"Love at First Sight" received positive reviews from music critics. Chris True from
AllMusic was favorable towards the track saying "songs like 'Give It to Me' and 'Love at First Sight,' her maturity helps transcend this limiting tag, making this a very stylish
Eurodance record that will appeal to all ages." while Alexis Petridis from
The Guardian commented "Like
Robbie Williams's songs, the tracks on
Fever are big on easily digestible
EDM references. 'Love at First Sight' features the same stuttering disco samples as
Stardust's 1998 number-one single '
Music Sounds Better with You'." Michael Hubbard from
musicOMH was particularly positive, calling the song "rip-roaring", and said "It would be difficult to pinpoint one duff track on this record, but the more obvious candidates for singles are towards the front of the album – just like her first two records, in fact – especially the rip-roaring frolic that is 'Love at First Sight'." Jason Thompson from
PopMatters said the song "opens itself up to the listener with a sexy as hell melody and is one of the sexiest,
funkiest classic disco songs that never was... until now."
The Abbey Road Sessions version from 2012 received mixed reviews from most critics. Robert Corpsey from
Digital Spy said, "'
On a Night Like This', 'Love at First Sight' and 'Can't Get You Out of My Head'" are songs that "all of which have been stripped of their shimmer and allowed the lyrics to come to the fore." A reviewer from
Virgin Media was positive, saying "'Love at First Sight' becomes a sweet
folk rock noodle in the mould of
Jack Johnson or
Jason Mraz". However, Susana Novas from What Culture said that "Love at First Sight" was a "low point", saying "‘Love at First Sight’, one of Kylie's most iconic singles that gets the
Taylor Swift treatment (not a compliment either)." Philip Matusavage from
musicOMH commented "Having 25 years of
pop classics to draw on means there can be no arguing with the quality of the songs here, however, which is enough to ensure that the album could not be a complete failure. This is clearer nowhere than on the
jangly 'Love at First Sight', the euphoric thrill of which shines through despite here rather unfortunately bringing to mind
The Lighthouse Family".
Accolades and recognition In 2003, "Love at First Sight" was nominated for a
Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the
45th Annual Grammy Awards. This became Minogue's first Grammy nomination and was consecutively nominated in the same category for "Come into My World", which she won
in 2004, "
Slow"
in 2005 and "
I Believe in You"
in 2006. Minogue attended the
Grammy Awards opening at
Staples Centre in Los Angeles on 8 February that year, her only appearance there. Minogue lost to "
Days Go By" by
Dirty Vegas. In 2009,
Pitchfork ranked the song at number 208 in their list of "The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s". In 2012, Jason Lipshutz from
Billboard listed "Love at First Sight" at six on their "Kylie Minogue Primer: The Top 10 Past Hits You Need to Know", stating "Love at First Sight a
dance song that's so self-assured that it completely powers down 70 seconds in, lets Minogue's voice float in the ether for two lines, then triumphantly returns, slaking the thirst of its hungry listener." ==Chart performance==