“I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”
from the single I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
2005
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These guys are the Arctic Monkees to Libertines’ Beatles (or is it the other way around?) — five blokes from suburban Sheffield playing Smiths and Clash-style pop-punk to sold-out shows without so much as an official LP to their name. “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” starts off like a less fruity “John, I’m only dancing,” with its talk of “dirty dancefloors and dreams of naughtiness.” Course, the Monkeys probably couldn’t rhyme “floor” with “whore” because Franz Ferdinand already have, but nothing — copycatting, least of all — really matters when kids are dancing to electro-pop like “robot[s] from 1984.” Monkeys namedrop famous feuders (Montagues and Capulets) to prove the point: Dancefloor infatuations “ain’t no love,” but at least they’re first to say it.