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Author J. Randy Taraborrelli, in his biography of Madonna, called the song as " fluffy, danceable, but forgettable.

" However he noted the song's ingenuity which he credited to come from its simplicity and dance-music nature.

Author Rikky Rooksby noted that Madonna had a " cutesy " voice in the song and compared her vocals with those of singer Cyndi Lauper's.

Author Simon Gage of the book Queer noted that the song was a " happy disco number ".

The song was appreciated by authors Santiago Fouz-Hernández and Freya Jarman-Ivens, who complimented it in their book Madonna's Drowned Worlds.

They noted that with songs like " Lucky Star " and " Burning Up " ( 1983 ), Madonna introduced a " style of upbeat dance music that would prove particularly appealing to future gay audiences.

" English tenor and academic John Potter, in his book The Cambridge companion to singing, commented that " Lucky Star " is a soft-soul, disco-influenced style song but criticized the song's reverb and double tracking which he believed made the song " de-personalized ".

Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine commented that the track had " unknowingly prefaced her recent foray into the glittery halls of electronic-pop.

" Bill Lamb from About. com described the song, along with " Holiday " and " Borderline ," as " state of the art dance-pop.

" While reviewing Madonna's 1990 compilation The Immaculate Collection, David Browne from Entertainment Weekly complimented the remixed version of the song.

Rock critique Robert Christgau, while reviewing The Immaculate Collection, called the song " blessed ".

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic described the song as effervescent.