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In [[AllMusic]]'s entry on the group, Ron Wynn summarized them as "part clever concept, part exaggerated [[camp (style)|camp]] act" who were "worldwide sensations during disco's heyday and keep reviving like the [[Phoenix (mythology)|phoenix]]."<ref>{{cite web|last=Wynn|first=Ron|date=n.d.|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-village-people-mn0000808201/biography|title=The Village People|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=March 19, 2019}}</ref> ''[[Village Voice]]'' critic [[Robert Christgau]] originally found the group to be a humorous annoyance,<ref>{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=July 31, 1978|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv7-78.php|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide|access-date=March 19, 2019|website=Robertchristgau.com}}</ref> but warmed to their music after listening to the 1978 album ''[[Cruisin' (Village People album)|Cruisin']]''; he wrote in ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981): "I give up—I've never been capable of resisting music this silly. At least this time they're not singing the praises of '[[macho]],' a term whose backlash resurgence is no laughing matter, and the [[gay stereotyping]]—right down to 'The Women,' every one a camp heroine of [[film|screen]] or [[Phonograph record|disc]]—is so cartoonish that I can't imagine anyone taking it seriously. As for all the straights who think 'Y.M.C.A.' is about playing basketball, well, that's pretty funny too."<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: V|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=V&bk=70|access-date=March 17, 2019|website=Robertchristgau.com}}</ref>

 

==Discography==