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===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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