Reflecting on "Let's Dance", Pegg agrees with Bowie in that the record was the artist's "least challenging" album up to that point. He felt that unlike Bowie's Glass Spider Tour and Tin Machine periods, where Bowie was willing to take risks and face criticism head-on, "Let's Dance" plays it safe in every department, creating tunes that originally contained "rough edges" that were then "sanded down" and given a "high-gloss finish". Pegg also notes that the appearance of three covers on the record was evident to Bowie hitting a creative slump. Spitz on the other hand, considers "Let's Dance" to be "as revolutionary" as "Ziggy Stardust", "Station to Station" or "Low". He further finds it unfair to consider it Bowie's "sellout record", calling it "every bit as high concept as his canonised seventies efforts."