Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
| The Guardian | |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.3/10) |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| Spin | (8/10) |
| Stylus Magazine | C |
| Yahoo! Music UK | |
The album entered the Irish Albums Chart at number one on September 21, followed three days later by a number one entry in the UK Albums Chart. In the United States, it debuted at number 19 on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 42,000 copies.
Ta-Dah received positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 71, based on 30 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
NME gave the album a score of six out of ten and said, "Scissor Sisters sound under so much pressure to follow up a monster hit that they're not actually having any fun." Similarly, Paste gave it a score of six out of ten and said that the songs "tend to dull the excitement." Tiny Mix Tapes gave it three-and-a-half out of five stars and said, "So what if Scissor Sisters aren't challenging the conventions of pop music?... great and will please their fans." musicOMH gave it four out of five stars and said, "There's a darker lyrical side to the album at once incongruous and ingenius when placed in such celebratory music."
However, some reviews are pretty mixed or negative. PopMatters gave the album five stars out of ten and said, "Despite its title, Ta-Dah offers few surprises." Now gave it two stars out of five and said, "Somehow, Ta-Dah feels like the Sisters covering themselves, and the glitter and gloss have worn off." In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau gave it a "dud" rating, and said it was "a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought."
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