We Started Nothing
by The Ting Tings
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 80 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 61 out of 80
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 80
  3. Negative: 14 out of 80

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  1. Ricko
    Jun 11, 2012
    6
    A pleasantly surprising pop record with a couple of tracks you can't help but dance to and a few other nice numbers in there as well. Granted it's got a couple of duds on it but there's more good than bad on it.
  2. JeJesus
    Jun 16, 2008
    5
    Sounds like a band writing songs specifically to be used in iPod commercials. A couple of decent tracks, the rest are kinda throwaway. I give it a resounding "meh".
  3. micho224
    Oct 25, 2011
    5
    Not worth all the hype the British music press heaped upon them. Just stock standard pop music nothing more nothing less.

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#99 Most Shared Album of 2008

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. Dot Music
    80
    We Started Nothing sounds exuberant and chiefly concerned with pleasing itself. Which--as is always the way--only makes it more pleasing to others.
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  2. Drowned In Sound
    50
    These glimpses of something unexpected are few and far between, much of We Started Nothing tonally muddled into a weird new form of MOR: cool for five minutes amongst the fashionable crowd but unlikely to reach audiences beyond those fascinated with the hot and happening.
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  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    De Martino and White are on an unashamed mission to make perfect pop, but seem to have treaded the path too literally.
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