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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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But after achieving a perfect strike rate on their singles, the Ting Tings' admirable quest for glossy, depthless pop perfection keeps coming up short.
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Q MagazineThe creative tension between the two is their main strength. It's when one or the other gains the upper hand that things can go awry. [June 2008, p.143]
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A party band to the core, the Ting Tings can't leave the dance floor without stumbling. [July 2008, p.76]
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What the Ting Tings do is make sunny, punchy pop songs, and what’s more, that’s something that actually do pretty well. How much lifespan there is in the project, however, is another question entirely.
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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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They're a singles band at heart, though, and they wear out their welcome all too quickly on We Started Nothing.
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UncutSadly, though, nothing on The Ting Tings debut album quite lives up to that promise [of 'That's Not My Name']. [June 2008, p.94]
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Snark aside, it's a shame that aside from a couple of notable exceptions, the album title is just about right.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 61 out of 80
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Mixed: 5 out of 80
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Negative: 14 out of 80
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May 24, 2011
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Jan 26, 2021It's a great effort from Ting Tings. Sad that they didn't follow the same achivement on the following works.
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Aug 20, 2017