main menu! I don't want to go back to the main menu!
Is there some option or does it only do that with store display models (it was running some kind of apple promotional video as a screen saver), or is that just the way it works?

Thank you very much for you're response. However, I see that I didn't make myself very clear. I'll try again.
Of course, I want it to exit the screen saver when I press a button, but it when it exits the screen saver, I want it to be in the same place I was when the screen saver went on.
For instance, if I was in a playlist, when it exits the screen saver, I still want to be in the playlist. As it is now, when it exits the screen saver, it returns back to the main (top level) menu.
So, if I'm listening to a playlist, or an album, and the screensaver is going, I have to go through all the menus again to return back to the playlist?

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