‘Acceptable in the 80s’ is catchy, for sure. In fact, quite ridiculously so. And we’re inclined to think that people who deny its greatness are sad and lonely people who listen to moody, introspective music all the time and scowl at strangers in the street. It’s good fun.
Follow-up single, ‘The Girls’, is its annoying cousin. It probably sounds good at 2am on a monstrous night out when you’re too far gone to even realise what you’re doing (probably some sort of embarrassing thrusting motion), but essentially it’s terrible.
And the rest of the album? Well, each song seems to take a simple idea, a simple hook, a simple lyric and do something pretty repetitive with it. At times, this makes for something as simply good fun as ‘Acceptable in the 80s’, but mostly it just makes for a bunch of songs you’ll be ready to skip after 30 seconds.
Perhaps this debut album wouldn’t be such a disappointment if it weren’t for all the hype. But I Created Disco really just isn’t the awesome pop-revolutionising experience we were hoping it would be.