Critical Reception
The song received mostly positive reviews from music critics. Emily Mackay of Yahoo! Music wrote that "'If I Can't Dance', with its jerky, Girls Aloud-esque rhythmm, is sure-footed sparkler." Kitty Empire of The Observer called it "another delightfully self-aware cut which features our ice maiden twitching a buttock to some bloopy percolations", while Talia Kraines of BBC Music wrote that the song "transport us to a world where the glitter ball never stops spinning." K. Ross Hoffman of Allmusic noted that it is a "Xenomania-esque stomp." Nick Levine of Digital Spy commented, "When she declares, halfway through the album, ‘If I can’t dance, I don’t want any part of your revolution’, you can’t help but wonder, just for a moment, how on earth those pesky Frenchies of 1786 managed to storm the Bastille without Trip The Light Fantastic as a soundtrack."
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