"Run Away with Me" received universal acclaim from music critics.
Spin magazine referred to "Run Away with Me" as "the best
pop song of 2015 yet", "an undeniable hit waiting in the wings for its moment", and a "big, bold, beautiful masterpiece".
Paper magazine hailed the song as "just as much the pop perfection that is '
I Really Like You'" and "the perfect anthemic summer jam".
USA Today welcomed "Run Away with Me" as "a marked improvement over ['I Really Like You']".
Time magazine wrote of the track, "'Run Away With Me' marries euphoric
Swedish dance-pop with a pressing nostalgia for your teenage years, a time when the littlest crushes felt like time bombs and a time Jepsen is really, really, really skilled at evoking. In that sense, it’s '
Teenage Dream 2.0', right down to a bridge so catchy she has to repeat it twice".
Rolling Stone ranked "Run Away with Me" at number 49 on their year-end list of the 50 best songs of 2015.
Village Voice named "Run Away with Me" the 11th-best single released in 2015 on their annual year-end critics' poll,
Pazz & Jop.
Pitchfork ranked it at number 36 on their 200 best songs of the decade list, saying that "fueled by a yearning saxophone riff and colossal drums, Jepsen gleefully repeats her heartfelt invitation until the rest of the world melts away. "Over the weekend, we could turn the world to gold," she murmurs with a quiet devotion, letting the image of two gilded lovers linger in the air."
Spotify ranked it at number 5 on its list of the 100 Greatest Pop Songs of the Streaming Era, calling it "euphoric, overwhelming, and transformative, 'Run Away With Me' is the pop song even people who 'don’t like pop' believe in."
Varietys Rachel Seo named it Jepsen's best song in October 2022, writing that its "galloping beat and soaring chorus is the stuff of every
coming-of-age swan song for those whose
bildungsromane were written, or re-written, during the
2010s], joining the array of tracks — like
Lorde's '
Green Light' or
Taylor Swift's '
Style' — that have emerged as frontrunners of music written to express something profound about growing up and falling hard. 'Run Away With Me' feels the same played anywhere at any time of day: transcendent, timeless and completely given over to the feeling, with an intentional disregard of whether that feeling is love or its imitation."
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