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==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic |class=album |tab=review |id=r655814 |first=Tim |last=Sendra |access-date=24 April 2005}}</ref> | rev2 = ''[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]]'' | rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="AP">{{cite journal|title=Review: Get Born|journal=[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]|page=112|date=November 2003}}</ref> | rev3 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'' | rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review: Get Born|journal=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]|location=New York|date=November 2003|page=114}}</ref> | rev4 = [[Robert Christgau]] | rev4score = {{Rating-Christgau|hm2}}<ref name="Christgau"/> | rev5 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' | rev5score = B+<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|location=New York|title=Review: Get Born|date=17 October 2003|page=82}}</ref> | rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' | rev6score = 3.7/10<ref name="Pitchfork">{{cite web |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=30 October 2003 |first=Nick |last=Sylvester |title=Jet ''Get Born'' > Album Review |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4338-get-born/ |access-date=28 March 2006 |ref=Pitchfork}}</ref> | rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' | rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Qmag"/> | rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' | rev8score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="RSreview">{{cite news |newspaper=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=936 |date=27 November 2003 |first=Rob |last=Kemp |title=Jet ''Get Born'' > Album Review |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jet/albums/album/298832/review/5944730/get_born |access-date=20 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070114023213/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jet/albums/album/298832/review/5944730/get_born |archive-date=14 January 2007 |url-status=dead |ref=RSreview}}</ref> | rev9 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' | rev9score = Bβ<ref name="Spin">{{cite journal|page=117|title=Breakdown|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|location=New York|date=November 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JZ4ej5RmWFUC&pg=PA117|access-date=5 July 2013}}</ref> | rev10 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' | rev10score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="Uncut">{{cite journal|title=Review: Get Born|journal=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|location=London|date=November 2003|page=109}}</ref> | MC = 70/100<ref name="Metacritic">{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/get-born|title=Reviews for Get Born by Jet |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=21 January 2023}}</ref> }} ''Get Born'' received generally positive reviews from [[music journalism|music critics]]. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[standard score|normalised]] rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an [[weighted mean|average]] score of 70, based on 15 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/get-born/jet|title=Get Born Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=27 November 2012}}</ref> ''[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]'' gave it a rave review and found Jet's songs "catchy" and their appeal "diverse".<ref name="AP"/> ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' magazine said that the album's raw immediacy "belies its dated influences."<ref name="Qmag">{{cite journal|title=Review: Get Born|journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|location=London|date=October 2003|page=108}}</ref> ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' called it "an efficient if fairly joyless hybrid of [[the Rolling Stones|the Stones]], [[AC/DC]] and [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]]."<ref name="Uncut"/> In a negative review, ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' wrote that Jet sounds like "everyone's favorite old rock bands" and have "insipid lyrics", including interjections such as "come on!" and "oh yeah!" sung "every five seconds".<ref name="Pitchfork"/> [[Robert Christgau]] of ''[[The Village Voice]]'' cited "Rollover D.J." and "Look What You've Done" as highlights and remarked that the band has "the juice and talent to make their retro happen without the brains or vision to run with it".<ref>{{cite news|date=18 January 2005|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv105-05.php|access-date=5 July 2013|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|title=Consumer Guide: Heads, Future and Past|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|location=New York}}</ref> He gave the album a two-star honorable mention,<ref name="Christgau">{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=12687|title=Album: Jet: Get Born|publisher=Robert Christgau|access-date=5 July 2013}}</ref> indicating a "likable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well enjoy."<ref>{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|year=2000|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php|title=Key to Icons|publisher=Robert Christgau|access-date=5 July 2013}}</ref> In October 2010, ''Get Born'' was listed in the book ''[[100 Best Australian Albums]]''.<ref name="ODonnell">{{Cite book | title = [[100 Best Australian Albums]] | last1 = O'Donnell | first1 = John | author-link1 = John O'Donnell (music journalist) | last2 = Creswell | first2=Toby | author-link2 = Toby Creswell | last3 = Mathieson | first3 = Craig | author-link3 = Craig Mathieson | publisher = Hardie Grant Books | date = October 2010 | location = [[Prahran, Victoria|Prahran, Vic]] | isbn = 978-1-74066-955-9 }}</ref> ===Lead single=== The album's lead single, "Are You Gonna Be My Girl", was often singled out due to distinct similarities to [[Iggy Pop]]'s "[[Lust for Life (Iggy Pop song)|Lust for Life]]".{{fact|date=April 2024}} The band argued that "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" had more in common with '60s [[Motown]], however; namely, songs such as "[[I'm Ready for Love]]" by [[Martha And The Vandellas]] and "[[You Can't Hurry Love]]" by [[The Supremes]]. In an [[AllMusic]] review of "Are You Gonna Be My Girl", the song was praised for its commercial appeal despite its resemblance to "Lust for Life", saying "Whether 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl?' (sic) is creatively bankrupt, or just an extreme example of how all music is influenced by what came before it, is up for debate... Either way, the song is impossible to ignore."<ref>{{AllMusic |class=song |id=t6455793 |first=Heather |last=Phares | title=Are You Gonna Be My Girl > Song Review |access-date=17 December 2006}}</ref> [[Chris Cester]] addressed the media speculation in an interview with Pop in ''Uptown Magazine'',<ref name="uptownmag.com">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20091020160333/http://www.uptownmag.com/2009-10-15/page4696.aspx]}}</ref> stating: "It's funny because I asked him point blank about that. He said I was crazy. He said that when he and [[David Bowie]] were writing '[[Lust for Life (Iggy Pop album)|Lust for Life]]', they were ripping off Motown's beat. It's funny that he said that to me because we also thought we were ripping off Motown more than 'Lust for Life'. To be honest with you that kind of annoyed me a lot, because I always thought it was really lazy. People just go, well 'Lust for Life' is more well-known so that's what they go for, but if you listen to a song like 'You Can't Hurry Love' (The Supremes) I think you'll find it's closer to 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' than 'Lust for Life' ever was. And that's what Iggy said as well."<ref name="uptownmag.com"/>
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