It's not a bad song at all, but the point is rather that it's the only happy/camp/jangly/accoustic/up tempo/radio friendly number on the entire record; totally unrepresentative of the album. I love the whole damn thing. Probably their last great album (nobody asked but their alltime best top 3 according to me are Boys Don't Cry/3 Imaginary Boys, depending where you live, Disintegration, and Wish; I like to get into fights with hipsters over not including Pornography and candy goths for exluding Head on the Door, both good records, but not as much of a solid full listen-through).
Comparing it to The Darkness seems a bit of a stretch even if Smith was bringing back his yodel/yeowl on that one. He runs his vocal chords on a low gain setting. I don't think he can even push any harder judging by his thoroughly cringey performance in that recent Gorillaz collab.